PinPal vs BowlTV
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PinPal
Track your bowling scores and analyze detailed statistics to improve your game. This app supports leagues, tournaments, and open play, offering insights into your spare pickups and common misses.
- League, tournament, and open bowling score tracking
- Detailed statistical analysis
- Spare pickup and leave analysis
- Multiple score entry methods
- Average calculation
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PinPal is a bowling scorekeeping application designed to provide bowlers with detailed statistics to help improve their average. PinPal keeps track of both leagues, tournaments, and open bowling, allowing bowlers to view their average and other statistics in many different ways. PinPal puts tons of useful stats right at your fingertips. Ever wondered what your average would be if you picked up all your single pin spares? Ever wondered what spares you leave the most, and how often you are able to pick it up? Well now you can find out! Scores can be entered either by selecting all the pins you knocked down or entering the scores you get for each ball. Also, if you don't want to take the time to enter each frame, you can just enter the final score for the game. Make sure to check out PinPal Lite if you want to try it out before buying! Any questions, comments, concerns, complaints, compliments, suggestions, or feedback of any other sort can be directed at PinPalApp@gmail.com, or to our Facebook page at www.facebook.com/PinPalBowling.
BowlTV
Stream live bowling events from around the world, from youth to senior competitions. Access exclusive behind-the-scenes content, training videos, and historical footage. Interact with a community of fans and commentators, and enjoy replays on demand.
- Live bowling event streaming
- Behind-the-scenes content
- Historical and training videos
- AirPlay and Chromecast support
- Live chat and polls
- Event replays
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BowlTV app is the video streaming service of the United States Bowling Congress. Enjoy live coverage of the biggest bowling events from across the globe and major events at every level, from youth to senior competition and everything in between. Enjoy bowling whenever you want and wherever you are! With the BowlTV app, you have the ability to: - Stream live bowling events from your phone. - Watch behind-the-scenes content, historical content, training videos, and more. - Cast to a bigger screen via AirPlay and Chromecast. - Interact with fellow fans and commentators in the chat. - Participate in live polls and contests for prizes. - Enjoy replays of all events whenever you want - For more information go to our BOWLTV website.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: PinPal at 92% against BowlTV's 3%. PinPal also leads on rating (4.9 vs 1.8) and ratings volume (5K vs 65). BowlTV's advantage is price (Free vs $8.99). On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases 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
BowlTV is free to download; PinPal costs $8.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
PinPal holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 1.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: PinPal has 5K ratings behind it against 65, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 92% of PinPal's written reviews are positive against 3% of BowlTV's.
PinPal ships an update every 6 weeks, BowlTV every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PinPal | BowlTV |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $8.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.9 (5K ratings) — better | 1.8 (65 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 92.2% of reviews — better | 2.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 5K — better | 65 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #13 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Apple TV — better |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 52 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Jeff Stuart | United States Bowling Congress |
Customer experience
PinPal
BowlTV
Bugs and requests
PinPal
Reported bugs
2 issues- Games not generating correctly
- Incorrect strike/spare tracking
Requested features
8 requests- Add Apple Watch support
- Ability to track lane information
- Option to record ball speed
- Handicap calculation and tracking
- Landscape mode support
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- Multi-user support
- Ability to print stats
- No-tap and 9-pin no-tap options
BowlTV
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
PinPal
No in-app purchases
BowlTV
No in-app purchases






