A scorecard called Friday night rummy: four players with their running totals, a plus and minus beside each, and the rounds already played listed underneath with the time each was entered. — Every round is kept, not just the total — so the hand somebody miscounted can be corrected instead of argued about.

iPhone & iPad

TillyTally™

One person keeps score for everybody, on one phone — the way one person always ends up doing it on the back of an envelope.

It does not know how any game is played, and it never will. You know the rules; what you want is somewhere to put the number without hunting for a pencil.

What it keeps

Games — cards, darts, anything where a hand produces a number for each person. Plus and minus move by the game's own step, so a game scored in fives is not five taps away from twenty-five.
Attendance — a register. One tap per name, and the session is dated.
Counts — anything counted as it happens: people through a door, laps, rounds of tea. One tap adds one.
Who called it — a tap goes to whoever turned out to be right, and the date is kept, which is the whole fun of it.

Every round, not just the total

Totals are worked out from the rounds every time they are shown, so they can never end up disagreeing with the numbers above them. Somebody always miscounts a hand two deals ago; the fix is to tap that round and change it.

Nothing ends a game by itself, either. When the target is reached the card says so and waits — the people at the table decide when it is over, and putting it away records the day.

People and sides

Names are typed once and used by every game after. Correct a spelling and it changes on every scorecard they are on, so an old game never ends up calling somebody something else.

Sides are for games played in teams. A side keeps its own score and its own history, whoever is on it that night — and a card remembers the line-up it was played with, so adding somebody next week does not put them in last week's game.

Sending one on

A tally can be shared three ways: as a file that opens in somebody else's TillyTally™ with every entry in it, as a PDF for printing, or as a picture for putting in a message. One that arrives always lands as a copy alongside your own — the app will not guess that their Ada is your Ada.

Scoring you can describe once

How far you play, whether getting there is good or bad, what the buttons move by, and whether a total may go below zero. That is the whole of what a game is here. Save a set-up as your own and it is there next time, under whatever you call it at home.

The templates that come with the app are traditional games only — the ones that predate the idea of owning a game's name. Where a household plays a branded game, the shape of its scoring is almost always one of them, and it can be saved under the name the family uses.

Support

Questions, bug reports, or suggestions are welcome — see the support page. The privacy policy is short, because the app collects nothing.