Meet Tableside — Keep score with friends

Games

Tableside

Keep score with friends.

What Tableside does

Tableside is the running tab for the games you already play with your friends. Card night, board-game night, the Yahtzee tournament at the cabin — pick a game, pull the players from your contacts, and start. Tableside takes it from there.

What ships in v1:

— Pick a game. Cards, Spades, Hearts, Gin Rummy, Bridge, Dominoes, Mahjong, Yahtzee, Scrabble, Bocce, Darts, or roll your own. — Pick players the way you'd actually do it at the table — tap a few faces from Apple's contact picker (Tableside never reads your address book), pick from a saved friend group, or just type names. — STACK mode. Each player has a running points stack. Tap +Add to top them up. At the end, enter their end count and Tableside computes who's up, who's down, and the fewest possible transfers to even everyone out. — SCORE mode. A clean round-by-round scoreboard with running totals. Add +1, +5, +10, or any number per round. Choose high score wins or low score wins. — Tableside is unit-less by design. Every value is just 'points' — what those points mean is up to you. Beads, chips, leaves from your backyard. We don't track money and we don't show currency. — Add late players, edit any entry by tapping a player's row, swipe to delete a wrong number. Whole numbers or decimals. — Disappearing games. Toggle on for a game you don't want saved — it auto-deletes when you save and finish. — Friend groups. Save your regular crew once, pull them in with checkboxes the next time. — Settle-up summary. Tap share at the end → a clean image card or plain text you can send to the group chat with one tap. — Stats tab. See per-player leaderboards, biggest single-game performance, win rate, games played by type — all from your finished sessions. — On-device, no account, no analytics. The contacts picker hands us only the names you tap; Tableside never asks for full contacts permission unless you tap Search, and even then your address book never leaves your phone. No sign-in, no sync, no third-party SDKs. — Free. No ads, no subscription, no IAP gates. Tableside Pro is a one-tap unlock — also free — for unlimited history beyond the most recent five games, share-summary export, and custom game templates.

Tableside is a scoreboard for in-person games. Use it for whatever counter you want — points, chips, cookies, beads.

A look inside

Tap any screenshot to open the full-resolution version.

What's inside

• Pick a game — Cards, Spades, Yahtzee — 11 built-ins plus custom.
• Pick players — From a saved friend group, from Contacts (no permissions until you tap Search), or manual.
• Stack mode — Per-player running points stack with rebuy and end count.
• Score mode — Round-by-round score entry, high or low wins.
• Settle up — Fewest-transfers algorithm at end-of-game.
• Friend groups — Save your regular crew once, add them with checkboxes next time.

Why we built it

When friends play games in person, somebody has to be the scorekeeper. For round-by-round card games and board games, that means keeping the score on paper, in Notes, or on a whiteboard that gets erased by accident. For games where every player has a running points stack, the scorekeeper also has to do the end-of-nigh…

What makes it different

Tableside is the only iOS scorekeeper that combines a running-stack mode AND a round-by-round score mode in one app, with a Contacts-picker player roster as the first action, for free, with no ads, no subscription, no IAP gates. The three large scorekeepers in the App Store have only round-by-round mode and none of th…

Who it's for

Built for anyone who values fast, private, on-device software with a calm, focused UX.

In one line: Keep score with friends.

Try it

See the Tableside app page for the full feature list, the info table, and support links.

Or go straight to the App Store listing.

Use Tableside, found a bug, or have a feature request? Comments are open below — anonymous is fine.