3 Strikes vs Killer Pool: Pub Scorekeeper

What Killer Pool: Pub Scorekeeper is

The most playful product in the category. It adds 17 "power cards" that let players steal lives, swap lives and reverse the order.

Pricing: Free, with Premium at QAR 2.99 a month or QAR 14.99 once — roughly $0.82 a month or about $4 for life.

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.

The power cards are a genuinely good idea and we have nothing like them — if your crowd wants a sillier, swingier night, that is a real reason to pick it. Their shot-accuracy stats go deeper than ours. And at about $4 once, their paid tier is cheaper than any subscription we sell.

• Configurable lives with automatic turn order and eliminations
• 17 power cards — steal a life, swap lives, reverse the rotation
• Shot and accuracy statistics, and black-ball tracking
• Head-to-head leaderboards
• A night theme for dark rooms
• A shareable podium image at the end
• A timed play mode

What we do that they do not

• Who has paid, the pot, and the payout split
• A TV display for the room, not just the phone
• Unlimited undo
• Web — works on any phone, any laptop, any TV browser, nothing to install
• Venue branding, a public page and staff accounts

Which to pick

Pick 3 Strikes if you are on Android or you want the night on a screen, or you need the money handled.

Stay with Killer Pool: Pub Scorekeeper if you are on iOS, you play for fun rather than a pot, and power cards sound like your crowd.

How we checked

Every claim on this page comes from Killer Pool: Pub Scorekeeper'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 If anything here is out of date, tell us and we will fix it — we would rather be correct than flattering.