What's changed on Keepthescore.com?

This app was launched in 2016 and looked like this. A lot has changed since then and we are actively improving things every week.

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Chronological feature releases

23rd November 2023: Allow score prefixes
13th November 2023: New Basketball scoreboard
20th October 2023: Players with equal scores now have equal ranks and equal rank colors (if set)
13th October 2023: Released a universal sports scoreboard.
13th September 2023: Released a pickleball scoreboard.
8th September 2023: Changes were made to the API, please read documentation.
6th September 2023: Released new scoreboards for badminton and squash.
11th July 2023: Football, Baseball, Volleyball and Esports scoreboards are out of BETA and now have premium features.
4th July 2023: Added limit for the number of boards that can be created with a free account
15th June 2023: Released Football scoreboard
16th June 2023: Made it simpler to hide blue increment buttons
15th June 2023: Released esports score overlays
5th June 2023: You can now delete your boards in your board list
2nd June 2023: You can now rename your boards in your board list
1st June 2023: Updated the look-and-feel
29th May 2023: You can now upload logos on the baseball scoreboard
24th May 2023: Changed and improved period-end buzzer. Also: the default domain is now keepthescore.com (no longer keepthescore.co)
1st May 2023: New API documentation
26th April 2023: Released beta version of the new volleyball scoreboard
20th April 2023: Released beta of the new baseball scoreboard
14th April 2023: Added timeouts to sports scoreboards, plus design tweaks
12th April 2023: Changes to pricing.
4th April 2023: Changed design of rank numbers and many small layout and design tweaks
3rd April 2023: Enabled milliseconds on leaderboards (previously only seconds were possible)
24th March 2023: Released fundraising thermometers
17th March 2023: Any scoreboard or leaderboard can now be downloaded as a PNG image file.
7th March 2023: Commenting on boards no longer uses an extra login.
3rd March 2023: Live preview of themes and colors
21st February 2023: Theme colors (text color, background) can now be changed for themed boards
4th January 2023: Various changes to sharing of sport scoreboards. Sports scoreboards can now be embedded on other websites.
22nd December 2022: Changes to premium features: changing colors of sport scoreboard now free, image upload now a premium feature.
12th December 2022: New layout for streaming scoreboards: allow teams to be stacked
25th November 2022: 1st, 2nd, 3rd ranked-players can be given custom colors.
5th November 2022: Increased free tier to 50 players.
3rd November 2022: Sports scoreboard fouls now configurable and shown on streaming scoreboard
6th October 2022: Sport scoreboards: Made name of possession and period configurable. Show both on the streaming scoreboard.
30th September 2022: Changes to free tier: only boards up to 10 are free.
21st September 2022: Increased free feature threshold to 20 players (previously it was 12 players).
29th August 2022: Boards can now be configured to track times (hours, minutes, seconds)
23rd August 2022: Added ranking to scoreboards with compact layout
22nd August 2022: The API now allows player deletion
22nd July 2022: Team logos can be added to sports scoreboards
11th July 2022: You can share a link to your board that allows changing scores only, but does not give full admin access
6th May 2022: Scoreboard overlay for live streams
26th April 2022: Added a dashboard with public metrics for the app.
4th February 2022: Bulk editing of leaderboards
26th January 2022: Optional search box, for finding names on large boards
7th July 2021: Released team leaderboards
25th June 2021: Added units (e.g. $, €, miles, kg) to boards
25th April 2021: Added embedding of boards into other pages
4th October 2016: Released Version 1.0 🚀