My Bingo Buddy

My Bingo Buddy is a tracker for your own paper bingo cards (US 75-ball). Photograph your sheet, check the numbers it read, then tap each number as the caller calls it. Every card shows how many numbers it still needs, and the app tells you when a card is one away and when you have bingo. It never draws or calls numbers itself. You play your paper with the caller in the room, and the app keeps watch over every card for you. SCAN A WHOLE SHEET • Take one photo of a sheet and every card on it is read, right on your phone. • Or choose a photo you already took, or type a card in by hand. • Check the numbers before you play. Numbers the scanner isn't sure of are marked for a second look, and you can tap any card to check or fix it. • Each sheet is named in the order you scan it, with its colour (Sheet 1 · Blue), so your sheets are easy to tell apart. • Playing two packs of the same sheets? When the app can tell they match, each sheet joins its partner from the first pack so both play in the same game. When it can't tell, you choose the sheet. PLAY ALONG WITH THE CALLER • Call each number on the keypad, on the 75-number board, or by tapping it on any card. It's marked on every card at once. • Each card shows how many numbers it still needs: "4 to go", "2 away", "1 away", then "Bingo!". • When a card is one away, it's highlighted and you see the number it's waiting on. • A new one-away gives a haptic tap. A bingo fills the screen with a celebration and a haptic pattern, and lists the card's numbers so you can read them back. • "Closest first" puts the cards nearest a bingo at the top. • The screen stays awake while you play. PATTERNS AND WILD NUMBERS • 23 built-in patterns, including single, double and triple bingo, line across, diagonal, four corners, postage stamps, kite, X, plus sign, six pack, small and large frame, coverall, and the letters L, M, P, T and Z. • Draw your own pattern, square by square. • Choose whether four corners counts as a bingo. • Games played in stages, such as a single bingo and then a coverall on the same calls. • Wild numbers when the caller announces them: odd or even numbers, numbers ending in a digit, the same ending as the first number called, or the four corners free. Combine several. • Change the pattern or the wild mid-game and every card is checked again. SET UP AHEAD, OR AS GAMES COME UP • Scan the cards for each game when it comes up, and play it straight away. • Or get ready before the session: set each game's pattern, wild and name, and scan your sheets ahead. • Save your usual games as a program, and use it next time to set them all up at once. UNDO AND HISTORY • Undo a call, a pattern or wild change, or a game started too soon. Tap a called number to take it off every card. • Fix a misread number on a card mid-game. Your calls stay. • History keeps every game with its calls in order and its bingos. A finished game can be reopened for 12 hours. PRIVATE AND OFFLINE • Works without signal. • No account, no sign-in, no ads. • Your cards, photos and games stay on your phone and in your phone's own backup. Nothing is sent to us. FOR EVERYONE • VoiceOver support, with spoken one-away and bingo alerts. • Large text up to the accessibility sizes, and Dark Mode. • Colours always come with a name or a symbol, never colour alone. • Pick your dauber colour and the app's accent colour. Bingo Buddy is a personal aid: your paper cards and the caller are always the official record. Check your hall's rules about using phones. Bingo Buddy is free.