Master SAYC bridge bidding, card play & conventions. Practice with interactive modules, instant feedback, and expert explanations. Free.
Bridge Trainer is a comprehensive training app for Standard American Yellow Card (SAYC) bridge players. Whether you are learning the fundamentals or sharpening your competitive skills, Bridge Trainer gives you structured practice with instant feedback and detailed explanations on every question.
TRAINING MODULES
Bidding
SAYC Opening Bids — 5-card majors, strong notrump, weak twos
Responding to 1NT — Stayman, Jacoby Transfers, game invitations
Reverse Bidding — Power reverses and how responder should react
Weak Two Bids — Preemptive openings and responding
Free Bids — Negative doubles, free raises, and cuebids in competition
Response After Takeout Double — Raises, redoubles, and penalty doubles
Transfers to Minors — Transfer to clubs or diamonds after a 1NT opening
Conventions
Checkback Stayman — Find major suit fits after a 1NT rebid
Michaels and Unusual 2NT — Two-suited overcalls and responses
Inverted Minors — Strong single raise of 1 Club or 1 Diamond
Bergen Raises and Jacoby 2NT — Bergen raises and game-forcing raises over 1 Heart or 1 Spade
Card Play
Finesse Technique — Direct finesses, safety plays, and the hold-up
Opening Leads — Sequences, fourth best, active versus passive strategy
Scoring
Bridge Scoring — Calculate duplicate scores including slams and doubled contracts
HOW IT WORKS
Each module presents real bridge hands with multiple choice questions. Submit your answer and instantly see whether you were right, along with a clear explanation of the bidding or play logic. Every module links to BridgeBum for deeper reading on the topic.
TRACK YOUR PROGRESS
Your results are saved locally on your device. The Statistics screen shows your overall accuracy, a breakdown by category across Bidding, Card Play and Conventions, and your completion progress for every module.
Bridge Trainer is free, contains no ads, and requires no account or login.
This app is apparently built without ANY option for customization. You have no choice or control that I could find. That includes what conventions are taught, point ranges are used, or anything else. So if you don’t want to play Garbage Stayman you’re apparently out of luck. (I could be wrong about that one example, I’ve not studied the app exhaustively, but there’s no place to make choices like that where I could find it.) And GS is not part of SAYC in the first place!The other huge problem here is that there’s no room for judgement calls. For instance, how would you and your partner prefer to open a hand with 15-17 HCP and a good 5-card Spade suit? SAYC “allows” you to open that at 1NT but does not require it, yet this app treats the 1S response as “incorrect”.In explanation it says that partner can use Stayman to find the Spade fit, but that isn’t entirely true. Partner can only use Stayman to find the 5-4 Spade fit, but NOT the 5-3 fit.Of course it’s easier to build a system where everything is absolute and you don’t have to evaluate a response based on data input by the user. Personally I would love to see this app become a bit more flexible. Maybe my beginning partner and I aren’t quire ready for ALL of the SAYC card at once - and by the time we get there, we will probably be beyond the need for this app. That would be unfortunate.
Odd sequence analysis
MikeArk
Only offers specific sequences. If i have AKQ in one hand and xxx in another it does not matter in which order to discard. But noooo, trainer insists on specific order. Next, finesse sequences do not take into account returns like in AKJ in one hand and xxx in another, play A and then small to K… but how did i get there? And playing AK is somehow bad in this case?
Developer Response
the app is updated with a new design
• Added: New Suit Combination module for improved probability training and card layout prediction.
• Updated: Replaced the Finesse module with Suit Combinations to provide a more impactful training experience.
• Fixed: General stability and performance improvements.
Version 3.0.0
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Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Information
Seller
Avi Berger
Size
29.6 MB
Category
Card
Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.1 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 15.1 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 15.1 or later.
iPod touch Requires iOS 15.1 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
