Comparison

StrikeMaster vs Ernie's Bowling Score Keeper

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

Head to head
About

StrikeMaster

This app allows bowlers to score games, track individual and league statistics, and manage entire bowling leagues. It offers AI-powered insights, a comprehensive ball database, and community features. The app works offline and syncs data when a connection is available.

Highlights
  • Score up to 8 players on one device
  • Create and manage bowling leagues
  • AI scoreboard scan from photos
  • Track individual bowling stats and trends
  • Manage custom bowling balls and bags
  • Offline scoring with automatic syncing
  • Connect with Claude AI for game analysis
Features
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StrikeMaster is the bowling app for scoring your games, bowling with friends on one phone, and running your whole league. Free tracking, no game limit, no ads. BOWL TOGETHER (NEW) • Score up to 8 players on one device • Each player tracks their own balls and stats RUN A LEAGUE (NEW) • Create a league with USBC-style rules • Invite bowlers with a join code. Members join free • Schedules, lanes, weekly standings, points and handicaps • Members enter their own scores • Playoffs, roll-offs, dues and prize fund TRACK YOUR LEAGUE • Private leagues for your own season, or public for everyone • Team entry: Singles, Doubles, Trios and Teams • Match recaps, leaders, honors and charts • Share the standings AI • Connect StrikeMaster to Claude • Ask anything about your games, stats, balls and leagues • Get reports and comparisons from your own data SCORE YOUR WAY • Frame by frame, pin by pin, or totals only • AI scoreboard scan from a photo • 9, 8 and 7-pin no-tap • Works offline, syncs when you're back online STATS • Average, strikes, spares, splits and pin leaves • Trends, handicap, lane and oil pattern BALLS • Large ball database, plus your own custom balls • Track the ball used on every roll • Ball bags and ball comparisons COMMUNITY • Friends, groups and chat • Leaderboards and 80,000+ bowling alleys StrikeMaster is free. Pro is an optional auto-renewing subscription. Privacy: https://www.strikemaster.io/privacy Terms: https://www.strikemaster.io/terms

About

Ernie's Bowling Score Keeper

Features
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The score keeper for the league bowler. Every ball pin by pin, or just the final score. Nights that belong to a league of any number of games. Your average, your handicap, and which pins you leave. THE SCOREBOARD - Tap New game and the ten frames are there, with the pins as you see them from the approach. - After each ball, tap the pins still standing, which is usually none or one, then press the big button: Strike, Spare or Next. A frame is one or two taps. - The marks read as a bowler reads them: X, /, the count, a dash for a miss, and a red ring where the first ball left a split. - The running score fills in as soon as it can be known, so a strike waits for its two bonus balls, as it does on the lane's screen. - The tenth frame follows the real rules: a strike or a spare earns the extra ball. - Miss and Undo are there for the gutter ball and the wrong tap. Every ball is kept the moment it is entered, so a phone call in the middle of a game loses nothing. Save closes a game part way and Carry on picks it up. QUICK SCORE - No time to score ball by ball? Quick score keeps the final score alone, in three taps. It counts in your average and the night's series. LEAGUES, KEPT SIMPLE - A league is a name, how many games a night, and the handicap rule: a share of the gap between your average and a base figure, such as 80% of 200. - Three games a night, four, or six: the app does not mind. - Tonight already belongs to the league that usually bowls on this weekday, so there is nothing to answer before the first ball. - Each league page shows your average there, your handicap, your high game and high series, and every night week by week with the series as it is and with the handicap on. A starting average from the league is used until you have bowled. STATS AND SPARES - Average, high game, high series and clean games, for everything, for each league, or for practice, with the last twenty games as bars. - Strikes, spares and open frames as percentages; splits, and how many were made. - The Spares page shows the deck shaded by how often each pin is left standing, and for each single pin how often you pick it up. Splits and the bigger leaves too, with the commonest named. SEND A SEASON AS A PDF - Send, on Stats and on every league page, makes a PDF of where you stand, every night, and your spares, on US Letter. It goes by Messages, Mail, WhatsApp, or to Files and Print. SAFE IF THE PHONE IS LOST An average is a season of nights. The app backs up automatically to your own iCloud, free for everyone, and offers your leagues and games back on a new phone. It is a backup, never a sync, and it never comes to us. YOURS, AND NOBODY ELSE'S No account, no sign-in, no ads, no tracking, no server of ours. Everything is worked out on the phone from your own games. It works below ground, with no signal. TEN GAMES FREE, THEN ONE PURCHASE Your first ten games are free, with everything working: the scoreboard, quick scores, leagues, stats, spares, the PDF and the backup. An eleventh game needs the unlock: one purchase, no subscription, Family Sharing included. Nothing you have already bowled is ever locked. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

StrikeMaster4 screens
Ernie's Bowling Score Keeper4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: StrikeMaster at 3 against Ernie's Bowling Score Keeper's 1. On price, ads, in-app purchases and iOS requirement 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. StrikeMaster sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Ernie's Bowling Score Keeper sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
StrikeMaster versus Ernie's Bowling Score Keeper: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStrikeMasterErnie's Bowling Score Keeper
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (68 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews83.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings68 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 9 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.017.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size166 MB2 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperAndrew HillConor Hannah

In-app purchases

8 purchases

StrikeMaster

Subscriptions2
  • Pro-Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Pro-Yearly1 Year trial2 variants$24.991 Year
One-time6
  • 10 AI Scans$0.99
  • 30 AI Scans$2.99
  • 20 AI Scans$2.99
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  • 100 AI Scans$4.99
  • 50 AI Scans$4.99
  • PinPal Migration Add-on$5.99
1 purchases

Ernie's Bowling Score Keeper

One-time1
  • Unlimited games$9.99

Questions

Is StrikeMaster free?
StrikeMaster is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Ernie's Bowling Score Keeper free?
Ernie's Bowling Score Keeper is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do StrikeMaster or Ernie's Bowling Score Keeper have ads?
Neither StrikeMaster nor Ernie's Bowling Score Keeper shows ads.

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