Open Pool League vs Pool Shots
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Open Pool League
Track your pool game with real ELO ratings, live scorekeeping, and detailed career stats. Supports multiple game formats and allows for private ladders. Compete in seasonal challenges with official BCA rules.
- Real ELO ratings that update after each match
- Live scorekeeping for matches
- Detailed career statistics by game format
- Rank tiers from Beginner to Legend
- Create private competitive ladders
- Supports 7 different pool game formats
- Built-in official BCA rules
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Tournaments are here. Create a draw of 4 to 32 players, invite them by name or by tournament code, and run single or double elimination brackets from your phone. OPL seeds the draw, works out the byes, and moves winners through the bracket as results come in. Report scores as you go, approve the final result when the bracket is done, and your placings land on your profile. Also new since the last update: - Push notifications for match invites, results waiting on your confirmation, and when it is your turn to play - Three table cloths to choose from: Felt Green, Tournament Blue and Under the Lights - Full support for Larger Text throughout the app - Faster live scores, including a fix for updates that could stall after a long spell in the backgroundx
Pool Shots
Easily diagram and animate pool shots. Drag balls, sketch trajectories, and watch your shots play out. Save and share your diagrams as images or clips.
- Diagram pool shots
- Animate shot trajectories
- Drag and drop balls
- Sketch ball paths
- Save shot library
- Share as image or clip
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Pool Shots is the fastest way to diagram a pool shot and watch it play out. Drag balls onto the felt and two-finger-swipe to sketch where they travel. Tap Play to animate the whole shot — the cue ball hits the 3, the 3 sends the 7 into the corner, exactly as diagrammed. Chain combos, bank off the rails, add english, and step through it one hit at a time. Save your shots to a library and share any of them as an image, a looping clip, or a .poolshot file that opens right back into the app — ideal for coaches sending a drill or players comparing shots. Pool Shots diagrams shots; it isn't a physics simulator. It's built to capture, remember, and share exactly the shot you have in mind.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Open Pool League at none against Pool Shots's 1. Open Pool League also leads on iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. Pool Shots sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Open Pool League asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Open Pool League against 5.0 for Pool Shots. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
Open Pool League ships an update every 2 months, Pool Shots every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Open Pool League | Pool Shots |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 18 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 24 MB | 20 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Aaron Abrams | Bijjol Rambhia Kiran |
Customer experience
Open Pool League
Pool Shots
In-app purchases
Open Pool League
No in-app purchases
Pool Shots
- Pool Shots$1.99
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