Comparison

Muggins vs Smart Cribbage Scoring

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

Head to head
About

Muggins

This digital cribbage board allows you to play with real cards and track scores on your device. Simply lay your phone or tablet flat, use the on-screen pegs, and race to 121 points. Customize your board with various themes.

Highlights
  • Digital pegging board
  • Use with real cards
  • Score tracking
  • Multiple board themes
  • Race to 121 points
Features
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Muggins is a digital cribbage board. Set your device flat on the table, play with your real cards, and keep score with the Muggins app. Pull and release the knobs to peg points. Pull back or hit the undo button to remove them. THE BOARD, NOT THE CARDS Muggins lets you play cribbage with your real cards. You shuffle, deal, and count your own points. The app simply acts as a scorekeeper, a digital cribbage board. HOW IT WORKS • Open the app and play. No account creation, no sign-in. • Pull and release the knobs to peg points. Drag your knob and a live preview shows you how many points you'll add once you release it. No number pads and no typing. • Tap the peg to subtract a point. Hit the undo button to undo the last points added. • Good sound quality. You'll hear a click for every point as you pull, a solid clunk when the peg lands. Mute it in settings if you'd rather play quietly. • Game over at 121 — a dedicated result screen and a stamp on the loser's score if they got skunked (or double-skunked, we're not here to protect feelings). • Your current game saves automatically if you leave the app. PICK YOUR BOARD Three boards to play on: • Classic — warm cream card stock, enamel pegs, tilted playing-card score displays. Free. • Obsidian — a matte-black board with an LED trail and softly glowing pegs. • Casino — green felt, ivory rails, and a thin gold pinstripe. FAIR AND SIMPLE PRICING Muggins is free to play, supported by ads that never interrupt a game. There's an optional one-time purchase that will remove all ads and unlock all board themes. No subscription, no recurring costs. FOR PEOPLE WHO ALREADY LOVE CRIBBAGE Muggins is a scoreboard and it assumes you know the game already. It's for the cabin where the board went missing, the vacation rental, the airplane tray, the bar. If you carry a deck of cards, you now carry a cribbage board too. Made for iPhone and iPad. Grab a deck. Deal six. The board's ready.

About

Smart Cribbage Scoring

This app replaces a physical cribbage board, allowing players to easily track scores, save games, and analyze statistics. Customize the look with your own images and manage local player profiles without needing an account.

Highlights
  • Digital cribbage board
  • Score tracking
  • Game saving
  • Player statistics
  • Editable play history
  • Local player profiles
  • Customizable backgrounds
Features
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Smart Cribbage Scoring can be used in place of a physical board, or when one is absent. It is especially useful for keeping track of rivalries and saving games for later. Drag your peg up the lane hole by hole, or use the scoring menu to tap the plays that made up your count. Either way, you’ll get the option to log your different plays in order to receive interesting statistics at the end of the match. It is a completely effortless process, but you can also just skip this step and just input a score. Every move of the game is listed in the editable play history. Change a score, retag a play from hand to crib, or remove a move entirely. The board rebuilds itself and nothing becomes a permanent statistic until the game ends. Every player gets a local profile. There are no login or account creation options. In Advanced Player Statistics, search any stat in plain words or scroll down the stat options drop down to view interesting facts and comparisons with your friends. The background and the board itself are customizable with images from your own camera roll.

Screenshots

Muggins4 screens
Smart Cribbage Scoring4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Smart Cribbage Scoring at none against Muggins's 4. Smart Cribbage Scoring also leads on ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, rating, ratings volume 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Muggins sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Smart Cribbage Scoring asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Muggins against 5.0 for Smart Cribbage Scoring. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 2 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Muggins versus Smart Cribbage Scoring: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMugginsSmart Cribbage Scoring
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size9 MB26 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKYLE ANTHONY MC GAHEYGABRIEL ALEXANDER DODGE

Customer experience

Muggins

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Smart Cribbage Scoring

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Muggins

One-time4
  • Obsidian Theme$1.99
  • Casino Theme$1.99
  • Remove Ads$4.99
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  • Unlock Everything$6.99
None

Smart Cribbage Scoring

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Muggins free?
Muggins is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Smart Cribbage Scoring free?
Smart Cribbage Scoring is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Muggins or Smart Cribbage Scoring?
Muggins and Smart Cribbage Scoring are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 4 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do Muggins or Smart Cribbage Scoring have ads?
Muggins shows ads; Smart Cribbage Scoring does not.

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