Last updated on January 14th, 2026 at 11:37 pm
Blackjack & Card Counting Pro – Casino Game Review
Blackjack & Card Counting Pro is a Casino/Card/Education game from DEALER BUST TIME LLC (WA), first launched in 24th September 2010.
It’s rated 17+ and currently has 9,280+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Blackjack & Card Counting Pro Stand Out
Blackjack Apprenticeship's "Blackjack & Card Counting Trainer Pro" is the best way to master card counting so you can bring down the house! Blackjack Apprenticeship trains card counters who have legally beaten casinos for millions with the same skills learned in this app!
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Introducing the Blackjack trainer created and developed by Professional Blackjack players. Blackjackapprenticeship.com is the authority on teaching you how to play Blackjack like the pros. With over a decade of combined experience and millions of dollars won, the Pros here can help you take your game from amateur gambler, to winning professional.
Perhaps you just watched the movie “21”, or you’ve read “Bringing Down the House”, you are ready to take your Blackjack game to the next level. This is where Blackjack Trainer Pro comes in to help you up your game – without being an MIT student.
Blackjack Trainer Pro works hand in hand with Blackjackapprenticeship.com. We teach you step-by-step instruction on how to get the advantage over the house.
We don’t give you multiple counting methods here because you only need one: HiLo. We help you hone one counting system and use it to its fullest potential. Be an expert, not a “Jack of all systems.” That is the difference between a gambler and a winner.
Blackjack Trainer Pro helps you keep the Running count, shows you the True Count and guides you if you make a Basic Strategy or Deviation mistake. We want you to be on top of your game when you go into the casino. Practice at home, then run through a few shoes in your hotel room before hitting the tables to freshen up.
**** FEATURES ****
- Basic Strategy – Build your blackjack foundation
- Learn HiLo – the most efficient yet powerful card counting system known today
- Learn how to keep the Running count, convert to a true count and use that information to your advantage over the house.
- Strategy Deviations – We provide you with the charts you need to be successful
- Real Hand Signals – Use the same hand signals as you would in the casino: Hit, Stand, Double Down, Spit, and Surrender!
- Customize your game: Dealer Hits or Stands on soft 17, Resplit Aces, Double after Split, and Surrender are all rule options.
TESTIMONIES
“This app is easily worth the $$$, I just got back from Atlantic City and won enough to pay for my whole trip!” – JC
“I’ve been training with blackjackapprenticeship for 3 months now and am stoked to have their training go with me everywhere. I’ve used this app right before walking into the casino even.” – LB
“This app is just what I was looking for! Not a silly blackjack game, but an actual Trainer!”
"This app combined with the videos on the website has improved my blackjack game 300%!"
This Casino game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Blackjack & Card Counting Pro is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 28th November 2025
Recent improvements include:
Added support for Spanish (Mexico) localization.
Download & Availability
Blackjack & Card Counting Pro is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Blackjack & Card Counting Pro on App Store
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:
We really love blackjack but want to flip the edge however we just get bored before we can even count for most of a shoe. On top of that you need an insane bankroll and still risk being a losing player and or getting banned from all local casinos long term. We have no problem folding all night in poker and waiting for our spots but something about blackjacks nature just makes us want to play like a monkey lol. We guess Ill stick to poker and enjoy blackjack as a ploppy occasionally. We did give the app 5 stars because it seems like the devs put effort into it but after a very short amount of usage Ill be requesting a refund.
We printed the charts and committed to memorizing them. Ive been practicing by looking and just by the flow of the sim, Ive grasped how fast it can be and how even basic strategy can get you by with correct leverage. The gestures get you used to what it will be like at a live table. Will be hitting the tables soon with knowledge.
Great! The other app called Blackjack Apprenticeship BJ 21 is a scam that Apple should remove from the App Store. This is the correct app if you follow the YouTube channel.
Its a good app but for a paid app we would say it is definitely not worth it, at least for the basic strategy. The features it offers we can receive at almost any other website for free. Some features we would like to see that would set it apart from all other trainers is more customization. For example a harder spitting mode that removes 5s, 8s, and 10s because they can be very competitive and hinder learning. We are aware that there are deviations for those pairs but it still gets annoying. We would also like a feature that lets you practice your missed basic strategy mistakes. Once again a fine app but Im just not convinced its worth the money.
Teaches you all you need to know about Blackjack from variations to card counting to strategy. Highly recommend.
Very easy to use, useful information, and right to the point.
This app really helps set a realistic expectation. Drilling and remembering our one time playing, this has helped us learn better habits with playing black jack. Ill be join back to the casino soon.
Theres a glitch when you split Aces, it wont let you play out the hands.
This app is useful for practicing card counting, but something must be wrong with the programming of how the cards are dealt in the training mode. In most six-deck shoes, the true count rarely goes above 0, and when it does, its almost never more than +1. Usually, the running count stays between -1 and -10 for the entire shoe we think the problem is that the app deals each card as if its completely random and unrelated to the previous ones instead of simulating a real shoe where the cards come from a finite deck. That makes the training less realistic. In the training section, it would also be nice to be able to manually set your bankroll amount, but thats really not a big deal.
Really not worth 1.99. They get you to subscribe then want to charge you more for counting tool. Im sure there are free apps that offer the same and more. Dont waste your money like we did.
Love everything about it. Especially the gestures instead of buttons. Got basic strategy down in like less than a month of inconsistent play. Imagine being consistent. Worth every penny.
Trained using just this app. We just got our first backoff/trespass from a casino that some of our friends deal at. Big sad.
The iPad app in Training Drill Mode is really excellent. We use it almost daily to stay sharp. You get chips, running count, true count and the ability to play two spots. Count information is far enough out of view that you wont use it as a crutch. Just to check. You literally dont need anything else in a training device.
Best trainer you can find at only $5 like seriously you will earn that back in one good hand after training. Or you could ignore this and continue to lose more money and give the house a greater edge over you. Dummy.
Its awesome we gambled so much.
Like title says overall this app is great and does what it says it does. Just a couple things id like to see added/changed. 1) On iphones with the dynamic island the dealers hand count is blocked by it. 2) Lessons and guided practice in the app. Theres video lessons but id really enjoy interactive. Maybe a 101 to everything card counting and how to do it that you get to follow along with and apply what it teaches you before the drills. 3) FAQ in the app for people who are brand new to BJ card counting like us. A page that has examples and definitions of all the lingo in BJ card counting. For example whats a hard or soft hand? What is the count vs true count? When to increase or decrease your bet size. 4) More in depth stat tracking. Like what hands do you commonly make mistakes with. Other than these quality of life things im enjoying the app so far and am pleased with our purchase. If youre considering learning id give it a try.
Love the app! We practice quite a bit. Its truly convenient and amazing. We bought the speed training as well. Some deviations may not have been updated. For example, 11 vs A during for S17 settings. We hit and the game is telling us we need to double down, even though our true count is 0. We have a screenshot for proof. This happened more than once for this particular hand. For anybody who wants to correct us, in S17, 11 vs A is a hit unless truecount is 1+ according to BJA chart. As an update: S17 means stand on 17, H17 means hit on soft 17. We were playing with the wrong chart for a whole year without this correction. We do apologize. This app is great and it was completely user error on us.
Great app has been beneficial!!! If we could put more stars we would.
This app is an amazing tool for learning how to play blackjack the right way. The strategy trainer is super helpful. Highly recommended.
So far, Ive been loving the app but, we wish there was some apple watch support so we could practice whenever we dont have access to our phone . But, Ive really enjoyed all the features on the app.
That is, of course, if you are teaching BJA basic strategy and devs. Highly recommend for serious training and refreshing on the road. Not a bells and whistles app, which we prefer, and not designed to to be a game. Knocked it out of the park guys.
Really helped us improve both running count and true count. Worth it.
This is an excellent app to train at becoming an effective card counter. This a has been developed by skilled counters with the aim of taking a novice player and bringing his or her skills to proficiency. We particularly appreciate how the rules and settings can be changed to suit your needs as you learn basic concepts of counting. These can be adapted to whatever level you need until you have a firm grasp of the skill sets needed. With feedback when you make mistakes you quickly learn the correct course of action for any scenario. When youre no longer a novice this app also doubles as a drill routine to keep your game sharp. An excellent little app.
Its great for memorization skills. However, except for possibly the first few hands where RC has reached -1 a few times, it never has a negative true count or running count. Ive played 100 6-deck shoes and it just doesnt happen. Counts are always very + after half a deck dealt.
Great app but can you guys add a single deck.
App runs smooth and its an efficient tool to audit how well you are playing at anytime right in the palm of your hands. There is a bankroll feature and since the shoes deal to a half deck remaining until it shuffles the N-0 is very small so you can tell if youre playing a profitable game by seeing if your bankroll grows. Other cool features include achievements such as completing a six deck shoe without making a playing error. It uses standard illustrious 18 deviations so you will run into a mistake if you use an expanded deviation which is the only thing we would add. But if you know those you are in good shape Id say. Great tool.
Our first review on an app ever and Im glad its this app. Its so cheap and helps you get so many reps. It will help you immensely if you use it properly (going through hundreds of hands a day).
It will correct and say if count > 0 youre supposed to do this when count is 0. Kind of outdated but thats not that big of a deal.
Overall a good app. We trust this more than ad-supported arcade-style apps to have a realistic shoe. But we wish it had a total count for the dealer, although we guess that helps counting in our head. It would also be helpful if there were AI-controlled players at the table who played perfect theory so we could learn by osmosis. Also, if the True Count is positive, why would the app suggest hitting on a Hard 15.
Its a decent app if you want to learn 6 deck basic strategy and counting but we noticed that their basic strategy is incorrect for double deck which has a different chart. For instance on a DD, H17 with a 16 against a dealer 9 you should hit but the app chastises you and says to surrender there are many other differences in strategy. You should not have a double deck option in training drill if you arent going to provide the correct strategy. You can find this info from the Wizard ofc wouldnt recommend disputing the legend himself or your cooked BJA.
Love the app for the most part, but Ive noticed the charts are from 2018 and dont match updated charts on certain plays. For example, current 2018 S17 chart says to double a soft 18 vs. 2, but 2024 S17 chart says to just hit. This is causing us to lose proper play streaks when we know Im making the right updated move.
Love using it to learn + practice, please allow us to modify our bankroll to more realistically simulate real betting situations.
The app is great but we would like if there was mode to practice each deviation/basic strategy. So for example a mode to practice only pair splits, another to practice hard totals, another for soft totals etc. And then make it to where the user can adjust what they want to practice so mixing pair splits and hard totals like that. Great app otherwise though.
We are enjoying this so far. There are many of these apps out there and while we really like this one, the interface looks very dated, especially the size of the cards. Please provide either an option to make them larger or just make them larger as they take up a smaller part of modern phone screens.
If there was a way to manually change the deck penetration, this app would be 5/5.
Add sound of cards being dealt, chips etc.
The dealer has INSANE luck. We figured it may just be us but after looking at other reviews it seems its not. The dealer consistently pulls to 20 or 21 with lower cards coming out exactly as the dealer would need it to even in a high true count. Great for practicing Hi-Lo counting methods but awful at simulating how your bankroll would look. We know the developer is going to respond to this with some generic response as they have for all the others but we implore you to find out your own anecdotal findings its for sure rigged so to speak.
While the app works pretty well, it has 2 major issues that were a big dealbreaker for us: the progress through the shoe doesnt save if you close the app (instead restarting a brand new one), and it doesnt actually test you on if you have the correct RC/TC after each hand.
Speed drill gives incorrect running counts every 3/4 rounds.
The training is ok. No single deck. Dealer gets bj and 21 10x as many times as player. Just like Vegas. Dont buy.
This is a good app dont get us wrong, helpful for beginners. It is simply just not worth $5. Once we bought the app, the most helpful feature was speed counting practice, but guess what? We HAD TO PAY FOR IT after paying to even download the app. Your $5 just lets you play fake blackjack and gives you a counter on the side, which yeah is helpful when trying to learn to count. But accessibility is poor (cant check count in between hands to double check if we are on track or not) and it is just overwhelmingly underdeveloped and in this day and age, $5 is such an overrated price for a simulation with like 3 features. $2 at best (Including ALL features).
Needs a small tweak on the betting GUI. For betting you can increase your bet based on the count, however there is no way to decrease your bet. To decrease your bet you have to zero your bet and start over.
This app is the only training app you need to practice playing perfect basic strategy and give yourself the best chance to even the odds. Or practice counting cards to beat the casinos. However you will probably need to also sign up for a Blackjack Apprenticeship membership or attend one of their bootcamps to be successful. Especially to make sure you are playing a winning game and betting correctly. Collin, we were working on our own program/app (stopped when we got to splitting because the code became a nightmare for an amateur like us), and we have one suggestion for a feature, which we have in our app. Add a tutorial mode which can be toggled on or off which gives you the basic strategy for each hand before you play it. For example when aces are dealt you get an alert or overlay that says Always split Aces and Eights. Or 17 v 9 shows Stand on Hard 17 and above. When we were learning we found the charts hard to understand and learned basic strategy by verbal rules. But now we use images in our head of the deviation charts especially for 16 and 15 v Ace, 9, 10, Ace which we also memorize as 3,4,4,5 and hit, 4, 4, hit for S17. Same for Surrender. So basically our basic strategy is all verbal rules or mnemonics. And our deviations are more images in our head of your charts. Thanks for all the work you do. Ill sign up for BJA one of these days when our bankroll grows a little more. Playing with a pretty high risk of ruin at the moment. Haha.
Love this app.Straight forward to the point. Love that it keeps track of achievements also. Really helped us lock down our basic strategy and counting at different speeds. We do wish the achievements could begin with less requirement such as 20 hands in a row no errors. All in all definitely the app you want if you want to learn and beat blackjack.
Should add deviation skill , counting cards specially , how to subtract & add fast , like there only mode to learn the skill that you need help with other than that , pretty good.
Im actually very surprised at how well made this app is. Very easy to use and helpful. It could have a few extra features, but overall worth $5.
Since getting this app a few months ago, our blackjack game has massively improved to the point where we feel comfortable counting in the casino. Every chart you need for memorizing basic strategy and deviations is on here. The speed counting drill is extremely helpful. This app is everything you need to count cards. One improvement we suggest is that there should be a setting to be able to front load the shoe, so that we are able to practice our positive count deviations without having to wait for the perfect shoe.
First of all – great app for realistic BJ. If you want to learn basic strategy and counting, also great. Two suggestions – with the Dynamic Island the dealer hand count is blocked off, Id like to be able to see the actual total of the dealer hand. Really the graphics just need to be pushed down a little. Also, if the app could have a custom bankroll starting amount that would be great too. Not everyone has $10k to simulate ;).
Running count. Is almost like breathing now.
Before purchasing this app, we read some reviews. We were really impressed with the responses, and was even more impressed when we purchased the app and saw all the improvements the developers had implemented. We like that the team listens to what their uses have to say and try to work them into updates if possible.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 3.6.3
- Size: 84.75 MB
- iOS: 14.0 or later
- Languages: EN, ES
- Content Advisory: Frequent/Intense Simulated Gambling
- Developer: DEALER BUST TIME LLC (WA)
Last updated: 28th November 2025 | Genre: Casino, Card | Developer: DEALER BUST TIME LLC (WA)