Darts Score Board vs The Scoring Machine
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Darts Score Board
Effortlessly track scores during passionate darts matches. Simply enter player names and tap the on-screen dartboard to automatically calculate scores as you play.
- Player name entry
- Touch-based score input
- Automatic score calculation
- Supports iPhone and iPod
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The most useful tool for all darts fans who are playing too passionately to count the score! Just put the players’ names on the list and start playing. Every time your dart hits the board, you just touch the same spot on the board displayed on the screen of your iPhone and – bingo! – your score is counted. Ready, steady, go!
The Scoring Machine
This app helps organize and score golf games for individuals, groups, or entire events. It supports numerous game types, including medal, match play, best-balls, and scrambles, with automatic handling of handicaps, skins, and wagers.
- Organize and score golf games
- Supports dozens of play types
- Accurate individual and team scores
- Appropriate handicaps for all play
- Automatic skins and wagering
- Compatible with Mulligan's Eagle
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Organize and score for yourself, your foursome, your team, or a whole golf event. Keep accurate individual and team scores for dozens of kinds of play, including medal (stroke) play, match play, best-balls, foursomes, scrambles, Chapman, Stableford, Chicago and more. Use appropriate handicaps for every form of play. Handle skins and wagering automatically. You play golf and let The Scoring Machine do the work. Compatible with Mulligan's Eagle for the Mac.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Darts Score Board at 5.0 against The Scoring Machine's 4.6. Darts Score Board also leads on price ($0.99 vs $4.99). The Scoring Machine's advantage is ratings volume (129 vs 2). On review sentiment, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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
Darts Score Board costs $0.99 and The Scoring Machine $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Darts Score Board holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: The Scoring Machine has 129 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 71% of Darts Score Board's written reviews are positive against 76% of The Scoring Machine's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 26, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Darts Score Board | The Scoring Machine |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 — better | $4.99 |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 4.6 (129 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 70.8% of reviews | 75.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 129 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 12.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 44 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Michael Chernikov | Mulligan Software |
Customer experience
Darts Score Board
The Scoring Machine
In-app purchases
Darts Score Board
No in-app purchases
The Scoring Machine
No in-app purchases
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