Keep the club in your pocket
Add it to your home screen
Two taps and the site sits on your phone like any other app: its own icon, no address bar, and the Score Card one tap from the felt. Nothing to download, nothing to sign into, and no app store involved.
iPhone and iPad
Safari or Chrome
- Open this site in Safari or Chrome. Either one will do it.
- Tap the Share button, the square with an arrow coming out of the top. Safari keeps it at the bottom of the screen, Chrome at the right hand end of the address bar.
- Tap Add to Home Screen. In Chrome it hides one level down: tap View More at the bottom left of the share sheet first.
- Name it whatever you like, then tap Add. The icon lands on your last home screen page.
On older iPhones Safari puts the Share button at the top right instead of the bottom.
Android
Chrome, Edge, Samsung Internet
- Open this site in Chrome.
- Tap the three dots at the top right.
- Tap Install app, or Add to Home screen if that is what your phone calls it. They do the same thing.
- Confirm, and the icon appears with your other apps.
Chrome sometimes offers to install the site by itself, as a small bar along the bottom. Tapping that does the same job. On Samsung Internet the same option lives under the menu at the bottom right.
Worth knowing
What you get for the trouble
The Score Card, one tap away
Add the Score Card page itself rather than the home page and the icon opens straight onto the card, clocks ready. Do it from this address:
It survives bad wifi
A saved copy keeps enough of the site on the phone to open and run when the room drops off the network, which taprooms do. A match already on the card is unaffected either way.
No browser in the way
No address bar and no tab strip, so the board gets the whole screen. On an iPhone the Score Card also asks to keep the screen awake, so the phone does not sleep between rolls.
Nothing here installs anything in the usual sense. It is a shortcut with an icon, it takes almost no space, and removing it is the same as removing any other icon: hold it down and delete. Nothing about your place on the ladder lives on your phone, so a phone swap costs you nothing.
On a laptop the same thing works in Chrome or Edge: look for the small install icon at the right hand end of the address bar.