Cribbage Pegboard vs Tallywackers
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!
Tallywackers
This app simplifies scorekeeping for progressive card games like 313 and Five Crowns. It automatically tracks the dealer, tells you how many cards to deal, and makes score entry quick and easy. Enjoy your game without the hassle of manual score tracking.
- Automatic dealer tracking
- Card dealing guidance
- Fast score entry
- No account required
- Ad-free experience
- Free to use
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Finally, scorekeeping that doesn’t suck. Tired of scribbling down scores and arguing over whose turn it is to deal? This app was built specifically for playing Progressive Rummy games such as 313 and Five Crowns®—so you can stop keeping score and start trash-talking. Automatically tracks the dealer Tells you how many cards to deal Makes score entry simple and fast No accounts No ads Totally free Perfect for 313, Five Crowns®, and similar progressive card games. Five Crowns is a registered trademark of PlayMonster Group LLC. This app is not affiliated with or endorsed by PlayMonster Group LLC.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Tallywackers at none against Cribbage Pegboard's shown. Tallywackers also leads on update cadence (every 4 months vs every 39 months) and rating (5.0 vs 4.6). Cribbage Pegboard's advantage is ratings volume (1.6K vs 1). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Tallywackers holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Cribbage Pegboard has 1.6K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Cribbage Pegboard ships an update every 39 months, Tallywackers every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Cribbage Pegboard | Tallywackers |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (1.6K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 89.1% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1.6K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 39 months | Every 4 months — 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 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 48 MB | 20 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Games By Post LLC | Dwain Bethel |
Customer experience
Cribbage Pegboard
Tallywackers
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
Tallywackers
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Cribbage Pegboard
No in-app purchases
Tallywackers
No in-app purchases
Questions
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