Comparison

Backgammon Eye 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 Eye

This app uses AI to analyze your backgammon board from a photo, suggesting optimal moves with visual overlays. It's designed to help players of all levels improve their strategy and learn from each game.

Highlights
  • AI-powered move suggestions
  • Real-time photo recognition
  • Visual overlay of optimal moves
  • Pip count analysis
  • Export XGID positions
  • Learn-by-playing feature
Features
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Master Backgammon in Real Time – With the Power of AI Gammon Eye is your personal backgammon coach, right in your pocket. Simply take a photo of your board while playing, and Gammon Eye instantly analyzes the position, showing you the best possible moves overlaid on your image – like augmented reality for backgammon. Whether you're a seasoned player looking to optimize every decision or a beginner eager to learn the right strategy, Gammon Eye is the smartest way to improve your game. Features: • AI-powered move suggestions, right on your board * Export your XGID position so you can analyze moves on your computer • Instant photo recognition of real backgammon positions * Pip count analysis • Visual overlay of optimal and alternative moves • Learn-by-playing: understand the why behind each decision • Designed for both casual players and professionals Gammon Eye uses advanced neural networks trained on expert-level play to bring you world-class analysis in seconds. It’s like having a grandmaster by your side – anytime, anywhere. Make smarter moves. Learn faster. Win more. To speed up processing of the board, consider supporting us by purchasing tokens for priority handling. Install now and bring the power of AI to your backgammon game.

About

Backgammon Reserve

This app offers a premium online backgammon experience focused on pure gameplay. Compete against real players with a live Elo rating, play daily games with flexible move times, or practice against AI bots. Enjoy a clean, ad-free interface designed for serious enthusiasts.

Highlights
  • Ranked online play with Elo rating
  • Daily games with 24-hour move timers
  • Fair, server-generated dice
  • AI bot practice modes
  • Pass & Play for in-person games
  • Friend challenges and head-to-head records
  • Full match history and stats
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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 Eye1 screens
Backgammon Reserve4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Backgammon Reserve at none against Backgammon Eye's 1. Backgammon Reserve also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 3 weeks) and ratings volume (16 vs 1). Backgammon Eye's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). On price, rating, ads 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. Backgammon Eye sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Backgammon Reserve asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Backgammon Eye against 5.0 for Backgammon Reserve. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Backgammon Reserve has 16 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Backgammon Eye ships an update every 3 weeks, Backgammon Reserve every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on September 28, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Backgammon Eye versus Backgammon Reserve: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBackgammon EyeBackgammon Reserve
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (16 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings116 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size225 MB17 MB
Age rating9+12+
DeveloperBrodekBenjamin Taylor

Customer experience

Backgammon Eye

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

Backgammon Reserve

All ratings16 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews9 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Backgammon Eye

One-time1
  • 500 Tokens$9.99
None

Backgammon Reserve

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Backgammon Eye free?
Backgammon Eye 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 Eye or Backgammon Reserve?
Backgammon Eye and Backgammon Reserve are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 16 ratings respectively.
Do Backgammon Eye or Backgammon Reserve have ads?
Neither Backgammon Eye nor Backgammon Reserve shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Backgammon Eye or Backgammon Reserve?
Backgammon Eye ships an update every 3 weeks, and Backgammon Reserve every 3 days. Most recently, Backgammon Eye was updated on September 28, 2026 and Backgammon Reserve on October 11, 2026.

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