Comparison
3 Strikes vs CuePal
An all-in-one management suite for billiard and snooker clubs.
What CuePal is
Built for a club with staff, tables to book and members to bill — tournaments are one module among many.
Pricing: Free up to 10 members · Silver $45/mo · Gold $95/mo. Taken from their own round-up article of 2026-02-25; their pricing page returned 404 on 2026-10-20.
What they do that we do not
This is the section most comparison pages leave out, which is why most comparison pages are useless. If any of the following matters to you, they are the better choice and you should stop reading here.
It is a different class of product, and if you run an actual club it does a dozen things we will never do: booking, memberships, billing, marketing. We are a tournament night; they are a business system.
- Table booking and membership management
- League scheduling and dynamic player rankings
- A dedicated iOS and Android player app
- Advanced analytics and email marketing
- Open play management
What we do that they do not
- The three-strikes format
- A price a single bar will actually pay — $11.99 against $45
- The pot and the payout
- A free tier with no member cap
Which to pick
Pick 3 Strikes if you are a bar with a table, not a club with a booking system.
Stay with CuePal if you need booking, memberships and billing in one place.
How we checked
Every claim on this page comes from CuePal's own public material, read on 2026-10-20 and linked here. Where their material does not say something, we have recorded it as unknown rather than assuming it is absent. If anything here is out of date, tell us and we will fix it — we would rather be correct than flattering.