Comparison

PinPal vs BowlerHub

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • League, tournament, and open bowling score tracking
  • Detailed statistical analysis
  • Spare pickup and leave analysis
  • Multiple score entry methods
  • Average calculation
Features
Currently charting
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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.

About

BowlerHub

This app allows league and tournament bowlers to host and view interactive brackets online. Easily track your progress and find your bracket on your smartphone without needing an account to view. Supports both scratch and handicap formats.

Highlights
  • Host online brackets
  • View interactive brackets
  • Track bowler advancement
  • Supports scratch and handicap
  • Mobile-friendly viewing
  • Account not required for viewing
Features
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BowlerHub provides league and tournament bowlers with the ability to host and view brackets online. Gone are the days of crowding around a bracket printout posted on a wall to see if you made it to the next round. With BowlerHub, you can look up your bracket at your leisure using your smart phone. Interactive bracket view allows for easy viewing on a small screen. Users can highlight bowlers to easily find their brackets and advancement. Both scratch and handicap brackets are supported. An account is not required to view league or tournament brackets. An account is only required to create and update brackets.

Screenshots

PinPal4 screens
BowlerHub4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: BowlerHub at Free against PinPal's $8.99. BowlerHub also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.0). PinPal's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (5.1K vs 3). On rating, review sentiment, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

BowlerHub is free to download; PinPal costs $8.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for PinPal against 5.0 for BowlerHub. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: PinPal has 5.1K ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 92% of PinPal's written reviews are positive against 100% of BowlerHub's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

PinPal ships an update every 6 weeks, BowlerHub every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
PinPal versus BowlerHub: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPinPalBowlerHub
Price$8.99Free — better
Rating4.9 (5.1K ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews92.2% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings5.1K — better3
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeks — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidAd-supported — better
Best chart rank#4 — better—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB38 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJeff StuartADAM ROBERT SCHIEL

Customer experience

PinPal

All ratings5,070 ratings
Positive98.5%
Neutral1.0%
Negative0.5%
Written reviews129 reviews
Positive92.2%
Neutral4.7%
Negative3.1%

BowlerHub

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

BowlerHub

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

PinPal

No in-app purchases

None

BowlerHub

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is PinPal free?
PinPal costs $8.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is BowlerHub free?
BowlerHub is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, PinPal or BowlerHub?
BowlerHub is rated higher. PinPal averages 4.9 out of 5 from 5.1K ratings, while BowlerHub averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do PinPal or BowlerHub have ads?
BowlerHub shows ads; PinPal does not.
Which is updated more often, PinPal or BowlerHub?
PinPal ships an update every 6 weeks, and BowlerHub every 2 months. Most recently, PinPal was updated on November 6, 2026 and BowlerHub on October 30, 2026.

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