PinPal vs PinPal Lite
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.
PinPal Lite
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-picking ability and common missed spares. Easily enter scores frame-by-frame or by final score.
- League, tournament, and open bowling score tracking
- Detailed statistics and average calculation
- Spare picking analysis
- Flexible score entry options
- Lite version with limited game/league capacity
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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. The lite version of PinPal is completely functional and can keep statistics for: * One league, with four weeks of games. * Five open bowling games. 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.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: PinPal Lite at Free against PinPal's $8.99. PinPal Lite also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.0). PinPal's advantage is rating (4.9 vs 3.6) and review sentiment (92% vs 62%). 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
PinPal Lite 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 3.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: PinPal has 5.1K ratings behind it against 26, 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 62% of PinPal Lite's.
PinPal ships an update every 6 weeks, PinPal Lite every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PinPal | PinPal Lite |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $8.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.9 (5.1K ratings) — better | 3.6 (26 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 92.2% of reviews — better | 61.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 5.1K — better | 26 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #4 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 18 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jeff Stuart | Jeff Stuart |
Customer experience
PinPal
PinPal Lite
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
PinPal Lite
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
PinPal
No in-app purchases
PinPal Lite
No in-app purchases
