Score Keeper

How to use

1. Tap New Game and choose your mode: Everyone (1 device) (the whole table takes turns entering scores) or Just me (only your own score).
2. Everyone mode automatically pulls in your whole roster from Player Names — there's no separate player-picking step. If you haven't added anyone yet, you'll be sent there first.
3. Start typing the game's name. If it matches one of our scoring templates, categories are filled in for you automatically (see below) — turn off Auto-match a score sheet template if you'd rather get a flexible round-by-round sheet instead. The name is optional — leave it blank and tap Start Scoring to begin an untitled game.
4. Add points with a Section (optional grouping, e.g. "Round 3" or "Bonus") and a Label for each entry. Tap the +/− button next to the points field to flip it negative — handy for games with penalties (e.g. Patchwork's −2 per empty board space) without needing a minus key on your on-screen keyboard.
5. The running total updates automatically as you add entries.
6. Tap any past entry to review or correct it. Full history is always shown.
7. When the game ends, tap Edit (near the other game buttons) to return to the Saved Games list — your player list stays saved.

Landscape & portrait layout

In Everyone mode, the toggle above the score table switches how it's laid out — a short caption underneath always explains exactly what the current choice does for the game you're scoring. Portrait is the default: it matches how printed scoresheets are usually laid out, keeping the table narrow for a phone held upright — the natural fit for most templates, which tend to have more scoring categories than players. Landscape flips to a wide layout, turning the phone on its side — handy when you have more players than categories or rounds to fit across the screen. Whichever axis the player list ends up on stays pinned in place as you scroll, so you always know whose row (or column) you're on.

Naming a round

In Landscape, the small field next to each round shows just its number (1, 2, 3…) — tap it and type to give the round a real name (like "Tiebreaker"), or leave it as-is. In Portrait, that field would waste column width, so instead you get a plain number badge — tap it to name the round through a quick prompt instead. Either way, the name shows up in both layouts.

Locking a round

Each round has a small lock icon next to its label (or, in Portrait layout, at the top of its column). Tap it to lock that round — the icon fills in, and the round's inputs go read-only and dimmed, so you can't accidentally edit it while entering the current round. Tap it again to open it back up. This is mainly there to help you find the right row at a glance in a long game.

Collapsing rounds

Once you've got several rounds going, a round can take up a lot of room — a full row of inputs in Landscape, or a wide column in Portrait. Tap the small arrow next to a round's label (or at the top of its column) to collapse it down to just its label and each player's score as plain text, so it takes far less space. Tap the arrow again to expand it back to editable inputs.

Above the table, Collapse Rounds collapses every round except the current (most recent) one in a single tap — the one you're likely still scoring stays open and editable. Expand Rounds opens everything back up. Both appear once you have more than one round.

Adding a player mid-game

Everyone mode pulls in your whole roster the moment a game starts. If someone joins Player Names after that — rare, but it happens — tap + Add Player in the actions row below the table to pull in anyone new. They join with blank scores for every round already on the board; nothing else about the game changes.

Finishing a game

Tap Finish Game once scores are in to lock in a winner screen — final standings, a fun stat or two, and a shareable result. It's built to look good in a screenshot, so snap one to save or send to the group. There's also a Share Result button that shares (or copies) a one-line summary of who won.

Changed your mind? Tap Keep Editing to go back to entering scores, or Play Again to reset everyone's score and start a fresh round with the same players.

Game templates

Score Keeper has a library of scoring templates for popular games (e.g. Wingspan's bird points, eggs, food, and bonus cards) that auto-fill categories from a matched game name — turn it off on the New Game screen if you'd rather enter points freely with a round-by-round sheet. Most categories are a single number; a few (like Clank!'s card VPs) let you add individual values one at a time as you go, since scoring for those happens card-by-card rather than as one running total. Not every game has a template yet — if a printable scoresheet exists for what you typed instead, you'll still see a link to it in the scoresheets library. A few games (like Cosmic Encounter or The Lord of the Rings: Duel for Middle-earth) don't really have a points score at all, so they're left as printable scoresheets rather than forced into a category list that wouldn't reflect how the game actually ends. Not sure what's available? Tap Browse all templates next to the Game field to see and filter the full list instead of typing a name. A few templates (like Between Two Castles' "Castle Name") also add an optional field under the game name for anything the physical scoresheet asks you to name.

Your player roster

Score Keeper always uses everyone in the shared roster managed in Player Names — add, rename, recolor, or reorder them there, and every new Everyone-mode game starts with that full lineup already in place. If someone drops out partway through, tap the × next to their name to remove them from just that game (it won't touch your saved roster).

Exporting & importing a whole game

Export game saves everything about one specific game — players, template, and every round of scores entered so far — as its own file, with a chance to rename it before saving. This is a snapshot of one game in progress (or finished), not just a roster (for that, use Player Names' own Export/Import).

Use Import game to load one back — from the Saved Games list, or right from inside an in-progress game. You'll be asked to choose Fresh start (keeps the players and template, clears the scores) or Resume (brings the scores back exactly as they were — handy for moving a game in progress to another device).

Add to home screen

Installing to your home screen makes the app open full-screen and load instantly — no browser address bar in the way.

iOS · Safari

1. Open the app in Safari (must be Safari, not Chrome or Firefox).
2. Tap the Share button — the square with an arrow pointing up at the bottom of the screen.
3. Scroll down and tap Add to Home Screen.
4. Tap Add to confirm.

Android · Chrome

1. Open the app in Chrome.
2. Tap the three-dot menu in the top-right corner.
3. Tap Add to Home Screen or Install App.
4. Tap Add to confirm.

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