How it works
A whole night, in five steps
Setup takes about a minute. After that you are tapping one of two buttons until somebody wins.
1. Start a night
Name it, set the buy-in, and pick a ruleset if your house plays something other than the usual three lives. You can skip all of that and take the defaults, which are the rules most bars already play.
2. Put the names in
Type them, or paste a list — every line becomes a player. Tap the circle next to a name to mark them paid, and watch the pot total climb. The start button stays off until everybody is squared up, and it tells you who is missing.
3. Lock in
The order scrambles on screen, in front of everyone, and the night begins. No late entries after this — three strikes is an elimination format, so somebody joining at rack four would start clean against people already carrying two strikes.
4. Tap made it or missed
That is the entire game. A miss is a strike; three strikes and that player is out, with a full-screen card so the room knows. The next two players are named under the shooter so nobody has to ask.
When the table runs out of balls, hit new rack. Whoever is up breaks the new one, and the break is free — they break, then take their shot.
5. Somebody wins
Last player standing. You get the full standings, what the pot pays out by place, and a link you can send to the group chat. One more tap runs it again with the same names.
Putting it on a screen
Two options, both free. Mirror the phone — the live screen is built to be legible across a room, which is why the names are so large. Or open the TV link on anything with a browser: a laptop plugged into the television, a smart TV, a tablet behind the bar. It updates itself.
What happens when the wi-fi drops
Nothing you can see. Every tap is written to your phone first and the screen redraws from that immediately — the network is never on the path of a shot. The badge in the corner changes from "Saved" to "Saved here" and everything carries on. When signal returns it catches up by itself.
The TV display and the QR card do pause, because they are separate devices reading from the server. The board holds the last good state on screen rather than going blank.
Run your next night on it
Free, and it runs a whole night — the strike engine, the TV display, the player QR card, who has paid and what the pot pays out. No ads on any plan.