Last updated on November 30th, 2025 at 03:32 pm
BJ Bridge – Card Game Review
BJ Bridge is a Card game from Helen Fordred, first launched in 5th January 2017.
It’s rated 17+ and currently has 30+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes BJ Bridge Stand Out
Learn bridge as a novice or improve your bridge as a seasoned player. Connect up with other duplicate bridge players.
In-app purchases let you upgrade to the Pro version with a full choice of advanced bidding features. Optionally subscribe to remove ads. Use the "Upgrade" button in the HELP panel to access these subscriptions.
Unlimited random deals are free.
Download hands and double dummy results from your club’s BridgeWebs website. [Use option "Load"; then "Web search to find deals"; find your your club site; go to your results page; touch the "Hands" tab, then touch "Download as Pbn"]. Or use the preloaded CLUB-SESSION-SAMPLES to compare you play with actual results of a club session.
Create your own deals [Use option "Load"; then "New Manual Deal" or "Amend Manual Deal"].
This app offers a choice of Standard American Yellow Card (SAYC), simplified Acol (EBU) system for beginners or Benji Acol.
For any Pro bidding style, choose optional conventions: 5-card majors, Benji weak and strong twos, ELH two-suited overcall, ASPTRO 1NT defence or Landy 1NT defence, Roman Key Card Blackwood, standard Blackwood, Gerber, Quantitative 4NT, Baron 3C ‘Normal’ Stayman or Puppet, Stayman, Jacoby 2NT 1-suit support, Truscott 2NT 1-suit doubled support, Ogust responses, Inverted minors, Unassuming Cue Bid, Splinter, Strong jump overcall, Weak take-out choices.
There is also a choice of weak or strong 2-level opening bids for each suit, selection of preferred high card point ranges for weak or strong 1NT and 2NT bids and control of ‘bidding aggression level’ during contested auctions.
**Note for BEGINNERS and improvers: turn off any convention you do not recognise and set "aggression" to low. You will find the bidding easier to follow!
Experienced players can make full use of the Convention Card wizard.
If you find any problem or have queries / suggestions, please email Helen at [email protected]
This Card game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, BJ Bridge is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 22nd March 2025
Recent improvements include:
Bug fixes and stability improvements
Download & Availability
BJ Bridge is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Very good app that allows multiple players play duplicate bridge together and easy to review etc. However, it has a few bugs: 1. Doesnt work when there is no wifi. 2 Doesnt work when 3 people tries to connect. Only 1 or 2 people can connect and play.
We are a beginner. We reviewed several programs and this was the best one we found. However, we would not have found this app unless someone showed us this. Is does not show up when you put a search in the app store for bridge,.
Its difficult to know whether we should give this app 4 or 5 stars. Its possible to greatly customize the bidding, we can use it to fill any empty moments anywhere or when, as the Internet isnt required. We use it almost every day.
We, and many others, paid for the Pro version of this app. It was a good app, too. Then the developer changed it to a subscription app with no warning and no chance for us who paid for it to keep it as it was. So they simply took our money and pocketed it. That just isnt right by any stretch of the imagination. Now they want more money to restore what we had already paid for. Shame, shame. We hope Apple looks into this.
This is a very enjoyable app on which to play bridge, and we especially like the ability to replay a hand, allowing you to improve your game or learn from your mistakes.
We enjoy using the app before going to bed. It helps us relax and forget about the day and enjoy ourselves before going to sleep. Its an enjoyable app and helps us learn how to play bridge much better.
Its difficult to know whether we should give this app 4 or 5 stars. Its possible to greatly customize the bidding, we can use it to fill any empty moments anywhere or when. Negatively, on our iPhone too often the screen contracts, and we have to close and restart. But, we use it almost every day.
Apart from being able to play and practice for free we love to able to download our duplicate boards and replay them to learn from our mistakes – both bidding and playing.
This app has many features that are helpful to duplicate bridge players – lets you choose your conventions from a list, bidding style, and many more. Love its ability to give you hints, and the rationale, whether in bidding or playing. You can turn it off if you do not want it. It also allows one to play any position after the bidding. At the click of a button you can choose to see all cards, or not. We have not yet used the internet capabilities, but it sounds good.
This app is the best one on the App Store for learning bridge that we have found by far! We can enter and customize the bidding conventions for us. As a beginner, it is great to have bidding customizable to the conventions we play. It will also download the boards from our club game! Took us a little exploring to find the boards in pbn format in thecommongame website, but it worked great! Also, the game generates bidding and play hints from the boards, and the hint system actually describes why the bid or play choice is recommended. Please keep up the good work, much appreciated. We're telling our bridge friends about this one.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 4.2.2
- Size: 18.37 MB
- iOS: 15.6 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Unrestricted Web Access
- Developer: Helen Fordred
Last updated: 22nd March 2025 | Genre: Card | Developer: Helen Fordred