Pinochle is a wonderful game with punishing arithmetic. Meld does the maths so you can play.

Built for a real table: big numbers you can read from across it, and a flow that follows the hand rather than fighting it.

WHAT IT DOES

• Scores partnership (four-hand) and cutthroat (three-hand) pinochle
• Works out meld for you, including the rule everyone argues about — a run never re-scores its own marriage, but a double marriage still counts beside a single run
• Tracks counters trick by trick, so you always know how close the bid is
• Handles the zero-counter rule that voids a side's meld entirely
• Warns you about the dix, the meld people forget most often
• Concessions, pass-outs and set penalties, all scored correctly

NEVER PLAYED, OR PLAYED ALL YOUR LIFE

If pinochle is new to you, Meld explains itself as you go. It walks you through each hand in order — who bid, what trump was, the meld, the tricks — nudges you about the meld people forget, and carries a rules reference plus a Board explained page: the board mid-hand, where tapping any part of it tells you what that part is.

If you have been playing since you were a child, the guidance stays out of your way. Switch the tips off, set your table's own meld values and target score, and it keeps score the way your family has always done it.

SHARE THE TABLE

Open a table and everyone else can follow the score on their own phone with a four-digit code. Players can lay their own meld down from their seat, count the tricks, and offer to end a hand early. The scorekeeper always has the final word.

YOUR HOUSE RULES

Every table plays a little differently. Set your own meld values, target score, opening bid and how conceding works. Meld remembers the rules each game started with, so changing them never rewrites your history.

FREE, AND WHAT ISN'T

Scoring is free forever — every hand, every game, the full meld calculator, house rules, and sharing your table with anyone who wants to watch. No adverts, no interruptions mid-hand.

Meld Premium is a one-off payment, not a subscription:

• Your full game history, and the statistics built from it — win rates, bid success, best meld, who you win with and who you keep losing to
• Honors: awards for feats at the table that add up to a rank beside your name, from Nine all the way to Ace
• Cloud backup, so your record follows you to a new phone

Nothing you record is ever deleted for not paying. Unlocking simply brings it all back.

Meld works on your own device. Nothing leaves it unless you share a table, turn on backup, or write to us.