Your pinochle group, organized. Plan the nights, work out every hand at every table, and always know where to sit and who your partner is.
Coming soon to the App Store
Free to join, RSVP and keep score. Live scoreboard and stats: $4.99 a month or $49.99 a year per person in the US. In Canada, the store shows your price.
Who took the bid?MarleneThe bid28
Made it — 39 is 28 or more.
Marlene & Herb 52 → 91 · Irene & Arnie −7 → 9
The scorekeeper taps who took the bid and types four numbers. The app works out made or set and adds it up.
Your table plays and counts the way it always has. At the end of each hand, the scorekeeper enters the bid, each team’s meld and the bidding team’s counters, and the app works out made or set and keeps the running totals, below zero and all.
Tap the player who took the bid and type the bid. A “Minimum 15” chip fills in your group’s usual minimum. The app never checks a bid.
Type each team’s meld and the bidding team’s counters. The other team’s counters fill in as the rest of the hand’s 25.
The app adds it up and takes the bid off when a team goes set. It asks “Did they take a trick?” only when a team took no counters, and one tick, “They threw it in”, covers a team that gave up before playing.
When the team that took the bid goes set or throws it in, SET! flashes for a second with that team’s names and the minus, like “Irene & Arnie · −24”. Nothing else flashes.
Already added it up on paper? Type each team’s score for the hand instead.
Undo takes back the last hand. Tap any saved hand to fix it, and the totals are worked out again.
The app never deals, counts meld or cards, checks a bid or referees, and it’s points only: no money changes hands in the app.
Your organizer picks the deck and the numbers, and that combination’s usual values fill in. Change them to match your house rules.
The classic pinochle deck: two each of the ace, ten, king, queen, jack and nine in four suits.
Four of each, scored the same way, with the triple and quadruple melds on the chart.
25 counters a hand with a single deck (50 with a double), a minimum bid of 15 (50) and games to 150 (500).
Everything ten times as big: 250 counters a hand (500 with a double deck), a minimum bid of 150 (500) and games to 1,500 (5,000).
Pick what a set costs, what saves a team’s meld, and who wins when both teams pass the winning score on the same hand. Anything else goes in a note everyone can read.
Every player can open it: your group’s values and the usual meld chart for your deck and numbers. Your table still counts its own meld.
Your organizer picks how your group plays. Pick how many tables on the night, and the app draws the teams of two, partners across. When the numbers don’t come out in fours, a table of 3 or 5 plays everyone for themselves. Everyone plays.
Everyone keeps their table and partner all night. Each table plays games to the winning score, one after another, and never waits for the others.
Each table plays a round of 4 hands. When every table has finished, the app draws new tables and new partners for everyone, and everyone’s own points add up. “Where do I go?” shows each player their next table, seat and partner.
Put in the schedule once. Everyone taps I’m in or Can’t make it, and the waitlist fills any open seat in order.
See who’s hosting each pinochle night, and where, with the address one tap from Maps.
Short a player? Text your subs a link, and the first to say yes gets the seat. Reminders on your phone before each pinochle night (turn them on in Me).
Each player sees their table, their seat and their partner. Late arrivals and early goodbyes are handled too.
Follow every table live. Then see tonight’s winners and every player’s scores, the season standings, the winners log and your brag card.
Large type and big buttons, made to read across a card table, with an extra-large setting too.
Not sure yet? In the app, tap Take a look first. You get your own private sample group with pretend players, a pinochle night already played and a practice night, so you can try everything, scoreboard and standings too, before you invite anyone.
Saying “I’m in”, RSVPs, keeping score, finding your table, tonight’s winners with every player’s scores, and the brag card are free for everyone. US prices are shown here; in Canada, the store shows your price. Prices are per person: each player who wants the live scoreboard, season standings, the winners log and their stats subscribes for themselves. Pinochle Circle has its own subscription: it doesn’t include our other apps, and theirs don’t include Pinochle Circle. Subscriptions are handled by Apple on iPhone and Google Play on Android, and can be cancelled anytime.
