Free Bridge Software

Download ACBLscore and run a home duplicate game professionally. This is the very same program used to score club and tournament games. It is quirky but full of features.

Download ACBLmerge to merge electronic hand records (PBN, GIB, or DUP) with ACBLscore results and even Bridgemate, BridgePad, and BridgeScorer contracts. Works out of the box for Windows and Mac OS X and is also functional on Unix and Linux platforms (Perl based).

Download Payoff Matrix, a Perl program to generate performance statistics for players, partnerships, and partnership-partnership interactions. Learn how well each partnership performs against other partnerships in the long run.

Download WBridge, the computer bridge champion in 2005, 2007, and 2008, and experience the state of the art in computer bridge. Like Ginsberg’s Intelligent Bridge and its successor Jack Bridge, WBridge5 simulates many layouts consistent with the bidding and play up to the current trick, performs double dummy analysis on those layouts, and chooses the best percentage play. If the decision is close, it will simulate even more layouts, “thinking” harder, just like a human. Since the application is simply an executable and two help files (English and French), you can place them on a memory stick and always have them available without the need to install anything.

Download Bridgify for double dummy analysis. Walk through any hand trick by trick and see the best card(s) to play from each hand at each trick given the plays made previously. This program has a great simple, clean, and intuitive interface. Hands can be entered manually or loaded from PBN files such as those provided in the ACBLmerge generated results on this website. Since the application is just an executable and a help file, you can place them on a memory stick and always have them available without the need to install anything.

Download SuitPlay, a DOS program that determines the optimal play of suit combinations in bridge. This program is like having J.M. Roudinesco's Dictionary of Suit Combinations with you at all times, but it is two pounds lighter and no searching is required to find your suit combination. There are special analysis options for matchpoint and IMP scoring. One limitation is that the program assumes there are enough entries for the optimal line of play; there is no way to restrict the number of entries to each hand.

Download Deal, Thomas Andrews’ bridge hand generator. There is a learning curve and to get the most out of the program you’ll need to learn a little Tcl programming. But if you are serious about simulation this option packed program is a real winner. Runs on Windows (DOS), MacOS, and Linux.

Download Redeal, Antony Lee’s reimplementation of Thomas Andrews’ Deal program in the increasing popular Python scripting language which may be easier to use than learning the now obscure Tcl language. Runs on Windows (DOS), MacOS, and Linux.

Download Lead Solver. Feeds the output of Thomas Andrews’ Deal bridge hand generator (or similar), through Bo Haglund’s fast double dummy analyzer and tallies up how well each card does when led at matchpoints or IMPs. Runs on Windows (DOS), Mac OS X, and Linux/Unix.

Download Bridge Solver, John Goacher’s double dummy solver for Android. Browse to a PBN file on a web page and go. There is also a Windows version (requires Java 1.8).

Download Bridge CCAnalyzer, Lars Kappel Hansen’s card combination (CC) analyzer for Android. There is also a online version.

Download Big Deal (Original DOS version) or Bigger Deal (Windows), a program to generate very random bridge hands. Obtains entropy from keystrokes or mouse clicks, can generate all of the ~5.4 × 10²⁸ possible bridge hands, and uses cryptographic hashing of the PRNG sequence to prevent prediction of hands based on hands already seen in a set.

Download Game Scan, Don Greenwood’s program to display the internals of ACBLscore game files. Also see ACBLscore Game Files Decoded.

Download Round Timer, Rich Waugh’s full screen round timer, instead of paying hundreds of dollars for a custom built hardware timer that uses $10 of 1980s electronics.

Download KGB Batch Converter, Kaj G Backas’ bridge batch file converter. Ever needed to convert a DUP file to PBN format or handle something obscure like old Duplimate (BRI) format? This is the program for you. 28 formats are supported.

Download CCE the Bridge Convention Card Editor. This program seems to be the best of the free convention card editors. The user interface is clean and responsive, suit symbols are easily entered, and cards can be saved and printed.

Download New Card, Merlin Vilhauer's convention card editor. Create electronic versions of convention cards which can be printed out or saved in a format suitable for OKbridge in addition to the native storage format.