# Play-Cricket Scorer — user reviews > 72 indexed App Store user reviews of Play by England and Wales Cricket Board Ltd, rated 4.57/5 from 5,345 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/play-cricket-scorer/id1213190783/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/play-cricket-scorer/id1213190783.md ## Newest reviews (15 of 72) ### 3/5 — Great once you get used to it - but last update has made it impossible to score on laptop *2026-07-23, version 8.0.51* Once you get used to it - it is easy. We encourage all teams in our club to score with this. The most useful button is undo. If you make a msitake at the end of the over - hit undo and it will go back as many balls as you need. Just call out to umpires to wait. Top tips: You will never keep up with play when scoring pairs if you try to reccord everything. Just focus on the essentials. I switch off the "confirm ball option" it just slows you down and if you make a mistake - hit undo and correct it. Switching on first names when set up pa game makes it easier especially for youth games when spectators dont always know surnmames. The wagon wheel is fun but can slow you down - so also switch that off if you want. My main complaint is that the latest version is almost impossibel to score using a MacBook - used to be so much easier than phone or tablet - now impossible. ### 2/5 — Still glitchy but great when it works *2026-07-16, version 8.0.49* When it works it’s a great app, but there are still unexplainable glitches - for instance tonight it didn’t show the score of one individual batsmen and was highlighting two batsmen as on strike when only one should be highlighted ### 3/5 — Scoring with tablet *2026-07-11, version 8.0.48* I just wish the software wouldn’t freeze. Only 2 out of 11 where play-cricket allowed me to score the whole game. It’s a new tablet and I’m a careful scorer ### 3/5 — Bugs in latest *2026-06-21, version 8.0.39* Latest update seems to have a few glitches - have to tap end over twice to move to next one, In pairs cricket it miscounts the number of overs the batsmen have played. Asking you to switch to a new pair after less than the set number Had been working fine all season until this weekend! Doesn’t make it unusable, but clearly new bugs in this update ### 4/5 — Easy to use, occasional glitches *2026-05-30, version 7.4.5* I use the PCS app regularly for scoring recreational cricket, especially kids’ games. It usually works well, and offers everything you need to score matches at an ordinary club level. There’s an offline/download the match option that works well - not many people seem to know about this, but it’s great for rural grounds or grounds with poor Wifi. However, there are some glitches occasionally that it would be good to see resolved: – Once or twice a year it freezes mid-game, usually at the end of an over when it’s syncing with the website. When this happens, everything goes haywire and sometimes it records a completely blank over that you can’t edit, delete or overwrite. – If you’re scoring a pairs game and you input the names of fielders who take catches or engineer a run out, these are deleted by the system. You have to add these details back in manually after completing the scoring. – It’s really difficult to undo any kind of error you make with a wicket once the game has moved on. - The end-of-over-summary pop-up hides all the match details until you enter the name of the next bowler. – The wagon wheel could be improved so that it adapts better to left-handers. ### 2/5 — Persistent issues logging in *2026-05-24, version 7.4.5* Continually get issues logging in. Rest password over and over. ### 2/5 — Clear data *2025-12-20, version 7.4.3* This app is very good for a quick score in the backyard however when it comes to scoring for a full 8 hours and then there’s an option to clear data and there’s no way to retrieve that I think that is poor design management. Unless there is a way I’m giving it 2 stars. ### 3/5 — A couple of fixes *2025-09-15, version 7.4.3* The app is generally great to use, but a couple of things could help improve it further. On the iPad app when you end the over you get a sheet to select the next bowler, this obscures the latest score. Popping a summary in the select bowler screen would be so helpful. For slight shambolic friendly cricket a bit more flexibility over changing team member names in the interface would be really handy! ### 2/5 — Problems *2025-07-01, version 7.4.2* The app seems to work well on iPhone. But there are so many problems when using my iPad. When I try to download a game to iPad it won’t let me unless I log out and then back in. I’m aware that team members of the opposing team have been entered but they do not appear on my iPad. I have to download the game on my iPhone and copy them all then manually inserting each player onto iPad. Often not all names appear to be in the system even though I know that they should be -having been there for years. I have to enter them as custom players. If you want to add another player at the ‘edit team’ page, you can’t. You have to close down the app and then restart it. Why can’t we have a ‘back’ function to simply go back and insert another player. Just recently it wouldn’t recognise that it was end of over. At the same time it wouldn’t update the score until I had manually ended the over and selected the next bowler. Again recently I had to enter my team four times because each time I went back they had all disappeared. Linking a live scoreboard is a nightmare. If I enter the name of the scoreboard, NSL, it doesn’t recognise it. You have to tell it it’s a Generic scoreboard. It may accept that but then you have to go back and change it to NSL. You think you have it all set up and then part way through the match the umpires tell you that the scoreboard hasn’t updated. All this as well as an occasional wholesale crash of the whole system. Why oh why do we have to click on ‘match locked before every single ball. Why can’t we just agree that it is locked and allow us to get on with scoring the game. Come on team, it’s really not good enough and is unfair to the dedicated scorers out there. Our club struggles to recruit scorers and with the problems highlighted here there’s little wonder. On the plus side the app looks great and when it works it’s fine. ### 1/5 — Crashed! *2025-05-31, version 7.3.2* Crashed at drinks in the 2nd innings, 17 overs! ### 1/5 — Can’t Even Sign Up? *2025-03-18, version 7.3.2* I downloaded the app but it keeps saying ‘error’ when I try and log in… ### 4/5 — Great app but unable to add Umpires in app *2024-10-01, version 7.3.2* Great app used weekly to score matches. Needs ability to add Umpires in app rather than having to log in on a computer. ### 1/5 — Can’t use it *2024-07-28, version 7.3.1* Repeated issues with log-in ### 4/5 — A bit more help when using the app *2024-07-18, version 7.3.1* I am always having to go back and forth because the app crashes and gives me weird messages but overall a good app ### 1/5 — Utter rubbish *2024-07-13, version 7.3.1* Utter rubbish How can you possibky believe this is usable ??? ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — App *2026-08-22, version 8.0.56* 3 hours after the game I can now put the correct result into the App. ### 1/5 — Latest upgrade is awful!! *2026-07-18, version 8.0.50* Latest upgrade is awful!! ### 1/5 — So bugged, poor navigation when fixing errors, who did the qa on this *2026-07-12, version 8.0.48* Yesjimionjimonon ### 1/5 — Final result *2026-07-05, version 8.0.46* To many options on final result. ### 1/5 — Horrible new update *2026-06-22, version 8.0.39* Tried to score a custom game and when I pressed wicket button the batter stayed on and wasn’t registered as out. After this I pressed undo for that ball and then it brought back the previous batter and all the scores were erased of the batters and one batter had -5 runs. ### 1/5 — Sync error *2026-06-21, version 8.0.39* Scores not syncing back to pitch hero ### 1/5 — A buggy mess, week in, week out *2026-06-21, version 8.0.39* Whilst i love scoring cricket, and this app certainly makes it a lot easier, I have lost innings and had data overwritten countless times over the last season! It’s beyond frustrating. The developers should be embarrassed. In what world does it EVER make sense to overwrite data on a client with older data on the server?! I have tried reporting issues and raising bugs, but without any luck. If it was open source I’d even consider fixing it myself. Please sort these incredibly serious bugs out!! ### 1/5 — New UI *2026-06-21, version 8.0.39* The new UI is super glitchy and it doesn’t look nearly as good as the old one. Why can’t we just keep it the same… ### 1/5 — Boring *2025-06-18, version 7.4.1* Boring game to score better to play I had to score an u15 game and it was boring Terible app ### 1/5 — Great when it works, awful when it crashes *2025-06-11, version 7.3.2* This app works brilliantly until you make an error and use the Undo button, at which point the button panel jams and renders the whole thing useless for the rest of the innings. Use the Pen icon to adjust any errors, and you might want to keep a book going alongside, just in case. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Loving it *2026-08-15, version 8.0.55* Xoxo ### 5/5 — Ok but…. *2026-07-18, version 8.0.50* This week all worked fine.. Last week didn’t like scoring live as both teams were on iPads via play cricket. This system has its moments ,,, ### 5/5 — Very good *2026-05-30, version 7.4.5* Really good by cc ### 5/5 — So Easy *2026-03-12, version 7.4.5* Amazing software for easy Cricket scoring, the OP scoring app ### 5/5 — Dls *2025-11-27, version 7.4.3* please updaite it for support dls v6 ### 5/5 — Play Cricket App Review *2024-06-20, version 7.3.1* Very flakey software. Hardly ever known a match score well without a hitch of some type or another. ### 5/5 — I use this so much *2024-06-12, version 7.3.1* Thanks for making this scoring app its the only good one in the 100s of different ones ### 5/5 — Keeps freezing *2024-05-02, version 7.3.1* Great app but keeps freezing when in middle of game which results in delays and wrong results ### 5/5 — Nice! *2024-04-30, version 7.3.0* Surprisingly intuitive to use tho gets a little confusing when batters run leg byes… but fun to be able to have people follow live and easier (for a beginner at least) than pen and paper! ### 5/5 — Best scoring app *2024-01-01, version 7.2.0* Great scoring app and I use it a lot. Easy to use too. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-06.*