Tricky Bridge vs Sumly
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tricky Bridge
Learn and play the card game bridge with this comprehensive app. It offers free lessons for beginners, solo practice modes, and competitive robot tournaments for all skill levels. Customize your experience and improve your game with AI opponents.
- 57 free bridge lessons and challenges
- Robot bridge tournaments (Knockouts, Daily)
- Play with World Champion AI
- Solo practice with bidding hints
- Customize bidding system
- Collect card back and theme customizations
- Complete achievements and missions
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Tricky Bridge is the app for all levels of bridge players, including complete beginners who want to learn the world's greatest card game! Learn bridge basics with short, fun, and free "how to play bridge" lessons, practice solo for free, and play robot "duplicate" bridge tournaments online. There's no better way to learn how to play bridge than with the Tricky Bridge app. Tricky Bridge is the app built for players starting right from the beginning: Completely new to the game? You're in the right place! 3 friendly robot characters will guide you through a linear lesson plan of 57 short bridge lesson modules and challenges that make learning bridge fun from the first minute. In Tricky Bridge, bridge is 100% free to learn, with no pop-up ads. Tricky Bridge is the app for experienced bridge players, too! Just play bridge, anytime, 24/7: Practice solo, or enjoy the best robot duplicate bridge tournaments online and face off against players around the world. Practice the bridge card game play, bidding, and tactical skills necessary to hold your own against a series of bridge masters. FEATURES * LEARN bridge basics solo for free through 57 lessons, challenges, and competitions. * COMPETE in robot bridge tournaments, including Knockouts, Quick Tournaments, and Daily Tournaments. Climb the skill ranks from Rookie to Grand Master. * IMPROVE your game by playing with World Champion AI, online or offline * PRACTICE bridge solo, any time, with random deals and a helpful bidding Hint button * CUSTOMIZE your bidding system * COLLECT over 80 beautiful card backs, tabletops, and card face themes to customize your experience. * COMPLETE achievements and missions for rewards. * ENJOY great card feel -- never play the wrong card by accident Privacy Policy: https://docs.google.com/document/d/13XMRoK9VVHiL0PcjZI8zqk3ThMX-wDHL/ Terms of Use: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zwud1fFNnmfY9n7yu0tOkuTy63_qCuGyoEBpruuh2qc/
Sumly
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Every line has to add up. That's the entire rule, and it's enough to keep you thinking long after you meant to put the phone down. Sumly is a puzzle about magic polygons. Drag numbered tiles into the empty spots on a shape until every line - every side, every diagonal - reaches the same target sum. Some tiles click into place right away. Others force you to rework the whole board. No trick beyond arithmetic and patience. WHAT'S INSIDE 20 hand-built levels, running from simple triangles to a full hexagon. Along the way you'll meet square rings, pentagons, and two puzzles borrowed from real history: the Lo Shu square, one of the oldest magic squares on record, and the square carved into Albrecht Dürer's 1514 engraving Melencolia I. Solve one and you get a short historical note about it. HOW IT LOOKS Sumly is drawn like a technical blueprint: black ink on plan paper. Every line of the shape carries a blue dimension marker, the kind an architect uses to note a measurement, except here it tracks the running total of that line live. It turns green the moment the line is complete, and red the instant you overshoot, so you always know exactly where you stand. A CALMER KIND OF PUZZLE There are no timers, no lives, no energy meters, and no streaks nagging you to come back. Nothing interrupts a level once it starts. Undo is unlimited, so you can rearrange freely and test an idea without any penalty for being wrong. Play for two minutes or twenty - the puzzle waits for you. Sumly keeps a running score called your Mind Score, which starts at 1000 and only goes up as you clear levels. As it grows you move through ranks - Apprentice, Solver, Geometer, Archimedean - and you can add your score to a global Top 100 list under a nickname you choose. No account or sign-in required. Sumly is free to play. All 20 levels and your first 3 hints are always free. If you run out of hints, you can watch a short optional video to earn one more. SUMLY PRO Sumly Pro is a single one-time purchase. It removes ads completely and gives you unlimited hints, plus two alternate app icons (a night-blueprint blue and a green variant), and a small ◆ mark next to your name on the Top 100 list. Pro never touches your Mind Score - nobody can buy their way up the leaderboard, so every rank reflects an actual solve. No forced sign-ups. No nagging notifications. Just a quiet board, a pencil-and-paper puzzle turned digital, and every line adding up to exactly what it should.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Tricky Bridge at none against Sumly's shown. Tricky Bridge also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). On price and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Tricky Bridge sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and Sumly sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | Tricky Bridge | Sumly |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (4.5K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 92.4% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 4.5K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | — |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 346 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Forklift Studios LLC | Jeronimo Lascurain |
Bugs and requests
Tricky Bridge
Reported bugs
3 issues- Lesson 31 bug preventing progress
- Bidding issues with bot partners
- Disappearing bid history
Requested features
6 requests- More advanced lessons and tutorials
- Ability to replay or review past hands
- Option to play against human opponents
- Customization options for cards, table, etc.
- Hints or analysis to improve play
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- Ability to save progress and resume later
Sumly
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Tricky Bridge
- 1 Month Infinite Deals Bridge$9.991 Month
- 1 Month Infinite Deals Trial7 Days trial$9.991 Month
- 1 Year Infinite Deals Bridge$99.991 Year
- 50 Bridge Deals Offer$0.99
- 50 Bridge Deals$3.99
Sumly
- Sumly Pro$0.99









