Bridge Dealers, References and Tools
Bridge players often need tools and utilities to enhance their game, manage their resources, or streamline their bridge-related tasks. This page provides a selection of helpful utilities that don’t fit into our other categories, offering everything from file converters to specialized calculators. Whether you’re organizing a tournament or managing your personal bridge library, you’ll find something useful here.
We have bridge playing apps, club software, and scoring software and apps all listed in our Bridge Software section, use the menu to find your way around.
This page was last updated November 2025.
Dealers
Dealmaster Pro™ has an unsurpassed array of powerful functions for Teachers, Clubs, and Players. The best deal generator. Hand records with makable contracts. Design your own travelers. Endorsed by the ACBL. Works with Dealer 4, Duplimate and all dealing machines.
Duplimate Card Dealing Machines. Feed the machine with cards at random order. The Duplimate deals the cards into the board and it also prints hand-records with makable tricks (or contracts), optimum contract and the actual results (if available). In 1982 the boards at a world championship were “duplimated” for the first time and nowadays the use of the Duplimate is mandatory at international championships. Watch it work!
BigDeal 2.0. This dealing program was used to generate all hands for the Olympiad in Maastricht, and might well become the standard dealing program for the WBF. The History of Big Deal – Big Deal is a program for dealing bridge hands first introduced at the Bridge Olympiad in 2000. Written by Hans Van Staveren, it has been recently updated (BigDeal 2.0). In commemoration of this, perhaps the final, update, Hans has published The History of Big Deal for, well, history!
DEAL 3.1 – by Thomas Andrews. Deal is now up to version 3.1, and can be accessed at bridge.thomasoandrews.com/deal/ The latest release includes a built-in double dummy solver written by Bo Haglund.
Convention Card Tools
Rebidders Club – A site is made primarily for fast agreements when playing online with random partners, or for individual tournament and club tournaments with a new partner. Rebidders helps partners agree on a bidding system in minutes. Create your profile, choose your conventions, and invite your partner. We’ll generate a clean, shareable system card for you both.
BridgeWinners.com Convention Card Editor : Join Bridge Winners for free and you’ll find all sorts of wonderful stuff including a great ONLINE Convention Card Editor. Fill it out, save it, view it, print it – awesome.
Utilities
Bridge Calculators by Richard Pavlicek
Bridge Hand Evaluator
Bridge Hand Calculator
Suit Break Calculator
Dual Suit Break Calculator
Personal Deal Creator
Bridge Score Calculator
Contract and Result Finder
BACKAS FREE BRIDGE FILE CONVERTER UPDATED – it now reads OK-bridge files of .rec type in addition to the earleier supported file types. Reading of PBN has been improved it now should read %Import type of .PBN files correctly (previously only %export format). Click Here for HOMEPAGE . Kaj G Backas.
POST SCRIPT BRIDGE HAND Print those World Championship hands! – from Masakatsu Sugino- a Windows program that prints out bridge hand records in a graphical way from PBN (Potable Bridge Notation) format data files. The program is able to read and write PBN files. The double dummy analysis is performed with Gib’s engine. The graphical presentation is stored in a PostScript file, that can be manipulated with a PostScript viewer
Deep Finesse: One of the greatest tools ever invented to analyze bridge hands is a software program known as Deep Finesse. The ACBL’s Bridge Bulletin dubbed Deep Finesse “Double-Dummy Dynamite.” Deep Finesse 2014 v2 was the last version published. 100% free with no unlock-codes or serial numbers you can still download it from the Wayback Machine. Just download and install
Bridge Solver Bridge Solver Online is a free interactive bridge hand analyser utilising Bo Haglund’s well known double dummy solver module. It can either be downloaded to your PC, or accessed in your browser as a web-based application called Bridge Solver Online. Bridge Solver Chrome Extension adds the ability to capture deals directly from hand diagrams on various bridge results websites, and launch the hands in Bridge Solver Online.
Bridge Calculators by Richard Pavlicek is a super-handy little list of different bridge calculators available online for bridge players.
Bridge Calculator Free 1.9.2. If you prefer something downloadable, here’s a tiny bridge calculator available for Windows download.
Bridge Calculator Free is rated 4.1 on the Google Play Store and ideal for making bridge score calculations on the move.
Bridge Mats will produce duplicate bridge guide cards (table mats) from an ACBLscore movement file. The output is a PostScript file that may be viewed, printed, or converted to PDF with GhostScript. Last updated in December 2013.
BridgeComposer allows entry and display of bridge hands in PBN file format; formats lesson handouts for bridge teachers. It also has a full-screen mode, formats web pages and emails, saves records of hands, deals random hands, has a double-dummy solver AND interfaces with ACBLScore, Bridgemate, BridgePad; and more. Reasonably priced, free 30-day trial. BridgeComposer is a Windows application. There is no version built to run on Mac, Linux, or any other OS.
Jeanie: Free Movement Software According to its description: “Jeanie is a unique computer program for bridge organizers, directors and scorers. Jeanie is the next generation of tournament director tools, augmenting and even replacing existing movement reference books.” Bridge club movement manager. Completely compatible with any scoring program and it is free of charge Professional version now released. Website last updated 2005.
Bridge Squeezes Complete This interactive software adaptation of Clyde E Love’s classic text allowed you to play all 129 exercises and 59 problems before proceeding with Love’s analysis. Unfortunately, the domain is now gone, so the software is no longer available. You can find an old version of the page here on the Wayback Machine. You can also find the original book on Amazon here.