Cribbage Classic vs 500 Scoreboard
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Cribbage Classic
Master the card game of cribbage with this app. It offers adjustable assistance levels, from a casual time-waster to a skill-sharpening tutorial. Track your progress with detailed statistics and analyze optimal discards.
- Adjustable assistance levels
- Fast play mode with automatic counting
- Detailed game statistics
- Suboptimal play summary
- Discard Analyzer with statistical analysis
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Improve your skills and become a cribbage expert! Cribbage classic has a number of settings that can help you to learn the best move for your situation and offer assistance if it notices that you are making a sub-optimal play. Or just play in fast mode where all counting is done for you and you get to simply focus on discarding and pegging. By tweaking the settings you can take this app anywhere from a lazy-thoughtless-time-waster game to a skill-sharpening-master-tutorial helping you to crush your next opponent. Statistics are also kept so you can see your average pegging score, your average hand score, and your average crib score! Also shows you a summary of all of the suboptimal plays you made at the end of the game and tracks your error rate over time so you can see yourself improving. Cribbage Classic also has a "Discard Analyzer" bonus feature that can help you decide on the optimal discard to play given a particular cribbage hand. Analyzer shows you the minimum, maximum and average score for each permutation along with an in depth statistical analysis of all possible flip card results.
500 Scoreboard
This app simplifies scorekeeping for the card game 500. It automatically calculates scores based on bids and tricks won, supporting up to six players. Features include game history, rule references, and editable entries.
- Automatic score calculation
- Supports 2-6 players
- Pause and resume games
- Game history log
- View game rules
- Editable score entries
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500 Scoreboard simplifies the score keeping for the card game 500. Simply enter the bid and tricks each team won and it calculates the scores for you. Play with up to six players in teams or individually. FREE FEATURES: • Score keeping for 2 to 4 players • Pause and continue games later • See a history of games played • View the rules for playing and what cards to use • Table of scoring values for each bid • Edit or delete incorrect entries PREMIUM FEATURES: • Removed ads • Play with 5 or 6 Players • Change the color theme • Choose which scoring system to use • Save player names to use in later games
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Cribbage Classic at none against 500 Scoreboard's 1. Cribbage Classic also leads on ratings volume (31K vs 34) and chart position (#128 vs unranked). 500 Scoreboard's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 3 months vs every 9 months). On price, rating, review sentiment 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
Both are free to download. 500 Scoreboard sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Cribbage Classic asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Cribbage Classic against 4.5 for 500 Scoreboard. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Cribbage Classic has 31K ratings behind it against 34, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 66% of Cribbage Classic's written reviews are positive against 64% of 500 Scoreboard's.
Cribbage Classic ships an update every 9 months, 500 Scoreboard every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Cribbage Classic | 500 Scoreboard |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (31K ratings) — better | 4.5 (34 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 66.1% of reviews — better | 64.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 31K — better | 34 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Freemium |
| Best chart rank | #128 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 12.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 65 MB | 32 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Games By Post LLC | Corey Barnard |
Customer experience
Cribbage Classic
500 Scoreboard
Bugs and requests
Cribbage Classic
Reported bugs
3 issues- Occasional freezing or crashing
- Incorrect counting of flushes
- Inability to recover from misplayed cards
Requested features
4 requests- Option to view opponent's hand and statistics
- Ability to save and resume games
- More customization options for the board and cards
- Multiplayer mode to play against other users
500 Scoreboard
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Cribbage Classic
No in-app purchases
500 Scoreboard
- Unlock All Features$0.99
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