Cribbage Classic vs Smear Schmier
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.
Smear Schmier
Experience a classic trick-taking card game with friends or bots. Bid, call trump, and strategize to win tricks and score points. Offers a clean, ad-free, and privacy-focused gameplay experience.
- Trick-taking gameplay
- Bidding and trump calling
- Play with friends or bots
- Discard and draw mechanics
- Multiple visual themes
- Cross-platform web sync
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Smear is the trick-taking card game your family argued about at the kitchen table — bids, trump, a joker that's always up to something — rebuilt for your phone, with the people you actually want to play with. Two teams of two. Seven cards each. Bid one to six, and if you win the bid you call trump — but now your team has to earn what you promised, and the other side is delighted to stop you. HOW A HAND PLAYS • Bid against the table, winner calls trump • Ditch your junk — discard and draw back to seven • Take tricks: the joker is always trump, and watch for the other jack of trump's color — it's trump too • Six points on the line every hand: High, Low, Jack, Off-Jack, Joker, and Game. Make your bid and keep them; fall short and go set • First team to 21 that's ahead wins PLAY WITH REAL PEOPLE • Add friends with a six-letter code — no contacts access, no accounts to hunt down • Invite friends straight to your table; they get a push and land in your lobby • A notification tells you when it's your turn, so games keep moving even when everyone's busy OR DON'T WAIT FOR ANYONE • Fill any empty seat with a bot — easy, medium, or hard • Life happens: leave mid-game and a bot quietly holds your seat so nobody's night is ruined. Come back and pick up your other games from the lobby MADE WITH CARE • Two full looks: Neon Night, a glowing after-dark card room, and Diner Morning, cream and cherry-cola calm • Smooth dealing, discarding, and trick animations • Your games sync live — you can even continue the same game on the web at smear.vercel.app AND NONE OF THE JUNK • Free. No ads. No tracking. No selling your data. No in-app purchases. • A privacy policy a human can read Whether you call it Smear, Schmier, Pitch, or Setback — pull up a chair. Your seat's waiting.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Smear Schmier at none against Cribbage Classic's shown. Smear Schmier also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 9 months) and rating (5.0 vs 4.6). Cribbage Classic's advantage is ratings volume (31K vs 1) and chart position (#131 vs unranked). 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.
Smear Schmier holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Cribbage Classic has 31K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Cribbage Classic ships an update every 9 months, Smear Schmier fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Cribbage Classic | Smear Schmier |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (31K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.1% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 31K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #131 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 65 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Games By Post LLC | Jeremy Giller |
Customer experience
Cribbage Classic
Smear Schmier
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
Smear Schmier
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Cribbage Classic
No in-app purchases
Smear Schmier
No in-app purchases
Questions
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