PinPal vs Best Bowling LT
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.
Best Bowling LT
Track your bowling scores and analyze your performance with detailed statistics and graphs. Easily input scores frame by frame, manage multiple bowlers, and review your game history. This version offers full functionality for testing before upgrading.
- Detailed score and pin tracking
- Performance trend and distribution graphs
- Pin down state statistics
- Event list with search and filtering
- Input history for quick entry
- Save and share score sheets
- Multiple bowler management
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This LT Edition has the same function as the paid version. You can check the operation before purchasing a paid version. Various statistics! Easy input while bowling. Analyze it at any time! [Data Type] - Date-time for event - Event name (Practice, League, etc.) - Place - Notes - Handicap - Tag (for grouping and marking) - The score and state of the pins for each frame - Bowling ball, spare ball - Position and Spot [Statistics] - Performance Trend Graph - Performance Distribution Graph - Percentage for each pins' down states, statistics of remaining pin patterns - Performance Summary (Total games, High Game, 200up, Split Convert etc...) [Features] - Event list sorted by date - Search and filtering - Input history (No need to type every time.) - Save and share score sheet image - Multiple Bowler Management - iCloud supported - Supports new score calculation method "current frame scoring" [Point to be noted] - If your data is stored in iCloud, you can continue using the data from the LT version as is. If your data is stored on the device, please copy the data using the Files app. - Emoticons cannot be used [Limit of LT Edition] More than 50 events cannot be registered. Ads will be displayed. Please buy Best Bowling!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Best Bowling LT at Free against PinPal's $8.99. Best Bowling LT also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). PinPal's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and rating (4.9 vs 4.5). On update cadence and in-app purchases 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
Best Bowling LT 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 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: PinPal has 5.1K ratings behind it against 167, 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 65% of Best Bowling LT's.
PinPal ships an update every 6 weeks, Best Bowling LT every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PinPal | Best Bowling LT |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $8.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.9 (5.1K ratings) — better | 4.5 (167 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 92.2% of reviews — better | 65.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 5.1K — better | 167 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Best chart rank | #9 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 71 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jeff Stuart | Tatsuhiko Koyama |
Customer experience
PinPal
Best Bowling LT
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
Best Bowling LT
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
PinPal
No in-app purchases
Best Bowling LT
No in-app purchases
