Practice bridge bidding
with your partner
Cuebids is a bridge bidding app for partnerships. Bid with your partner online and on your own schedule, or with a robot partner that plays a named system and never forgets an agreement — which makes it a good way to learn one. You pick the auction, and you get instant feedback on the contract you reached, from double dummy simulations of the deal.
The most popular bidding app in bridge, and the professionals are on it — so you can bid the same deals they do, and see how they handled the hand you got wrong.
Already play on Cuebids? Log in here — bidding with your partner is free.
Why bidding is the hard half to practice
The auctions that cause trouble are rare. You meet one at the club, get it wrong, and it does not come round again for months, which is why waiting for them is not a way to improve.
The bidding practice worth doing is concentrated: the same situation many times over, with the partner you actually play with, and a score afterward for the contract you reached.
Why players use it
You are never both online at once
The auction waits for whoever is next to call and notifies them when it is their turn, so a session can take ten minutes or a week. Nobody has to book an evening.
Practice exactly what you want
Pick a deal type and every hand in the session produces that situation. A session on slam bidding is slam decisions the whole way down, not one slam in twelve random deals.
Instant feedback
Each board is simulated many times to establish the best result available, then the contract you reached is scored against it from zero to three stars.
Find your weaknesses
Leak Finder reports on the areas you can improve with a given partner — slams, games, competitive auctions, opening shapes — so you practice the leak instead of guessing at it.
Compare with the professionals
Everyone bids the same deals in the Daily and Weekly, so the comparison is like for like. Professional players carry a PRO badge, and on any board you can see what they bid on the hand you got wrong. Follow the ones you want to learn from.
Competitions, if you want them
Daily and Weekly events, challenges against friends, ranked challenges, and leaderboards including one for the Pros. The practice is the point; the competition is what makes people come back.
The professionals use it, and say so
“The perfect tool to practice bidding methods until they become second nature.”
Gavin WolpertPro & coach
“Great hands, an intuitive interface, and a fun competitive edge.”
Sjoert BrinkWorld Champion
“I use Cuebids every day. Essential for both pros and beginners.”
Ola RimstedtWorld Champion
Practice bidding with a robot partner
A robot partner can take the seat and bid a system you choose — 2 over 1, Standard American, Acol, French, Swedish, or a convention card you build yourself. That consistency is the point: a partner who never forgets an agreement is the one to rehearse an agreement with, because anything that goes wrong is yours to fix.
Advanced robots can also sit East–West, so you can practice auctions where the opponents interfere.
What it costs
Cuebids is free. You and your partner can bid together for as long as you like, on as many boards as you like. It is not a trial, and there is no board limit.
Tickets cover the two things that are more than just the two of you: a robot in a seat, and competition. They come out of a monthly allowance, and a free account gets 48.
| What you spend tickets on | Cost each |
|---|---|
| You and your partner, no robots | Free |
| Advanced robots sitting East–West | 1 ticket a board |
| A robot partner, after your first sessions | 1 ticket a board |
| The Daily | 8 tickets |
| The Weekly | 24 tickets |
Both players are charged, so a board with robots costs the pair twice what the table says. Your first sessions with a robot partner are free.
A subscription is optional, and it is not what makes practice possible. It adds deal types, and features most pairs never need: custom scenarios, private groups, four-player mode, and a deeper Leak Finder.
The top tier, Heart, has no ticket allowance to run down and covers your partner as well as you — so one subscription can carry a partnership. It works from whoever starts the session, so if only one of you has Heart, let that one start it.
Guides, conventions and articles
Getting-started guides
Nine guides covering your first session, deal types, stars and events, in English and Swedish.
Convention library
Over fifty conventions and the main systems, most linked to a deal type that drills the auction.
Bidding systems
2 over 1, Standard American, Acol and the rest, each written up the way a partnership actually agrees one.
Articles
How to practice bridge bidding, how to learn a convention, and what to work on next.
Common questions
Can I practice bridge bidding online for free?
Yes, indefinitely. Bidding with your partner costs nothing, on any number of boards. Tickets pay for robots and for events, and a free account gets 48 a month.
Do we have to be online at the same time?
No. The auction waits for whoever is next to call, and you get a notification when that is you.
Can I practice a specific convention?
Yes. Deal types produce the situation you ask for, so you can meet the same decision repeatedly instead of waiting for it to appear. The convention library links each entry to the deal type that drills it.
Is there a bridge bidding app for phones?
Yes, for iOS and Android, and the same account works in a browser. Get the app.
Does Cuebids cover card play too?
No. It is bidding practice only — the auction is scored and the play is not. That is the trade for making every board in a session the situation you wanted to meet.
Why it works this way
I started Cuebids because bidding is the half of bridge I could never practice. Card play you can drill on your own, from a book, on a train. An auction needs a second person who has agreed the same things you have — and the auctions that go wrong are the ones you meet twice a season, which is not often enough to fix them by waiting.
That is also why bidding with your partner is free rather than a trial. Tickets pay for robots and for events. Two people sitting down to bid is the thing Cuebids is for, and it would be a strange thing to put a meter on.
Emanuel UngeFounder, Cuebids
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Bidding practice online is free with your partner, and an account takes about a minute to make.