Comparison

Badminton vs PointTaker

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

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About

Badminton

Effortlessly track badminton scores for singles and doubles matches with automatic serve rotation and official rule adherence. Share live scores, view history, and analyze head-to-head records.

Highlights
  • Automatic serve rotation for singles and doubles
  • Real-time score updates
  • TV scoreboard for large displays
  • Live broadcast to other devices
  • Apple Watch scoring
  • Match history and head-to-head records
  • Scorecard sharing
Features
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Is it your serve or theirs? At 20-all in the third game, nobody should be arguing about the score. Tap the side that won the rally. Badminton tracks serve rotation, service courts, intervals and change of ends for you, all by official BWF rules. TV SCOREBOARD Put the live score on any big screen: a smart TV, laptop or tablet. Scan the QR code or type the address into any browser. Works on the same Wi-Fi or your phone's hotspot, with no internet, no cables and nothing to install. Adjust the text size from your phone. LIVE BROADCAST Share a 6-character match code and friends nearby follow the score live on their iPhone, and on their Apple Watch too. No internet needed: devices connect over Wi-Fi or Bluetooth. APPLE WATCH Score from your wrist without reaching for your phone. See the score and who serves at a glance. DOUBLES SERVE ROTATION The app tracks all four players and shows exactly who serves next and from which court. YOUR GAME, YOUR RULES Play to 11, 15 or 21 points, best of 1, 3 or 5 games. End a match early and still save it to your history. LOG A PAST MATCH Played without your phone? Type the final game scores afterwards and the match goes straight into your history, stats and head-to-head records. STATS AND HEAD-TO-HEAD Win rate, recent form, streaks and averages, with charts of your results over time. See your record against every opponent. MORE - Match history with every game score - Shareable scorecard images - Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets - Light and dark mode - In-app languages: English, Hindi, Indonesian, Malay, Korean FREE AND PRO Live scoring, serve rotation, custom points and match logging are free. A one-time Pro purchase, with no subscription, unlocks the TV scoreboard, live broadcast, the Apple Watch app, unlimited match history, stats and charts, head-to-head records, saved players, scorecard sharing and widgets. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

PointTaker

Features
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Point Taker turns your iPhone into a courtside umpire's scoreboard — and puts the same scoreboard on your Apple Watch. Prop the phone on the sideline, tap the side that won the rally, and keep your eyes on the shuttle. Serve rotation, service courts, deuce and game points all take care of themselves. ONE TAP PER RALLY Each side gets a giant, full-height panel. Tap it to award the rally. The score animates up and serve passes to the winner automatically, exactly as rally scoring requires. There is nothing else to learn and nothing else to press. THE OFFICIAL RULES, BUILT IN • First to 21 points takes the game • Must win by 2 — deuce keeps running past 21 • Hard cap at 30 — first to 30 wins outright • A winner alert offers Next Game or Undo, and the winner of the last game serves first in the next one SINGLES AND DOUBLES Flip between modes with one toggle. Singles shows a single serve indicator per side. Doubles labels P1 and P2 and tracks service-court rotation properly — even scores serve from the right court, odd from the left, and partners swap courts when the serving side keeps winning. Get it wrong in your head and the whole game drifts; the app just gets it right. UNDO THAT ACTUALLY UNDOES Undo rolls the last rally back completely — score, serve, service-court positions, and the game credit if that tap ended a game. Reset clears the board back to 0–0. BUILT TO BE READ FROM THE COURT Huge monospaced digits, a high-contrast yellow-and-black scoreboard, and a layout that adapts: portrait stacks the teams top and bottom, landscape sets them side by side. The near-end side mirrors its player labels so the board reads the way you're standing. The screen stays awake while a match is in progress, because a scoreboard is glanced at, not tapped. APPLE WATCH COMPANION The full scoreboard on your wrist for quick, unobtrusive updates between rallies. The watch keeps the score in front of you for the length of the match instead of dropping back to the clock face, and logs the session as a badminton workout in Health when you're done. Always On displays keep the score visible with the wrist down. PICKS UP WHERE YOU LEFT OFF The match is saved after every rally. If the phone locks on the sideline, gets reclaimed by iOS, or force-quits, you come back to the same score — with undo history intact. Matches go stale after four hours: long enough for a club night with breaks, short enough that tomorrow morning starts you at a clean 0–0. SOUND AND FEEL A short haptic and a synthesized musical sting mark game point and game won, so the moment registers even if nobody's looking at the phone. Cues mix with your music rather than interrupting it. NO ACCOUNT, NO INTERNET, NO TRACKING Point Taker never asks you to sign in, never goes online, and collects nothing. Your match lives on your device and nowhere else. Built for players who'd rather watch the rally than count it.

Screenshots

Badminton4 screens
PointTaker4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: PointTaker at none against Badminton's 1. Badminton's advantage is iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.5). On price, ads and device support 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. Badminton sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. PointTaker asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Badminton versus PointTaker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBadmintonPointTaker
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS18.0 — better26.5
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAbdelkarime AchtaouMehedi Khan

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Badminton

One-time1
  • Badminton Scorer Pro Unlock$4.99
None

PointTaker

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Badminton free?
Badminton is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is PointTaker free?
PointTaker is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Badminton or PointTaker have ads?
Neither Badminton nor PointTaker shows ads.

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