Comparison

StrikeBook vs LayoutQ

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

Head to head
About

StrikeBook

Features
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Your own bowling score book. The one the alley never gives you. The house screens score the whole team, then throw your night away. StrikeBook keeps just your games: every frame, your real average, and every league night, in a score book that's actually yours. Free frame-by-frame scoring, forever. No ads. No account. No subscription. SCORE EVERY FRAME, CORRECTLY • A fast pin pad. Tap the count, the strike, the spare. The sheet fills itself. • Real ten-pin rules, tenth frame and bonus balls handled exactly like the center's screen. • Tap any frame to fix a mistype. Score multiple games a night. • In a hurry? Type just the final score and move on. YOUR REAL AVERAGE, WEEK BY WEEK • Average, high game, high series, strike % and spare %: honest, real-rules numbers. • A trend line that shows your average actually moving. EVERY NIGHT, KEPT • Each night is a record: date, house, league, series, and a photo, if you want one. • Your history scrolls like an album, not a spreadsheet. SHARE THE NIGHT • One tap turns a night into a clean card: scores, series, date, straight into the group chat. GO DEEPER WITH PRO (one-time, no subscription) • Spare conversion by pin leave: the single-pin and 10-pin numbers you argue about. • First-ball average, open-frame %, clean-game count, per-house splits. • Unlimited leagues, unlimited photos per night, and CSV export of every game. StrikeBook is a personal score book, not a group scorekeeper and not a league-secretary tool. Your data lives on your device. Buy Pro once and it's yours. Family Sharing included. Score tonight's games free. Watch your book fill up.

About

LayoutQ

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LayoutQ turns your numbers into decisions at the lane. Free; no ads or freemium features. Drilling layouts: Enter your PAP, ball speed, rev rate, and axis tilt and rotation. For a catalog ball whose core type is on file, the app suggests a Dual Angle Layout, shown as drilling angle, pin-to-PAP, and VAL angle, with the reasoning behind each number. Ask for an earlier or later break, a smoother or more angular shape, or more or less flare. Or step the numbers yourself under Explore and watch the shape change. Show the same layout in Dual Angle or Storm VLS notation, whichever your pro shop reads. Every layout is a suggestion; your pro shop confirms fit and layout and decides what gets drilled. Your arsenal: Keep every ball you own with its drilled layout and current surface. LayoutQ groups a bag into six slots. See which slots your bag covers. Track games since the last cleaning, resurface, and oil extraction, and get told when a pad is due. Reset a ball to its factory finish. Ball catalog and recommendations: Browse more than 1,000 bowling balls, with coverstock, RG, and differential in the list and the core type, where one is on file, on each ball's page. Filter by brand or by performance level, from entry to high. Compare any two balls. Recommendations fill the gaps in your bag, each with a suggested layout and a starting surface. Choose whether suggested balls start duller, neutral, or shinier. Live sessions: Pick a house shot or a Kegel sport pattern, log shots as you bowl, and get feet and target moves, ball changes, and a polish suggestion where it would help, as the lane transitions. Score games frame by frame. Get a spare target for common leaves, from your own line. Save your home center so a session starts with its pattern already set, and share a summary with your coach when you are done. Your pro shop: Your shop can keep your fit specs and the balls they drill for you. Enter the claim code they hand you, or scan the counter QR while you wait, and the balls they drill land in your bag with their layouts. Tracking: Mount your phone on a tripod, calibrate the lane with four taps, and record a shot to see the ball's tracked path on an overhead lane view. Optional: The camera can estimate your slide-leg knee angle during a session. All camera processing happens on your phone; no video is uploaded. Privacy: No ads and no third-party trackers. Your data lives in your account; you can export it as a CSV from Profile and delete it from the app at any time. Product, brand and organization names, including Storm, VLS, Dual Angle, Kegel and USBC, are the trademarks of their owners, and LayoutQ uses them only to identify the balls, notations and rules it refers to. LayoutQ is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by any of them, or by any ball manufacturer. Recommendations are informational; confirm layouts with a qualified pro shop before drilling.

Screenshots

StrikeBook4 screens
LayoutQ4 screens

Verdict

The call

StrikeBook and LayoutQ are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

StrikeBook ships an update every 3 weeks, LayoutQ fortnightly. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
StrikeBook versus LayoutQ: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStrikeBookLayoutQ
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS17.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB65 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperOmer Faruk AsilAnthony Wheeler

In-app purchases

None

StrikeBook

No in-app purchases

None

LayoutQ

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is StrikeBook free?
StrikeBook is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is LayoutQ free?
LayoutQ is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do StrikeBook or LayoutQ have ads?
Neither StrikeBook nor LayoutQ shows ads.
Which is updated more often, StrikeBook or LayoutQ?
StrikeBook ships an update every 3 weeks, and LayoutQ fortnightly. Most recently, StrikeBook was updated on October 31, 2026 and LayoutQ on October 31, 2026.

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