Scorepad.uk - I built a free scorekeeping app for game nights and would love some feedback
Hello all — I built Scorepad (scorepad.uk), a free scorekeeping app, because someone always ends up doing the maths by hand, and I grew tired of it always being me. Thought I'd finally roll the dice and share it here, to see what people made of it.
What it actually does:
- Plain running totals, a proper round-by-round table, or a life-total countdown — whatever your game actually needs, not a one-size-fits-all tally
- A few games get their own built-in scoresheet — Wingspan, Wyrmspan, Yahtzee, Sushi Go!, Flip 7, Star Realms, Yu-Gi-Oh — pick the preset and the app already knows the categories, so you're not reinventing the scorecard every time
- Got a game where the lowest score wins — Hearts, Golf, that sort of sneaky business? There's a toggle for that, no mental subtraction required
- Play together: share a code (or just scan a QR code) and everyone scores from their own phone, live — no accounts, no faff, works over the internet if you're not even at the same table
- Renames rounds if "Round 3" isn't cutting it and you'd rather call it "The Great Betrayal"
- Six themes, in case a beige spreadsheet isn't really your table's style
- Works fully offline, installs like a proper app, and — this is the important bit — it's staying free. Not "free with adverts," not "free until I paywall it later." Just free, forever, because I built it for my own game nights first.
A little bit of the how, for anyone curious: it's a single HTML file, no backend server, no build step — your scores live in your browser, and "Play together" simply mirrors them through Firebase when you switch it on. No accounts, because there's genuinely nothing to make an account for.
It's still very much a work in progress — if something's confusing, missing a game you'd want scored properly, or just plain broken, I'd love to hear about it. Consider this the opening hand, not the final score.
Link: https://scorepad.uk
Thanks for reading this far — may your dice always roll in your favour and your scoring never come down to a shady "I'm sure I had more than that."