Phase X vs Talking Score Keeper
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Phase X
This app serves as a digital scorekeeper for the card game Phase 10. It tracks player progress through all ten phases, validates scores, and automatically calculates rankings. Games can be resumed, edited, or deleted, and rules are accessible within the app.
- Track all ten phases and player progress
- Validated round scoring with penalty points
- Automatic game history
- Resume, edit, or delete games
- In-app rules and onboarding
- Multi-language support
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Phase X is your digital score sheet for Phase 10 game nights. It keeps track of every player's phase, validates possible scores and calculates the current ranking automatically. Features: • All ten phases and every player's progress at a glance • Validated round scoring with correct penalty points • Automatic history for ongoing and completed games • Resume, edit or delete games later • Correct names, phases and points directly in the ranking • Rules and onboarding available at any time • German, English, French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese • For 2 to 6 players No account and no ads. Games are stored locally and synchronized between your devices through iCloud when available.
Talking Score Keeper
This app announces scores, player turns, and progress towards first place for tabletop games. It features customizable announcements and a tally function for complex scoring, eliminating the need to pass your phone around.
- Announces player turns and scores
- Calculates distance to first place
- Customizable announcements
- Tally feature for multiple scores per turn
- Score history per turn
- Intuitive interface
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Getting frustrated with all the other score keeping apps out there? Tired of your phone circulating around the table just so every player can see their score? You don't know exactly what Uncle Jake has been through, but you certainly don't want any of it getting all over your phone! Well, say hello to Talking Score Keeper - or maybe it should say hello to you! It's the only app that announces who's turn it is, their score, how much they need to get to be in first place and much more. It's all customizable in an easy, intuitive interface. And with the Tally feature, Talking Score Keeper can even be used with games that allow multiple scores in a single turn. These points can either be added to the current player's total or surrendered, depending on the rules of the game. And speaking of points, you can always pull up a history of who scored what on each of the previous turns. So go ahead and download this great utility and be confident you will never have to read anyone's score to them ever again.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Talking Score Keeper at Free against Phase X's $0.99. Talking Score Keeper also leads on rating (4.3 vs 2.3) and ratings volume (19 vs 4). Phase X's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and ads (none vs shown). On device support 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
Talking Score Keeper is free to download; Phase X costs $0.99 up front. Talking Score Keeper sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Phase X asks for nothing beyond the download.
Talking Score Keeper holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 2.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 19 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 62% of Phase X's written reviews are positive against 50% of Talking Score Keeper's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Phase X ships an update every 2 months, Talking Score Keeper every 35 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Phase X | Talking Score Keeper |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 2.3 (4 ratings) | 4.3 (19 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 61.9% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 19 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 35 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Daniel Ebert | Lone Human, LLC |
Customer experience
Phase X
Talking Score Keeper
In-app purchases
Phase X
No in-app purchases
Talking Score Keeper
- Remove Ads$0.99
- Unlock History$0.99
- More Voices$0.99
Questions
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