Cribbage Pegboard vs Cribbage Board 29
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!
Cribbage Board 29
This app provides a digital cribbage board for playing on your mobile device. Enjoy the tactile experience of moving pegs and scoring without needing a physical board. It supports multiple players and offers customization options for a personalized game.
- Draggable pegs
- Easy score buttons
- 2 or 3 player support
- Zoom functionality
- Customizable player names/colors
- Automatic game tracking
- Haptic feedback
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Cribbage board on the go, all you need are cards. No need to lug around a full cribbage board all over the place or risk loosing the pegs to your favorite scoreboard. Play cribbage anywhere all while still getting the satisfaction of moving pegs and scoring like normal. This pegboard features a classic 29 pattern, and beautiful wooden texture. Features: - Draggable Pegs - Easy to use score buttons - 2 or 3 Players/Teams - Zoom - Customize Player Names/Colors - Automatically track games won per player - Play music while in app - Haptic feedback
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Cribbage Board 29 at none against Cribbage Pegboard's shown. Cribbage Board 29 also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 39 months) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Cribbage Pegboard's advantage is ratings volume (1.6K vs 58). On price, rating, review sentiment and in-app purchases 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Cribbage Pegboard against 4.6 for Cribbage Board 29. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Cribbage Pegboard has 1.6K ratings behind it against 58, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 89% of Cribbage Pegboard's written reviews are positive against 86% of Cribbage Board 29's.
Cribbage Pegboard ships an update every 39 months, Cribbage Board 29 every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and September 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Cribbage Pegboard | Cribbage Board 29 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (1.6K ratings) | 4.6 (58 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 89.0% of reviews — better | 85.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1.6K — better | 58 |
| Update frequency | Every 39 months | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 48 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Games By Post LLC | Ashton Gallagher |
Customer experience
Cribbage Pegboard
Cribbage Board 29
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
Cribbage Board 29
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Cribbage Pegboard
No in-app purchases
Cribbage Board 29
No in-app purchases
Questions
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