Sheepshead Pro vs Shark Bridge
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Sheepshead Pro
Experience the classic card game on your mobile device. Offers both 3 and 5-handed versions with customizable gameplay settings and achievements. Challenge the computer and track your progress with detailed statistics.
- 3 Handed Game
- 5 Handed Game
- Partner selection options
- Detailed stats tracking
- Multiple achievements
- Customizable gameplay settings
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Sheepshead - the classic card game, finally available on your mobile device! The first app to offer both 3 and 5 handed Sheepshead, with a multitude of game play settings, and achievements. The streamlined app makes it a breeze to pick up and play for a few minutes or for hours as you challenge the computer, and try to capture all of the achievements. here are some of the features Sheepshead Pro has to offer: * 3 Handed Game- a first on the App Store! * 5 Handed Game - choose your favorite mode to pick a partner. * Pick your partner with a Fail Suit or Jack of Diamonds - it's your choice. * Track your stats - including game, hand, and pick stats. * Achievements - keep entertained for hours with multiple achievements to shoot for. * Leasters, doublers, re-deals, and ability to crack. * A simple and intuitive user interface.
Shark Bridge
Learn and play the card game of bridge with an AI opponent that adjusts to your skill level. Offers unlimited hands, duplicate games, and tournament play, with options for offline or online play. Analyze past competitions and share hands with friends.
- Adjustable AI difficulty
- Unlimited hands
- Duplicate bridge games
- Daily tournaments
- Offline and online play
- Hand analysis
- Import/export hands
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Shark's 5th generation robot can be adjusted from an excellent beginner to a full-scale AI expert player. Shark Bridge offers unlimited hands, duplicate bridge games, and Daily Tournament with MP (%) scoring. Play bridge with friends or practice on your own. Study the hands of your bridge teacher. Play deals online from your library, classroom hands, and generator You can play and review boards with the complete auction and play details from International, North American, and European competitions. Internet is not required, except for Daily Tournaments and the Online Bridge Club. Shark Bridge won the 2014 and 2011 World Bridge Computer Championships. You can email hands to your partner or other bridge friends for discussion if they have Shark or another bridge app capable of opening PBN/LIN files. Share the fun! You can also import bridge deals from your computer disk or the Internet. Shark Bridge features: - Bidding systems: Standard American 5 card major( SAYC or Shark flavor), 2/1 Game Force, Std English Acol (in development) bidding systems. - Duplicate bridge game. - Bridge tournament boards. - Play bridge offline ( no Internet ) or live on the Internet with your friends and foes. - Never wait for a bridge table to fill in; our high-quality robot will play bridge when needed. - Hints and auction analysis are available at any time. Ask the Shark Bridge, and it will help. - Get suggestions when the declarer is on the lead to a trick; Shark will recommend a play strategy. - Open PBN (Portable Bridge Notation) and LIN ( VU-Graph) files from your email. - Choose from regular and 4-color card decks. Bridge Enthusiast In-App purchase ($29.99) upgrade offers: - Play an unlimited number of random deals. - 9 WBF, ACBL, and European bridge tournaments from 2014,2013,2011. - Email bridge hands from your Personal Deal Library. - Basic Online Bridge Play: create, join, and kibitz at any table. - Deal Analysis. - One year free VIP subscription. VIP subscription ($34.99/year) unlocks additional features and services: - Daily tournament with 16 boards; compare your skill with the rest of our VIP members. Study the deals from past competitions. - 32 WBF, ACBL, and European bridge tournaments in recent years, including 2016. More are in the works. - VIP online play: create, join, and kibitz at any table, manage friends, block players, invite players. - Par Contract Calculator. - Personal Deal Library: all saved deals are instantly available to all of your devices. - Advanced Deal Generator. - Classroom hands - Access to The CommonGame hands, via the Classroom hands module - Highest priority for feature requests. Bridge Bidding Systems: Standard American 5-card major( SAYC or Shark flavor), 2/1 Game Force, Acol, and Swedish 5-card major bidding systems, and more are in the works. Each bridge system includes the most popular conventions, and you can further customize it with : 1NT / 2NT range and hand distribution options Gambling 3NT or strong 25+ HCP 3NT Stayman Jacoby and Texas Transfers Weak two Spades, Hearts, Diamonds Strong 2 Clubs Blackwood: 4 Aces / 5 Aces, RKCB, RKC 1430, Exclusion Blackwood Jacoby 2NT Sandwich 2NT Two-way new minor forcing (XY-NT) Leaping Michaels Michaels Cue Bid Maximum Overcall Double Negative Doubles Takeout Doubles Responsive Doubles Support Double Splinter Bids Lebensohl Unusual 2NT Drury DONT Landy Multi Landi BPH The Shark Play bridge engine was designed and programmed by John Norris, an international bridge master and Danish Bridge Champion. Shark robot is the most human-like playing bot; it has been tested against professional players and proved a worthy opponent.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Shark Bridge at Free against Sheepshead Pro's $1.99. Shark Bridge also leads on rating (4.6 vs 3.5) and review sentiment (73% vs 36%). Sheepshead Pro's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and iOS requirement (7.1 vs 13.0). On ads 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
Shark Bridge is free to download; Sheepshead Pro costs $1.99 up front. Shark Bridge sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Sheepshead Pro asks for nothing beyond the download.
Shark Bridge holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Shark Bridge has 1.2K ratings behind it against 114, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 36% of Sheepshead Pro's written reviews are positive against 73% of Shark Bridge's.
Sheepshead Pro ships an update monthly, Shark Bridge every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Sheepshead Pro | Shark Bridge |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.5 (114 ratings) | 4.6 (1.2K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 35.7% of reviews | 73.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 114 | 1.2K — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 7.1 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 15 MB | 164 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Daniel Schleef | The Shark Bridge Company Inc |
Customer experience
Sheepshead Pro
Shark Bridge
User reviews
Sheepshead Pro
From 114 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Fun game to play
- 👍 Realistic Wisconsin sheepshead
- 👍 Good for practice
- 👍 Best of the sheepshead games
- 👍 Great app for a great game
Room to improve
- 😞 Infuriating flaws
- 😞 Simulated players don't know how to play
- 😞 Partner plays poorly
- 😞 AI makes unrealistic plays
- 😞 Computer players are awful
Shark Bridge
From 1.2K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Excellent support
- 👍 Great learning tool
- 👍 Helpful for practicing bridge
- 👍 Ability to play with friends online
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent crashes
- 🤖 Questionable AI behavior
- 🤖 Inaccurate bidding by AI
- 🤖 AI cheating
- 🤖 AI imbalanced
Bugs and requests
Sheepshead Pro
Reported bugs
20 issues- Locks up and needs uninstalling
- App freezes
- Randomly crashing
- Stops running on iPhone
- Game freezes when playing leasters
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- App freeze after certain hands
- Next hand does not deal out
- Messes up statistics
- Newest update has ruined the app
- UI never picks leasters
- Game freezes occasionally on Leasters
- App freeze after certain hands especially leasters
- Game is freezing up a lot
- The app is freezing
- After the end of the hand - the app shows me the blinds - and the next hand does not deal out.
- Glitches and deals 10 cards
- Pop ups keep coming constantly
- Queen of clubs played by AI and buried in the blind in the same round
- System glitches
- Cannot get the game to start on iPhone 14 Pro Max
Requested features
14 requests- Online multiplayer option
- Ability to edit AI names
- Option to call 'every trick'
- Option to set default for when no one picks (leaster, doubler, redeal)
- Rules section
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- Training cards with suggestions
- Landscape mode option
- Option to require a leaster if all pass
- Option to de-select redeal and doubler
- Option to call off the JD
- Jack of diamonds only mode
- Second real player using their own device
- Computer count running total of points
- Improve stats page to show total points and individual tricks
Shark Bridge
Reported bugs
2 issues- iPad app keeps quitting when saving hands
- Identical daily hands repeated
Requested features
3 requests- Help files for analysis interruption and interpretation
- Option for standard North American carding
- Show lead card on results page
In-app purchases
Sheepshead Pro
No in-app purchases
Shark Bridge
- Bridge Enthusiast$29.99
- Yearly VIP subscription$34.99
Questions
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