PinPal vs BOWL.com
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.
BOWL.com
Access your digital membership card, track statistics, and stay updated with the latest bowling news. This app provides essential resources like the rulebook and a directory for bowling centers and events.
- Digital membership card
- Membership statistics
- USBC rulebook access
- Bowling center search
- Latest bowling news
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Stay connected with the world of bowling through the official BOWL.com mobile app! Designed exclusively for United States Bowling Congress members, this app offers easy access to your digital membership card, membership stats, and the latest bowling news. Key Features: · Membership at Your Fingertips: Show your membership card effortlessly when competing in tournaments. · Comprehensive Stats: Look up and manage your membership statistics and explore stats of fellow USBC members. · Bowling Resources: Access the USBC rulebook, and search for bowling centers, associations, coaches, volunteers, and tournaments. · Latest News: Stay up to date with breaking stories and updates from USBC. Whether you're competing in a league or simply following the action, the BOWL.com app is your go-to resource for everything bowling. Download the app now to simplify your bowling experience and take your membership with you wherever you go!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: PinPal at 92% against BOWL.com's 16%. PinPal also leads on rating (4.9 vs 2.5) and ratings volume (5.1K vs 14). BOWL.com's advantage is price (Free vs $8.99). 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
BOWL.com 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 2.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: PinPal has 5.1K ratings behind it against 14, 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 16% of BOWL.com's.
PinPal ships an update every 6 weeks, BOWL.com every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PinPal | BOWL.com |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $8.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.9 (5.1K ratings) — better | 2.5 (14 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 91.8% of reviews — better | 16.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 5.1K — better | 14 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #6 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 124 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jeff Stuart | United States Bowling Congress |
Customer experience
PinPal
BOWL.com
User reviews
PinPal
From 5.1K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Easy to use
- 📊 Comprehensive stats
- 💯 Reliable and consistent
- 🔍 Helpful for improving game
- 🤩 Awesome app
Room to improve
- 🐛 Stats not accurate
- 🔄 No cloud backup/sync
- 🤔 Outdated with no updates
- 📱 Not compatible with iPad
- 🔢 Can't add more than 3 games
BOWL.com
From 14 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 App is awesome
- 👍 Pretty nice
- 👍 Awesome idea
Room to improve
- 😞 Totally clunky
- 😞 Useless
- 😞 Horrible app
- 😞 Terrible app
- 😞 App doesn’t work
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
BOWL.com
Reported bugs
19 issues- App not loading membership card
- Blank sign-in screen
- App doesn't work after payment
- Login loop: valid credentials but not recognized as member
- Spinning loading wheel of death
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- App quits, won't open
- App won't load, sits on loading screen
- App crashes when opening
- App won't load, sits on login screen
- App won't load, keeps spinning on lid screen
- App exits to web browser when trying to join
- App won't load, needs update
- App crashes when trying to create account/register
- App crashes when opening links
- Cannot pull membership card, needs account activation
- App doesn't work since update, login info invalid
- App doesn't work on WiFi, crashes
- App doesn't load on WiFi
- App won't open
Requested features
5 requests- Add sanction number back to search results
- Improve navigation for rule book
- Allow screen rotation to landscape for rule book
- Bookmark pages in rule book
- Add support for Championships/Convention
In-app purchases
PinPal
No in-app purchases
BOWL.com
No in-app purchases
