Comparison

Cribbage Academy vs Nobs Cribbage

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

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About

Cribbage Academy

Experience a voice-enhanced card game that guides you through gameplay with realistic dictation. Focus on strategy with a clean interface and automatic scoring. Learn the game or challenge your skills with AI opponents.

Highlights
  • Voice-enhanced gameplay
  • Automatic scoring
  • AI opponents
  • Pass & Play multiplayer
  • Learn to play Cribbage
  • Strategy tips
Features
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Cribbage Academy’s high-quality dictation voices talk you through the game as if you were playing with live opponents, announcing the plays and counting the hands. This creates a much deeper immersion in the game, using all your senses. The simple playing surface keeps clutter to a minimum, allowing you to focus on strategy and the pleasure of the game. Automatic scoring relieves you from the tedium of counting peg holes, yet still shows you the pegging race to the finish hole. Cribbage has been described as the best 2-handed card game ever invented. It combines luck and skill in just the right proportions, so that anyone can win a game but a skilled player will win more often. Cribbage Academy can teach you the game even if you have never played it, and experienced players can learn from the suggestions in the game and the strategy tips on our web site. One simple price buys the entire game for Apple TV, iPhone, and iPad, with lifetime updates. Another buys the same for Macintosh. Gameplay features include: • Play 2–4 handed Cribbage with built-in AI (computer) opponents. • Or play against a friend sharing your iPhone or iPad (“Pass & Play”) • Built-in voices and instructions guide you through game play. • Learn to play, or challenge your current Cribbage skills. Download Cribbage Academy today! You will not be disappointed!

About

Nobs Cribbage

Experience a modern take on the classic cribbage card game. Play against friends online or challenge AI opponents across five difficulty levels. Improve your skills with detailed stats, training tools, and an accurate rule engine.

Highlights
  • Play against friends online
  • Five AI difficulty tiers
  • Detailed game stats
  • Discard and pegging trainers
  • Accurate cribbage rule engine
  • Head-to-head records
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A modern version of the classic cribbage card game. Play against friends or computer opponents across five difficulty tiers. The bots run from amateur to professional, picking up more advanced cribbage strategy as you climb the ladder. You'll have training tools, discard and pegging accuracy numbers, and game stats to help you improve, too. No ads. No coins. Just cribbage. PLAY AGAINST FRIENDS Add friends by username or invite link, send a challenge, and play cribbage online with your friends. Nobs keeps a head-to-head record of all your games together, skunks included. Sign in and everything follows your account from device to device. CLIMB THE BOT LADDER Five difficulty tiers of bots. You unlock the next opponent by beating the last. The bots get the same honest shuffle you do. They never get better or worse cards to make the game easier or harder for you, and a bot cannot see your hand, your crib, or the deck. As you climb, the bots pick up real cribbage skills: better discarding, smarter pegging plays, longer memory, more board sense, fewer mistakes, and more. STATS AND METRICS TO HELP YOU IMPROVE Every game ends with stats to help you understand how you played. You’ll get discard grades, pegging accuracy grades, and even see who got more card luck - a measure of how much of the game came down to luck vs skill. Each discard is graded and you can see how your choice ranked against all 15 discard options. Your first five games include the full breakdown, and after that you get one free a day. TRAINING & CRIBBAGE TOOLS The hand counter will count any hand or crib, a tool for when you're playing with real cards in real life. It's the cribbage calculator for the moment at the table when someone says your count can't be right. The discard trainer deals you six cards, you toss two, and you see how your discard stacked up against every other option. It's the fastest way to sharpen your game. The best discard finder takes any six cards you throw at it and tells you the best toss. BUILT ON REAL CRIBBAGE RULES The Nobs cribbage engine was audited against the American Cribbage Congress 2025 rulebook. Fifteens, pairs, runs, flushes, nobs, his heels, and the crib flush rule that trips everyone up. Two players, aces low, a race to 121. THE CLASSIC GAME OF CRIBBAGE Cribbage goes by crib, cribble, and noddy, and it has been played on a pegboard to 121 since the seventeenth century. If you grew up playing euchre, pinochle, hearts or spades, this card game will feel familiar. Whether you're a cribbage pro or still learning how to play cribbage, this modern cribbage app is for you. NOBS PRO One purchase, no subscriptions, no renewals. Pro adds the twelve Champion bots at the top of the ladder and removes the daily cap on full game breakdowns. Everything else is free. Terms of Use: https://www.nobscribbage.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://www.nobscribbage.com/privacy

Screenshots

Cribbage Academy4 screens
Nobs Cribbage4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Nobs Cribbage at Free against Cribbage Academy's $2.99. Nobs Cribbage also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.0) and update cadence (monthly vs every 4 months). Cribbage Academy's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and device support (4 vs 2). On review sentiment and ads 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

Nobs Cribbage is free to download; Cribbage Academy costs $2.99 up front. Nobs Cribbage sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Cribbage Academy asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Nobs Cribbage holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Nobs Cribbage has 7 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Cribbage Academy ships an update every 4 months, Nobs Cribbage monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
Cribbage Academy versus Nobs Cribbage: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCribbage AcademyNobs Cribbage
Price$2.99Free — better
Rating3.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (7 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings17 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS11.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size50 MB56 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRivergate SoftwareKYLE ANTHONY MC GAHEY

Customer experience

Cribbage Academy

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral100.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Nobs Cribbage

All ratings7 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Cribbage Academy

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Nobs Cribbage

One-time1
  • Nobs Pro Lifetime$8.99

Questions

Is Cribbage Academy free?
Cribbage Academy costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Nobs Cribbage free?
Nobs Cribbage is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Cribbage Academy or Nobs Cribbage?
Nobs Cribbage is rated higher. Cribbage Academy averages 3.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Nobs Cribbage averages 5.0 from 7 ratings.
Do Cribbage Academy or Nobs Cribbage have ads?
Neither Cribbage Academy nor Nobs Cribbage shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Cribbage Academy or Nobs Cribbage?
Cribbage Academy ships an update every 4 months, and Nobs Cribbage monthly. Most recently, Cribbage Academy was updated on October 14, 2026 and Nobs Cribbage on October 11, 2026.

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