TRACK your Bowling score

This is the base functionality of the app, it allows you to register your bowling score while you play using your mobile phone.

You can click the pins to remove/reinsert them until they reflect your score. Once this is done you hit the OK button and your score is registered. 

The All Pins button is useful if you want to remove all pins. It is same as simply clicking all the pins, one by one, but it is faster. You can use this when making a strike, but also you can use it if you get single pin, as you can raise the single pin after hitting the All pins button - it is faster.

While you play, all known splits are displayed by name as they occur. If you register a wrong score by accident, you can use the Undo button to correct your score.

In the end the final result is registered and the game is saved online for future reference. This include the location of the game, and this will be used to note down which bowling alley was used

Monitor your bowling stats

In the Performance screen you can see all your bowling stats in a single view.

The high score is the highest score of all registered games. The high score game is always labeled with a small yellow crown when looking at games.

The average is the average of all games, typically the average will climb gradually as you improve, but old games will naturally lower it down, so normally you should perform above average.

Strike percentage tells you how often you hit a strike. Strikes are important to get better at, but bowling is more than just strikes.

The non-split percentage will tell you how often you end up in a difficult spare shot. The app uses Wikipedia article on bowling splits as a reference.

First ball average is how much you score on your strike shot. A strike will contribute with 10, a single pin shot with 9 and so forth. This is the average of all your first shots.

Single pin percentage tells you how often just a single pin remain on your lane after first shot. 

The clean percentage tells you how often you do strikes or spares. How often you clean the frame with your 2 shots.

Strike on strike tells you how often you make a strike after just making a strike. 

Study your bowling pin fall

The pin fall is a very important information and a true option to improve your play.

The pin fall is ordered by frequency so that pin fall that happens more often are on the top. 

Underneath each pin fall you will see how many times this combination happened to you and how often you manage to convert this pin fall to a spare.

Review your bowling games

HRBowling save all your games in an online database, so that you can study your improvements over time.

The games are saved and presented by date in the game archive. All the total scores from a given date is listed and the total pin fall is calculated.

If the game took place on a listed bowling alley from our map, the location is also listed. 

The high score game(s) are tagged with a small golden crone.

To study the details of the games click on the date.

Look into past bowling games

In this screen you are zoomed into a specific date and all games from that date is listed. The date is mentioned in the sub title.

In the screen you can see the specific pin fall per round. Pin fall from first shot is listed black, pin fall from second shot is listed in white and pins missed are listed as a white ring. Splits are marked in red.

When you no longer need the details, just hit the date again, and they will dissapear.

Find a bowling alley near you

In the map you will be able to see all bowling alleys near you. 

You can click on the red marker to see the name and the website address and other information of the bowling alley in question. 

Add your FAVORITE bowling alley to the map

There are so many bowling alleys in the world, thankfully, and we will try to add as many to our map as we can. However, we might miss out on your special place so we have added the feature to our map, that you can register a center by yourself.

This is done by hitting the addpin button in the upper right corner of the map and position the purple pin at the exact position of the bowling center.

In the screen at the bottom you can register the center information and click ok.

The bowling alley will not appear on the screen immediately, but will be available shortly after once we have reviewed and validated the information.

We thank you on beforehand to help us make the map better and better...

Follow your bowling friends

By connecting to your bowling friends you can follow their games directly and automatically from within the app. Simply move to the social screen and you will see a timeline view with all their games in chronological order.

The social feed is organized with an entry per day per friend on all the days where they had activity. If your friends have an avatar you will see their photo there and a list of all the games they played that day.

If you click this part of the screen you can give feedback to your friend on his performance.

At the top you can see the thumb up icon. If you want to give feedback to your friends on his scores, you can hit this icon. This will open up a list of icons and you can choose which one is the right one for you. 

Once you comment or select to “like” your friend, he will be notified by the HRBowling app.

Adding bowling friends

Adding a new bowling friend is easy, simply hit the small button in the upper right corner.

There 2 options to create a HR Bowling friendship.

If you are face to face, you simply agree to let one of you scan the other ones QR code. Let one of you push the start QR SCanner button and scan the QR code display on the other ones phone. Simple as that.

The other was is to send your personal friend code to your new friend. You can send it by email or by sms. Once your friend receive your coode, he copy/paste it to the input field and hit the plus sign. Nothing more to it.

Now you are firneds, and will be listed in the friend list displayed once you hit the friend with a star icon on the top. All future games and messages from you will automatically be shared with your friends - ans his ditto with you.

Send messages

You can send messages to your friends to let them know how you are doing, to challenge them or whatever reason you may have to message them.

Improve your profile

 In the setup section you can add a profile picture with your camera. This will make it easier for your friends to recognize you and is highly recommended.

You can also choose a nick name that will be displayed for your friends instead of your email.

At the bottom there is an option to rate HRBowling which we highly encourage you to do. In addition we would love to receive any number of reviews from you.

Finally you can delete your account from here as well. We do not encourage you to do that :-)