PinPal Lite vs BowlTV
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.
BowlTV
Stream live bowling events from around the world, from youth to senior competitions. Access exclusive behind-the-scenes content, training videos, and historical footage. Interact with a community of fans and commentators, and enjoy replays on demand.
- Live bowling event streaming
- Behind-the-scenes content
- Historical and training videos
- AirPlay and Chromecast support
- Live chat and polls
- Event replays
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BowlTV app is the video streaming service of the United States Bowling Congress. Enjoy live coverage of the biggest bowling events from across the globe and major events at every level, from youth to senior competition and everything in between. Enjoy bowling whenever you want and wherever you are! With the BowlTV app, you have the ability to: - Stream live bowling events from your phone. - Watch behind-the-scenes content, historical content, training videos, and more. - Cast to a bigger screen via AirPlay and Chromecast. - Interact with fellow fans and commentators in the chat. - Participate in live polls and contests for prizes. - Enjoy replays of all events whenever you want - For more information go to our BOWLTV website.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: PinPal Lite at 62% against BowlTV's 3%. PinPal Lite also leads on rating (3.6 vs 1.8) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 18.0). On price, ratings volume, 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
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 1.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 26 and 66 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 62% of PinPal Lite's written reviews are positive against 3% of BowlTV's.
PinPal Lite ships an update every 5 weeks, BowlTV every 2 months. Both last shipped on October 22, 2026.
| Parameter | PinPal Lite | BowlTV |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.6 (26 ratings) — better | 1.8 (66 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 61.7% of reviews — better | 2.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 26 | 66 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Apple TV — better |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 52 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Jeff Stuart | United States Bowling Congress |
Customer experience
PinPal Lite
BowlTV
In-app purchases
PinPal Lite
No in-app purchases
BowlTV
No in-app purchases
