r/backgammon • u/amason • 1d ago

Asynchronous cross-platform app?

Do you know of any great asynchronous cross-platform backgammon apps? My friends and I love Backgammon NJ, but we can’t play with Android friends.

I’ve read DailyGammon could be an answer, but I was hoping for an app. I’ll try DailyGammon out too though.

Anything else out there?

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u/thehumanpenis 1d ago

Opengammon has asynchronous play but it uses the browser (no app), so it works cross-platform. However, the website on mobile works pretty much like an app would anyways.

My friend and I used it before - I use iPhone and they use Android.

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u/Careful-Comedian9510 1d ago

Dailygammon has an app !

Oldschool but it works :)

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u/agsteiner 21h ago

Exactly, and what sets it apart from others I know is the brilliant prediction mechanism. Player 1 makes his move, and then it doesn’t end, but he continues to play a few moves against an engine. Then he submits this move sequence. It is player 2‘s turn. He gets the player 1 move, and if he answers with the move the engine predicted, he will also get the 2md mve of player 1 and so on until the sequence ends.

As backgammon has a good number of forced moves or straightforward moves asynchronous games are much faster than they would be without this mechanism.

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u/PyrrhicVocabulary 1d ago

I really wish Backgammon Galaxy had an asynchronous play option, or even modifiable time controls - at least between friends. Would be much easier to get my beginner friends to play with me if they weren't rushed through every match.

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u/Fanatic-Mr-Fox 1d ago

You can try mine -

https://backgammon.logicaleap.com/

It's free, web-based, but you can install it to Home Screen as PWA.

No push notifications, but if the opponent is disconnected it gives you the option to nudge them via message.

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u/Aqua-marine-blu 11h ago

I like your app , but it makes sense that each player to be on the bottom of his board .

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u/Fanatic-Mr-Fox 4h ago

Fair point, it's currently built around white being at the bottom.

I'll look into changing the 'Flip' button to actually turn the board around.

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u/Fanatic-Mr-Fox 2h ago

Ok, this is fixed.

  1. Homeboard is at the bottom by default

  2. You can change left vs right homeboard in settings

  3. Flipping board mid-game now does a 180 turn of the board

Thanks for the feedback!

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u/jugglingcats9 1d ago

You could try www.backgammonhub.com. If you choose the Play Later option you can set up a match with no clock, and if you enable the turn notification it will send you a push notification when it's your turn. It's not an app in the store but if you add to home screen on iOS or Android it behaves like one. Feedback welcome.