Scorekeep is a scorepad for the card and dice games you actually play. It’s a simple iPhone and iPad app that does the maths, applies house rules, and remembers every game.
Coming soon, testing now. Scorekeep 1.0 is in TestFlight while I finish the App Store checklist and a last round of playtesting. Want to try it? Email scorekeep@warpedvisions.org for an invite, and send bugs to the same address. Until the first release, saved games may not survive from one test build to the next.
What it does
- Each sheet looks like its paper analogue: a running total for Dice, a hole grid for Golf, a two-column ledger for Gin, a peg board for Cribbage
- Enter your score using a number pad, and editing is easy
- Turn it sideways at the table and it goes full-screen, showing the whole score sheet
- Every game is saved, and every player is ranked by win rate, per game or overall
- And, each game gets a cheat sheet and basic instructions that work offline
The games
Ten games, house rules built in: Dice 10,000, 4-Card Golf, Gin Rummy, Cribbage, Crazy 8s, Swipe, German Whist, 4-Card and 6-Card Turtle, and Maxi Dice. Village Idiot has no score sheet, just a rules guide: we teach it often enough that the cheat sheet alone saves us time.
Why I built it
We play a lot of games, and not just at home. We’ve discovered the fun in taking a deck of cards and a bag of dice with us on our walks so we can hunker down at the beach, in coffee shops, and in pubs. We have a bunch of game-friendly businesses here, and it’s a good motivator to get our asses out into those shared third spaces.
We even bring our games on vacation: we play at the beach, on decks and verandas, in parks, and when sailing. There’s always time to play a game when we’re winding down.
While paper works well enough, we started using a spreadsheet years ago to score our family’s version of 4-Card Golf. Try using that spreadsheet on a phone and the motivation for a simple app becomes clear: data should be easy and tracking should be as automatic as possible.