Comparison

BlitzGammon vs Backgammon Trainer & Analysis

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

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About

BlitzGammon

Features
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Description box BlitzGammon is the modern home for backgammon, whether you are just learning the game or chasing a top ranking. Play in real time against friends, club mates, and players around the world, or test yourself against a world class AI built on the trusted GNU Backgammon engine. Every match feels fast, fair, and smooth. WHAT YOU CAN DO Live multiplayer Jump into a quick match or invite a friend and play head to head in real time, with chat, spectating, and instant updates. Play the AI Practice against a powerful computer opponent with adjustable difficulty, great for warming up or studying tricky positions. Daily puzzle Solve a fresh backgammon puzzle every day, see the best move, compare your choice with the community, and climb the puzzle leaderboard. Tournaments Enter single elimination, double elimination, and Swiss tournaments, with proper brackets, seeding, and automatic scheduling. Clubs and friends Join clubs, add friends, and build your own circle of regular opponents. Ranking and stats Earn an ELO rating, track your record, and watch your progress over time. Post game analysis Review your matches move by move with detailed analysis and a performance rating, so you always know where you can improve. Roll the dice and start playing today. Terms of Use (EULA): https://blitzgammon.com/terms

About

Backgammon Trainer & Analysis

This app offers a unique approach to backgammon by providing verifiable dice randomness and detailed post-game analysis. It features multiple game variants and an optional Pro upgrade for advanced training tools. Play offline with no account required.

Highlights
  • Verifiable dice randomness
  • Detailed post-game analysis
  • Multiple backgammon variants
  • Optional Pro upgrade
  • Offline play
  • Multi-language support
Features
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Every backgammon app says its dice are random. This one lets you check. Before the first roll of a match, Backgammon Trainer shows you a hash of the secret that every roll in that match comes from. The whole sequence is generated once, from that secret, and it is never regenerated, so the app physically cannot look at the board and choose a die. When the match ends you get the secret. Re-hash it and it must match what you were shown. Replay it and it must produce exactly the rolls you got. You can do both inside the app in one tap, or export the proof and check it with your own tools. Then it tells you what you actually did wrong. THE COACH Finish a match and every decision is reviewed. You get your performance rating, the number serious players use, plus your error rate split between checker play and cube handling. The report leads with your three worst decisions: the roll, the move you made, the move that was better, and exactly how much equity the difference cost you, with a plain sentence explaining why. Cube decisions get their own section, because that is where most rating quietly disappears. Take points and cash points are computed from the Kazaross-XG2 match equity table at your actual score, not from a rule of thumb, so the advice at 2-away 4-away is the advice for 2-away 4-away. ONE PRICE Playing is free and unlimited. Free also includes the fairness proof, the dice ledger and two full coach reports a day. Pro is a single purchase that opens the expert opponent, the live tutor, unlimited reports, the cube explainer, full history, blunder drills and every variant. One payment. It does not renew, and there is no second unlock to buy later. FIVE WAYS TO PLAY Backgammon with the doubling cube, Crawford and Jacoby. Nackgammon, where every game is a priming battle. Hypergammon, three checkers a side. Tavla, played as it is in Turkey, without the cube and with mars counting double. Plakoto from the Greek tavli set, where you pin checkers instead of hitting them. All five are complete rules implementations, not relabelled boards. BUILT FOR PEOPLE WHO ACTUALLY PLAY Legal moves only, with the maximum dice rule, the forced higher die and oversized bear-off dice all handled correctly. Undo before you commit. Home board on either side. Point numbers and pip counts on or off. Larger checkers when you want them. Match play to any length up to 15 points. Everything works offline, with no account and no sign-up. Match export in the plain text format desktop analysis tools already read, so nothing you play here is trapped in here. IN YOUR LANGUAGE Turkish, Greek, Arabic, Hebrew, Russian, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, German, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese and English. Tavla, tavli, nardi and shesh besh are the same game, and this app speaks all of them. PRIVACY Nothing leaves your device. No account, no analytics, no tracking, no network calls. Your matches, your ratings and your dice history are stored on your phone and nowhere else. PRO UNLOCK Pro is a one time in-app purchase for your Apple Account. It is not a subscription, it does not auto renew, and there is nothing to cancel. Restore Purchases is in Settings. Privacy policy: https://app.innovaapps.ai/privacy Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula

Screenshots

BlitzGammon4 screens
Backgammon Trainer & Analysis4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Backgammon Trainer & Analysis at none against BlitzGammon's 9. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. BlitzGammon sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Backgammon Trainer & Analysis asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard1 real difference ยท 7 level
BlitzGammon versus Backgammon Trainer & Analysis: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBlitzGammonBackgammon Trainer & Analysis
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviewsโ€”0.0% of reviews
Update frequencyEvery 2 daysโ€”
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo โ€” better
Monetizationโ€”Freemium
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.0 โ€” better17.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size34 MB2 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperBLITZ GAMMON ONLINE GAMING SERVICES L.L.C S.P.CAlex Gameli Heyman

In-app purchases

9 purchases

BlitzGammon

Subscriptions2
  • Premium14 Days trial$5.991 Month
  • Tournament Director$14.991 Month
One-time7
  • Starter Stack$0.99
  • Pro Pack$4.99
  • 16,500 coins to play BlitzGammon$9.99
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  • Champion Vault$19.99
  • Grand Reserve$49.99
  • Ultimate Hoard$99.99
  • Legendary Cache, 1,375,000 Coins$200.00
None

Backgammon Trainer & Analysis

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is BlitzGammon free?
BlitzGammon is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Backgammon Trainer & Analysis free?
Backgammon Trainer & Analysis is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do BlitzGammon or Backgammon Trainer & Analysis have ads?
Neither BlitzGammon nor Backgammon Trainer & Analysis shows ads.

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