Amazon / Sports / SCORE BOARD
REVIEW
Score Board does one thing on a Fire tablet, and does it adequately.
A bare-bones digital scorekeeper for card nights and pickup games, with the visual sophistication of a 2014 utility app and roughly the feature set to match.
BY THE APP COMRADE DESK · MAY 11, 2026 · 3 MIN READ
Score Board
THE RED MACHINE
OUR SCORE
6.2
AMAZON
★ 5.0
PRICE
$0.99
Every Fire tablet ends up with a couple of single-purpose utilities that exist for one specific evening and then live on the home screen forever. Score Board is one of those. It tracks points. It has a plus button and a minus button. It does not try to be anything else, and on a Fire HD propped against a salt shaker during a card game, that restraint is most of the value.
The app is free, runs offline, and asks for nothing. It also looks like it was last designed during the first Trump administration, and a few of its rough edges — no round-level undo, presets that don’t enforce their own rules — are the sort of thing a single afternoon of polish would fix.
For most people the question isn’t whether Score Board is the best scorekeeper on the Amazon Appstore. It’s whether you’ll remember it exists the next time the cards come out.
Score Board is the kind of app you install ten minutes before guests arrive and then forget you have.
FEATURES
Score Board is a generic point-tracking utility for the Amazon Fire tablet. Add players, tap plus or minus buttons next to each name to add or subtract points, reset the round when you're done. That's the loop. There's a running totals view, a per-round history, and a configurable increment so you can bump by 1, 5, 10, or a custom value depending on whether you're keeping score for gin rummy, darts, or a backyard cornhole tournament.
Players can be renamed and reordered. The history view shows each scoring event with a timestamp so you can settle the "wait, who got that last point" arguments without rewinding the night. There is no online sync, no account, no leaderboard — everything lives on the tablet, which is either a feature or a limitation depending on how you feel about cloud anything for a five-person card game.
A handful of game presets ship in — basketball, soccer-style low-scoring matches, generic two-team. Most users will ignore the presets and just use the freeform mode.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
The app does the job it advertises without nagging, without ads in the playing surface, and without an account wall. On a Fire HD propped against the salt shaker, it's legible from across a kitchen table, the buttons are big enough to hit with one hand while holding a beer in the other, and it never demands your attention between taps.
The offline-only design is genuinely useful here. A scorekeeper that needs Wi-Fi to add a point would be absurd, and Score Board correctly does not.
ROOM TO IMPROVE
Visually it's stuck in 2016. The colour palette is heavy primaries on grey, the typography is the platform default, and the layout doesn't take advantage of the Fire HD 10's screen real estate — large player counts crowd the buttons and small player counts leave the screen feeling sparse. The presets are underbaked; the soccer mode doesn't, for instance, enforce that goals come in single units, which makes the presets feel decorative.
There's no undo at the round level. If you accidentally reset a round mid-game, the history is gone. For an app whose entire job is to be reliable during a six-person Catan night, that's a real risk.
CONCLUSION
Score Board is the kind of app you install ten minutes before guests arrive and then forget you have. That's not faint praise — for a free utility on a Fire tablet, doing one job without friction is most of the brief. If the developer added a round-level undo and refreshed the visual layer, this would be the obvious pick in its niche. Today it's the adequate pick.