APA Scorekeeper

Review by eFreeware

Two league bodies, the American Poolplayers Association and the Canadian Poolplayers Association, put out APA Scorekeeper as their scoring app. It is a free Android app in the Sports category, not a game, and it exists to handle the paperwork side of league night: keeping score, managing who is on your team and getting the result to the person who runs your division.

What makes it worth considering is that it comes from the league itself rather than a third party. If you play 8-ball or 9-ball in an APA or CPA division, the app covers the tasks that come up around a match, and it does so without ads or in-app purchases. The app has been available since October 2019 and was last updated in October 2026, so it is an actively maintained tool rather than an abandoned one.

Built for league members, not casual players

It serves players in the APA and CPA leagues. That is a specific audience: players who turn up for scheduled division matches, whose results count toward a team standing, and whose scores have to be recorded in a way the league accepts. If that describes your Tuesday or Thursday night, the app is aimed at you.

It is less obviously useful for someone who plays pool socially and wants to track games among friends. The app is a record-keeping tool for an organized competition, and it assumes you are part of one.

Scoring 8-ball and 9-ball matches

The core job is keeping score during 8-ball and 9-ball matches. Rather than writing on a scoresheet or trusting a running tally in your head, you record the match in the app as it happens. For anyone who has had to reconstruct a disputed score afterward, having it captured in one place is the main appeal.

The app also handles matches that cannot be finished in one sitting. If a match has to span multiple days, you can score and submit it in parts rather than losing the progress you have already recorded. That matters in leagues where scheduling conflicts, late finishes or venue closures split a match across two dates, and it is the kind of detail that suggests the app was designed by people who actually run leagues.

Roster changes and sending results to your operator

Team management is the second half of what the app does. You can add players to your team's roster and remove them again, which means lineup changes do not have to wait for someone else to update a central list. For a team captain juggling substitutions, that is a meaningful convenience.

When a match is over, you submit the scored result to your League Operator through the app. There is also a way to send feedback about a match to that same operator, which gives you a direct channel for questions or disputes instead of relying on a phone call or a message that gets lost. Together these features cover the full arc of a league night: set the roster, score the frames, hand in the result.

What it costs

APA Scorekeeper is free to download, and it contains no advertising. There are also no in-app purchases. The app is free to download and use.

That is a straightforward arrangement, and it fits the app's purpose. A scoring tool that interrupts play with ads or pushes upgrades would be a nuisance at the table, so it is good that this one does neither. You install it and use it during matches.

How it compares with general scorekeeping apps

The obvious alternative is a generic scorekeeping app that can be configured for any sport or game. Those tend to be more flexible, and they may suit someone who plays several different games and wants one place to record all of them. What they will not do is talk to your league: they cannot submit a result to a League Operator or manage an APA or CPA roster.

The other route is paper. A printed scoresheet is something plenty of players are comfortable with. Its weakness is the same as it has always been: the numbers have to be transferred and handed in by hand, and a partial match spread over two dates is harder to keep straight. APA Scorekeeper's advantage is that scoring, roster changes and submission sit in the same place, which is exactly the gap a general-purpose app leaves open.

A useful tool for APA and CPA players

APA Scorekeeper is a narrow app that does a specific job well enough to be worth installing if you are in the position it was built for. It scores 8-ball and 9-ball, lets you adjust your team roster, submits results and feedback to your League Operator, and copes with matches that run across more than one day. It is free and has no ads.

The audience is league members of the APA and CPA, and the value is highest for team captains and anyone who regularly has to hand in results. A 3.6 average from 934 ratings suggests the experience is not perfect for everyone, and a general scorekeeping app remains a reasonable option if you want one tool for several games. But for the league paperwork this app was designed around, it covers the essentials in one place.

If you play in an APA or CPA division, I would install it before your next match and see whether it simplifies how your team records and reports results. If you do not play in those leagues, there is little here for you to use.