In Da Crib vs Bower
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
In Da Crib
Experience the classic card game with a vibrant, retro pixel art style. Enjoy smooth gameplay, exciting animations, and a challenging campaign mode. Track your stats and compete with friends or AI opponents.
- Retro pixel art graphics
- Smooth cardplay and animations
- Offline play against bots
- Online multiplayer with friends
- Challenging campaign mode
- Detailed player statistics
- Unlockable custom decks
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In Da Crib is our love letter to the greatest card game ever created: Cribbage. And it's completely free, no ads, and no in-app purchases. We're certified crib-heads, but we got sick of all the cribbage apps looking so... dull. Boring. Unexciting. Everything that cribbage ISN'T. So we made In Da Crib. It's the same game you've always loved, but now given the treatment it deserves: pixel art, retro gaming feel, ultra-smooth cardplay, exciting animations, and rarity ranks for each hand you score. Next time you drop a 5-5-5-J with a 5 starter (nobs), your 29 point hand will get the aesthetic fanfare it deserves. Jump into a quick match and we'll find you a fellow crib tragic to play against. Or challenge your friends directly. Or hone your skills offline (no account needed) against cribbage bots which range in difficulty from easybeats, to genuine contenders, to impossible algorithms who literally cheat at cards. Take on The Gauntlet, a brutal campaign mode against increasingly difficult bot-cheaters. And all the while, unlock dozens of beautiful custom decks by completing challenges. Plus, we give detailed stats on your cribbage career. And more importantly, we keep head-to-head stats between you and your friends. Now you can definitively answer the questions, "who's got the biggest win? How many times have I skunked you? Who's got the longest streak? Which one of us is the better human being?" In Da Crib is completely free. No ads. No in-app purchases. Just our love letter to the most addictive card game in history.
Bower
Experience a classic card game with customizable rules and AI opponents. Learn the game with a guided mode and track your progress with career stats. Play with friends on a single device.
- Offline play
- Ad-free experience
- Customizable house rules
- Three difficulty levels
- Guide mode for learning
- Pass and play multiplayer
- Career statistics tracking
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Bower is euchre the way it's played at a kitchen table — you and your partner against two opponents, first team to 10 or 11 points. No accounts. No ads. No timers pushing you to play faster. Just the game. A GOOD GAME, EVERY TIME Your partner leads suits that make sense, holds trump when it should, and won't hand the opponents a round it could have taken. Three difficulty levels set how hard the whole table plays — Easy while you learn, Hard once you want a fight. LEARN BY PLAYING Guide mode deals a practice hand and walks you through every decision: what the right bower is, why the left bower counts as trump, when it's worth going alone. Nothing in it counts against your record. A How to Play reference is one tap away whenever a rule slips your mind. THE RULES YOU PLAY BY Every table has its own house rules, so Bower lets you set yours: • Stick the Dealer — the dealer must call if everyone passes twice • First to 10 or first to 11 • Partner's Best — a lone player trades a discard for their partner's best card • Farmer's Hand Redeal — throw in a hand with nothing above a ten • Auto Mode — plays your card for you when there's only one legal choice PASS AND PLAY Hand the phone around. Any seat at the table can be a person instead of the computer, so two, three, or four of you can play on a single device. FOUR LOOKS Classic Felt is the green table you'd expect. Midnight is dark and quiet. Kitchen is warm paper and serif type. Court Press is high-contrast and loud. TRACK YOUR GAME Career stats follow your wins, your euchres, your lone marches and your longest streak. Achievements unlock as you go, and sync to Game Center. Your game saves itself. Close the app mid-hand and pick it up exactly where you left off. Euchre is a 24-card trick-taking game played across the American Midwest, Ontario and beyond. If you grew up with it, Bower will feel familiar. If you didn't, guide mode will get you playing in about five minutes.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: In Da Crib at none against Bower's 1. Bower's advantage is update cadence (daily vs every 3 days). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Bower sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. In Da Crib asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for In Da Crib against 5.0 for Bower. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 2 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
In Da Crib ships an update every 3 days, Bower daily. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | In Da Crib | Bower |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 100 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Timothy Nash | Capware LLC |
Customer experience
In Da Crib
Bower
In-app purchases
In Da Crib
No in-app purchases
Bower
- Bower Pro$2.99









