Support — Android
Everything below is about the Android version of Scorecard. If a question is not answered here, write to sl.scorecard@gmail.com — messages go to one person and replies usually come within a few days.
Reporting a bug or requesting a game
Open Contact Us on the home screen and choose Report a Bug or Request a Game. That opens a pre-addressed draft in your mail app with your device and app version already filled in, which saves a round trip. Nothing is sent until you tap send, and you can edit or delete any of it first.
Writing directly to sl.scorecard@gmail.com works just as well — please mention your device, the game you were scoring, and what you expected to happen.
Where your games are kept
A game I was in the middle of
Games still in progress are under Saved Games on the home screen. Scorecard saves as you score, so leaving the app mid-round does not lose anything.
A game that finished
Finished games move to the Scorecard Archive, which sits beside Saved Games rather than inside it — one list holds games you can go back to playing, the other holds games that are over. Archived scorecards can be exported as a PDF to share or keep.
Something disappeared from the archive
The archive keeps either a set number of scorecards or a set amount of storage — whichever you chose under Settings — and drops the oldest once that limit is reached. Raise the limit there if games are going before you are done with them.
Backup and new devices
What is backed up
Scorecard uses Android's Auto Backup for Apps, which puts your scorecards, saved player roster, archived scorecards and their PDFs, and your settings into your device's own Google Account backup. When you set up a new Android device or reinstall the app, they come back with it.
This is migration, not live sync
Worth being clear about, because it differs from the Apple version: two Android devices in use during the same week do not see each other's changes through this mechanism. The backup restores when a device is set up or the app is reinstalled — it is not a running sync between your devices. To score one game from two devices at the same time, use the shared-game feature below.
Turning backup off
It is controlled under Backup in your device's Settings, not in the app. Turning it off means a new device starts empty.
Playing together
Scoring the same game from several devices
One device hosts the game and the others join it. Everyone must be on the same Wi-Fi network — this runs directly between the devices, with no internet connection and no server in the middle. Guest networks and networks with client isolation switched on will block it, which is the usual reason a game does not appear in the join list.
Playing with someone on an iPhone
Yes, for the games both platforms support. Discovery works across platforms on the same Wi-Fi network, so an Android phone can host and an iPhone can join, or the other way round.
A device cannot see the game to join
Work through these in order: both devices on the same Wi-Fi network (not one on mobile data); the host still on the game screen; and the network not a guest or isolated one. Some phones also restrict network discovery under battery saver, so it is worth turning that off while playing. Toggling Wi-Fi off and on on the joining device clears most remaining cases.
Android TV
Putting the scoreboard on the television
Install Scorecard on the Android TV and open it, then use Show on TV from the game on your phone or tablet. Both need to be on the same Wi-Fi network. The TV app is display-only — it shows the scoreboard, and scoring stays on the device you are holding.
The television is not listed
The TV app must be open and on the same network as the phone. If the television is on Ethernet and the phone on Wi-Fi, they must still be on the same subnet — a common cause when a TV is wired to a router and the phone is on a guest SSID.
Wear OS
What the watch can do on its own
The watch app scores a subset of games without your phone: Pickleball, Tennis, Table Tennis, Volleyball, Golf, Disc Golf, Rounds Won and Points. It also mirrors a game running on your phone, so you can glance at the score or tap in a point from your wrist.
Recording an exercise session while you play
Scorecard can run an exercise session during Golf, Disc Golf or Volleyball so the game counts toward your device's fitness tracking. It needs the Activity Recognition permission, and Location as well for Golf and Disc Golf. Unlike the Apple Watch version, it does not read your heart rate. Decline the permission, or withdraw it later in your device's app settings, and everything else works normally.
Keeping the screen on
Each game's settings on the watch has a Keep screen on switch, which holds the display up while that game is open. Leaving it on costs battery over a long round, which is why it is off by default.
Resetting a score by accident
Resetting is a long press followed by a confirmation, so a single tap cannot clear a game.
The watch is not seeing my phone's game
Mirroring runs over the Wearable Data Layer, so the watch needs to be paired and connected to the phone in the Wear OS app, and Scorecard must be installed on both. If the watch app was installed separately from Play on the watch itself, open it once on each side after installing.
Golf and location
While a golf scorecard is open, Scorecard can use your location to measure how far a shot travelled. It is used only while the app is in use, only for that measurement, and is never recorded or sent anywhere. The permission is optional and the rest of golf scoring works without it.
Scrabble
Scrabble takes the word you played rather than a score and works the points out for you, checking it against a built-in word list. That list is English only, so Scrabble is not offered while the app is drawing itself in another language — a checker that called a valid Swedish word invalid would be worse than not offering the game at all. A Scrabble scorecard saved before the language changed still opens normally. A word the checker rejects voids the whole turn; the ruling is stored on the word, so every device in a shared game reaches the same score.
Language and appearance
Scorecard is available in English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, Dutch, Polish, Turkish, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and Japanese. By default it follows your device, and there is a language picker in the app's own Settings — deliberately, so that it works on older Android versions with no per-app language setting, and so a household on a phone, a tablet and a television does not have to set it three times. Settings also carries the theme and home screen layout options.
Purchases and refunds
Scorecard has no in-app purchases, no subscription and no advertising. If you bought the app and want a refund, that is handled by Google Play rather than by the developer — use Google Play's refund process.
Deleting your data
Everything the app stores lives on your own devices, so uninstalling removes it from that device. To clear what Google has, turn Scorecard's backup off under Backup in your device's Settings before uninstalling. Nothing is held on any server, because there is no server.
Privacy
Scorecard collects no data about you — no accounts, no analytics, no third-party SDKs. The full policy is at stevenlarsen23.github.io/scorecard-privacy.