Comparison

Cribbage Pegboard vs Muggins

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

Muggins

This digital cribbage board allows you to play with real cards and track scores on your device. Simply lay your phone or tablet flat, use the on-screen pegs, and race to 121 points. Customize your board with various themes.

Highlights
  • Digital pegging board
  • Use with real cards
  • Score tracking
  • Multiple board themes
  • Race to 121 points
Features
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Muggins is a digital cribbage board. Set your device flat on the table, play with your real cards, and keep score with the Muggins app. Pull and release the knobs to peg points. Pull back or hit the undo button to remove them. THE BOARD, NOT THE CARDS Muggins lets you play cribbage with your real cards. You shuffle, deal, and count your own points. The app simply acts as a scorekeeper, a digital cribbage board. HOW IT WORKS • Open the app and play. No account creation, no sign-in. • Pull and release the knobs to peg points. Drag your knob and a live preview shows you how many points you'll add once you release it. No number pads and no typing. • Tap the peg to subtract a point. Hit the undo button to undo the last points added. • Good sound quality. You'll hear a click for every point as you pull, a solid clunk when the peg lands. Mute it in settings if you'd rather play quietly. • Game over at 121 — a dedicated result screen and a stamp on the loser's score if they got skunked (or double-skunked, we're not here to protect feelings). • Your current game saves automatically if you leave the app. PICK YOUR BOARD Three boards to play on: • Classic — warm cream card stock, enamel pegs, tilted playing-card score displays. Free. • Obsidian — a matte-black board with an LED trail and softly glowing pegs. • Casino — green felt, ivory rails, and a thin gold pinstripe. FAIR AND SIMPLE PRICING Muggins is free to play, supported by ads that never interrupt a game. There's an optional one-time purchase that will remove all ads and unlock all board themes. No subscription, no recurring costs. FOR PEOPLE WHO ALREADY LOVE CRIBBAGE Muggins is a scoreboard and it assumes you know the game already. It's for the cabin where the board went missing, the vacation rental, the airplane tray, the bar. If you carry a deck of cards, you now carry a cribbage board too. Made for iPhone and iPad. Grab a deck. Deal six. The board's ready.

Screenshots

Cribbage Pegboard4 screens
Muggins4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Cribbage Pegboard at none against Muggins's 4. Cribbage Pegboard also leads on ratings volume (1.6K vs 4) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.0). Muggins's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 39 months) and rating (5.0 vs 4.6). On price, ads 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

Both are free to download. Muggins sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Cribbage Pegboard asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Muggins 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 4, 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 100% of Muggins's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Cribbage Pegboard ships an update every 39 months, Muggins every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Cribbage Pegboard versus Muggins: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCribbage PegboardMuggins
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (1.6K ratings)5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews89.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1.6K — better4
Update frequencyEvery 39 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS12.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size48 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGames By Post LLCKYLE ANTHONY MC GAHEY

Customer experience

Cribbage Pegboard

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

Muggins

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
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

Muggins

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Cribbage Pegboard

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

Muggins

One-time4
  • Obsidian Theme$1.99
  • Casino Theme$1.99
  • Remove Ads$4.99
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  • Unlock Everything$6.99

Questions

Is Cribbage Pegboard free?
Cribbage Pegboard is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Muggins free?
Muggins is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Cribbage Pegboard or Muggins?
Muggins is rated higher. Cribbage Pegboard averages 4.6 out of 5 from 1.6K ratings, while Muggins averages 5.0 from 4 ratings.
Do Cribbage Pegboard or Muggins have ads?
Both Cribbage Pegboard and Muggins show ads.
Which is updated more often, Cribbage Pegboard or Muggins?
Cribbage Pegboard ships an update every 39 months, and Muggins every 2 weeks. Most recently, Cribbage Pegboard was updated on October 16, 2026 and Muggins on October 10, 2026.

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