PinPal vs BowlSheet®
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.
BowlSheet®
This app is a comprehensive bowling scoring and tracking system for iOS. It supports various game types, calculates advanced statistics, and allows users to store detailed bowler and equipment information. Share your performance and game data easily.
- Single and multiplayer scoring
- Baker scoring system support
- Bowling ball speed calculator
- Average and stats tracking
- Oil pattern markup and sharing
- Split and common leave identification
- Bowler and equipment management
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Welcome to BowlSheet®! A revolutionary bowling scoring / tracking system for iOS devices * Supports single player AND multiplayer games (team) * First iOS bowling app to support the baker scoring system * Now supports opponent score (match play) * Bowling ball speed calculator built in (mph / kph) * Check averages and stats from directly in the app * Post stats, oil pattern markups and ball drilling specs directly to Facebook, Twitter, or *email with .csv file * Automatically calculates splits / common leaves and displays their common name * Pin by Pin, Ball for Ball scoring * Keep track of everything important in bowling * Easily slide your foot (Approach), Arrow, or BreakPoint Targets for each ball thrown and store the actual hits as well as attempted hits * Store and use different types of oil patterns as well as mark them up and send to others via email * Customizable color scheme for entire app * Store High, Middle, or Low pocket hits for each 1st ball of each frame thrown * Analyze games in their entirety * Keep track of every bowler and their equipment (balls, shoes, wrist supports, and other) * Store bowling ball surfaces and other important equipment options as well as use your own bowling ball image for target sliders * Track bowlers hand layout (span, finger sizes, pitch) and bowling ball layout (Pin / Pap / Dual Angle Layouts) * Store each bowling ball’s drilling and pin layouts * Track which shoe slide (front and back) you used at different bowling centers and even each shot * Take notes for each ball rolled * Store important aspects of each location / event bowled including addresses, phone numbers, coordinator's contact information, you can even take a photo of each location and view the location on a map as well as auto locate via GPS * View common statistics for each bowler as well as their pin hit / miss ratios and percentages * Easily view series totals for each event * Bowl as a single bowler, team or as a Baker Team (bowler 1 thru 5 is assigned automatically to each frame 1-5,6-10). * Change team lineup prior to every Team Game * Filterable statistics for :First Ball average, Strikes, Spares, Splits, Pocket Shots, Open Frames, Split Conversions, Pinfall and more! Please send comments/suggestions to support@edibu.com Follow updates on Twitter @ https://twitter.com/edibullc Or visit our Facebook page @ https://www.facebook.com/EdibuLLC/ * CSV Statistics Export requires subscription after 1 year from date of app purchase.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: PinPal at $8.99 against BowlSheet®'s $29.99. PinPal also leads on rating (4.9 vs 4.4) and in-app purchases (none vs 1). BowlSheet®'s advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.0). On update cadence and ads 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 costs $8.99 and BowlSheet® $29.99 up front. BowlSheet® sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $29.99 per year. PinPal asks for nothing beyond the download.
PinPal holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: PinPal has 5.1K ratings behind it against 172, 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 67% of BowlSheet®'s.
PinPal ships an update every 6 weeks, BowlSheet® monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PinPal | BowlSheet® |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $8.99 — better | $29.99 |
| Rating | 4.9 (5.1K ratings) — better | 4.4 (172 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 92.2% of reviews — better | 66.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 5.1K — better | 172 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Best chart rank | #9 — better | #190 |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 57 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jeff Stuart | Edibu LLC |
Customer experience
PinPal
BowlSheet®
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
BowlSheet®
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
PinPal
No in-app purchases
BowlSheet®
- Analytics Export Subscription$29.991 Year









