Comparison

Backgammon Online vs Backgammon Reserve

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

Head to head
About

Backgammon Online

Play live backgammon against real people instantly, with no sign-up or purchases required. Analyze your games, chat with opponents via voice or text, and join clubs for friendly matches. Offers ranked play, AI opponents, and tournaments with provably fair dice.

Highlights
  • Game analysis engine
  • Voice and live chat
  • Clubs and tournaments
  • Free online multiplayer
  • Play against AI offline
  • Provably fair dice
  • No account required
Features
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No sign-up. No email. Nothing to buy to play. Open Gammon42 and you're playing live backgammon against real people in seconds — free. Play ranked games with an ELO rating, then see how well you really played: Gammon42 analyses the game move by move and shows your performance rating (PR), your blunders, your cube decisions and how lucky the dice were. Call your opponent by voice while you play, or join a club to chat and play friendly matches with regulars. Tired of backgammon apps buried under paywalls and rigged-feeling dice? Gammon42 is the clean, fair one: ranked and casual online multiplayer, real opponents from around the world, and private games with friends — no account required. Nobody online? Play against the computer — Easy, Medium, or Hard — even offline. KEY FEATURES • Game analysis — an engine reviews every move and cube decision of a finished game: performance rating (PR), blunders, equity lost and luck • Voice calls — talk to your opponent during a game; every call needs their OK, and you can mute or hang up at any time • Clubs — found or join a club: club chat, friendly matches, club tournaments and a club leaderboard • Free online multiplayer — ranked and casual backgammon matches with players at your level • Play with friends — share a friend code to start a private game anywhere • Play vs the computer — practice against an Easy, Medium, or Hard AI, even offline • Tournaments — join scheduled tournaments or run a private one with friends • Provably fair dice — in online games every roll is fixed on the server before the game starts; check the proof yourself and compare your dice stats to the expected odds • Achievements — earn Bronze to Diamond badges and claim power-ups and titles as rewards • No account required — start playing instantly; optionally link Game Center, Apple, Google, or Facebook to sync across devices • Live chat — talk during games, in the lobby, in groups, or in private messages • Power-ups — Re-roll, Lucky Dice, and Joker for when the dice aren't with you • Pass & Play — share one phone with the person next to you • Step-by-step tutorial — learn the rules of backgammon at your own pace • Daily streak rewards — come back each day for free power-ups • Reconnect-friendly — drop off, jump back in within seconds • Leaderboards — climb the ranked or casual ladder • Eight languages: English, Spanish, German, Greek, Polish, Romanian, Serbian, Turkish HOW THE GAME WORKS Backgammon (also known as tavla, nard, or tabla) is a classic 2-player dice board game. Each side has 15 checkers and rolls two dice. You move toward your home board, hit your opponent's exposed checkers to slow them down, and bear off all 15 to win. Single, gammon, and backgammon scoring are all built in. ANONYMITY-FIRST You don't have to give us anything to play. Username, profile picture, and signing in with a social account are all optional. By default we use a device ID, so your stats and friends list stay with the app — no email required. FREE TO PLAY, FAIR TO PLAY Free to play, with unlimited games. Optional rewarded ads earn you power-ups; in-app purchases are optional. Game analyses and tournament entries are paid with Sparks, which you earn by winning Boosted games. SAFE COMMUNITY Chat moderation is built in: block, report, mute, or leave any conversation. Reports are reviewed by our team. An age gate keeps the app appropriate for its audience. Privacy: https://table-online.ro/privacy/ Terms: https://table-online.ro/terms/ Support: support@table-online.ro

About

Backgammon Reserve

A premium backgammon experience focused on serious players. Enjoy ranked online matches with Elo ratings, daily play options, and in-depth post-game analysis. Challenge a sophisticated AI opponent and track your global and friends' standings.

Highlights
  • Ranked online matches with Elo rating
  • Daily play with up to 24 hours per move
  • Match play to 3, 5, or 7 points
  • Advanced AI opponent 'Sir Reginald'
  • Detailed post-game analysis and review
  • Global and friends standings
  • Secure, unbiased dice rolls
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Backgammon Reserve is backgammon the way serious players want it. Most backgammon apps bury the game under casino mechanics: coin balances, spin wheels, loud effects. This is the opposite. A quiet, premium table for people who already love the game and want a trustworthy place to play it. PLAY RANKED ONLINE Match against real players on a live Elo rating. Server-generated dice, a match clock, and full rules enforcement. The doubling cube, gammons, and backgammons all count. Your rating, global rank, and percentile are real, earned, and on display. PLAY DAILY Backgammon on your schedule. Up to 24 hours per move and up to twenty games at once, rated in the same pool as live play with the cube in full effect. A notification tells you the moment it is your move, and the app icon counts the games waiting on you. MATCHES TO 3, 5 OR 7 Play a proper match, not just a game. First to the target score, Crawford rule included, with the cube live throughout. Agree a format with a friend, or pick one against the bot and in Pass and Play. TAKE ON SIR REGINALD One opponent. The whole community trying to beat him. Sir Reginald plays matches to 3, 5 or 7 and never a single game. He is not a difficulty setting and nothing against him touches your rating: his ladder is its own contest, ranked two ways, most wins and best average performance rating. His judgement comes from a neural network that taught itself backgammon over 750,000 games against itself, with no strategy written by hand. A bot built from written rules can only be as good as whoever wrote them. One that learns from results is free to find plays nobody thought to teach it. SEE WHERE YOU WENT WRONG Every match against Sir Reginald ends with a full review. A rating for how you played, your costliest decision shown on the board with the better move beside it, and a chart of how your chance of winning moved with every decision. It separates the dice from the play, so you can tell being outplayed from being unlucky. STANDINGS See exactly where you stand. The global board ranks the strongest players by rating, and your own row stays with you whether you are in the top 25 or climbing toward it, with the exact gap to the player above. A separate friends board ranks the people you actually know. Every rated game moves you, live or daily, and one rated game puts you on it. FAIR DICE Dice come from a cryptographically secure random source with bias rejection. No streaks engineered to keep you playing, no rolls tilted toward anyone. Online, the server rolls, so neither player's device can influence them. Against Sir Reginald you need not take it on faith: his page charts every die face rolled against the mathematics. SHARPEN YOUR GAME AGAINST THE BOTS Four tiers, from Beginner to Expert, all driven by the same self-taught network. Each is defined by how much it may give away per decision, so a weaker bot plays weaker moves rather than random ones. Bot games never touch your rating. PASS AND PLAY Hand the phone across the table. A clean two-seat mode for playing in person, at a single game or a full match. CHALLENGE YOUR FRIENDS Add friends, send a direct challenge, and settle it in a rated match. Play live with a clock, or start a daily game and take it slow. Agree the format, from a single game to a match to 7. A RECORD OF EVERY GAME Full match history, win and loss stats, streaks, recent form, and an interactive rating chart tracking every rated game you have played. DESIGNED LIKE A MEMBERS LOUNGE Walnut and brass, ivory checkers, understated motion. No neon, no confetti, no noise. WHAT YOU WON'T FIND • No coins, chips, or gambling mechanics • No ads • No pay-to-win mechanics. Nothing for sale. • No engineered dice Full backgammon rules are enforced: bar entry, blot hitting, forced maximum-pip plays, exact and overshoot bear-off, and the doubling cube with proper gammon and backgammon scoring.

Screenshots

Backgammon Online4 screens
Backgammon Reserve4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Backgammon Reserve at none against Backgammon Online's 10. Backgammon Reserve also leads on ads (none vs shown) and rating (5.0 vs 4.8). Backgammon Online's advantage is iOS requirement (15 vs 17.0). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and update cadence 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. Backgammon Online sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Backgammon Reserve asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Backgammon Reserve holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 11 and 18 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Backgammon Online ships an update weekly, Backgammon Reserve every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 14, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Backgammon Online versus Backgammon Reserve: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBackgammon OnlineBackgammon Reserve
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (11 ratings)5.0 (18 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings1118 — better
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 5 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size114 MB17 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperTAGonSoft SRLBenjamin Taylor

Customer experience

Backgammon Online

All ratings11 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Backgammon Reserve

All ratings18 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews10 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Backgammon Online

Subscriptions2
  • Gammon42 Pro · Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Gammon42 Pro · Yearly$39.991 Year
One-time8
  • Re-roll ×2$0.99
  • Lucky Dice ×2$0.99
  • Joker ×1$0.99
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  • Starter Pack$2.99
  • Small Pack$3.99
  • Value Pack$10.99
  • Pro Pack$22.99
  • Gammon42 Pro · Lifetime$99.99
None

Backgammon Reserve

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Backgammon Online free?
Backgammon Online is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Backgammon Reserve free?
Backgammon Reserve is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Backgammon Online or Backgammon Reserve?
Backgammon Reserve is rated higher. Backgammon Online averages 4.8 out of 5 from 11 ratings, while Backgammon Reserve averages 5.0 from 18 ratings.
Do Backgammon Online or Backgammon Reserve have ads?
Backgammon Online shows ads; Backgammon Reserve does not.
Which is updated more often, Backgammon Online or Backgammon Reserve?
Backgammon Online ships an update weekly, and Backgammon Reserve every 5 days. Most recently, Backgammon Online was updated on November 14, 2026 and Backgammon Reserve on November 10, 2026.

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