Comparison

Bridge Mentor vs Shark Bridge

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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

About

Shark Bridge

Learn and play the card game of bridge with an AI opponent that adjusts to your skill level. Offers unlimited hands, duplicate games, and tournament play, with options for offline or online play. Analyze past competitions and share hands with friends.

Highlights
  • Adjustable AI difficulty
  • Unlimited hands
  • Duplicate bridge games
  • Daily tournaments
  • Offline and online play
  • Hand analysis
  • Import/export hands
Features
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Shark's 5th generation robot can be adjusted from an excellent beginner to a full-scale AI expert player. Shark Bridge offers unlimited hands, duplicate bridge games, and Daily Tournament with MP (%) scoring. Play bridge with friends or practice on your own. Study the hands of your bridge teacher. Play deals online from your library, classroom hands, and generator You can play and review boards with the complete auction and play details from International, North American, and European competitions. Internet is not required, except for Daily Tournaments and the Online Bridge Club. Shark Bridge won the 2014 and 2011 World Bridge Computer Championships. You can email hands to your partner or other bridge friends for discussion if they have Shark or another bridge app capable of opening PBN/LIN files. Share the fun! You can also import bridge deals from your computer disk or the Internet. Shark Bridge features: - Bidding systems: Standard American 5 card major( SAYC or Shark flavor), 2/1 Game Force, Std English Acol (in development) bidding systems. - Duplicate bridge game. - Bridge tournament boards. - Play bridge offline ( no Internet ) or live on the Internet with your friends and foes. - Never wait for a bridge table to fill in; our high-quality robot will play bridge when needed. - Hints and auction analysis are available at any time. Ask the Shark Bridge, and it will help. - Get suggestions when the declarer is on the lead to a trick; Shark will recommend a play strategy. - Open PBN (Portable Bridge Notation) and LIN ( VU-Graph) files from your email. - Choose from regular and 4-color card decks. Bridge Enthusiast In-App purchase ($29.99) upgrade offers: - Play an unlimited number of random deals. - 9 WBF, ACBL, and European bridge tournaments from 2014,2013,2011. - Email bridge hands from your Personal Deal Library. - Basic Online Bridge Play: create, join, and kibitz at any table. - Deal Analysis. - One year free VIP subscription. VIP subscription ($34.99/year) unlocks additional features and services: - Daily tournament with 16 boards; compare your skill with the rest of our VIP members. Study the deals from past competitions. - 32 WBF, ACBL, and European bridge tournaments in recent years, including 2016. More are in the works. - VIP online play: create, join, and kibitz at any table, manage friends, block players, invite players. - Par Contract Calculator. - Personal Deal Library: all saved deals are instantly available to all of your devices. - Advanced Deal Generator. - Classroom hands - Access to The CommonGame hands, via the Classroom hands module - Highest priority for feature requests. Bridge Bidding Systems: Standard American 5-card major( SAYC or Shark flavor), 2/1 Game Force, Acol, and Swedish 5-card major bidding systems, and more are in the works. Each bridge system includes the most popular conventions, and you can further customize it with : 1NT / 2NT range and hand distribution options Gambling 3NT or strong 25+ HCP 3NT Stayman Jacoby and Texas Transfers Weak two Spades, Hearts, Diamonds Strong 2 Clubs Blackwood: 4 Aces / 5 Aces, RKCB, RKC 1430, Exclusion Blackwood Jacoby 2NT Sandwich 2NT Two-way new minor forcing (XY-NT) Leaping Michaels Michaels Cue Bid Maximum Overcall Double Negative Doubles Takeout Doubles Responsive Doubles Support Double Splinter Bids Lebensohl Unusual 2NT Drury DONT Landy Multi Landi BPH The Shark Play bridge engine was designed and programmed by John Norris, an international bridge master and Danish Bridge Champion. Shark robot is the most human-like playing bot; it has been tested against professional players and proved a worthy opponent.

Screenshots

Bridge Mentor4 screens
Shark Bridge4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: Shark Bridge at free with in-app purchases against Bridge Mentor's subscription. Shark Bridge also leads on rating (4.6 vs 4.4) and review sentiment (73% vs 56%). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Bridge Mentor sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $0.49 per month and Shark Bridge sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Shark Bridge holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 680 and 1.2K respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 56% of Bridge Mentor's written reviews are positive against 73% of Shark Bridge's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Bridge Mentor ships an update every 10 days, Shark Bridge every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Bridge Mentor versus Shark Bridge: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBridge MentorShark Bridge
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (680 ratings)4.6 (1.2K ratings) — better
Positive reviews56.3% of reviews73.3% of reviews — better
Number of ratings6801.2K — better
Update frequencyEvery 10 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationSubscriptionFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size101 MB164 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperEamonn and Ian llcThe Shark Bridge Company Inc

Customer experience

Bridge Mentor

All ratings676 ratings
Positive83.9%
Neutral8.6%
Negative7.5%
Written reviews16 reviews
Positive56.3%
Neutral18.8%
Negative25.0%

Shark Bridge

All ratings1,159 ratings
Positive91.5%
Neutral5.0%
Negative3.5%
Written reviews30 reviews
Positive73.3%
Neutral10.0%
Negative16.7%

User reviews

Bridge Mentor

From 680 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Easy to use and understand interface
  • 🎓 Excellent learning tool for bridge skills
  • 🎮 Engaging gameplay with replay functionality
  • 📊 Ability to review hands and improve bidding
  • ⚡ Smooth operation on iPad

Room to improve

  • 🐛 App Store connection/subscription verification issues
  • 🐛 Frequent screen freezing requiring reinstall
  • 📱 Text and UI elements too small to read
  • 🤖 AI bidding logic inconsistent and confusing
  • 🎲 Hand distribution often unfair (opponent gets better hands)

Shark Bridge

From 1.2K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Excellent support
  • 👍 Great learning tool
  • 👍 Helpful for practicing bridge
  • 👍 Ability to play with friends online

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Frequent crashes
  • 🤖 Questionable AI behavior
  • 🤖 Inaccurate bidding by AI
  • 🤖 AI cheating
  • 🤖 AI imbalanced

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

Shark Bridge

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • iPad app keeps quitting when saving hands
  • Identical daily hands repeated

Requested features

3 requests
  • Help files for analysis interruption and interpretation
  • Option for standard North American carding
  • Show lead card on results page

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Bridge Mentor

Subscriptions1
  • Unlimited Hands - Monthly$0.491 Month
2 purchases

Shark Bridge

One-time2
  • Bridge Enthusiast$29.99
  • Yearly VIP subscription$34.99

Questions

Is Bridge Mentor free?
Bridge Mentor is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Shark Bridge free?
Shark Bridge is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Bridge Mentor or Shark Bridge?
Shark Bridge is rated higher. Bridge Mentor averages 4.4 out of 5 from 680 ratings, while Shark Bridge averages 4.6 from 1.2K ratings.
Do Bridge Mentor or Shark Bridge have ads?
Neither Bridge Mentor nor Shark Bridge shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Bridge Mentor or Shark Bridge?
Bridge Mentor ships an update every 10 days, and Shark Bridge every 2 weeks. Most recently, Bridge Mentor was updated on October 24, 2026 and Shark Bridge on October 24, 2026.

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