Backgammon Sage Pro vs Chouette
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Backgammon Sage Pro
This app acts as a personal backgammon coach, offering analysis, practice, and progress tracking. It features a powerful AI engine, board position analysis, and game review to help players of all levels improve their skills.
- AI-powered backgammon engine
- Position analysis with AI justification
- Import board positions from photos
- Play against adjustable bot strength
- Analyze recorded games and matches
- Track progress with performance metrics
- Drill weaknesses with custom quizzes
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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. • Import from a photo: Photograph a real board and the position opens in Sage, ready to check and analyze. • 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. • Train your pip count: Race the clock counting pips, then take on the global leaderboard. • 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
Chouette
This app helps keep score for backgammon games, including Chouette, 1v1 matches, and money games. It handles complex scoring like box and captain rotation, individual stakes, and automatic settlement math. Features include a running ledger, mid-session settlements, and player statistics, with an option for a large table-facing scoreboard.
- Chouette scoring (box/captain rotation)
- Individual stakes and flat rates
- Doubling cube tracking
- Automatic settlement math
- 1v1 Match Mode with Crawford rule
- Big Display scoreboard
- Player statistics and history
- PDF results export
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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/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Chouette at free with in-app purchases against Backgammon Sage Pro's subscription. Chouette also leads on 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
Both are free to download. Backgammon Sage Pro sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $8.99 per month and Chouette sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
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.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Backgammon Sage Pro | Chouette |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (10 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 10 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days | Every 3 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Subscription | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 60 MB | 72 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Backgammon Gaming Technologies LLC | HJT CONSORTIUM INC |
Customer experience
Backgammon Sage Pro
Chouette
In-app purchases
Backgammon Sage Pro
- BG Sage Pro - Monthly$8.991 Month
- BG Sage Pro - Annual$89.991 Year
Chouette
- Chouetty Pro$4.991 Month
- Chouetty Pro$49.991 Year
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