LaneCaddie
The only bowling app that sees your motion.
Your Apple Watch detects every shot and shows how it compares to your best — you just tap what fell. The whole app, 14 days free, then $4.99/mo. No ads, ever.
Built by a real league bowler in Colorado — and tested lefty-first.
Wear it. Bowl. Improve.
Your Watch catches every shot the moment you release — you just tap what fell. No phone on the lane.
Wear your Watch
On your bowling hand. Start a session from the LaneCaddie complication. No calibration, no setup.
Bowl normally
Every shot is detected automatically the moment you release, and its motion is captured.
Tap what fell
One tap for a strike or spare, a couple for a leave. The Watch keeps your running score.
See the motion
Per-shot tempo, rev, posting, and follow-through — and how they trend over every game and session.
A scorekeeper that actually understands your shot.
Wrist-IMU shot detection — a first in bowling
The moment you release, your Watch knows you bowled and captures the motion of the shot — your tempo, rev, posting, and follow-through. Then you tap what fell. No buttons to start a shot, no phone on the approach.
Powered by CoreMotion + on-device machine learning. Nothing leaves your wrist.
See the motion behind every shot
After each ball, LaneCaddie shows your tempo, rev, posting stillness, and follow-through — not as raw numbers, but as how this shot compares to your normal, with at-a-glance consistency dots. Stay green and you're repeating; drift yellow or red and you'll know before it costs you a frame.
Your rev shows as a relative change vs your own average — never an rpm. Axis rotation and tilt come in a later update.
Feel your tempo — a metronome on your wrist
LaneCaddie pulses your target tempo through the Taptic Engine as you step to the line, so you can groove your timing by feel instead of guesswork. Silent, eyes-up, lane-ready — and no other bowling app has it.
Ships day one — included in Pro. Set your BPM, then feel it in the approach.
Score the whole night on your wrist
Tap what fell, game after game — the Watch keeps your running score all night, no phone on the lane. The full frame-by-frame scoresheet is waiting on your iPhone when you want to review it.
Know your arsenal — and your next ball
A built-in catalog of 60 balls across 11 brands — Storm, Roto Grip, Hammer, Motiv, Brunswick and more — with 100+ colorways and the specs that matter: coverstock, core, RG, differential, and the lane condition each is built for. Add your gear, tag which ball you threw on every shot, then compare your bag against the catalog to spot the gaps and pick your next ball with data, not a hunch.
You do the comparing — LaneCaddie gives you the specs.
Pricing you can trust
One honest price — $4.99/mo or $39.99/yr — and a real 14-day free trial of the whole app. No ads, ever. No tricks, no confusing pop-ups, no dark-pattern paywalls. Cancel anytime. Your best games sell the app; we don't need to nag you.
Share your night
Finish a game or session and tap share — LaneCaddie turns your scorecard into a clean image and opens the iOS share sheet. Post it to your Instagram or TikTok story, or send it straight to your league group in Messages. Your best games are the best ad we've got.
Your stats on your home screen
The "Bowling Stats" widget puts your last game, average, high game, and strike rate right on your iPhone home screen — Small, Medium, and Large sizes, with the Large adding a per-ball strike-rate strip from your arsenal. Tap it to jump straight into the dashboard.
A native iOS widget (WidgetKit), tinted-home-screen ready.
Camera analytics — and fully automatic scoring
Point your iPhone down the lane and LaneCaddie measures ball speed, entry angle, and breakpoint board — and fills in your pin count automatically. The kind of data that used to require a $25,000 lane-side camera rig.
Other bowling apps track your score. LaneCaddie sees your motion.
Comparison-shopping from r/Bowling or a search? Here's the honest table — what each app actually does.
| LaneCaddie | LaneTalk | Strikee / AI apps | PinTracker / StrikeMaster | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Works at any bowling center | ✅ | ⚪auto-scoring only at connected centers | ✅needs tripod | ✅ |
| Sees your body / motion (tempo, rev, posting, follow-through) | ✅only one that does | ❌ | ⚪camera-based, needs tripod | ❌ |
| Apple Watch is the instrument | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ⚪tap remote only |
| Setup at the lane | none | noneat connected centers | tripod + framing | none |
| No ads, no tricks — one honest price + real free trial | ✅ | account required | freemium + AI paywall | account / Pro |
| Built lefty-first | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
Comparison reflects each app's publicly listed features as of June 2026.
One honest price.
The whole app — iPhone and Apple Watch — in a single plan. No tiers to decode, no ads, no tricks.
No ads, ever. No tricks, no confusing pop-ups, no dark-pattern paywalls — one real free trial of the entire app, then one price.
A Camera tier with on-device analytics + AI coaching arrives later in 2026. · See everything included →
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"I'm Jacob — a left-handed league bowler in Colorado. Every bowling app I tried made me tap my score in after each frame. The whole point of the Apple Watch is that it should know what you just did. So I built the one that does."
Before you install
How much does it cost?
Are there ads?
Does LaneCaddie score my game automatically?
Does it work without an Apple Watch?
Can I look up my ball and plan my next one?
Which motion metrics do I get, and when?
Can I bowl with my non-bowling hand on the Watch?
Does it work for left-handers?
What happens if I cancel?
Will I lose my games if I switch phones?
When does the Camera tier ship?
Is my data sold to advertisers?
Detect every shot. Track every game.
$4.99/mo or $39.99/yr. 14 days free. No ads, ever. No tricks. Cancel anytime.
Coming to the App Store, July 2026.
Not on iOS yet? Follow along for launch updates: