# StartaPool: Survivor Pools — NFL pick'em, spreads & totals

> NFL pick'em, spreads & totals (iPhone/iPad app by Adam Deluca.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/startapool-survivor-pools/id6803674557 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Adam Deluca](https://appshunter.io/developer/6803674559)
- Category: Sports
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 12+
- Requires: iOS 16.4 · 43 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-08-26
- Data updated: 2026-09-30
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/startapool-survivor-pools/id6803674557/reviews.md

## What is StartaPool?

StartaPool is the easiest way to run a sports pool with your friends.

Spin up a pool in seconds, invite your group with a link, make your weekly picks, and watch the
leaderboard sort out who actually knows ball. No spreadsheets, no group-chat chaos.

So many ways to play:
• Straight up — just pick the winners
• Against the spread — take the favorite or the points
• Over/Under — call the game totals
• Survivor — pick one team a week; lose and you're out
• Reverse survivor — same idea, flipped: a win knocks you out
• …with more formats always on the way

Built for your group
• Create a pool and invite friends with a share link or email
• Multiple entries per person — and "fade" a friend to auto-pick the opposite of theirs
• Flag one confident pick each week for double points
• Live leaderboards and weekly scoreboards
• Per-pool display names, so you're "Coach" in one pool and yourself in another
• Owner & admin controls: manage entries, rename the pool, hand off ownership

Just for fun. StartAPool is a free app for friendly competition — no real money changes hands in
the app. Settle any friendly stakes however you like, offline.

Start a pool. Talk your trash. Prove it on Sunday.


## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.4.1 — 2026-09-30

The weekly scoreboard now shows each entry's season total next to the week's points, and you can sort the grid by it — who's winning the week and who's winning the season, on one screen.

• The row of games and scores along the top now stays put as you scroll down through the entries.
• Fixed the row lines between entry names and picks drifting out of line further down the grid.

### 1.4.0 — 2026-09-18

Alerts are here. Switch on a weekly reminder and we'll nudge you on the day and time you choose — Sunday at 9am, say — if any of your entries still has picks to make. Nothing is sent when your picks are all in.

• Line-move alerts: in spread and over/under pools, get a push when the spread or total shifts by half a point or more on a game you've picked, while that pool's line is still open.
• Tap a notification and you land on the picks it's about.
• Survivor pools: an eliminated entry now shows as eliminated instead of nagging you for overdue picks.
• A new app icon and splash screen carrying the StartaPool wordmark.

### 1.3.1 — 2026-09-16

General bug fixes and enhancements

### 1.3.0 — 2026-09-02

Open an invite link and you now land in the pool with the rest of your pools waiting behind it — a back chevron out, and the Pools tab still where you left it. Joining from a link used to strand you on that one screen with no way back.

• Tap a name on the pool leaderboard to see who owns that entry — worth having once people in your group are running more than one.
• Live games in the picks grid now read the way they do on Scores: "Q3 5:23" rather than a bare clock with no quarter attached.
• Tapping the tab you are already on backs you out a level. Standings or settings return to the pool, the pool returns to your list.
• The Pools tab wears the StartaPool wordmark.

### 1.2.0 — 2026-08-28

The pool scoreboard is now a grid: your group down the left, the week's games across the top, and everyone's pick at each intersection — with kickoff, the line and the live score right there in the column head. Scroll it sideways to walk the slate.

• One navigation bar, everywhere. Pools · Scores · New · Alerts · Profile now stays put — opening a pool no longer swaps the whole bar out from under you.
• This Week has folded into the Pools tab. Each pool now carries a "Your entries" card showing every entry's picks, each at the line it was locked in at.
• A new ⊕ button creates a pool, joins one, or adds an entry to the pool you're looking at, from anywhere in the app.
• Scores and the pool scoreboard now refresh themselves while a week is in progress, so live games and the results behind them update without a pull.
• Invite links open the app instead of the browser, dropping you straight into the pool you were invited to.
• Fixes: signing out no longer leaves the previous account's pools on screen, your blocked-users list is kept per account, picks you submit show up on the scoreboard right away, and placeholder text in form fields renders correctly.

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