Comparison

Cribbage Lab vs Smart Cribbage Scoring

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

Head to head
About

Cribbage Lab

Master the card game of cribbage with this comprehensive training app. Practice drills, analyze hands, and play against AI opponents. Features a card scanner for real-world use and progress tracking to improve your skills.

Highlights
  • Play full games against AI opponents
  • Practice scoring, discarding, and pegging drills
  • Analyze any hand with detailed expected value
  • Scan real cards for instant analysis
  • Track progress with Elo rating and achievements
  • Daily scoring challenges
Features
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The most complete cribbage training app on iOS. Practice drills, analyze hands, scan real cards, and play full games against opponents matched to your skill level. PLAY FULL GAMES Face off against 5 unique opponents, from beginner to expert. Each plays with a distinct style — from the reckless Bonehead to the calculating Mastermind. Build your own custom opponents with adjustable discard strategy, pegging depth, and more. DRILLS • Score a Hand – Calculate points from a hand and cut card • Best Discard – Choose the optimal two cards to send to the crib • Pegging Play – Pick the best card to play during pegging • Daily Puzzle – A new scoring challenge every day HAND ANALYZER Enter any hand to see every possible discard ranked by expected value. View best and worst cuts, score distributions, and detailed breakdowns. CARD SCANNER Point your camera at real cards on the table for instant hand analysis. Powered by on-device machine learning — works offline, nothing leaves your phone. TRACK YOUR PROGRESS • Elo rating that adjusts based on opponent strength • XP and leveling with 20+ achievements • Challenge Ladder: 10 stages against increasingly tough opponents • Mistake tracking shows where you left points on the table • Win probability graph tracks your chances throughout each game All game logic powered by a high-performance engine for instant, accurate evaluation of every hand.

About

Smart Cribbage Scoring

This app replaces a physical cribbage board, allowing players to easily track scores, save games, and analyze statistics. Customize the look with your own images and manage local player profiles without needing an account.

Highlights
  • Digital cribbage board
  • Score tracking
  • Game saving
  • Player statistics
  • Editable play history
  • Local player profiles
  • Customizable backgrounds
Features
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Smart Cribbage Scoring can be used in place of a physical board, or when one is absent. It is especially useful for keeping track of rivalries and saving games for later. Drag your peg up the lane hole by hole, or use the scoring menu to tap the plays that made up your count. Either way, you’ll get the option to log your different plays in order to receive interesting statistics at the end of the match. It is a completely effortless process, but you can also just skip this step and just input a score. Every move of the game is listed in the editable play history. Change a score, retag a play from hand to crib, or remove a move entirely. The board rebuilds itself and nothing becomes a permanent statistic until the game ends. Every player gets a local profile. There are no login or account creation options. In Advanced Player Statistics, search any stat in plain words or scroll down the stat options drop down to view interesting facts and comparisons with your friends. The background and the board itself are customizable with images from your own camera roll.

Screenshots

Cribbage Lab4 screens
Smart Cribbage Scoring4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: Smart Cribbage Scoring at free against Cribbage Lab's free with in-app purchases. Smart Cribbage Scoring also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, rating, ratings volume 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Cribbage Lab against 5.0 for Smart Cribbage Scoring. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Cribbage Lab versus Smart Cribbage Scoring: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCribbage LabSmart Cribbage Scoring
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Number of ratings12 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size21 MB26 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJacob TutlisGABRIEL ALEXANDER DODGE

Customer experience

Cribbage Lab

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

Smart Cribbage Scoring

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Cribbage Lab

No in-app purchases

None

Smart Cribbage Scoring

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Cribbage Lab free?
Cribbage Lab is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Smart Cribbage Scoring free?
Smart Cribbage Scoring is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Cribbage Lab or Smart Cribbage Scoring?
Cribbage Lab and Smart Cribbage Scoring are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do Cribbage Lab or Smart Cribbage Scoring have ads?
Neither Cribbage Lab nor Smart Cribbage Scoring shows ads.

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