Comparison

Backgammon Sage Pro vs Backgammon Pip

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 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.

Highlights
  • 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
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. • 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

About

Backgammon Pip

Features
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Backgammon with dice you can check. Before the first roll, Pip locks in every roll of the game and shows you the fingerprint of that lock. When the game ends, the lock is opened for you to see, and every roll matches. The app could not have chosen a roll after seeing the board, and the screen says so in one line. 10 GAMES FREE, THEN ONE PRICE Play 10 full games free. If you want more, one purchase opens Pip for good. No ads, no coins, no energy, no chests, no subscription. A REAL BOARD A wooden case that opens on the bar, felt, bevelled checkers that fly between the points, and dice that tumble in 3D and land on the number they were locked to. Sounds of wood and felt, not beeps. Light and dark. THREE COMPUTER OPPONENTS, LABELLED AS COMPUTERS Nobody pretends to be a person. Easy, medium and strong; the strong one looks two moves ahead, uses the cube, and refuses a direct shot when a safe play exists. TWO PEOPLE, ONE PHONE Pass and play on the same board. COMMENTARY FROM THE FACTS A short word after each turn: a point made, a hit, a blot left in range, a prime taking shape. Computed from the position, never invented. Switch it off in settings if you prefer silence. THE FULL RULES Bar, hits, bearing off, forced use of both dice, the larger-die rule, doubles, the doubling cube, gammon and backgammon. The engine never offers an illegal move. Pip is made by one person who was tired of coin casinos wearing a board.

Screenshots

Backgammon Sage Pro4 screens
Backgammon Pip4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Backgammon Sage Pro at every 3 days against Backgammon Pip's every 9 days. Backgammon Sage Pro also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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 Sage Pro sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $8.99 per month and Backgammon Pip sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Backgammon Sage Pro ships an update every 3 days, Backgammon Pip every 9 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Backgammon Sage Pro versus Backgammon Pip: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBackgammon Sage ProBackgammon Pip
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (10 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings10 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 9 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationSubscription—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size60 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBackgammon Gaming Technologies LLCElchanan Uzan

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Backgammon Sage Pro

Subscriptions2
  • BG Sage Pro - Monthly$8.991 Month
  • BG Sage Pro - Annual$89.991 Year
1 purchases

Backgammon Pip

One-time1
  • Pip, unlocked$4.99

Questions

Is Backgammon Sage Pro free?
Backgammon Sage Pro is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Backgammon Pip free?
Backgammon Pip is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Backgammon Sage Pro or Backgammon Pip have ads?
Neither Backgammon Sage Pro nor Backgammon Pip shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Backgammon Sage Pro or Backgammon Pip?
Backgammon Sage Pro ships an update every 3 days, and Backgammon Pip every 9 days. Most recently, Backgammon Sage Pro was updated on October 31, 2026 and Backgammon Pip on October 31, 2026.

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