Sheepshead Pro vs ContraBee
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.
ContraBee
This app offers a daily word puzzle using the same letter hive as the New York Times Spelling Bee. It challenges players to find words without using the required center letter, encouraging a different approach to word discovery.
- Daily word puzzles
- Uses NYT Spelling Bee letter hive
- Excludes center letter
- Encourages alternative word finding
- Unique puzzle twist
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ContraBee is a complement to each day’s official New York Times Spelling Bee. It uses the same hive as each day’s Spelling Bee, but with a twist: Instead of requiring the center letter, Contra Bee excludes it. You’ll be surprised at how many words you can find if you turn your mind upside down.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: ContraBee at Free against Sheepshead Pro's $1.99. ContraBee also leads on rating (4.0 vs 3.5). Sheepshead Pro's advantage is ratings volume (114 vs 4) and review sentiment (36% vs 24%). On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases 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
ContraBee is free to download; Sheepshead Pro costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
ContraBee holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Sheepshead Pro has 114 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 36% of Sheepshead Pro's written reviews are positive against 24% of ContraBee's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Sheepshead Pro ships an update monthly, ContraBee every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and July 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Sheepshead Pro | ContraBee |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.5 (114 ratings) | 4.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 35.7% of reviews — better | 23.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 114 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 7.1 — better | 11.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 15 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Daniel Schleef | Lexi Games LLC |
Customer experience
Sheepshead Pro
ContraBee
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
ContraBee
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Sheepshead Pro
No in-app purchases
ContraBee
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Sheepshead Pro free?
Is ContraBee free?
Which has better reviews, Sheepshead Pro or ContraBee?
Do Sheepshead Pro or ContraBee have ads?
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