6 Top Backgammon Apps for iPhone

Posted on: May 27, 2009
8 comments so far (is that a lot?)

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I don’t know about you but I am a huge fan of backgammon. It’s one of the most fun board games that you get to play. It may not be as complicated as Chess, but it’s just as fun. Thankfully, there are a few apps to choose from to play this cool board game on your iPhone.

Here are the best backgammon applications for iPhone:

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Backgammon Professional: play against your friends or the computer right on your iPhone.

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Backgammon Touch: Backgammon Touch is a work in the progress but a decent backgammon app indeed.

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Astraware Board Games: talk about killing a few birds with one stone. Play all board games you can handle with ABG.

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Big Bang Board Games: another application that lets you play chess, backgammon, and … on your iPhone.

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Backgammon Premium: 3 levels of difficulty and multi-player level make this app fun.

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Backgammon Classic: 3 levels, 3 themes, and the 3D view make this app a whole lot of fun.

What’s your favorite backgammon app for iPhone?

8 Responses to “6 Top Backgammon Apps for iPhone”

  1. Karl Says:
    May 27th, 2009 at 5:50 pm

    Instead of just listing the apps, how about some reviews? I’d love a great backgammon app, but need more than links and screenshots.

  2. Cyrus Says:
    May 27th, 2009 at 6:12 pm

    That’s fair. We do reviews here all the time. I’ll make sure to write a few reviews on backgammon apps. After reviewing over 20 backgammon apps, I’ve got to say you are going to find it difficult to find a very good one. This list contains the apps that are decent but there are no “perfect” backgammon apps for iPhone.

  3. Karl Says:
    June 9th, 2009 at 7:50 pm

    Yeah, I’ve been getting that feeling. Tried a couple of the lite apps and they were horrid. I love backgammon, too.

  4. Jeff Says:
    June 20th, 2009 at 9:53 am

    I’m used to bglightce 0.95 beta for pocketpc which cheats like crazy and is tough to beat. I need a challenge and want something equally difficult, but without the cheating part. Any suggestions?

  5. Edindahouse Says:
    January 19th, 2010 at 9:46 am

    Backgammon NJ seems to be a very strong app, well designed, easy to use and a good player.

  6. Luke Says:
    February 9th, 2010 at 1:26 am

    You mention that it is difficult to find a good backgammon app for iPhone.

    What is it they could do better/what do you want in a Backgammon app?

  7. Cyrus Says:
    February 12th, 2010 at 12:49 pm

    @Luke. The ones that I tried, I could beat easily. I also felt a lot of them had all kinds of glitches (hence not worth owning). Now we added that piece a while ago, so an update may be in order.

  8. Morgy Says:
    February 18th, 2010 at 4:14 pm

    I’ve been using Backgammon Premium, it’s okay. I beat it on the hard setting 8 out of 10 times, and I’m not a vastly experienced player, so I reckon a more advanced backgammoner would beat it easily. The other annoying thing is there is no “Turn Complete” button, which means, unless you’re lightening fast, there’s no way to ‘undo’ a wrongly uninterpreted move on the second/fourth die, which has caused me to shout “TW*T” on more than one occassion. However As far as I can tell it’s the best of a bad bunch!

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