Pickleball score keeper.
Tap the side that won each rally. It calls the score, shows who serves and from which side, and handles 0-0-2, side-outs and rally scoring. Free, no app, keeps working offline.
Player 1 serves from the right to Player 3. Server 2 (start of game).
Doubles · side-out scoring · game to 11, win by 2
Tap the side that won the rally, even if they weren't serving. Keyboard: ← → or 1 2, U to undo.
Names
Changes apply straight away. In doubles, the player who starts on the right is the team's starting server.
Game rules
These start a new game.
Options
🔒 Everything runs in your browser. Names and scores stay on this device and survive a refresh. Once the page has loaded it keeps working without a signal.
How to use the scorekeeper
- Set the game up. Open Settings to pick doubles or singles, side-out or rally scoring, the target score and who serves first. Add names if you like: in doubles, put each team's starting server in "Starts on the right".
- Tap the side that won each rally. The big number is the score, the call at the top is what the server says out loud, and the highlighted row shows who serves and from which side. The outlined row on the other team is the receiver.
- Fix mistakes with Undo. It steps back one rally at a time, as far back as the start of the game.
- Switch ends when it tells you to. Then tap Swap sides so the screen matches the court.
How pickleball scoring works
Only the serving side scores. In standard side-out scoring, win a rally on serve and you get the point. Win it while receiving and you score nothing, but you win the serve. Games are usually to 11, win by 2, and tournament games can go to 15 or 21.
Doubles is called in three numbers: the serving team's score, the receiving team's score, then the server number. "5-3-2" means the serving team has 5, the other team has 3, and the second server is serving. Both partners serve before a side out: when server 1 loses a rally the serve passes to their partner, and when server 2 loses one the other team gets the ball.
Every game starts at 0-0-2. At the start of a game only one player on the first serving team serves before the first side out, and that player counts as the second server. After that, both partners serve every time.
Your score tells you where to stand. Each team's starting server is on the right when the team's score is even (0, 2, 4…) and on the left when it is odd, with the partner opposite. That holds when serving and when receiving. After a side out, whoever is on the right serves first. Partners only swap sides when their team scores a point.
Singles is two numbers, the server's score and then the receiver's, starting at 0-0. You serve from the right when your score is even and from the left when it is odd, and a lost rally on serve is a side out.
Switching ends: in a tournament single game or deciding game, players change ends when the first side reaches 6 (game to 11), 8 (to 15) or 11 (to 21), and the same server keeps serving.
Want the long version, with examples? Read our guide to pickleball scoring, the singles rules or the complete rules guide.
Rally scoring and the MLP format
In rally scoring, every rally scores. The side that wins the rally gets the point, serving or not, and takes the serve if it didn't have it. The score is called as two numbers, and each side gets one server per turn: after a side out, whoever is on the right by their team's score serves. USA Pickleball allows rally scoring as a provisional option for 2026, in games to 11, 15 or 21.
Game point can be won while receiving. That changed in the 2026 rulebook. Under the 2025 rule, game point could only be scored by the serving side.
How Major League Pickleball uses it. MLP's 2026 doubles and mixed doubles games use side-out scoring to 11, win by 2. MLP keeps rally scoring for its DreamBreaker, the singles tiebreaker played when a match is tied 2-2: a game to 21, win by 2, in which a team must win while serving. To score a DreamBreaker here, choose singles, rally scoring and 21, and tick "Game point only on serve". The DreamBreaker's four-player rotation is not tracked.
Sources: the 2026 USA Pickleball Official Rulebook (Rules 4–6, 14.A, 15.C and 21.B) and MLP's How MLP Works page and MLPlay Rules Guide. More in our guide to rally scoring in pickleball.
Scorekeeping FAQ
How do you keep score in pickleball?
In standard side-out scoring only the serving side can score a point. In doubles the server calls three numbers: their team's score, the receiving team's score, then the server number (1 or 2). In singles it is two numbers: the server's score, then the receiver's. Games are usually played to 11, win by 2; tournament games can go to 15 or 21.
Why does a pickleball doubles game start at 0-0-2?
At the start of each game, only one player on the first serving team serves before the first side out, and that player counts as the second server. So the opening call is zero-zero-two. After the first side out, both partners serve in every turn (USA Pickleball Rules 5.B and 6.B.2).
How do you know which side to serve from in pickleball?
In doubles, each team's starting server stands on the right when their team's score is even (including zero) and on the left when it is odd, with the partner opposite. After a side out, whoever is on the right serves first. In singles, you serve from the right when your score is even and from the left when it is odd. This scorekeeper shows the server and their side before every rally.
What is rally scoring, and does MLP use it?
In rally scoring the side that wins each rally scores, whether it served or not. The score is called as two numbers and each side gets one server per turn. USA Pickleball allows it as a provisional option for 2026, in games to 11, 15 or 21. Major League Pickleball's 2026 doubles games use side-out scoring to 11; MLP plays rally scoring in its DreamBreaker tiebreaker, a singles game to 21, win by 2, where a team must win while serving.
When do you switch ends in pickleball?
In a tournament single game or deciding game, players change ends when the first side reaches 6 in a game to 11, 8 in a game to 15, or 11 in a game to 21, and play continues with the same server (USA Pickleball Rule 21.B). The scorekeeper reminds you at that score, and Swap sides flips the screen to match the court.
Does the scorekeeper save my game if I refresh?
Yes. The game in progress is saved on your device, so a refresh or a closed tab does not lose it, and once the page has loaded it keeps working without a signal. Where the browser supports it, the screen stays on while the page is open. Nothing is uploaded.
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