Comparison

Dice With Buddies vs Backgammon+

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

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About

Dice With Buddies

This multiplayer dice game offers a fresh take on a classic board game. Compete with friends, family, or players worldwide in exciting tournaments and challenges. Personalize your experience with custom dice and themed boards.

Highlights
  • Multiplayer board games
  • Daily tournaments
  • Custom dice and themes
  • Solo adventure against Dice Masters
  • Play with friends and family
  • In-game scratchers for bonuses
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*Dice With Buddies™* Dice With Buddies is a fun, new spin on your favorite classic dice game! Enjoyed by millions of players, you can play free multiplayer board games with family, friends, or new buddies! Share the fun playing free games wherever your opponent is sitting, either next to you or thousands of miles away! Roll the dice with all your friends in a fun, new social board game experience!   Dice board games are easy and exciting to play! Take on opponents with brand new custom dice, easy-to-use interface, new game modes, and exciting daily tournaments! Play this exhilarating board game from the same account on any iPad or iPhone! How to Play Dice With Buddies: In Dice With Buddies, the objective of the game is to score the most points by rolling different combinations. Your 5 dice can be rolled up to 3 times per turn to score in a category. Once a category has been used in the game, it cannot be used again. The game consists of thirteen turns. Feeling lucky? Roll a five-of-a-kind and score 50 points! Score more points than your opponent to win the game and earn rewards! This dice game has also called Poker Dice because there are fun combinations like Full House, Three-of-a-Kind, Four-of-a-Kind, Small Straight, Large Straight – all that resemble poker. If you love Yahtzee, Yatzy and Farkle, then you will love Dice With Buddies! Play this classic dice game anywhere with your friends and family, and prepare to have fun! ===Dice With Buddies Features=== Dice Game Bonuses: • Finish Dice games to win in-game scratchers with a chance to win tons of bonus dice rolls. • Activate a bonus dice roll to get an extra dice roll right when you need it. Defeat the Dice Masters: • Dice Masters play back instantly in Dice With Buddies reinvented solo adventure - take down the Dice Masters and earn amazing custom dice along the way! • Conquer dozens of new levels with brand new boosts and obstacles like ice blocks, flying multipliers and more! • Join the Race for the ultimate head to head competition and earn great new rewards! Take part in multiplayer tournaments: • Dice tournaments are a new, thrilling challenge! Dice Solitaire, Dice Bingo, and Dice Stars are completely new ways to play this classic game! Tournaments are running daily! • Play through 10+ leagues to win exciting prizes! Social Games with Friends • Play with friends and family. Create your own family in game to group chat and share rewards! • Multiplayer games with random opponents – play dice games with players around the world. • Chat, challenge, and favorite your friends with the new social buddies system! Personalize your dice rolling experience: • LOADS OF CUSTOM DICE! • LOTS OF SPECIAL PORTRAIT FRAMES! • TONS OF THEMED GAME BOARDS! Subscriptions A Dice with Buddies Prize Pass trial will convert to a recurring subscription after 7 days. A payment will be charged to your iTunes account when the subscription begins, and it will auto-renew unless turned off at least 24 hours before the end of a subscription period. Renewal payments will be charged within 24 hours before the end of the subscription period, with the same price and payment schedule for the subscription you selected. Unused portions of a trial will be forfeited upon purchase of a subscription. You can manage your subscription and turn off auto-renewals in your device account settings. Fans of card games and fun social experiences will LOVE Dice With Buddies! Entertaining games with friends await in Dice With Buddies! Download today and roll the dice! Please contact us at dicesupport@scopely.com with questions, concerns or suggestions! Privacy Policy: https://scopely.com/privacy/ Terms of Service: http://scopely.com/tos/ Additional Information, Rights, and Choices Available to California Players: https://scopely.com/privacy/#additionalinfo-california By installing this game you agree to the terms of the license agreements.

About

Backgammon+

Experience the classic dice and board game with a simple interface and authentic atmosphere. Play against AI, a friend, or online players, with or without an internet connection. Features include a Doubling Cube and support for various board orientations.

Highlights
  • Play alone, with a friend, or online
  • Offline play supported
  • Simple and nice interface
  • Wooden board atmosphere
  • Vertical and horizontal orientation
  • Doubling cube with Crawford rule
Features
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It's just a well-known Backgammon game: everything you need to play and nothing more: • a simple and nice interface • play alone, with a friend or online • works offline without internet • wooden board and atmosphere • both vertical and horizontal board orientations are supported • the Doubling cube with the Crawford rule. The dice are thrown randomly and do not depend on who is playing, AI level and board conditions. -> WHAT IS SO SPECIAL ABOUT BACKGAMMON? Backgammon is one of the oldest board games, dating back about 5,000 years. Now the game is popular worldwide. Playing backgammon requires strategy, tactics and luck. With each roll of the dice, players choose from a variety of options to move the checkers, and must anticipate their opponents’ possible counter-moves. In one game, luck in rolling the dice can be critical, but in a series of games, skill is critical to win. -> HOW TO PLAY Each player has 15 checkers of a different color that move in opposite directions counting the points according to the numbers rolled by a pair of dice. The player first to get his checkers around, and then off the board, wins the game. --- We value your feedback. Send any questions or feedback to us at contact@adikus.com

Screenshots

Dice With Buddies4 screens
Backgammon+4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Backgammon+ at none against Dice With Buddies's 11. Backgammon+ also leads on ads (none vs shown). Dice With Buddies's advantage is review sentiment (73% vs 41%) and update cadence (weekly vs every 2 months). On price, rating, ratings volume and device support 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. Dice With Buddies sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Backgammon+ asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Dice With Buddies holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 33K and 12K respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 73% of Dice With Buddies's written reviews are positive against 41% of Backgammon+'s.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Dice With Buddies ships an update weekly, Backgammon+ every 2 months. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
Dice With Buddies versus Backgammon+: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDice With BuddiesBackgammon+
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (33K ratings) — better4.3 (12K ratings)
Positive reviews72.7% of reviews — better41.4% of reviews
Number of ratings33K — better12K
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 2 months
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
Best chart rank#22 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size319 MB100 MB
Age rating9+12+
DeveloperScopely, Inc.Adikus

Customer experience

Dice With Buddies

All ratings32,630 ratings
Positive88.1%
Neutral4.0%
Negative7.9%
Written reviews2,168 reviews
Positive72.7%
Neutral8.3%
Negative19.0%

Backgammon+

All ratings11,767 ratings
Positive82.8%
Neutral5.7%
Negative11.5%
Written reviews846 reviews
Positive41.4%
Neutral13.9%
Negative44.7%

User reviews

Dice With Buddies

From 33K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🎲 Fun and addictive game
  • 👥 Ability to play with friends
  • 💬 Social aspect of chatting with players
  • 🕹️ Variety of game modes and challenges

Room to improve

  • 🎫 Difficult to earn bonus rolls and rewards
  • 🎨 Dislike of new dice designs and visuals
  • 🐛 Frequent crashes and technical issues
  • 📺 Too many ads and in-app purchases

Backgammon+

From 12K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Smooth gameplay
  • 🎨 Attractive visuals
  • 🎮 Challenging AI
  • 🔍 Customizable options
  • 🎓 Helpful tutorials

Room to improve

  • 🎲 Dice rolls appear non-random
  • 🤖 AI is overly aggressive on higher difficulties
  • 🕰️ Slow online matchmaking
  • 🔄 Sync issues between devices
  • 🔇 No option to disable music

Bugs and requests

Dice With Buddies

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Inconsistent scoring and results
  • Inability to see opponent's final moves
  • Glitches with tournaments and challenges
  • Sync issues between devices

Requested features

4 requests
  • Allow players to choose their own dice
  • Improve rewards and bonuses system
  • Optimize performance and reduce crashes
  • Provide more customization options

Backgammon+

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Game freezes when receiving notifications
  • Incorrect scoring in some matches
  • Inability to make legal moves at times

Requested features

5 requests
  • Ability to choose dice roll order
  • Replay functionality
  • Online leaderboards and rankings
  • Adjustable game speed
  • More board and piece customization options

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Dice With Buddies

Subscriptions1
  • Prize Pass7 Days trial$7.991 Month
One-time9
  • Scoop of bonus rolls$2.99
  • Handful of bonus rolls2 variants$4.99
  • Gift Grab Gold Token$4.99
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  • Piggy Bank Redemption$9.99
  • Pile of bonus rolls$9.99
  • Combo Pack$9.99
  • Basket of bonus rolls$19.99
  • Combo Pack$19.99
  • Barrel of bonus rolls$49.99
None

Backgammon+

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Dice With Buddies free?
Dice With Buddies is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Backgammon+ free?
Backgammon+ is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Dice With Buddies or Backgammon+?
Dice With Buddies is rated higher. Dice With Buddies averages 4.5 out of 5 from 33K ratings, while Backgammon+ averages 4.3 from 12K ratings.
Do Dice With Buddies or Backgammon+ have ads?
Dice With Buddies shows ads; Backgammon+ does not.
Which is updated more often, Dice With Buddies or Backgammon+?
Dice With Buddies ships an update weekly, and Backgammon+ every 2 months. Most recently, Dice With Buddies was updated on October 31, 2026 and Backgammon+ on October 31, 2026.

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