Ready before the next deal

Count the hand, choose the discard, and peg to 31 in five-minute drills. No opponents, no timers, no pressure.

iPhone · Four practice rooms · Works offline

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Five-minute reps. · A quick cribbage practice session in progress
Read the hand. · Matching five cards to the scoring shape they show
Choose the discard. · A six-card crib decision with the coach's reasoning
Peg with a plan. · A pegging judgment with the board total in view
Four practice rooms. · The Cribbage Trainer home screen and streak
Every card counts. · The Card Room covering values, cuts, and the board

Four rooms, one habit

Everything below is free. Cribbage+ adds more of it.

Card Room

Learn the deck

Card values, suits, the cut, dealer and pone, and the board, then the rules that trip up new players.

Scoring Room

Count the hand

Fifteens, pairs, runs, flushes, nobs, and the order that turns a hand into points.

Hand reading

Name the scoring shape

See five cards and call the patterns that matter before the count starts.

Discard Room

Choose two with a plan

Work six-card deals, compare your discard with the coach's pick, and see the crib tradeoff.

Pegging Room

Play to 31

Find fifteens, pairs, runs, go, 31, last card, and safe totals while the board moves.

Flashcards

The why on the back

Swipeable cards that explain the rule instead of just testing it.

Extra practice · Cribbage+

More reps per room

An additional practice set in all four rooms, with fresh questions, hands, deals, and calls added through the year.

Master Tables · Cribbage+

Past the basics

Advanced discard strategy, pegging defense, endgame decisions, and expert counting drills.

Streaks

Practice between games

Streaks, missed-item review, and per-room progress keep the useful skills warm.

No account, no cloud

Cribbage Trainer keeps practice progress and preferences on your iPhone. There is no sign-up, no ads, and nothing sold. Reminders are scheduled locally on your device. Apple processes purchases, and RevenueCat receives only the identifiers needed to unlock and restore Cribbage+.

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More info

How it's built and why it matters.

The Pitch

Most players learn cribbage at a table, then have no way to practice until the next deal. Counting slows down, discards become guesses, and pegging decisions disappear as soon as the board gets busy.

Cribbage Trainer is practice without a table: quick, interactive reps you can run anywhere. Learn the deck, count the hand, choose two for the crib, and peg to 31 without giving points away.

Cribbage+

All four rooms stay free, forever. Cribbage+ simply adds more: monthly or yearly (both with a 1-week free trial), or a one-time purchase for lifetime access. Prices are shown in the app before you buy and vary by region.

Extra practice sets. A second set of questions, hands, deals, and calls in every room, using drills you already know.

The Master Tables. Advanced discard strategy, pegging defense, endgame decisions, and expert counting for players moving past the basics.

Specs

Platform iOS 17+
Language Swift 6 with strict concurrency
Framework SwiftUI · StoreKit 2 · RevenueCat
Data No account; progress stored on device
Storage Local preferences, bundled practice content
Offline Every drill works with no network

What Mattered

Rules before reflexes. Drills isolate values, scoring patterns, crib choices, pegging, and board position.

Original teaching deals. Every hand, deal, and question is written for teaching, not copied from a published game.

Five minutes, honestly. Sessions are short enough for a grocery line, because that's when people actually practice.

Free means free. The four rooms are complete without paying. Cribbage+ adds volume and advanced material rather than gating the fundamentals.

Cribbage Trainer is an independent cribbage practice app. House rules vary, so use the rules agreed at your table.

Practice before you play

Free on the App Store. Four practice rooms, no account. Cribbage+ optional.

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