ScoreControl:Remote Scoreboard

Tomoo Taguchi

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About this app

Keeping score in your head, and arguing about it later? Let the phones do it.

ScoreControl turns the devices you already have into one shared scoreboard. Every device shows the same score, and the Caster decides which of them can change it — one team, both, or neither.

Put an iPad under each basket. A phone by each server. Everyone sees the score, and the people who should be updating it can.


HOW IT WORKS

1. One device starts the game as the Caster. Name the teams, pick a location, tap Start New Game.
2. It shows a Key QR code on its score screen.
3. Another device chooses Remote and scans that code.
4. The Caster is asked whether to grant control — of one team, the other, both, or neither.

Remote mode is free. Caster mode is a yearly subscription, with a two-week free trial.


ONE DEVICE, ONE SIDE OF THE BOARD

Pick the team a device controls when you start the game. The other team's score shows greyed out behind a padlock — always visible, never yours to change. No disputes about who touched what.

Grant both teams to a device and it runs the whole game. Grant neither and it watches.


CONTROLS

Swipe up over your team's score to add a point. Swipe down to take one away. Swipe left to undo, right to redo. The digits fill the screen, so they read from across a court.

Changed ends? Tap Swap and the sides follow you.

Turn on set scores for volleyball, tennis, or anything played in sets.


IT WORKS OUT THE NETWORK ITSELF

Gym WiFi is unpredictable. ScoreControl tests the network when a game starts and picks whichever of four connection methods actually works there. If WiFi will not cooperate at all, it falls back to Bluetooth and keeps going.

All devices that link together need to be on the same WiFi network.


WHAT IT DOES NOT DO

No accounts. No signup. No cloud. Nothing sent over the internet — scores exist on the devices in the room and nowhere else.

No ads, ever.

What’s new

Fixed: some phones were refused every game start with "WiFi Not Enabled or Connected" on a perfectly good network.

Wear OS: the score stays on your wrist for the whole game instead of dropping to the watch face, and the watch is answered straight after launch.

New: long press Scan to return to the last game you linked to.

Fixed: the download QR code opened the App Store on Android. It now opens Google Play.

Hardened: the control PIN no longer reaches devices granted nothing.