Pinball Companion

Walk up to any machine with a plan.

Tournament playbooks, rules and shot maps for competitive pinball. On iPhone and iPad, all offline.

Coming soon to the App Store

JAWS opens on its Tournament Playbook, under the owner's photo of the backglass. — The Playbook first

King Kong's playfield photo with every shot pinned and numbered. — Every shot, pinned

Harry Potter's rules, starting with its scoring skeleton. — Rules in plain words

Browse by era, manufacturer and designer. — Browse the collection

Read it between balls

Every guided machine opens on a Tournament Playbook: a few numbered steps, in the order a strong player takes them. Each step says which shot starts, lights or collects what, so you never have to dig through a rulesheet at the machine.

Rules

The scoring skeleton, modes, multiballs and wizard modes, written in our own words and checked against cited sources.

Layout

Every shot numbered with what it does, pinned on a real playfield photo where the app has one.

History

Who designed it, when it came out, and how it fits into pinball's story.

Point the camera

Aim at a backglass or cabinet and the app reads the title on your phone to open that machine. Nothing is uploaded.

Built for the venue

Works with no signal: the whole database ships inside the app.
Search, or browse by era, manufacturer, designer and decade.
Star machines and keep your own notes, synced through your iCloud.
A dark, high-contrast design you can read in a dim arcade.
No account, no ads, no tracking. Optional tips unlock nothing.