Pickleball Scoreboard
Pickleball scoreboard supporting traditional side-out scoring and rally scoring, with the three-number server call, correct 0-0-2 start, and configurable win-by-2 games to 11, 15, or 21. Works offline.
Built by the AbraCalc team
How to play
- Enter both team names, choose side-out or rally scoring, pick singles or doubles, and set your target score.
- In side-out mode, tap whether the serving side won or lost each rally; only the serving side can add to the score.
- In rally mode, tap the Point button for whichever team actually won the rally — every rally scores for someone.
- Watch the score-score-server call at the top for the exact call to shout, and tap Undo Last Rally to fix any misfired tap.
Name your two teams, pick traditional side-out scoring or the newer rally format, choose singles or doubles, and set your win target of 11, 15, or 21 points before starting. In side-out mode only the serving team can add to the score, so you tap whether the serving side won or lost each rally, and the board handles the doubles server-number rotation, correctly opening every new game on server 2 per the standard 0-0-2 convention before a side-out ever passes serve to the other team. Rally scoring works differently: every rally awards a point to whoever wins it regardless of who served, with serve simply following the ball. The giant display always shows the traditional spoken call — serving score, receiving score, and server number in doubles — and every game locks in at your chosen target with a two-point winning margin.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the three-number server call mean?
- In doubles side-out scoring, the call shows the serving team's score, the receiving team's score, and whether it's server 1 or server 2 currently serving for that team — for example 7-4-2 means the serving team leads 7-4 and their second server is up.
- Why does a new doubles game start on server 2 instead of server 1?
- This is the standard 0-0-2 convention: because a team would otherwise get an extra service turn compared to their opponent over the course of a game, the very first serving team's first turn only gets one server (treated as server 2) before a fault causes a full side-out to the other team.
- What's the difference between side-out and rally scoring here?
- In side-out scoring, only the serving side can add points, and losing a rally on serve passes the serve along without scoring. In rally scoring, every single rally awards a point to whoever wins it no matter who served, so games move faster and finish in fewer total rallies.