Billard Counter vs APA Scorekeeper
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Billard Counter
This app helps track scores and breaks for various pool games like 8-Ball, 9-Ball, 10-Ball, and Straight Pool. It provides detailed statistics on player performance over time, allowing for objective analysis of skill improvement. Shake your iPhone to access undo and reset options.
- Score tracking for 8-Ball, 9-Ball, 10-Ball, Straight Pool
- Break management
- Detailed performance statistics
- Save Straight Pool games
- Shake to undo/reset
- Skill improvement analysis
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This is a billard game documentation app. It is !NOT! a billard game. It takes care of the score (and who has the break in the current game) for 8-Ball, 9-Ball, 10-Ball or Straight-Pool. straight pool undo and reset options appear when you shake the iPhone Definitions of Statistic abbreviation: PT = Points NR = Inning HR = High Run AV = Average points per inning TI = Time on table TPP = Time per point PSS = Potting success SSS = Safe success now you can save a straight pool game after you finished it. After a few month you have awesome data to analyse... you can see very objectively how much you improved certain skills in certain time periods. Do you play faster straight pool than last year/month? Did you improve your potting or safe success?
APA Scorekeeper
This official scoring app allows pool league members to track 8-ball and 9-ball match scores. Manage team rosters, submit results to league operators, and provide match feedback. It also supports scoring and submitting partial matches.
- Score 8-ball and 9-ball matches
- Manage team rosters
- Submit scored matches
- Communicate match feedback
- Score partial matches
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The official scoring app of the American Poolplayers Association (APA) and Canadian Poolplayers Association (CPA) Pool Leagues, the World's Largest Pool League! Members of our Pool League can use this app to: - Keep the score of their 8-ball and 9-ball matches - Add and remove players from their teams' roster - Submit scored matches to their League Operator - Communicate feedback about a match to their League Operator - Score and submit partial matches in the event a match needs to span multiple days
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: APA Scorekeeper at 275 against Billard Counter's 4. Billard Counter's advantage is review sentiment (54% vs 35%) and iOS requirement (6.0 vs 15.1). On price, rating, 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 3.3 for Billard Counter against 3.1 for APA Scorekeeper. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: APA Scorekeeper has 275 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 54% of Billard Counter's written reviews are positive against 35% of APA Scorekeeper's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Billard Counter | APA Scorekeeper |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.3 (4 ratings) — better | 3.1 (275 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 54.3% of reviews — better | 34.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 275 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 6.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 42 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Moritz Kohnke | American Poolplayers Association |
Customer experience
Billard Counter
APA Scorekeeper
Bugs and requests
Billard Counter
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
APA Scorekeeper
Reported bugs
22 issues- App freezes and becomes unresponsive
- Crashes during active match scoring
- Cannot switch between multiple matches during timeouts
- Incorrect ball scoring (last ball not counted)
- Player names switching automatically
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- Blue screen loading failures
- App won't open or launch
- Grayed-out interface after going back multiple turns
- Modal errors when correcting past turns
- Landscape mode displays only bottom half of screen
- Aspect ratio removed after updates
- Null value errors in 8-ball module
- Requires weekly uninstall/reinstall to function
- Loses connection when WiFi drops
- Slow load times on Android (1-3 minutes)
- Cannot mark table size without warning before submit
- Timeout prevents access to other match
- Battery drains excessively (4 hours instead of 10)
- App gets locked in data entry loop
- Server connection failures
- iOS 15.1 compatibility issues
- Cloud sync problems preventing reinstalls
Requested features
29 requests- Practice/demo mode for training without real matches
- Dead ball tracking in 9-ball scoring
- Apple Watch support for real-time score viewing
- Match deletion functionality (not just reset)
- Detailed match statistics and analytics
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- Ball count display for 9-ball
- Landscape/rotation mode for tablets
- Post-submission score review capability
- Offline scoring with later sync capability
- Spectator/live viewing mode
- Division scoreboard showing all team results
- Team avatar/logo customization
- Player payment tracking and splitting
- Roll call/availability tracking for game nights
- Team chat functionality
- Scratch shot and ball-in-hand tracking
- Early 8/8OB/9OS tracking in final stats
- Fouls per player tracking
- Makeup match notifications
- Notes section for dues and administrative items
- Current shooter indicator (8/9 ball icon)
- Sync scores between opposing tables with permission
- Macintosh/laptop app version
- Skill level sum calculator during matches
- Individual player point totals in 9-ball
- Games won per player in 8-ball
- Match progression visualization
- Shot percentage and safety success stats
- Opponent history tracking
In-app purchases
Billard Counter
No in-app purchases
APA Scorekeeper
No in-app purchases
Questions
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