Comparison

Cribbage Pegboard vs Gridbage

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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!

About

Gridbage

This app reinvents the classic card game cribbage by blending its scoring traditions with the strategic depth of poker. Players place cards onto a grid, with each row and column scoring like a cribbage hand. It offers multiple AI difficulty levels and a unique mode to test pure skill.

Highlights
  • Grid-based cribbage scoring
  • Poker-like strategic decisions
  • Four AI difficulty levels
  • Duplicate Card mode for skill testing
  • Offline and online multiplayer
  • Traditional cribbage scoring elements
Features
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Gridbage is a bold reinvention of the classic card game cribbage — blending the deep strategy of hold'em poker with the beloved scoring traditions of cribbage. If you've ever loved cribbage but wanted more decisions, more skill, and more ways to outsmart your opponent, Gridbage was built for you. How It Works Each player is dealt eight (8) cards. You'll discard two (2) into the crib — then place five (5) cards one at a time onto a unique grid game board, keeping one (1) card as your hold card. Every row and column is a cribbage hand waiting to be scored. The center "turn" card is shared by everyone. When all cards are placed, the Cut card is revealed, and every line scores just like cribbage (3 Grid cards, 1 Hold card, 1 Cut card) — fifteens, pairs, runs, flushes, and nobs all count. Highest total wins. The strategy runs deep. Every card you place blocks a lane for your opponent while opening one for yourself. The grid rewards forward thinking, hand reading, and knowing exactly what your five (5) cards holds. Four Difficulty Levels • Beginner — "I know a little cribbage..." The AI makes mistakes and gifts you scoring cards in the crib. A great way to learn without getting crushed. • Intermediate — "I picked a bad week to...stop playing beginner." The AI plays smart half the time and gives you a fighting chance the other half. • Expert — "To the Pain..." The AI plans ahead, and plays to win. No gifts. No mercy. • Ludicrous Speed — "Surely you can't be serious." The AI learns as it goes along. Pure computational carnage. Duplicate Card Mode Play the same cards your AI opponent plays — and find out once and for all whether you're actually better, or just lucky. Duplicate Card mode deals identical hands to both players across multiple matched sets, then shows you a full comparison breakdown at the end. Pure skill. No excuses. Cribbage Board Scoring Track Watch your pegs race around a beautifully rendered oval cribbage board. Skunks and double skunks are tracked. Every point counts — right up to 121. Built for Cribbage Players Gridbage honors everything cribbage players love — the scoring, the language, the crib, the cut, the pegboard — while adding a layer of spatial strategy that makes every hand feel new. • U.S. Patent D976,328 (unique board game design) • No ads. No in-app purchases. • Full privacy — no data collected, no tracking, no analytics. • Works completely offline yourself or on-line vs. friends head-to-head. Visit us at www.gridbage.com

Screenshots

Cribbage Pegboard4 screens
Gridbage4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Cribbage Pegboard at Free against Gridbage's $0.99. Cribbage Pegboard also leads on ratings volume (1.6K vs 2) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.1). Gridbage's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 10 days vs every 39 months). On 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Cribbage Pegboard is free to download; Gridbage costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Gridbage 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 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Cribbage Pegboard ships an update every 39 months, Gridbage every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and September 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 3 level
Cribbage Pegboard versus Gridbage: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCribbage PegboardGridbage
PriceFree — better$0.99
Rating4.6 (1.6K ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews89.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1.6K — better2
Update frequencyEvery 39 monthsEvery 10 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supported — betterPaid
Best chart rank—#180 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size48 MB46 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGames By Post LLCAndrew Glassman

Customer experience

Cribbage Pegboard

All ratings1,614 ratings
Positive92.5%
Neutral2.9%
Negative4.6%
Written reviews264 reviews
Positive89.0%
Neutral4.9%
Negative6.1%

Gridbage

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

Gridbage

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Cribbage Pegboard

No in-app purchases

None

Gridbage

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Cribbage Pegboard free?
Cribbage Pegboard is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Gridbage free?
Gridbage costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Cribbage Pegboard or Gridbage?
Gridbage is rated higher. Cribbage Pegboard averages 4.6 out of 5 from 1.6K ratings, while Gridbage averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Cribbage Pegboard or Gridbage have ads?
Cribbage Pegboard shows ads; Gridbage does not.
Which is updated more often, Cribbage Pegboard or Gridbage?
Cribbage Pegboard ships an update every 39 months, and Gridbage every 10 days. Most recently, Cribbage Pegboard was updated on September 25, 2026 and Gridbage on September 15, 2026.

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