Cribbage Classic vs Five Crowns Group Scorekeeper
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.
Five Crowns Group Scorekeeper
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Keep score for Five Crowns without the pencil and paper. Five Crowns Group Scorekeeper is a clean, fast scorepad for the popular rummy-style card game. Set up your players once, then tap in each round's scores — the app totals everything and tracks the standings for you. SCORE STRAIGHT FROM YOUR CARDS Tap the cards left in your hand and the app adds them up by the official rules — number cards at face value, Jacks 11, Queens 12, Kings 13, the round's wild card 20, and Jokers 50. The wild rank updates automatically every round. BUILT FOR GAME NIGHT • Reusable player groups you can rename anytime • Seat players in table order — the deal rotates just like at the table • Dealer tracker, and mark who closed each round • Live standings with the gap to the leader after every round • A confetti finish when the winner takes the crown • Share a picture of the final scores to any chat • Share a whole group to another phone — players, games, and history included • In English or Icelandic — switch anytime with one tap KNOW YOUR TABLE • Leaderboards for today, this year, and all time • Player stats: average score, best and worst games, times closed first • Full game history, saved automatically on your device • Pick up interrupted games right where you left off PRIVACY FIRST No ads. No trackers. No data collection. Everything stays on your device — no account, no sign-in, works completely offline. Whether it's a quick two-player match or a full table on game night, Five Crowns Group Scorekeeper keeps the math out of your way so you can focus on the game. Not affiliated with or endorsed by the publisher of the Five Crowns card game.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Five Crowns Group Scorekeeper at none against Cribbage Classic's shown. Five Crowns Group Scorekeeper also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 9 months). Cribbage Classic's advantage is chart position (#135 vs unranked) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 16.4). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Cribbage Classic ships an update every 9 months, Five Crowns Group Scorekeeper weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Cribbage Classic | Five Crowns Group Scorekeeper |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (31K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 66.1% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 31K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 9 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | — |
| Best chart rank | #135 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 65 MB | 31 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Games By Post LLC | Sigurgeir Thorbjarnarson |
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
Five Crowns Group Scorekeeper
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Cribbage Classic
No in-app purchases
Five Crowns Group Scorekeeper
No in-app purchases
Questions
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