When you can't see them score, you've still got VBallScore.
How to use VBallScore
Watch · Score · Stream · Record — all from your phone. No app store, free to start.
Watch · Score · Stream · Record — all from your phone. No app store, free to start.
Someone texted you a link. Here's everything the watch screen can do — no account needed.
A watch link looks like vballscore.com/m/CODE or a scorekeeper's name link like vballscore.com/theirname. Tap it and you're in — no account, no install, no app store.
The live score always shows. Live video appears when the scorekeeper is streaming. The score keeps working even if video isn't on.
On the score area:
Your reactions float up the screen on every device watching — including the scorekeeper's. It's how the whole family cheers together.
Tap the viewers / eyeball area to see who's watching. If you're signed in, you can also send the scorekeeper a quick message — "great dig!" or "can you flip the camera?". Guests can read chat but can't send.
There's a quality picker — Auto / High / Medium / Low — plus a little signal-strength meter that grades your incoming feed. If video stutters, drop it to Medium or Low. The score is never affected.
While video is live, tap Record to Device to save the broadcast to your own phone — with the score overlay burned in and every point marked as a chapter. On phones it saves through the share sheet (iPhone → Photos); on a computer it downloads. See Recording & chapters.
The map on the Find or Start a Match page (from the home screen, tap Score or Live Stream a Match) shows live matches as gold pins (a red pin means live video). The blue dot is you. Tap Find my match to jump to yours.
Video seats are limited (the score never is). If you see "Live video is full," the live score still updates for everyone and a seat may open up.
Run the match from a phone or tablet — free, no account required to start.
From the home screen → Score or Live Stream a Match → pick teams + court → start.
With the camera off you get two big team-colored boxes: tap the + button in the top corner for +1, the − button in the bottom corner for −1 — they're big square targets. With the camera on, use the + / − on the floating bar, or tap the score number itself to add a point (it's the biggest target, so you don't fat-finger it). Tapping anywhere else on a score box sends a ❤️ cheer, not a point.
Every point you add shows a gold +1 rising from the number; a removed point shows a coral −1 falling — so you always know the tap registered, even in bright sun.
Made a mistake? The ↶ Undo button (in the End-set / End-match group) cleanly reverses your last scoring action — including the serve and which team it went to — unlike the plain −, which just drops one team's score.
Pinch to zoom the lens (it zooms the real video everyone sees, not the page). There's a flip button for front/back camera. Film in landscape (sideways).
Pass the scorekeeper role to another phone — the new device accepts and you're done. If you walk away, a watcher can Take over scorekeeping. You can always take it back with the green take-back / reclaim button.
Got logged out or lost your match? Sign back in — a gold ↩ Resume scoring banner appears, and your live matches show under Active matches on your My Account page (tap your avatar; from a match screen, avatar → Open full profile). The home page also shows a "match in progress" banner.
Put one phone on a tripod to film the court and keep scoring from the phone in your hand. Open your avatar → account sheet → Options → Camera → Use another device as the camera, then scan the QR with the second device — it becomes the courtside camera while you score.
Once a camera is paired you can hand the live video to it, then take the video back to broadcast from your own phone again — from the same Camera options, or just tap Camera on. A second camera needs a Family or Pro plan.
The score IS the video timeline — find any point in a 2-hour match in two taps. This is the part nobody guesses, so here's the whole thing.
Tap Record to Device while the camera is on. It saves the video on your phone with the live score and the VBALLSCORE watermark burned in. Nothing is uploaded — there's no cloud fee, it's yours and stays private.
While you record, each score change, set end, and match point is stamped on the timeline. The Record pill flashes "✓ N chapters" as each one lands, so you know it's working.
While recording, tap the floating ⭐ — or just double-tap the video — to bookmark a great play (about one per 2 seconds). Both only work while you're recording — if you're live-streaming without recording, there's no video to bookmark. The app keeps the few seconds before your tap too, because the play happens just before you react. Stars become chapters — gold ★ markers on the playback timeline and chapter list — so you can jump straight to your starred moments later (and pick them for a highlight reel).
Tap the labeled ⏸ Pause rec button (next to the Record control) to pause recording — tap again to resume. Paused time is cut out: the saved video and all chapter times skip it. Stop is on the "Recording to device m:ss" pill. (Watchers recording on their own device get a ⏸ Pause next to their Recording pill too.)
Streaming live and need a break — a timeout, a between-sets huddle? Tap ⏸ Pause live: the broadcast pauses, your banked streaming time stops counting down, and viewers see a calm "the scorekeeper paused — it'll come back automatically" message (the score keeps updating). Tap Go Live to resume; viewers reconnect on their own, nothing for them to do.
Tap Leave while you're still recording and the app checks first — "You're still recording" — with three choices:
Either way the footage isn't thrown away — it lives on your device until you delete it.
Tap your avatar (top-right) → account sheet → Options → Review last recording. The built-in player shows a chapter rail of every point with the score at that moment. Tap any point to jump the video there, or drag the scrub bar — your ⭐ moments stand out with a ★ in the rail.
Recorded matches you're signed in for also show in My Account — open the match and the reel is right there. Recordings stay on your device until you delete them; deleted ones sit in Recently deleted for 30 days in case you want them back.
Turn the best plays into one short video you can text to grandma — made entirely on your phone.
After recording, open the recording — reel selection is already open, with every play checked. Uncheck the plays you don't want (your ⭐ moments are easy to find), then tap Create reel ▶. The app trims and stitches them into one video right on your phone — no uploading the whole match, no waiting, no per-clip fee.
Highlight reels are free and unlimited on every plan — make as many as you like.
If a match was recorded in several pieces — you paused and resumed, switched apps, or used a second camera — the app finds all of this match's clips on your device and auto-combines them into one reel, in order. You'll see a quick "Combined N clips into one reel" note. No importing, no lining clips up by hand.
Recording courtside on your phone? You don't have to build the reel on that little screen. Your chapters and starred moments save to your account the moment you record — the video stays on your phone.
Later, on a PC or Mac: sign in, open the match, and your chapters are already waiting. Copy the video over from your phone (a cable, a cloud drive, or email it to yourself), tap Load video file(s), pick it, and cut the reel on the big screen. The app even tells you the exact file to look for — its name has the match code in it.
We never upload your video — that's what keeps it free and your footage private on your own devices. The only manual step is moving the file from phone to computer.
The scoreboard is always free for everyone. Plans only change the video.
🎁 Try before you buy: the first time you go live from a match, VBallScore offers a free 2-minute HD trial — stream from your real court and make sure your viewers can actually watch, before you pay for any plan.
Family and Pro come with a bank of streaming time that only counts down while you're actually live — not wall-clock. Unused time is good for 90 days (3 months), then it expires — it works across as many matches as you want, and you can top up your streaming time anytime from My Account. Purchases are non-refundable. The LIVE pill shows your remaining time while you stream, and you can always drop back to free mid-match instead of buying more.
Pay with Apple Pay, Google Pay, or card.
Some venue WiFi blocks phone-to-phone (free) video, and some viewers' phones/cars can't load it. When that happens the app says so and suggests upgrading — Family/Pro stream through a relay that usually gets through where free can’t — cellular, locked or guest venue WiFi. The scoreboard itself always works for everyone, free.
Tap the ☆ next to anyone's name in a match's viewer list to add them. Find them under Account → Friends, where you'll see when a friend's match is live now. You can message friends directly, and they'll get a notification.
It launches full-screen from the home icon. Need a walkthrough? Visit vballscore.com/install. New to watching? vballscore.com/watch is the 30-second parent quick-start.
Sign in with Google, Facebook, X, Microsoft, or your email (we send a one-time sign-in link — no password to remember). You can also add a passkey (Face ID / Touch ID) for one-tap sign-in next time.
Signing in gives you your own channel link (vballscore.com/your-name, set under Account → Your channel), saves your history, and lets you set a photo — pick an emoji or upload a picture. It shows next to your name everywhere, including while you score.
From the home screen, tap Start a Tournament to open the Director Dashboard: divisions, teams, auto-assigned pools, generated round-robin schedules, brackets, player check-in, announcements, and a publish hub with a QR share card for the event. (Sign in with a director account first.)
On the Teams page, open the Players tab and tap Upload players CSV to add a whole roster at once instead of typing players in one by one — handy for prestaging a club or tournament before the event.
Start your file with a row of column headers to use any column order (extra columns are ignored). No header row? That works too — columns are read in this exact order: First Name, Last Name, Email, Gender, Club. Accepted header columns:
Name and Email are required for every row — rows without a valid email are skipped (email is the key that links each player to their account). The other columns are optional. Players can be marked for indoor, beach, or both.
The Email column is the key one: it pre-links a player to their VBallScore account. When that player later signs in with the same email, they're automatically connected to the roster you staged — so clubs and tournament directors can build rosters ahead of time and have them "just work" when players join.
Some devices or networks can't load the free phone-to-phone stream. Switch to HD (Family or Pro), which usually connects where the free stream can’t. The score always works regardless.
The chapters live in the app. Tap your avatar (top-right) → account sheet → Options → Review last recording to use them, jump between points, and make highlight reels.
Your chapters, stars, and timeline are saved to your account — only the video file stays on the device that recorded. To edit on a big screen: copy the video file to that computer (USB, a cloud drive, or email…), sign in on vballscore.com, open the match (or find it under My Account → Matches — its row shows a 🎬 icon), tap Load video file(s) and pick it — your chapters re-attach automatically.
Keep the original filename. Save the video to Files / Downloads, not the iOS Photos app — Photos strips the filename, which carries the match ID that links your chapters. If the name's gone, just open the match by its /m/<id> link on that computer and load the video there (the ID comes from the URL).
Sign back in. A gold ↩ Resume scoring banner appears and your live matches are under Active matches on your My Account page (tap your avatar; from a match screen, avatar → Open full profile).
Win a set → confetti. Win the match → the full show (fireworks, flying volleyballs). And there are hidden effects for the curious — try tapping the splash-screen wordmark five times. 😉
Tap your avatar → Report a Bug / Contact. You can attach a screenshot, and replies come back to you in-app from VBallScore Support. Or email support@vballscore.com.
A free web app for scoring volleyball matches and sharing them live — indoor and beach. Run the scoreboard from a phone or tablet, and family who can’t be in the gym can follow the score and watch live from anywhere. Players keep the score without extra gear; families watch from anywhere; coaches record and review points afterward.
VBallScore is made by solo founder Kevin Ely — an independent project, not a big corporation. It stays small, focused, and free to use, and feedback goes straight to the person who can act on it.
It runs in your browser — nothing to download from an app store, and you can add it to your home screen so it opens full-screen like an app. The scoreboard is free for everyone; optional plans add higher-quality live video (see plans & pricing). Your recordings save on your own device — not uploaded; more on what we collect is on the Privacy page.