PinPal Lite vs Microballistics
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PinPal Lite
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-picking ability and common missed spares. Easily enter scores frame-by-frame or by final score.
- League, tournament, and open bowling score tracking
- Detailed statistics and average calculation
- Spare picking analysis
- Flexible score entry options
- Lite version with limited game/league capacity
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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. The lite version of PinPal is completely functional and can keep statistics for: * One league, with four weeks of games. * Five open bowling games. 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.
Microballistics
A highly accurate ballistic calculator for firearms and air rifles. It predicts wind deflection with steep shooting angles and offers features like projectile comparison and reticle reference printing. Includes a large database of ammunition types.
- Precise ballistic calculations
- Wind deflection prediction for steep angles
- Ballistic comparison of different projectiles
- Printable reticle references and tables
- Large database of projectiles
- Bluetooth laser rangefinder integration
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This is one of the most precise ballistic calculators. The results are verified in the field, it outperforms competition in predicting wind deflection with steep shooting angles. Special features include ballistic comparison of different projectiles, printing out reticle references and ballistic tables. We have a large database of projectiles for air rifles, rimfire and centerfire cartridges. This calculator works with a range of Bluetooth laser rangefinders and can be used to program standalone ballistic rangefinders.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: PinPal Lite at 3.6 against Microballistics's 2.3. PinPal Lite also leads on update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 24 months) and ratings volume (26 vs 3). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
PinPal Lite holds the better App Store score, 3.6 against 2.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: PinPal Lite has 26 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 62% of PinPal Lite's written reviews are positive against 50% of Microballistics's.
PinPal Lite ships an update every 5 weeks, Microballistics every 24 months. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PinPal Lite | Microballistics |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.6 (26 ratings) — better | 2.3 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 61.7% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 26 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks — better | Every 24 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Jeff Stuart | Microballistics Ltd |
Customer experience
PinPal Lite
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In-app purchases
PinPal Lite
No in-app purchases
Microballistics
No in-app purchases
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