New icon: a tally in chalk, and the fifth stroke is a dart. You'll spot it on your home screen at a glance. The launch screen and the App Store pictures now match the app: chalk on slate. Since 3.7.0: the app is a chalkboard. Chalk on slate, like in the bar — and everything is bigger: the keys, the numbers, the board. On iPhone the board fills the width, triples and doubles are wide enough for a finger. No key you have to hunt for, no text you can't read from the oche. Darts Scoreboard Pro: scoring stays free — X01 and Cricket, every input mode, the caller, the checkout routes. Your first five games come with everything; after that, the computer opponent, practice games and statistics come with a yearly subscription. If you already had the app, you keep everything, without paying. Plus two practice games — and you can lose both. Shanghai. Seven rounds, and the round number is the target: in round 1 only the 1 counts, in round 7 only the 7. Hit single, double and triple of the same target in one round and you've thrown Shanghai — you win there and then, whatever the score. The screen tells you each round whether it's still on and what's missing. Checkout 121. A ladder: check out 61, then 62, then 63, all the way up to 121. Nine darts at each finish, so three visits. The route to the checkout is shown, same as in a game. The top of the ladder is where the finishes live that nobody practices and everybody needs. Both sit under Practice, next to Around the Clock and Bob's 27.

The app is a chalkboard now. Chalk on slate, like in the pub — and everything is bigger: the keys, the numbers, the board. On iPhone the board fills the width, trebles and doubles are wide enough for a finger. No key you have to hunt for, no text you cannot read from the oche. New: Dart Scorer Pro. Scoring stays free: X01 and Cricket, every input mode, the caller, the checkout routes. Your first five games come with everything; after that, the computer opponent, practice games and statistics come with a yearly subscription. If you already had the app, you keep everything – without paying. Plus two new practice routines — and you can lose both. Shanghai. Seven rounds, and the round number is the target: in round 1 only the 1 counts, in round 7 only the 7. Hit single, double and treble of the same target in one round and you have thrown Shanghai — you win there and then, whatever the score. The screen tells you each round whether it is still on and what is missing. Checkout 121. A ladder: check out 61, then 62, then 63, all the way up to 121. Nine darts per rest, so three visits. The route to the checkout is shown, same as in a game. The top of the ladder is where the finishes live that nobody practises and everybody needs. Both sit under Practice, next to Around the Clock and Bob’s 27.

Shanghai. Seven rounds, and the round number is the target: in round 1 only the 1 counts, in round 7 only the 7. Three darts a round, every hit scores its bed. The catch is the shortcut. Hit the single, the double and the treble of the same number in one round and you have thrown a Shanghai — you win on the spot, whatever the score. So the screen always tells you whether Shanghai is still on this round, and what is missing for it. That makes it the first practice mode in the app you can actually win. Around the Clock and Bob's 27 only keep a record. Underneath, new foundations. Long evenings no longer eat the app's memory — a darts night drags on, and the app should last it out.

The app is called Darts Scoreboard Pro. For a while it was Doppelfeld. We liked the name, but nobody looking for a scoring app types "Doppelfeld" into the search box. Now it says what it does. Nothing about the app itself has changed. Same scoring, same routes to the checkout, same caller. Your saved games, your experience points and your numbers from the last legs all stay where they are. One small thing did change: the app now asks for a rating only once a match is decided. Before, it asked after every leg won — in the middle of the game, with your opponent stood at the oche.

After the leg you now see which doubles you hit – and which you don't. The checkout statistics read every single dart: doubles rate, the doubles you keep getting stuck on, how many darts a checkout chance costs you. They show nothing they don't know – where there's no data there's no number, instead of a 0% that looks like bad play. Cricket is properly playable now: three darts per visit, MISS, end turn. Before, the table counted marks without knowing how many darts had been thrown. And it shows MPR instead of AVG – a 3-dart average means nothing in Cricket. Bob's 27 follows the rules. You check out on a double. Entering dart by dart, you no longer win a leg with S20 S20 on 40. And a winning visit costs only the darts it actually took – until now it flattered every average. The caller announces the match win. On the most important dart of the night it used to go quiet. A corrupted saved game no longer kills the app. A half-written state could stop it starting at all – permanently, restart or not. The bot no longer plays on your account. Its legs counted towards your XP, your streak and your daily challenges. And the iPad is no longer a big iPhone: landscape, scoreboard and keypad side by side, the checkout route at readable size, a bigger board. Rotating mid-leg works.

Version 3.0: Komplett neues Design in frischem Gruen, stark vereinfachtes Spiel-Setup auf einem Screen und schnellere Punkteeingabe ueber das neue Ziffernfeld. Groessere, besser lesbare Scores und ein aufgeraeumtes Spielerlebnis.