Spades Scorer vs Bower
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Spades Scorer
This app provides a clean and fast scoreboard for playing Spades. It supports various game modes, including team or individual play, and automatically handles scoring for Nil and Blind Nil bids, as well as tracking bags and penalties.
- Team or individual games
- Two-step round entry (Bids, then Tricks)
- Automatic Nil/Blind Nil scoring
- Bag tracking and penalty support
- Fixed target or progressive rounds
- Game history and templates
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Spades Scorer is a fast, clean scoreboard built for real Spades games. Key features - Teams or Individual games (2–4 players / multiple teams) - Two-step round entry: Bids first, then Tricks - Nil & Blind Nil scoring (automatic) - Bags tracked separately + bag penalty support - Fixed target score or Progressive rounds (ends at Round 13) - Templates for quick setup + game history
Bower
Experience a classic card game with customizable rules and AI opponents. Learn the game with a guided mode and track your progress with career stats. Play with friends on a single device.
- Offline play
- Ad-free experience
- Customizable house rules
- Three difficulty levels
- Guide mode for learning
- Pass and play multiplayer
- Career statistics tracking
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Bower is euchre the way it's played at a kitchen table — you and your partner against two opponents, first team to 10 or 11 points. No accounts. No ads. No timers pushing you to play faster. Just the game. A GOOD GAME, EVERY TIME Your partner leads suits that make sense, holds trump when it should, and won't hand the opponents a round it could have taken. Three difficulty levels set how hard the whole table plays — Easy while you learn, Hard once you want a fight. LEARN BY PLAYING Guide mode deals a practice hand and walks you through every decision: what the right bower is, why the left bower counts as trump, when it's worth going alone. Nothing in it counts against your record. A How to Play reference is one tap away whenever a rule slips your mind. THE RULES YOU PLAY BY Every table has its own house rules, so Bower lets you set yours: • Stick the Dealer — the dealer must call if everyone passes twice • First to 10 or first to 11 • Partner's Best — a lone player trades a discard for their partner's best card • Farmer's Hand Redeal — throw in a hand with nothing above a ten • Auto Mode — plays your card for you when there's only one legal choice PASS AND PLAY Hand the phone around. Any seat at the table can be a person instead of the computer, so two, three, or four of you can play on a single device. FOUR LOOKS Classic Felt is the green table you'd expect. Midnight is dark and quiet. Kitchen is warm paper and serif type. Court Press is high-contrast and loud. TRACK YOUR GAME Career stats follow your wins, your euchres, your lone marches and your longest streak. Achievements unlock as you go, and sync to Game Center. Your game saves itself. Close the app mid-hand and pick it up exactly where you left off. Euchre is a 24-card trick-taking game played across the American Midwest, Ontario and beyond. If you grew up with it, Bower will feel familiar. If you didn't, guide mode will get you playing in about five minutes.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Spades Scorer at none against Bower's 1. Spades Scorer also leads on ratings volume (6 vs 2). Bower's advantage is update cadence (daily vs every 9 days). On price, rating, review sentiment 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. Bower sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Spades Scorer asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Spades Scorer against 5.0 for Bower. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 2 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Spades Scorer ships an update every 9 days, Bower daily. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Spades Scorer | Bower |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (6 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | LAKSHMI VENKATA DURGA PRASANTH VEMULAPALLI | Capware LLC |
Customer experience
Spades Scorer
Bower
In-app purchases
Spades Scorer
No in-app purchases
Bower
- Bower Pro$2.99
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