Comparison

Sheepshead Pro vs Shark Bridge

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 3 Handed Game
  • 5 Handed Game
  • Partner selection options
  • Detailed stats tracking
  • Multiple achievements
  • Customizable gameplay settings
Features
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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.

About

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.

Highlights
  • Adjustable AI difficulty
  • Unlimited hands
  • Duplicate bridge games
  • Daily tournaments
  • Offline and online play
  • Hand analysis
  • Import/export hands
Features
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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.

Screenshots

Sheepshead Pro3 screens
Shark Bridge4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
Sheepshead Pro versus Shark Bridge: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSheepshead ProShark Bridge
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating3.5 (114 ratings)4.6 (1.2K ratings) — better
Positive reviews35.7% of reviews73.3% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1141.2K — better
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS7.1 — better13.0
Further details — not scored
Size15 MB164 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperDaniel SchleefThe Shark Bridge Company Inc

Customer experience

Sheepshead Pro

All ratings114 ratings
Positive57.0%
Neutral21.9%
Negative21.1%
Written reviews56 reviews
Positive35.7%
Neutral32.1%
Negative32.1%

Shark Bridge

All ratings1,159 ratings
Positive91.5%
Neutral5.0%
Negative3.5%
Written reviews30 reviews
Positive73.3%
Neutral10.0%
Negative16.7%

User reviews

Sheepshead Pro

From 114 App Store ratings

What 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 ratings

What 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

None

Sheepshead Pro

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Shark Bridge

One-time2
  • Bridge Enthusiast$29.99
  • Yearly VIP subscription$34.99

Questions

Is Sheepshead Pro free?
Sheepshead Pro costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Shark Bridge free?
Shark Bridge is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Sheepshead Pro or Shark Bridge?
Shark Bridge is rated higher. Sheepshead Pro averages 3.5 out of 5 from 114 ratings, while Shark Bridge averages 4.6 from 1.2K ratings.
Do Sheepshead Pro or Shark Bridge have ads?
Neither Sheepshead Pro nor Shark Bridge shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Sheepshead Pro or Shark Bridge?
Sheepshead Pro ships an update monthly, and Shark Bridge every 2 weeks. Most recently, Sheepshead Pro was updated on October 18, 2026 and Shark Bridge on October 17, 2026.

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