Comparison

PinPal vs Tiger 5 Tracker

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

Tiger 5 Tracker

Features
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Tiger 5 Tracker keeps count of the five mistakes that cost a golfer the most — the ones Tiger Woods tracked, on the theory that avoiding them matters more than making birdies: • Double bogey or worse • Three-putt • Bogey on a par 5 • Bogey inside 150 yards • Blown easy up-and-down A scorecard has no room for them, and a pencil is no good in a glove. So this is five big boxes on a green screen, one hole at a time, built to be tapped with a thumb. Start 9 or 18 holes. On each hole, tick whatever went wrong — or nothing, which is the goal. Arrows move between holes. The summary shows the count per mistake, the total, and how many holes were clean, at any point in the round. End the round and it is kept on your phone; open the app the next morning and it offers to pick up where you left off. Every round you end is kept. Rounds lists them, newest first; open one to read it back, or delete it. All Time shows your rate for each mistake per 18 holes across everything, beside your last five rounds, and a practice tip or two from what the numbers say — three-putts are distance control, not luck. There is no account to make and nothing to sign in to. The app connects to nothing — except, when you tap Find Courses Near Me on the first tee, to Apple Maps, to name the course you are standing on. Your rounds stay on your phone. The "Tiger 5" is the name golf instructor Scott Fawcett gave these five mistakes in his DECADE course-management system, after the stat Tiger Woods kept. This app is not affiliated with either.

Screenshots

PinPal4 screens
Tiger 5 Tracker4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Tiger 5 Tracker at Free against PinPal's $8.99. Tiger 5 Tracker also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 6 weeks) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). PinPal's advantage is chart position (#6 vs unranked). On 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Tiger 5 Tracker is free to download; PinPal costs $8.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

PinPal ships an update every 6 weeks, Tiger 5 Tracker daily. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
PinPal versus Tiger 5 Tracker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPinPalTiger 5 Tracker
Price$8.99Free — better
Rating4.9 (5.1K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews92.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings5.1K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
Best chart rank#6 — better—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB28 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJeff StuartLarry Ray Staton Jr

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
Show 3 more
  • Multi-user support
  • Ability to print stats
  • No-tap and 9-pin no-tap options

Tiger 5 Tracker

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

PinPal

No in-app purchases

None

Tiger 5 Tracker

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is PinPal free?
PinPal costs $8.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Tiger 5 Tracker free?
Tiger 5 Tracker is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do PinPal or Tiger 5 Tracker have ads?
Neither PinPal nor Tiger 5 Tracker shows ads.
Which is updated more often, PinPal or Tiger 5 Tracker?
PinPal ships an update every 6 weeks, and Tiger 5 Tracker daily. Most recently, PinPal was updated on October 31, 2026 and Tiger 5 Tracker on October 26, 2026.

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