Comparison

Virtual Scoreboard vs Ultimate Scoreboard

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Virtual Scoreboard

Transform your device into a versatile digital scoreboard and timer for over 40 sports and games. Easily track scores, manage timers, and customize game details for any competition, from casual play to organized tournaments. Keep your games organized without paper or confusion.

Highlights
  • Real-time score tracking
  • Sports timer
  • Customizable scoreboard layout
  • Supports 40+ sports and games
  • Offline functionality
  • Optimized for phones and tablets
Features
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● Keep score like a pro Virtual Scoreboard turns your iPhone or iPad into a digital scoreboard for 40+ sports and games. Whether you’re playing with friends, coaching a team, refereeing a match, running a tournament, or keeping score at school, you can manage the game quickly and easily. ● Scoreboards made for your sport Use dedicated scoreboards designed around the rules and flow of each sport. Track scores, game time, periods, quarters, sets, fouls, timeouts, possession, and other sport-specific information from one simple screen. Supported sports and games include: Basketball, 3x3 Basketball, Soccer, American Football, Futsal, Volleyball, Handball, Baseball, Tennis, Table Tennis, Beach Tennis, Padel, Pickleball, Badminton, Squash, Hockey, Rink Hockey, Water Polo, Rugby, Cricket, Lacrosse, Netball, Australian Football, Kabaddi, Footvolley, Curling, Bocce, Boxing, Judo, Karate, Wrestling, Goalball, Cornhole, Chess, Poker, Rubik’s Cube, Sport Stacking, Truco, and more. ● More than just a scoreboard Virtual Scoreboard includes tools to help you manage games, teams, and competitions: * Simple Scoreboard for quick custom matches * Game timers and sport-specific clocks * Stats Sheet for tracking player and team statistics * Coaching Board for planning plays and strategies * Live Scores for sharing and following games * Apple Watch support * Custom team names, colors, sounds, and scoreboard settings * Offline support — keep scoring without an internet connection ● Fast and easy to use Update scores in seconds, control timers, and manage the match without complicated setup. Virtual Scoreboard stays out of the way so you can focus on the game. Perfect for players, coaches, referees, teachers, schools, gyms, clubs, tournaments, leagues, training sessions, and friendly matches. One app. 40+ sports. Keep every game under control. ----------------------------------- Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://virtualscoreboard.app/privacypolicy.html

About

Ultimate Scoreboard

This app provides a highly customizable scoreboard for tracking any game. It offers advanced features like penalty tracking, shot clocks, and customizable team setups. Results can be shared easily, and the app supports external screen mirroring and network connectivity for multiple devices.

Highlights
  • Customizable game layouts
  • Team setup with logos and colors
  • Penalty and shot clock management
  • External screen mirroring (HDMI/AirPlay)
  • Network connectivity for multiple devices
  • Sound effects for game events
  • Social media and email sharing
Features
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Versatile and highly customizable scoreboard that lets you track any game and share standings and results with friends and family! Can also be used as a "real" scoreboard by connecting to an external screen by HDMI or AirPlay mirroring, or use up to 7 other iDevices as external screens by connecting them over the network. Features: - Choose between 6 different layouts when presented on an external screen. - Adjustable length- and number of periods. - Set up teams with optional logos and colors. - Penalties - shows up to three concurrent penalties per team, supports unlimited concurrent penalties. Penalties can be edited and removed. - Shot clock. - Timeouts. - Intermissions. - All clocks can be adjusted, even while still running. Long tap to enter edit mode. - Change clock direction. - Get a notification when the period or game ends if the app is running in the background (you need to accept push notifications for this to work). - Sound effects: select from a rich set of sound effects for events such as scoring, match clock start/stop, period end, game won, penalty or timeout expiration etc. - Customize the colors and fonts of clocks, scores and teams individually. - Select your own background for an even more personal touch. - Share results on social media, Email, messages etc. - Use the companion Apple Watch app to control the scoreboard from your wrist, maybe even as one of the participants? - Show a big scoreboard by connecting a TV by cable or AirPlay mirroring and select from a number of different layouts. - Connect up to 7 iPads or iPhones over the network and use them as external screens. Each connected scoreboard can use it's own separate layout and styling. - Supports most sports including Soccer, Ice hockey, Basketball, Tennis, Padel, Handball, Floorball, Lacrosse and many more. - Connect external buttons (Flic) to control the scoreboard as one of the participants or a referee. Wear the button on your wrist or on your cloths, stick it to the side of your table tennis table... you get the idea. - Use shortcuts through the Shortcuts app to trigger scores, control the game clock and more. Instructions:

Tap the score with one finger for one point, two fingers for two points and three fingers for three points. You can also swipe up or right to increase the score by one or swipe left or down to remove the last added point(s). Tap on the game clock (or any other clock for that matter) to start/pause it. Tap on the period to change to the next period, long press to edit. 

To give either team a penalty or a timeout, tap the whistle icon in the top left. 
Tap on the team names to go to the team editor, where you can create new teams with customized logos and colors and select teams for the current game. 

Adjust the length and number of periods, the length of penalties and so on from the settings menu. 

Tap the trashcan icon to reset the current game. Use the share icon to share results with MMS/Facebook/Twitter/Email etc or save it to your photo album as a dear memory of that big win. Watch app: - swipe left and right to switch between screens. - on the score screen, tap each team button to add a point and swipe down on the button to undo the latest point. - on the game time screen, tap the time to start/stop the game clock. - on the last screen you have the option to reset the current game.

Screenshots

Virtual Scoreboard4 screens
Ultimate Scoreboard4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Ultimate Scoreboard at none against Virtual Scoreboard's shown. Virtual Scoreboard's advantage is ratings volume (23K vs 377) and update cadence (every 11 days vs every 2 months). On price, rating, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Virtual Scoreboard sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Ultimate Scoreboard sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Virtual Scoreboard against 4.7 for Ultimate Scoreboard. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Virtual Scoreboard has 23K ratings behind it against 377, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 83% of Virtual Scoreboard's written reviews are positive against 73% of Ultimate Scoreboard's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Virtual Scoreboard ships an update every 11 days, Ultimate Scoreboard every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Virtual Scoreboard versus Ultimate Scoreboard: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVirtual ScoreboardUltimate Scoreboard
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (23K ratings)4.7 (377 ratings)
Positive reviews82.8% of reviews — better72.7% of reviews
Number of ratings23K — better377
Update frequencyEvery 11 days — betterEvery 2 months
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
Requires iOS15.6 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size113 MB124 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLeonardo BortolottiAgiDev AB

Customer experience

Virtual Scoreboard

All ratings23,323 ratings
Positive94.2%
Neutral2.8%
Negative3.0%
Written reviews443 reviews
Positive82.8%
Neutral6.1%
Negative11.1%

Ultimate Scoreboard

All ratings377 ratings
Positive91.5%
Neutral5.0%
Negative3.4%
Written reviews44 reviews
Positive72.7%
Neutral13.6%
Negative13.6%

User reviews

Virtual Scoreboard

From 23K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Great scoreboard app with lots of options
  • 👍 Easy to use and customizable
  • 🚀 Reliable and functional
  • 🚀 Helpful for coaches and teams
  • 👍 Useful for tracking stats and scores

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Issues with Apple Watch integration and functionality
  • 🔍 Too many ads
  • 🔍 Difficulty changing team colors and settings
  • 🐛 Bugs and crashes after updates

Ultimate Scoreboard

From 377 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Simple and easy to use
  • 🆓 Free with no ads
  • 🎨 Highly customizable
  • 🎵 Sound effects available
  • 🤩 Fun and enjoyable

Room to improve

  • 🐛 App crashes frequently
  • 🗑️ Data loss after crashes
  • ❌ Cannot change sport type
  • ⚠️ Clock disappears randomly
  • 🚫 Cannot change colors

Bugs and requests

Virtual Scoreboard

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Timer disappears when adding points
  • Scoreboard numbers not displaying properly past 99 points
  • Sharing live score feature not working as expected

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add penalty tracking for sports like hockey and lacrosse
  • Improve basketball scoreboard to show more details like shot clock, timeouts, etc.
  • Add more sports like wrestling, field hockey, and pickleball
  • Improve sharing and live score broadcasting capabilities
  • Allow more customization options for scoreboard design and layout

Ultimate Scoreboard

Reported bugs

14 issues
  • App crashes and loses data
  • Clock keeps disappearing
  • App is not working for some users
  • Cannot load images once in a while
  • App kept bugs badly
Show 9 more
  • Cannot reverse points after accidental click
  • Shot clock will not pause or reset when pausing
  • Changing times on one clock changes others
  • App crashes when resetting score on iOS 14.6
  • New update has screwed up the app
  • App crashes and shows a white screen after new update
  • App only works with Wi-Fi after update
  • Cannot rotate the scoreboard
  • Bugs on iPad mini

Requested features

21 requests
  • Add a countdown clock option
  • Allow changing font and appearance
  • Add a feature for seconds and milliseconds after 1 minute
  • Implement a shot clock
  • Allow choosing custom images
Show 16 more
  • Add color options for the scoreboard
  • Add tournament mode
  • Allow penalty clocks to stop independently of the game clock
  • Add a whistle sound for timer start/stop
  • Play a choice of sounds when score increases
  • Add team records
  • Allow live games
  • Add specialized sports spreadsheets for stats
  • Ability to save and archive multiple games
  • Timer configuration with minutes and seconds
  • Fix bug with clock resetting to zeroes in countdown mode when new game is selected
  • Add a 30-second penalty timer option
  • Ability to reset period counter
  • Add a 270 camera feature
  • Add timeouts (3-10)
  • Add yard marker team names and logos

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Virtual Scoreboard

Subscriptions2
  • Premium (Monthly)1 Month trial$1.991 Month
  • Premium (Annual)1 Month trial$11.991 Year
One-time1
  • Premium (Lifetime)$29.99
2 purchases

Ultimate Scoreboard

Subscriptions2
  • Stadium monthly7 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Stadium yearly7 Days trial$49.991 Year

Questions

Is Virtual Scoreboard free?
Virtual Scoreboard is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Ultimate Scoreboard free?
Ultimate Scoreboard is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Virtual Scoreboard or Ultimate Scoreboard?
Virtual Scoreboard and Ultimate Scoreboard are both rated 4.7 out of 5 on the App Store, from 23K and 377 ratings respectively.
Do Virtual Scoreboard or Ultimate Scoreboard have ads?
Virtual Scoreboard shows ads; Ultimate Scoreboard does not.
Which is updated more often, Virtual Scoreboard or Ultimate Scoreboard?
Virtual Scoreboard ships an update every 11 days, and Ultimate Scoreboard every 2 months. Most recently, Virtual Scoreboard was updated on October 18, 2026 and Ultimate Scoreboard on October 15, 2026.

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