Help with Tallycairn, the score keeper for game nights.
Tallycairn is an iPhone and iPad score keeper for card, dice and board game nights. You add the players, tap in each round, and it adds up the totals, shows who deals, and keeps a history and a shareable recap of the evening. It does not deal cards or roll dice; you play with your own. Questions? Write to bpupadhyaya@equalinformation.com.
On your device only, in the app’s private storage. There are no accounts. Deleting the app deletes the data, and it does not move to a new device on its own, so share the recap card of games you want to keep.
Tap the microphone in the entry sheet and say the scores, for example “Maya twelve, Theo eight”. Recognition runs on the device and the audio is not sent anywhere. If your device cannot do on-device recognition, the button stays hidden and you type the numbers.
Hearts-style penalty counting, partnership bid-and-take games with bags, rummy-style points races, a pegging race with skunk counting, trick-contract bidding, a thirteen-line five-dice sheet, golf-style low scoring, and a builder for your own house game. Tap the book icon on any board to read the rules the app applies.
Open More, then Ad-free. You can subscribe monthly (auto-renewing, billed to your Apple account and cancelled any time in Settings, then Apple ID, then Subscriptions), or watch short optional videos: 100 videos in a calendar month make the rest of that month ad-free, with a 20 second pause between videos and at most 40 a day.
Open More, then Ad choices and consent. You can also change the tracking permission in iOS Settings, then Privacy & Security, then Tracking.
The dealer rotates by one seat after each round and, in a rematch, continues from where the last game left off. Open the game’s menu to correct the starting dealer when you create a table.
Email bpupadhyaya@equalinformation.com with your device, the app version and what happened.