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The questions people ask most about PointSim. If your answer is not here, write to us from the contact page.
PointSim is a scoreboard simulator. You set up a contest — contestants, scoring method, number of rounds, elimination and winning rules — and the app keeps the standings as the rounds go by, applies the eliminations and shows the podium at the end.
It does not play the game for you: it asks no questions and deals no cards. It takes over the scoreboard of the game happening at the table.
No. PointSim works entirely offline. There is no account to create, it never contacts a server, and your data never leaves your device.
It is on the App Store for iOS today. A Google Play version is in the works; the button on the download page will switch on by itself when it ships.
Downloading and using the app is free.
Between 2 and 40. Contestants can be people (one of 18 emoji plus any name you like) or countries (a flag from 100 countries with a localised name).
If you play in teams, add each team as a single contestant — in practice that opens the 40-contestant limit up to a much bigger group.
Three: free number entry (you type each round’s points in), a non-repeating point pool (a fixed set of scores handed out once each per round), and a win/draw/loss table (3-1-0 by default, editable).
You also choose the direction: high score wins, or low score wins. The second is what you want for games where you collect penalty points.
Two options: a fixed number of eliminations per round, or a score threshold. With a fixed number, the worst-scoring contestant (or however many you set) drops off the board at the end of each round. With a threshold, anyone who crosses — or falls below — the limit you set is out.
You can also set how many finalists to keep; the board narrows itself down to that number.
The default tie-break is “last round”: between two contestants on the same total, the one who scored better in the final round comes out ahead.
In this mode the round score does not come from one person: every contestant scores the others, and the round total is built from those votes. It is the same structure you see in Eurovision-style contests.
Combine it with the non-repeating point pool and each juror can hand out the same set of scores only once, which turns the result into a genuine order of preference.
On your device only. Contests in progress and finished ones are saved to local storage and never sent to a server. Delete the app and those records go with it.
No. There is no sign-up, no login and no email verification. You start using it the moment you open it.
Yes. The last round can be undone with a single tap; the board returns to its previous state and you can enter the round again.
The final standings screen shows the podium and the full table. Take a screenshot and share it straight from there.
Yes, the app offers different scoreboard looks; pick the one that suits the mood of your contest.
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