Pinball Companion
Walk up to any machine with a plan.
Tournament playbooks, rules and shot maps for competitive pinball, all offline on iPhone and iPad. Now with your scores, and in English, French and Spanish.
Read it between balls
Every guided machine opens on a Tournament Playbook: a few numbered steps, in the order a strong player takes them. Each step says which shot starts, lights or collects what, so you never have to dig through a rulesheet at the machine.
Rules
The scoring skeleton, modes, multiballs and wizard modes, written in our own words and checked against cited sources.
Pro or Premium/LE
On 38 Stern machines from 2012 on that play differently by model, a switch shows only your model's rules, playbook, multiballs and modes. The app remembers your choice.
Layout
Every shot numbered with what it does, pinned on a real playfield photo where the app has one.
History
Who designed it, when it came out, and how it fits into pinball's story.
Chapters
Tap Chapters on a machine page to jump straight to any part of its guide. On iPad, the sidebar lists them under On this page.
Your scores
Photograph the score display after a game and the app reads it on your phone, or type it in. See your best and number of games on each machine, with your history and progress chart one tap away. Scores sync only through your own iCloud.
Events
Tournament banks for 487 shows, club nights and regular competitions, each machine one tap from its guide. Filter by country and state, sort by what is near you, and star the ones you follow. Browse them on a map, or find a city or state, even offline. Line-ups update every week.
Point the camera
Aim at a backglass or cabinet and the app reads the title on your phone to open that machine. Nothing is uploaded.
Made for iPhone Duo
Stand an iPhone Duo half-folded and the machine page, the event page and Library split in two: what you read stands up, what you tap lies flat. On Layout, the playfield photo turns on its side on the upright half. Events stands its map up above a flat list, Games previews the machine you tap, and Settings previews what you change. Unfold the phone, or turn it sideways, for the normal layout.
Built for the venue
- Works with no signal: every guide ships inside the app. When you are online, event line-ups update every week.
- Search, or browse by era, manufacturer, designer and decade. When a filter is on, a line at the top of the list says what it shows; tap Show all to clear it.
- Star machines and events and keep your own notes, synced through your iCloud.
- Library puts your starred events at the top, above your starred machines, and My scores lists every machine you have played.
- A dark, high-contrast design you can read in a dim arcade.
- No account, no ads, no tracking. Optional tips unlock nothing.
- The whole app and all 526 guides in English, French and Spanish. It follows your device's language, or pick one in Settings › Language. Pinball jargon (multiball, jackpot, skill shot…) stays in English, as on the machine.