Comparison

Cribbler vs Nobs Cribbage

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

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About

Cribbler

This game challenges you to fill a grid with cards, forming cribbage hands that match target values for each row and column. It's a unique puzzle experience that tests your strategy and cribbage hand recognition.

Highlights
  • Grid-based card filling
  • Cribbage hand formation
  • Target value matching
  • Strategy testing
  • Cribbage hand recognition
Features
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Cribbler blends the best of Cross Cribbage, Sudoku, and other math puzzles into a unique and challenging game. Your goal: fill a grid of cards to form cribbage hands, hitting the target value for every row and column. Test your strategy and sharpen your cribbage hand recognition skills as you use available cards to match each hand’s target. Cribbler offers a fun, innovative way to enhance your quick thinking and mastery of cribbage hand values!

About

Nobs Cribbage

Experience a modern take on the classic cribbage card game. Play against friends online or challenge AI opponents across five difficulty levels. Improve your skills with detailed stats, training tools, and an accurate rule engine.

Highlights
  • Play against friends online
  • Five AI difficulty tiers
  • Detailed game stats
  • Discard and pegging trainers
  • Accurate cribbage rule engine
  • Head-to-head records
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A modern version of the classic cribbage card game. Play against friends or computer opponents across five difficulty tiers. The bots run from amateur to professional, picking up more advanced cribbage strategy as you climb the ladder. You'll have training tools, discard and pegging accuracy numbers, and game stats to help you improve, too. No ads. No coins. Just cribbage. PLAY AGAINST FRIENDS Add friends by username or invite link, send a challenge, and play cribbage online with your friends. Nobs keeps a head-to-head record of all your games together, skunks included. Sign in and everything follows your account from device to device. CLIMB THE BOT LADDER Five difficulty tiers of bots. You unlock the next opponent by beating the last. The bots get the same honest shuffle you do. They never get better or worse cards to make the game easier or harder for you, and a bot cannot see your hand, your crib, or the deck. As you climb, the bots pick up real cribbage skills: better discarding, smarter pegging plays, longer memory, more board sense, fewer mistakes, and more. STATS AND METRICS TO HELP YOU IMPROVE Every game ends with stats to help you understand how you played. You’ll get discard grades, pegging accuracy grades, and even see who got more card luck - a measure of how much of the game came down to luck vs skill. Each discard is graded and you can see how your choice ranked against all 15 discard options. Your first five games include the full breakdown, and after that you get one free a day. TRAINING & CRIBBAGE TOOLS The hand counter will count any hand or crib, a tool for when you're playing with real cards in real life. It's the cribbage calculator for the moment at the table when someone says your count can't be right. The discard trainer deals you six cards, you toss two, and you see how your discard stacked up against every other option. It's the fastest way to sharpen your game. The best discard finder takes any six cards you throw at it and tells you the best toss. BUILT ON REAL CRIBBAGE RULES The Nobs cribbage engine was audited against the American Cribbage Congress 2025 rulebook. Fifteens, pairs, runs, flushes, nobs, his heels, and the crib flush rule that trips everyone up. Two players, aces low, a race to 121. THE CLASSIC GAME OF CRIBBAGE Cribbage goes by crib, cribble, and noddy, and it has been played on a pegboard to 121 since the seventeenth century. If you grew up playing euchre, pinochle, hearts or spades, this card game will feel familiar. Whether you're a cribbage pro or still learning how to play cribbage, this modern cribbage app is for you. NOBS PRO One purchase, no subscriptions, no renewals. Pro adds the twelve Champion bots at the top of the ladder and removes the daily cap on full game breakdowns. Everything else is free. Terms of Use: https://www.nobscribbage.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://www.nobscribbage.com/privacy

Screenshots

Cribbler4 screens
Nobs Cribbage4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Cribbler at none against Nobs Cribbage's 1. Cribbler also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and update cadence (every 4 days vs every 10 days). Nobs Cribbage's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (14 vs 1). On price 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. Nobs Cribbage sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Cribbler asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Cribbler holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Nobs Cribbage has 14 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Cribbler ships an update every 4 days, Nobs Cribbage every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on September 26, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Cribbler versus Nobs Cribbage: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCribblerNobs Cribbage
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better4.6 (14 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings114 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterEvery 10 days
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size36 MB67 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMitchell MayKYLE ANTHONY MC GAHEY

Customer experience

Cribbler

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Nobs Cribbage

All ratings13 ratings
Positive92.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative7.7%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Cribbler

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Nobs Cribbage

One-time1
  • Nobs Pro Lifetime$8.99

Questions

Is Cribbler free?
Cribbler is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Nobs Cribbage free?
Nobs Cribbage is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Cribbler or Nobs Cribbage?
Cribbler is rated higher. Cribbler averages 5.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Nobs Cribbage averages 4.6 from 14 ratings.
Do Cribbler or Nobs Cribbage have ads?
Cribbler shows ads; Nobs Cribbage does not.
Which is updated more often, Cribbler or Nobs Cribbage?
Cribbler ships an update every 4 days, and Nobs Cribbage every 10 days. Most recently, Cribbler was updated on September 26, 2026 and Nobs Cribbage on October 29, 2026.

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