Cribbage Pegboard vs Master Cribbage
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Cribbage Pegboard
This app acts as a digital pegboard for scoring cribbage games using your own cards. It allows for easy peg manipulation, tracks rivalry records against friends, and supports two or three players. It also includes a "Discard Analyzer" to help determine optimal discards with statistical insights.
- Digital pegboard for cribbage scoring
- Use your own cards
- Drag and drop peg functionality
- Rivalry record tracking
- Supports two or three players
- Discard Analyzer with statistical insights
- Multiple board designs
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Use your own cards to play cribbage and use this peg board to keep track of the score. Allows for easy drag and drop of pegs and automatically remembers results of rivalries so you can keep track of your all time record against your friends. Works for two or three players. Multiple boards to choose from. Cribbage Pegboard 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 of discards along with an in depth statistical analysis of all possible flip card results. Now you will finally know what was the best play to make in any situation!
Master Cribbage
Enjoy a classic card game with customizable board backgrounds, including personal photos. Choose between manual score entry or letting the computer handle the scoring.
- Classic cribbage gameplay
- Customizable board backgrounds
- Use personal photos for backgrounds
- Manual score entry
- Computer-assisted scoring
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Classic cribbage game. Customize the cribbage board background including the option to use photos from your own photo album. Hand and Crib scores options: 1. User enters scores. 2. Computer does scores.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Cribbage Pegboard at Free against Master Cribbage's $2.99. Cribbage Pegboard also leads on review sentiment (89% vs 50%) and ratings volume (1.6K vs 3). Master Cribbage's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 39 months). On in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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
Cribbage Pegboard is free to download; Master Cribbage costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Cribbage Pegboard holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Cribbage Pegboard has 1.6K ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 89% of Cribbage Pegboard's written reviews are positive against 50% of Master Cribbage's.
Cribbage Pegboard ships an update every 39 months, Master Cribbage every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Cribbage Pegboard | Master Cribbage |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $2.99 |
| Rating | 4.6 (1.6K ratings) — better | 4.3 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 89.0% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1.6K — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 39 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 48 MB | 151 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Games By Post LLC | Ken Fox |
Customer experience
Cribbage Pegboard
Master Cribbage
Bugs and requests
Cribbage Pegboard
Reported bugs
2 issues- Discard analyzer sometimes inaccurate
- Skunk wins not counted as double wins
Requested features
5 requests- Add undo/correction functionality
- Separate player tracks for 2-player mode
- Implement skunk/double-skunk scoring
- Option to lock forward peg in place
- Ability to save and resume games
Master Cribbage
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Cribbage Pegboard
No in-app purchases
Master Cribbage
No in-app purchases
Questions
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