Cribbage Premium vs Muggins
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Cribbage Premium
Experience the classic card game of Cribbage online with friends or players worldwide. This app offers helpful hints and scoring explanations for newcomers, while challenging AI and leaderboards await experienced players. Enjoy voice chat and customizable game elements for an engaging experience.
- Online multiplayer with friends
- Single-player against AI
- Scoring explanations and hints
- Voice chat
- Leaderboards and achievements
- Customizable game elements
- Muggins scoring
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Catch the crib! Play the App Store’s top rated cribbage online with your friends or anyone in the world! With fluid action, this game is intuitive and easy to play for both novice and experienced players. New to Cribbage? Cribbage Premium helps you every step of the way. Use hints to develop your skills and strategy. If you're unsure how a hand was scored, use the “Explain” button for a breakdown of the points. Think you're a pro? Challenge yourself against our world class expert AI! Compete for the top spot on the leaderboard and earn all 42 achievements. Count your own cards! Play muggins and steal missed points from your opponent! Cribbage will keep you endlessly entertained. __________________________________________ Awesome Features: • Voice chat lets you be more social during online games • Find opponents while you play with background matchmaking • Single Player games have easy, medium, hard and expert opponents • Personalize your cards, pegs, board, and background • Choose automatic or manual card counting • Play muggins and steal points from your opponent • Show you're a pro by earning all 42 achievements • Compete for top spots on the leaderboard • See detailed breakdowns of the points scored in a hand with the explain button • Use hints to develop your strategy __________________________________________ Customer Reviews: "The only Cribbage game you should consider for the iPhone." "Keeps me in shape for the real thing!" "I had never played Cribbage before but I learned quickly. I love it! This app is definitely worth the money." __________________________________________ And follow us online for news and promotions: • Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/trivialtech • Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/trivialtech
Muggins
This digital cribbage board allows you to play with real cards and track scores on your device. Simply lay your phone or tablet flat, use the on-screen pegs, and race to 121 points. Customize your board with various themes.
- Digital pegging board
- Use with real cards
- Score tracking
- Multiple board themes
- Race to 121 points
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Muggins is a digital cribbage board. Set your device flat on the table, play with your real cards, and keep score with the Muggins app. Pull and release the knobs to peg points. Pull back or hit the undo button to remove them. THE BOARD, NOT THE CARDS Muggins lets you play cribbage with your real cards. You shuffle, deal, and count your own points. The app simply acts as a scorekeeper, a digital cribbage board. HOW IT WORKS • Open the app and play. No account creation, no sign-in. • Pull and release the knobs to peg points. Drag your knob and a live preview shows you how many points you'll add once you release it. No number pads and no typing. • Tap the peg to subtract a point. Hit the undo button to undo the last points added. • Good sound quality. You'll hear a click for every point as you pull, a solid clunk when the peg lands. Mute it in settings if you'd rather play quietly. • Game over at 121 — a dedicated result screen and a stamp on the loser's score if they got skunked (or double-skunked, we're not here to protect feelings). • Your current game saves automatically if you leave the app. PICK YOUR BOARD Three boards to play on: • Classic — warm cream card stock, enamel pegs, tilted playing-card score displays. Free. • Obsidian — a matte-black board with an LED trail and softly glowing pegs. • Casino — green felt, ivory rails, and a thin gold pinstripe. FAIR AND SIMPLE PRICING Muggins is free to play, supported by ads that never interrupt a game. There's an optional one-time purchase that will remove all ads and unlock all board themes. No subscription, no recurring costs. FOR PEOPLE WHO ALREADY LOVE CRIBBAGE Muggins is a scoreboard and it assumes you know the game already. It's for the cabin where the board went missing, the vacation rental, the airplane tray, the bar. If you carry a deck of cards, you now carry a cribbage board too. Made for iPhone and iPad. Grab a deck. Deal six. The board's ready.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Cribbage Premium at 8.3K against Muggins's 4. Cribbage Premium also leads on iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.0). Muggins's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 months) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Cribbage Premium sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and Muggins sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Muggins holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Cribbage Premium has 8.3K ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 88% of Cribbage Premium's written reviews are positive against 100% of Muggins's.
Cribbage Premium ships an update every 2 months, Muggins every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Cribbage Premium | Muggins |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (8.3K ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 88.2% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 8.3K — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 127 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | WildCard Classics Inc | KYLE ANTHONY MC GAHEY |
Customer experience
Cribbage Premium
Muggins
Bugs and requests
Cribbage Premium
Reported bugs
4 issues- Scoring errors or miscounts
- Crashes or freezes during gameplay
- Multiplayer connection issues
- Compatibility problems with newer iOS versions
Requested features
5 requests- Ability to play turn-based games with friends
- Improved multiplayer functionality
- Statistics tracking and leaderboards
- Undo/redo options for card placement
- More board and card customization options
Muggins
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Cribbage Premium
- 29 Pack$1.99
- 3 Player Games$1.99
Muggins
- Obsidian Theme$1.99
- Casino Theme$1.99
- Remove Ads$4.99
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- Unlock Everything$6.99
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