Bridge Mentor vs PVBridge
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bridge Mentor
Practice and improve your bridge game with this app. Play rubber bridge against the computer or duplicate bridge with friends. Features include bidding explanations, hand profiles, and hints for card play.
- Play rubber bridge against computer
- Play duplicate bridge against friends
- Learn optimal bidding and play strategies
- Extensive bridge help guides
- Explanations of bidding options
- Hints for card play
- Convention bids highlighted
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Play rubber bridge against the computer, to test and improve your play. Play duplicate bridge against a friend, or compete against all bridge mentor players. Buy a monthly subscription for unlimited hands plus access to duplicate bridge, for just $0.49 / month. Practice your bridge skills while competing against the computer! Learn optimal bidding and play strategies. Extensive Bridge help guides, including How To Play and a guide to the Standard American bidding system. Includes explanations of all of the bidding options for yourself and your opponents. Shows hand profiles based on everyone's bidding. Provides hints for card play. Convention bids highlighted Bidding conventions highlighted in red to help you understand them. Includes many Standard American conventions, including: Weak Twos Weak Threes Weak Fours Strong Two Clubs Stayman Jacoby Transfers Blackwood Gerber Michaels Negative Doubles Fourth Suit Forcing RONF Also starts with an introduction to the features of the App. Terms of Use: https://bridgementor.app/BridgeMentorTermsOfUse.pdf
PVBridge
Practice contract bridge with intelligent AI partners and natural bidding conventions. Improve your card play and refine strategies with advanced AI gameplay. Play anytime, anywhere to hone your bridge skills.
- AI partners
- Natural bidding conventions
- Advanced AI gameplay
- Practice bidding systems
- Improve card play
- Refine strategies
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Play contract bridge anytime with intelligent AI partners. PVBridge features natural bidding conventions and advanced AI gameplay powered by Alpha-Beta Pruning algorithms. Practice bidding systems, improve card play, and refine your favorite strategies.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: PVBridge at none against Bridge Mentor's 1. PVBridge also leads on device support (4 vs 2) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). Bridge Mentor's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 10 days vs every 2 months). On price and rating 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. Bridge Mentor sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $0.49 per month. PVBridge asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.4 for Bridge Mentor against 4.3 for PVBridge. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bridge Mentor has 680 ratings behind it against 68, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 56% of Bridge Mentor's written reviews are positive against 47% of PVBridge's.
Bridge Mentor ships an update every 10 days, PVBridge every 2 months. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | Bridge Mentor | PVBridge |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (680 ratings) — better | 4.3 (68 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 56.3% of reviews — better | 46.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 680 — better | 68 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Subscription | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 101 MB | 18 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Eamonn and Ian llc | Jianfeng Wu |
Customer experience
Bridge Mentor
PVBridge
Bugs and requests
Bridge Mentor
Reported bugs
5 issues- App fails to verify subscription despite active payment
- Repeated App Store connection failures
- Screen freezes every 6-7 games requiring reinstall
- Unresponsive technical support
- Phone reboot does not resolve connection issues
Requested features
6 requests- More complex bidding conventions (Blackwood, intermediate bids)
- Better hand information exchange through bidding conversation
- Universal card symbols instead of English abbreviations
- Larger, more readable text and UI elements
- Better instructions and onboarding for new users
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- Improved AI partner bidding logic
PVBridge
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Bridge Mentor
- Unlimited Hands - Monthly$0.491 Month
PVBridge
No in-app purchases
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