♠♥♦♣ For duplicate bridge pairs

Bridge Traveler Analyzer

Turn a saved ACBL club or tournament traveler into a board‑by‑board report for your pair.

Every board compared against the field’s best score, with hand diagrams, illustrative bidding sequences, and a plain-language diagnosis of where the matchpoints went.

One-time purchase. No subscription. Runs on Windows and Mac.

Bridge Traveler Analyzer desktop app, showing the license and API key panels and the session input screen

Preview of the app window — after you buy, download the installer below and paste your real license key inside the installed app itself, not here on the website.

What this App does for you: provides YOU with a MENTOR !!

Bridge players take lesson after lesson to sharpen their game — but a lesson teaches general principles, not what happened in your own game. What’s almost always missing is a mentor: someone who sits down with your actual results and shows you, specifically, where the matchpoints slipped away and what to do differently next time. That kind of personal attention is rare, and expensive to arrange session after session. Bridge Traveler Analyzer exists to close that gap — turning every session you already play into the mentoring conversation most players never get.

Every club game already produces a traveler — a board-by-board record of every pair’s contract, result, and matchpoint score. Bridge Traveler Analyzer takes that same traveler and turns it into something a scoresheet never gives you: a plain-English explanation of what happened at your table on every board, how it compares to the pairs who scored best, and what pattern of decisions cost you matchpoints across the session.

A typical report includes:

  • An Overview of how the session went, with real credit given where the pair scored well
  • Board-by-board analysis — your auction and result vs. the top score, explained
  • A Bottom line summarizing the session, stated in exact matchpoints and percentage
  • A Checklist (3–6 items) of the recurring mistake patterns actually found this session
  • Questions & Answers that go deeper on how to work each checklist item into your game

Built around one goal: showing you what to improve

The report isn’t a generic list of “common bidding mistakes.” Every observation in it is tied to a board your partnership actually played that day — your result with an illustrative auction, set beside the result and illustrative auction that produced the top score on that board, in a side-by-side table. Where you and the field agree, the report says so. Where the boards show a recurring pattern — a class of hand your side keeps misjudging, a phase of the auction where matchpoints keep leaking away — it collects that pattern into a short, specific checklist at the end of the session, with practical notes on how to watch for it and correct it next time you’re at the table.

It’s built to be read by the players themselves, not just a director or a statistician — the language is plain and practical, aimed at helping you play better next session, not at scoring you.

Why it’s worth using

Whether you’re working toward your next masterpoint level or you just want to stop making the same mistake two boards in a row, Bridge Traveler Analyzer turns every session you already play into a coaching session.

What it does, board by board

Four suits, four steps — in rank order, low to high.

♣ Step one

Open your traveler

Load a saved ACBL club-results or tournament session page — hands, dealer, vulnerability, and every pair’s result, read straight off the page.

♦ Step two

Name your pair

Either partner’s last name is enough. Every other pair in the field is kept private, identified only by their ACBL pair number.

♥ Step three

Get the analysis

Each board: a native hand diagram, your result against the field’s best, and plain-language analysis of the bidding, the play, or the defense.

♠ Step four

Export the report

A polished Word document — ready to print, or open and tweak — with a session diagnosis, a learning checklist, and a Q&A companion.

A real hand, a real report

Sample output from a real club session, exactly as the app produced it except that the players’ names are replaced — the same layout your own sessions get.

Board detail

A board's hand diagram and the comparison table between the field's best score and the analyzed pair

Every hand rendered as a native table — suits colored, no image dependency — alongside the result comparison and matchpoint gap.

Session report

The session scorecard and the Bidding Aggression and Game Inferences section of the report

A board-by-board scorecard, then a diagnosis with the exact bidding, competitive-auction, and matchpoint-strategy sections.

Want to see a full session? Download the sample report (PDF) — every board, plus the closing diagnosis.

Pricing

One price. No tiers, no meter, no subscription.

$29 once

Lifetime license for one computer at a time — deactivate and move it to a new machine anytime.

  • Unlimited session analyses
  • Every report section & hand diagram
  • Polished Word (.docx) export
  • Free updates & bug fixes
Buy once — $29

After checkout, Lemon Squeezy’s order page gives you the installer to download and a license key by email — install the app, open it, then paste the license key inside the app itself.

On a Mac, you’ll see two Mac installers — pick the one that matches your Mac’s chip. Not sure which you have? Click the Apple menu → About This Mac: if it says “Chip: Apple M1/M2/M3…” use the Apple Silicon installer; if it says “Processor: Intel…” use the Intel installer.

Bridge Traveler AnalyzerTypical subscription tool
Price$29 once$5/mo or ~$39/yr
BillingOne-timeRecurring
Usage limitUnlimitedOften capped (e.g. 3/day free)
AI costYour own API key, about $2 per sessionBundled into the subscription

Comparison reflects a competing bridge-results tool’s publicly listed pricing at the time of writing — shown for context, not a claim about that product’s current pricing.

Your own AI key

Analyses run on Claude, using your own Anthropic API key — billed directly to you, typically about $2 a session. The app never stores it anywhere but your own machine.

Everyone else stays private

Only your pair is ever named in a report. Every other pair in the field appears solely by their ACBL pair number.

Illustrative, and labeled as such

A traveler records only the contract, declarer, and result — never the real bidding. Every reconstructed auction is clearly labeled as illustrative, not a transcript.