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Score Entry

All the ways to record game results in PickleFriend — straight from the organizer's screen, from players' own phones, or hands-free with headless auto-mixing.

Scores are what turn a casual mix into tracked ratings and ladder standings. There are a few ways to get them in, and which one fits depends on who's holding the phone — you, the players, or nobody at all.

Availability: Score entry is included free for every account's first month (details below). After that it's part of the Pro and Club plans — and your first time on Pro starts with its own 10-day free trial (moving up from Lite, your unused Lite time carries over instead; see Plans & billing). The plan that matters is the group owner's — a sub-organizer records scores in a Pro owner's group regardless of their own plan.

Free for your first month

Every new account includes score entry free for its first month — record real games and watch ratings build from them, nothing to sign up for. When the month ends, everything you recorded stays: your games, ratings, and history remain visible. Recording new scores after the first month is part of Pro. About a week before your first month of free score entry ends, we let you know once, in the app or by email if you've opted in, so the change never comes as a surprise.

The ways to enter scores

  • Organizer entry — you type scores into the Mixer as games finish.
  • Players' phones — share a score link and players enter their own court's result. It syncs to your screen as it comes in.
  • Big Screen / kiosk — enter scores from a shared screen at the venue, or from a tablet at the desk with a no-login kiosk link.
  • Headless auto-mixing — hand the session to the server. It finalizes each round as scores arrive, mixes the next one, and pushes the new courts back out to players. You don't touch it.

Scores feed straight into ratings and, for leagues, into your ladder standings.

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