Comparison

badmintho vs PointTaker

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

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badmintho

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Keep score with one tap a rally — then put the phone down and play. badmintho scores your badminton match on iPhone or straight from your wrist. Serve, side, game and the two-point advantage look after themselves, so you can keep your eyes on the shuttle. SCORING - Singles and doubles, 21 points with two-point advantage - One tap a rally; serve and side tracked for you - Score from Apple Watch without touching your phone - Shake to undo a mistake; the screen stays awake while you play COURTSIDE SCOREBOARD - Stand a spare iPhone or iPad at the side of the court - The live score, big enough for everyone to read LOCK SCREEN - The match on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island - Both scores, the serve, and a +1 for each side - Heart rate and the clock too, when your Apple Watch records the match LIVE UMPIRE MODE - A spectator's phone marks each rally: winner, unforced error or service fault - The umpire annotates and never scores, so your match is never disturbed - The rally breakdown per side appears in the match details DRILL TRAINING - Build a session on your phone: timed blocks, repetitions and rests - Run it from your wrist, with the corner called out loud - Every drill lands in History beside your matches APPLE WATCH - Badminton workouts with heart rate, jumps and distance - Heart rate zone alerts, with a manual maximum if you know yours - Drink reminders at the interval you choose - The watch can speak the score; three haptic patterns, or none PLAY ACROSS DEVICES — FREE - Host on one device, let others join over Bluetooth - iPhone and iPad. No account, no internet YOUR NUMBERS - Win rate, streaks and head-to-head - Jumps, distance, effort and MET from your watch - By court and by month, with training load and recovery APPLE HEALTH - Matches and drills saved as named workouts FREE AND PRO Scoring, the scoreboard, the watch, drills and cross-device play are free, always. Pro opens the detail: any past match or drill with per-game scores, scoring runs, the rally breakdown, duration, effort and distance — plus the full jump and effort charts, and shareable match cards. Privacy: we collect nothing. Your match and health data stays on your device and in Apple Health. Terms: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

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PointTaker

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Point Taker turns your iPhone into a courtside umpire's scoreboard — and puts the same scoreboard on your Apple Watch. Prop the phone on the sideline, tap the side that won the rally, and keep your eyes on the shuttle. Serve rotation, service courts, deuce and game points all take care of themselves. ONE TAP PER RALLY Each side gets a giant, full-height panel. Tap it to award the rally. The score animates up and serve passes to the winner automatically, exactly as rally scoring requires. There is nothing else to learn and nothing else to press. THE OFFICIAL RULES, BUILT IN • First to 21 points takes the game • Must win by 2 — deuce keeps running past 21 • Hard cap at 30 — first to 30 wins outright • A winner alert offers Next Game or Undo, and the winner of the last game serves first in the next one SINGLES AND DOUBLES Flip between modes with one toggle. Singles shows a single serve indicator per side. Doubles labels P1 and P2 and tracks service-court rotation properly — even scores serve from the right court, odd from the left, and partners swap courts when the serving side keeps winning. Get it wrong in your head and the whole game drifts; the app just gets it right. UNDO THAT ACTUALLY UNDOES Undo rolls the last rally back completely — score, serve, service-court positions, and the game credit if that tap ended a game. Reset clears the board back to 0–0. BUILT TO BE READ FROM THE COURT Huge monospaced digits, a high-contrast yellow-and-black scoreboard, and a layout that adapts: portrait stacks the teams top and bottom, landscape sets them side by side. The near-end side mirrors its player labels so the board reads the way you're standing. The screen stays awake while a match is in progress, because a scoreboard is glanced at, not tapped. APPLE WATCH COMPANION The full scoreboard on your wrist for quick, unobtrusive updates between rallies. The watch keeps the score in front of you for the length of the match instead of dropping back to the clock face, and logs the session as a badminton workout in Health when you're done. Always On displays keep the score visible with the wrist down. PICKS UP WHERE YOU LEFT OFF The match is saved after every rally. If the phone locks on the sideline, gets reclaimed by iOS, or force-quits, you come back to the same score — with undo history intact. Matches go stale after four hours: long enough for a club night with breaks, short enough that tomorrow morning starts you at a clean 0–0. SOUND AND FEEL A short haptic and a synthesized musical sting mark game point and game won, so the moment registers even if nobody's looking at the phone. Cues mix with your music rather than interrupting it. NO ACCOUNT, NO INTERNET, NO TRACKING Point Taker never asks you to sign in, never goes online, and collects nothing. Your match lives on your device and nowhere else. Built for players who'd rather watch the rally than count it.

Screenshots

badmintho4 screens
PointTaker4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: PointTaker at none against badmintho's 2. badmintho's advantage is iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.5). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. badmintho sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. PointTaker asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 4 level
badmintho versus PointTaker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterbadminthoPointTaker
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
Requires iOS18.0 — better26.5
Further details — not scored
Size22 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLuiz Carlos Maia JuniorMehedi Khan

In-app purchases

2 purchases

badmintho

Subscriptions2
  • PRO Monthly7 Days trial$0.991 Month
  • PRO Yearly7 Days trial$9.991 Year
None

PointTaker

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is badmintho free?
badmintho is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is PointTaker free?
PointTaker is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do badmintho or PointTaker have ads?
Neither badmintho nor PointTaker shows ads.

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