Turbo Tavla vs Backgammon Reserve
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Turbo Tavla
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Turbo Tavla brings classic backgammon into a modern, personal gaming experience. Jump into a quick match, challenge your friends or improve your game step by step. Whether you want to play solo, share one device or compete online, Turbo Tavla lets you play your way. Play your way: • Challenge the computer across multiple difficulty levels • Play locally with two players on one device • Play online using Game Center • Invite friends directly to a match • Jump into quick online games • Play together with SharePlay during a FaceTime call Learn backgammon step by step: New to the game or looking for a refresher? The built-in guided tutorial introduces the fundamentals of backgammon, from your first moves to important rules and tactical decisions. Make Turbo Tavla yours: Choose from different board themes, checker designs and move effects. Customize your profile color and emoji to create a style that feels uniquely yours. Compete and improve: Keep track of your wins and losses, earn Game Center points and see where you stand on the global leaderboard. Designed for Apple devices: Turbo Tavla is built specifically for iPhone and iPad, combining a polished interface with smooth animations, haptic feedback and Apple technologies including Game Center, SharePlay and iMessage. Whether you have been playing backgammon for years or are just discovering the game, Turbo Tavla makes this classic game modern, approachable and personal. Roll. Move. Win.
Backgammon Reserve
A premium backgammon experience focused on serious players. Enjoy ranked online matches with Elo ratings, daily play options, and in-depth post-game analysis. Challenge a sophisticated AI opponent and track your global and friends' standings.
- Ranked online matches with Elo rating
- Daily play with up to 24 hours per move
- Match play to 3, 5, or 7 points
- Advanced AI opponent 'Sir Reginald'
- Detailed post-game analysis and review
- Global and friends standings
- Secure, unbiased dice rolls
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Backgammon Reserve is backgammon the way serious players want it. Most backgammon apps bury the game under casino mechanics: coin balances, spin wheels, loud effects. This is the opposite. A quiet, premium table for people who already love the game and want a trustworthy place to play it. PLAY RANKED ONLINE Match against real players on a live Elo rating. Server-generated dice, a match clock, and full rules enforcement. The doubling cube, gammons, and backgammons all count. Your rating, global rank, and percentile are real, earned, and on display. PLAY DAILY Backgammon on your schedule. Up to 24 hours per move and up to twenty games at once, rated in the same pool as live play with the cube in full effect. A notification tells you the moment it is your move, and the app icon counts the games waiting on you. MATCHES TO 3, 5 OR 7 Play a proper match, not just a game. First to the target score, Crawford rule included, with the cube live throughout. Agree a format with a friend, or pick one against the bot and in Pass and Play. TAKE ON SIR REGINALD One opponent. The whole community trying to beat him. Sir Reginald plays matches to 3, 5 or 7 and never a single game. He is not a difficulty setting and nothing against him touches your rating: his ladder is its own contest, ranked two ways, most wins and best average performance rating. His judgement comes from a neural network that taught itself backgammon over 750,000 games against itself, with no strategy written by hand. A bot built from written rules can only be as good as whoever wrote them. One that learns from results is free to find plays nobody thought to teach it. SEE WHERE YOU WENT WRONG Every match against Sir Reginald ends with a full review. A rating for how you played, your costliest decision shown on the board with the better move beside it, and a chart of how your chance of winning moved with every decision. It separates the dice from the play, so you can tell being outplayed from being unlucky. STANDINGS See exactly where you stand. The global board ranks the strongest players by rating, and your own row stays with you whether you are in the top 25 or climbing toward it, with the exact gap to the player above. A separate friends board ranks the people you actually know. Every rated game moves you, live or daily, and one rated game puts you on it. FAIR DICE Dice come from a cryptographically secure random source with bias rejection. No streaks engineered to keep you playing, no rolls tilted toward anyone. Online, the server rolls, so neither player's device can influence them. Against Sir Reginald you need not take it on faith: his page charts every die face rolled against the mathematics. SHARPEN YOUR GAME AGAINST THE BOTS Four tiers, from Beginner to Expert, all driven by the same self-taught network. Each is defined by how much it may give away per decision, so a weaker bot plays weaker moves rather than random ones. Bot games never touch your rating. PASS AND PLAY Hand the phone across the table. A clean two-seat mode for playing in person, at a single game or a full match. CHALLENGE YOUR FRIENDS Add friends, send a direct challenge, and settle it in a rated match. Play live with a clock, or start a daily game and take it slow. Agree the format, from a single game to a match to 7. A RECORD OF EVERY GAME Full match history, win and loss stats, streaks, recent form, and an interactive rating chart tracking every rated game you have played. DESIGNED LIKE A MEMBERS LOUNGE Walnut and brass, ivory checkers, understated motion. No neon, no confetti, no noise. WHAT YOU WON'T FIND • No coins, chips, or gambling mechanics • No ads • No pay-to-win mechanics. Nothing for sale. • No engineered dice Full backgammon rules are enforced: bar entry, blot hitting, forced maximum-pip plays, exact and overshoot bear-off, and the doubling cube with proper gammon and backgammon scoring.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Backgammon Reserve at none against Turbo Tavla's shown. Backgammon Reserve also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and device support 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Turbo Tavla | Backgammon Reserve |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (18 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 18 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days | Every 5 days |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 34 MB | 17 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Daniel Besiryan | Benjamin Taylor |
In-app purchases
Turbo Tavla
No in-app purchases
Backgammon Reserve
No in-app purchases
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