Lanetalk Bowling

This is by far the nicest looking bowling app I’ve used. I live in a city that doesn’t have any automatic scoring centers in it so I have to keep my score manually. This is where the fatal flaw of this app lies which I discovered while keeping my league scores tonight. I kept track of every frame in real time and when I reached the end of each game I hit Save. You’d think if you hit Save then that score would be logged and become part of your average calculation. However, this app doesn’t add your games to your average until you’re done recording whole block. Somehow, after my three league games were recorded, I accidentally started a new game. When I backed out of this game (because I was done bowling) it erased all of my scores. Consequently, I lost all my data for the night. This app needs to redo the interface so that when you press save at the end of a game, it is truly saved. It also needs a way to cancel out of a game that is started in error without affecting other scores. Until they fix these features, I will use the other bowling app that is only a $9 one-time charge. Even thought is not as pretty, it gives you most of the same data and saves the games as you input them.

Trying to be a bit more nuanced here since I’m a bowler that also works in software/games QA. First off, what it does right it does incredibly well. The stat tracking is superb, the instructional material is great, the ability to compare myself against other local bowlers is fun, and importing your scores couldn’t be any easier. However, I have ran into a few unfortunate bugs with the UI that would require a full restart to fix, and it does like to inexplicably log you out from time to time (which is admittedly more of a minor nuisance at best). These issues have happened less with recent updates but I still see them every once in a while. Could also because I’m a weirdo that’ll bowl ten games a session and then forget to upload them so I’m adding like 40 games at a time, so most folks might not run into this if you’re just a league bowler tracking your progress. Either way though, definitely the best thing on the market in terms of what it does. Super recommend.

Do you wanna know how you ruin a great app and throw away some money? Follow these guys cause they’re doing it well. I love most of this apps features is the reason I paid for the best subscription. This whole year has been great. Then I started to notice the last few months lot of people aren’t on it any more. Come to find out they have taken away about everything there is for the free service. They wanna make more money and get it but you gotta give them something that will get people a reason to use it. Then I find out tonight that the bowling alleys are supposed to pay them a monthly fee to be a part of it. I believe it should be the other way around. what incentive does the bowling alley have for paying Lanetalk for the service? I see a bunch of incentive for lane talk to pay the bowling alleys. If I was the bowling alley, I wouldn’t give a single red scent to lane talk. I’ve been trying to decide if I was going to let them charge me for another year subscription but Im thinking that no I’m not going to. good luck lane talk your going to need it the way you have been going. I have to redact a portion of my review. It was brought to my attention that lane talk does not charge the bowling center a fee. It’s the programmer that charges them. My mistake I apologize. Although I still stand by my opinion that Lanetalk has raped the free version of the app and it is a fact that there has been a substantial amount of people that are no longer appearing on the rankings lists. Which in turn takes a lot away from the app’s appeal. I might renew my subscription later but for now I’m not feeling all that interested being on it by myself. Which is the way it has felt lately.