Comparison

Bridge Exercises Plus vs 围棋之书

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

Head to head
About

Bridge Exercises Plus

Practice and improve your bridge skills with a variety of classic hands and exercises. Learn techniques from master players and analyze historical matches. This app is designed for offline use, allowing you to train anytime, anywhere.

Highlights
  • Declarer play exercises
  • Classic hands with master comments
  • Best hand of the year archives
  • Bermuda Bowl final match data
  • Custom hand dealing and saving
  • Double dummy problems
Features
Read full description

It‘s for you to practice bridge, and provide you a lot of classic hands to better understand bridge basic play, it includes: A good bridge declarer relies on a variety of skills, strategies and techniques, it helps you practice more. It's NOT a on-line game, does NOT need internet. It's simply a bridge table that you can learn bridge technique, train yourselves, enjoy bridge master's skills at anytime and anywhere, and a perfect product for you to improve your playing skills. (1) Bridge Exercises It offers tons of declarer play exercises for players of all skill levels to practice playing skills. Level evaluation: 1 star: Winning ratio less than 50% 2 star: Winning ratio more than 50% and leas than 60% 3 star: Winning ratio more than 60% and leas than 70% 4 star: Winning ratio more than 70% and leas than 80% 5 star: Winning ratio more than 80% (2) Bridge Basic Play It SHOWs you a lot of classic hands played by the famous bridge masters with comments to illustrate the various techniques for you to improve your playing skills. The classic hands include safety play, removing play, block and unblock, killing defense, extra chance, etc, which covers all declarer and defense basic playing skills. If you go through all hands with a moment thinking, it would be a noticeable improvement in your playing skill. Tips for you: Don't play to the first trick too quickly. Force yourself to stop and think. Concentrate on the opening lead for a few seconds so you'll remember it later. Decide what it tells you about the leader's length or strength in that suit. Review the bidding. If one of your opponents has bid, try to come up with a general picture of his point-count and his length in the suit bid. Always Count your losers and winners. Hope you become a very good player and have many bridge fun days. (3) Bridge Best Hand of The Year a) The Best Played Hand of the Year (1974-2024) b) The Best Defence of the Year(1985-2024) c) The Best Play by a Junior(1996-2024) d) The BOLS Brilliancy Prize(1977-1987) e) The Best Play of the Year by a Woman(1985-1986) (4) Bridge Bermuda Bowl It includes (Both Open and Close Room) : 1955, 1957, 1959, 1962, 1967, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1977, 1979, 1981, 1983, 1987, 1991, 1995, 1997, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017 Bermuda Bowl Final. (5) Easy Bridge When and where you want to play Bridge, take it Easy. Just for fun. (6) My Bridge Hands After setting contract info, you can deal cards manually, then play and save them. When you see a memorable play or good hands in one web, or in a game, or in a magazine, newspaper, you can play it in your device, enjoy it at any time. (7) Double Dummy Problems App includes hundreds of double dummy problems for you to solve. The app gives one solution, it is not the only one, you can work out your own solutions. (8) Play just like a master As a declarer, you need to play as the same as a mater do.

About

围棋之书

Features
Read full description

这一款围棋软件是将日常的学习以及训练对弈结果为基础,通过统计和人工智能辅助给用户学习围棋的薄弱知识点,并给予加强练习,这款软件让用户专注于练习死活题,通过做题的积累以及难点分析,可以系统的学习围棋的知识要点,达成快速升级入段的学习目标!

Screenshots

Bridge Exercises Plus4 screens
围棋之书4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: 围棋之书 at 5.0 against Bridge Exercises Plus's 3.4. 围棋之书 also leads on ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (71% vs 54%). Bridge Exercises Plus's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs monthly) and ratings volume (5 vs 1). On price, 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

Both are free to download. Bridge Exercises Plus sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and 围棋之书 sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

围棋之书 holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bridge Exercises Plus has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 54% of Bridge Exercises Plus's written reviews are positive against 71% of 围棋之书's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Bridge Exercises Plus ships an update fortnightly, 围棋之书 monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Bridge Exercises Plus versus 围棋之书: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBridge Exercises Plus围棋之书
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.4 (5 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews53.8% of reviews71.4% of reviews — better
Number of ratings5 — better1
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterMonthly
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS14.1 — better16.6
Further details — not scored
Size48 MB72 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer丽娜 夏文艺 邓

Customer experience

Bridge Exercises Plus

All ratings5 ratings
Positive60.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative40.0%
Written reviews13 reviews
Positive53.8%
Neutral7.7%
Negative38.5%

围棋之书

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive71.4%
Neutral28.6%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Bridge Exercises Plus

One-time1
  • You will pay to remove ads.$6.99
3 purchases

围棋之书

Subscriptions2
  • 连续包月1 Month trial$2.991 Month
  • 连续包年1 Year trial$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • 永久会员$24.99

Questions

Is Bridge Exercises Plus free?
Bridge Exercises Plus is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is 围棋之书 free?
围棋之书 is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Bridge Exercises Plus or 围棋之书?
围棋之书 is rated higher. Bridge Exercises Plus averages 3.4 out of 5 from 5 ratings, while 围棋之书 averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Bridge Exercises Plus or 围棋之书 have ads?
Bridge Exercises Plus shows ads; 围棋之书 does not.
Which is updated more often, Bridge Exercises Plus or 围棋之书?
Bridge Exercises Plus ships an update fortnightly, and 围棋之书 monthly. Most recently, Bridge Exercises Plus was updated on October 11, 2026 and 围棋之书 on October 9, 2026.

Other comparisons