Backgammon Elite HD vs Original Backgammon
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Backgammon Elite HD
Experience a classic two-player board game with a rich history. This app offers realistic graphics and multiple game variations to sharpen your tactical and strategic thinking. Play against a friend on the same device.
- Realistic graphics
- 7 game versions (Nards, Nackgammon, Tavlya)
- Play together on a single board
- Improves tactical and strategic thinking
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Backgammon is one of the oldest board game for two players. Reliably known that people have been playing this game for over 5,000 years. Backgammon perfectly improves your tactical and strategic thinking and equally with chess and dominoes Backgammon is a member of the tables family, one of the populers games in the world. Features of our version of Backgammon: - Great, realistic graphics. - 7 versions of the game, including Nards, Nackgammon, Tavlya etc.. - The opportunity to play together on a single board.
Original Backgammon
Experience the classic board game of backgammon. Compete against AI, a local opponent, or players online. Be the first to move all your pieces off the board to win.
- Play against computer AI
- Local multiplayer mode
- Online multiplayer matches
- Traditional backgammon rules
- Checkers movement and removal
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Play the traditional game of backgammon against the computer, a friend on the same device, or someone over the internet. The objective of the game is to move all of your checkers around the board, until they are all in your home. When they are all home, then you can start moving them off the board. The first player to move all their checkers off the board, will be the winner.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Original Backgammon at none against Backgammon Elite HD's 8. Original Backgammon also leads on device support (3 vs 1). Backgammon Elite HD's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 5 months) and ratings volume (17 vs 3). On price, rating 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
Both are free to download. Backgammon Elite HD sells 8 one-off in-app purchases. Original Backgammon asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 3.3 for Backgammon Elite HD against 3.3 for Original Backgammon. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Backgammon Elite HD has 17 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 41% of Backgammon Elite HD's written reviews are positive against 33% of Original Backgammon's.
Backgammon Elite HD ships an update every 2 months, Original Backgammon every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on September 26, 2026 and August 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Backgammon Elite HD | Original Backgammon |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.3 (17 ratings) | 3.3 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 41.5% of reviews — better | 33.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 17 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 177 MB | 123 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Appscraft | MOBILEFUSION APPS LTD |
Customer experience
Backgammon Elite HD
Original Backgammon
In-app purchases
Backgammon Elite HD
- Buy chips$0.99
- Buy Nackgammon$0.99
- Old English$0.99
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- Tavla$0.99
- Mad Gulbar$0.99
- Gulbar$0.99
- True Nards$0.99
- Buy All$2.99
Original Backgammon
No in-app purchases
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