PinPal vs BBs Viewer
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.
BBs Viewer
View bowling tournament standings directly on your device. Upload and retrieve reports from the cloud, reducing the need for printed paper. Essential for leagues using specific bracket and sidepot software.
- View bowling standings reports
- Upload reports to the cloud
- Retrieve reports from the cloud
- View reports on local device
- Reduces paper printing
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ONLY install this app if your league / tournament is using Bowling Brackets / Sidepots and the reports are being uploaded to the cloud and you want to be able to view the standing reports from the cloud This is a helper app for Bowling Brackets / Sidepots it allows users of the Bowling Brackets / Sidepots software to upload the Standings reports to the cloud and the user of the BBs Viewer app can retrieve the standings reports and view them on their local device This app should save a lot of paper being printed just to view standings
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: BBs Viewer at Free against PinPal's $8.99. BBs Viewer also leads on device support (3 vs 1). PinPal's advantage is rating (4.9 vs 3.0) and ratings volume (5.1K vs 2). On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases and iOS requirement 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
BBs Viewer 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 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: PinPal has 5.1K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
PinPal ships an update every 6 weeks, BBs Viewer every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PinPal | BBs Viewer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $8.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.9 (5.1K ratings) — better | 3.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 92.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 5.1K — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #3 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 20 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jeff Stuart | Robert Valentino |
Customer experience
PinPal
BBs Viewer
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
BBs Viewer
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
PinPal
No in-app purchases
BBs Viewer
No in-app purchases
