Comparison

Backgammon Sage Pro vs Chouette

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

Head to head
About

Backgammon Sage Pro

This app acts as a personal backgammon coach, offering advanced analysis and play against a strong AI engine. It helps users improve by explaining strategies, tracking progress, and drilling weaknesses. Suitable for all skill levels, from beginners to advanced players.

Highlights
  • AI-powered backgammon engine
  • Position analysis with AI justification
  • Play against a world-class bot
  • Game and match analysis
  • Progress tracking and performance rating
  • Targeted weakness drills
  • Plain-English strategy explanations
Features
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Backgammon Sage Pro is your personal backgammon coach, powered by the strongest backgammon engine on the market today. Play, analyze, and improve, calculating in the cloud so you get the strongest evaluations even when you're on the move. Whether you're learning your first prime or sharpening a tournament game, Sage shows you the best play, explains why, and tracks your progress over time. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Analyze a position: Quickly set up a checker play or cube action position and analyze it at your choice of strength, with AI justification of the best decision. • Play a world-class bot: unlimited and match games at adjustable strength, with live performance feedback and post-game analysis. • Analyze your games and matches: Every game you play, against Sage or friends, is recorded and analyzed. See where you went wrong and why. • Track your game: See Performance Rating (PR), error themes, and progress across multiple player profiles. • Drill your weaknesses: Quiz yourself on the exact positions where you went wrong, zeroing in on parts of the game where you need work. • Plain-English insight: Sage AI explains the ideas behind each position, with backgammon strategy and tactics instead of equities and probabilities. • Import your history: Bring in XG and online match files to build a complete database of your play. POWERED BY A WORLD-CLASS ENGINE Backgammon Sage Pro is powered by the open source backgammon engine, Open Sage. Open Sage is a modern standard for backgammon engines, demonstrated to outperform other commercial engines at similar evaluation strength. You can find more information on Open Sage at its github page: https://github.com/markbgsage/bgsage. FOR EVERY LEVEL New players get clear, expert guidance. Advanced players get the depth: expanded dice distribution, cloud rollouts, modern market window information for cube decisions, and the precision serious study demands. This is a strategy and analysis tool. No gambling is involved. SUBSCRIPTION Backgammon Sage Pro offers full access through a monthly or annual auto-renewing subscription. Pricing is shown in the app before you confirm. • Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. • Your subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. • Manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://sage.bgsage.ai/terms Privacy Policy: https://sage.bgsage.ai/privacy

About

Chouette

This app simplifies scoring for backgammon games, including chouette, 1v1 matches, and money games. It handles complex calculations like box and captain rotation, individual stakes, and settlements. Easily track game progress, view player stats, and share results via PDF.

Highlights
  • Box and captain rotation with smart suggestions
  • Individual stakes and flat rate options
  • Doubling cube tracking
  • Automatic settlement math
  • 1v1 Match Mode with Crawford rule
  • Big Display view for table-facing scoreboard
  • Player stats and history
  • One-tap PDF results sharing
Features
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Chouetty is a backgammon score keeper and scoring app - chouette, 1v1 matches, and money games alike. It's built around chouette's demands (box and captain rotation, individual stakes, settlement math) but works just as well for a straight head-to-head match. Track exactly what a session actually needs: - Box and captain rotation, with smart suggestions for who's up next based on the last game - Individual stakes - give every player their own $/point rate, or use one flat rate for the table - Doubling cube tracking - who holds it, and automatic doubles recorded on back-to-back opening rolls - Automatic settlement math, including proper stake-capping between the box and each opponent - A running ledger of every round, with notes for anything worth remembering ("started on a 2 cube") - Mid-session settlements for settling out cubes without waiting for the night to end - 1v1 Match Mode - race to 5, 7, 13, or any target you set, with the Crawford rule applied automatically, or play an unlimited head-to-head money match with no target score - A Big Display view - flip the phone to landscape and put a large, table-facing scoreboard in the middle of the game - Player stats - win/loss records and history across every match and chouette - One-tap PDF results you can email or share the moment the game wraps up - Complete backup and restore - move your roster and history to a new phone, or hand it to a friend setting up their own copy - Built in 12 languages, including full right-to-left support for Arabic, Persian, and Hebrew No account required, no ads, no internet connection needed — Chouetty works entirely offline, the way these games usually get played: at a table, with real dice. Chouetty is free to use, with a limited number of free rounds per session. Chouetty Pro is an optional subscription for unlimited rounds in every chouette and match. Chouetty is a scorekeeping tool. It doesn't process payments, place bets, or determine any game outcome - it simply totals the numbers from a game already being played on a physical board, the same way a bill-splitting app tracks who owes what. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Backgammon Sage Pro4 screens
Chouette4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Backgammon Sage Pro at none against Chouette's 2. Chouette's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.6). 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. Chouette sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Backgammon Sage Pro asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Chouette holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 10 and 5 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Backgammon Sage Pro ships an update every 2 days, Chouette every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Backgammon Sage Pro versus Chouette: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBackgammon Sage ProChouette
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (10 ratings)5.0 (5 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings10 — better5
Update frequencyEvery 2 days — betterEvery 3 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationSubscriptionFreemium — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size58 MB69 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperBackgammon Gaming Technologies LLCHJT CONSORTIUM INC

Customer experience

Backgammon Sage Pro

All ratings10 ratings
Positive90.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative10.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Chouette

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Backgammon Sage Pro

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Chouette

Subscriptions2
  • Chouetty Pro$4.991 Month
  • Chouetty Pro$49.991 Year

Questions

Is Backgammon Sage Pro free?
Backgammon Sage Pro is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Chouette free?
Chouette is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Backgammon Sage Pro or Chouette?
Chouette is rated higher. Backgammon Sage Pro averages 4.6 out of 5 from 10 ratings, while Chouette averages 5.0 from 5 ratings.
Do Backgammon Sage Pro or Chouette have ads?
Neither Backgammon Sage Pro nor Chouette shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Backgammon Sage Pro or Chouette?
Backgammon Sage Pro ships an update every 2 days, and Chouette every 3 days. Most recently, Backgammon Sage Pro was updated on October 1, 2026 and Chouette on October 15, 2026.

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