PinfallBowling Score Keeper
Tap the pins that are still standing and Pinfall keeps the score, your average and your strike and spare percentage. That part is free. Pinfall Pro, a single purchase, adds every leave, league handicap and more bowlers. There is no account to make.
After your first ball, tap the pins that are left. Hold and slide to mark a few at once. The big button always says what it is about to enter, like Enter 7-10, so a wrong tap gets caught before it counts.
Made a mistake three frames ago? Tap that frame on the score sheet and enter it again. The rest of the game stays where it was. Rather type a count, or only the final score? Both work, and all three can be mixed in one game.
Try it: tap the pins you would have left.
Still standing: 7-10
Split
Splits follow the USBC rule: headpin down and the standing pins in separate groups. The app uses the same check.
New in 1.1
Four new things in Pinfall 1.1, on iPhone, iPad and Android.
Series, average and every game with its frames and leaves on one card. Send it to the team chat in one tap.
Feet, target and breakpoint for each first ball, carried over to the next, so you only tap when you move. Mark how the ball hit: high, pocket, light or Brooklyn. Strikes per line are part of Pinfall Pro.
Choose in More, Appearance. Dark is easy on the eyes in a dim bowling alley.
Every leave you face is kept, with how often you convert it. Sort by how often it comes up, or by how hard it is for you. Splits and washouts are counted on their own, so one 7-10 does not drag down your single pins.
Once you have three complete games, Pinfall holds the game you are bowling against your usual one, frame by frame, using up to your last 30 games. From the first frame you see whether you are ahead, and what that puts you on pace for.
Each league night shows your series, the average you started with, your handicap and the points you won. The season adds it all up, and your high series with handicap is right there.
Average, high game and series, strike and spare percentage, clean games, and your average if you had made every single pin. Every number has a plain definition in the app, so you know how it was counted.
Three strikes in a row and the screen says so, with a tap you feel in your hand. A Double, a Hambone, a clean game and a new high game each get their own moment.
Set up your league once: games per night, 9-pin or 8-pin no-tap, and the handicap formula with basis, percentage and maximum. Pinfall uses your book average until you have bowled enough games, then your own league average. Averages are truncated, not rounded, as leagues do. No-tap games stay out of your regular average and records.
League handicap is part of Pinfall Pro.
Handicap, week 12
(220 − 201) × 90% = 17.1
Handicap per game17
Decimals dropped: 17.1 becomes 17.
The score sheet runs across the top. On the left, this game against your usual one and the rest of the night. On the right, the pins, large enough to hit without looking twice. Stats sit in two columns.
Keeping your own scores should not need a monthly fee or an account. In Pinfall, entering games is free for good, your games stay in your own iCloud or Google backup, and the extras are one purchase you make once.
The score follows the USBC rules, fouls, no-tap and the tenth frame included. The scoring is tested against every possible pin combination and tens of thousands of games checked by a separate reference, so a number in Pinfall is one you can trust.
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Nothing to sign up for and no password to forget. Open the app, type your name, bowl.
On iPhone and iPad, games sync through your private iCloud. On Android, they are part of your phone's backup in your Google Account. We cannot see either. On a new phone with the same account, they come back.
No signal behind lane 24? Scoring works anyway. It works in every bowling center, whatever scoring system it runs.
Save a full backup file whenever you like, or export every game to CSV for Excel, Numbers or Google Sheets. A backup file from Android opens on iPhone, and the other way round.
Import your PinPal backup on iPhone, iPad or Android. Every game is scored again, you see a preview first, and the import can be undone. It is built on PinPal's file format; if yours does not come through right, email us and we will fix it.
No analytics, no ads, no tracking. The App Store label says Data Not Collected; on Google Play it lists the purchase record that Google Play keeps for Pinfall Pro and the diagnostics of the text recognition that reads a photo of the lane screen.
Pinfall
Free
Pinfall Pro
$9.99 once
No subscription. In the App Store, shared with your Family Sharing group. Price in the US stores; other countries show their local price. Pro never locks the games you entered.
Email us and you will usually hear back within two working days. Please mention your device, its iOS or Android version and the Pinfall version (in More).
Tap + to start a session, then tap the pins that are still standing after each ball (hold and slide to mark several at once). Nothing standing? Tap Strike or Spare. You can also enter pin counts, or only the final score.
Yes, on iPhone, iPad and Android. In PinPal, open Settings, Backup, and save the file to Files, or send it to your Android phone, for example by email or Google Drive. In Pinfall, open More, Import from PinPal, and choose the file. Pinfall re-scores every game; a game whose frames cannot be read exactly is added with its final score, so no score changes. Importing again later only adds what is missing.
Pro is a single purchase, not a subscription. In the App Store it is shared with your Family Sharing group. It adds several bowler profiles, every statistic, the average trend and league handicap. Entering games, your average and highs, strike and spare percentage, sync and backups are always free.
On iPhone and iPad, Pinfall syncs through your own iCloud. Sign in with the same Apple Account on both devices and make sure iCloud is turned on for Pinfall in Settings. Your games appear by themselves, usually within a minute. If you created a second profile before your data arrived, merge the two in More, Bowlers. On Android, your games are part of your phone's backup in your Google Account: restore that backup when you set up the new phone. Moving between iPhone and Android? Save a backup file in More, Backup and restore, and open it on the other phone.