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title: "Pointsman - Reviews, Revenue and Downloads in United States | Apple App Store"
description: "Tired of counting trains? Let the Pointsman score your games of Ticket To Ride automatically using nothing more than your iPhone's camera!   The Pointsman is 100% free with absolutely no ads. If you f"
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# Pointsman — United States
> Smart Scoring "Ticket To Ride"

![Pointsman App Icon](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple124/v4/2b/71/be/2b71bec5-b1d9-9733-8e91-87b70327ce46/AppIcon-1x_U007emarketing-0-7-0-0-85-220.png/100x100bb.jpg)

**Developer:** [Chimera Software](https://apptail.io/developer/chimera-software-Haw)
**Category:** Utilities
**Rating:** 4.4/5 (65 ratings)
**Price:** Free
**Bundle ID:** com.chimerasw.pointsman
**Store:** Apple App Store
**Country:** United States
**Version:** 1.7 (released 2020-07-27)
**Original Release:** 2019-03-04
**Languages:** English

**App Store Link:** [Download on Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/app/id1447780441)
**AppTail Page:** [https://apptail.io/app/pointsman-fpre/united-states](https://apptail.io/app/pointsman-fpre/united-states)

## Pointsman Description
Tired of counting trains? Let the Pointsman score your games of Ticket To Ride automatically using nothing more than your iPhone's camera!
 
The Pointsman is 100% free with absolutely no ads. If you find yourself enjoying the Pointsman and want to support it, please consider leaving a tip via the app.
 
You can use the Pointsman during normal gameplay to confirm player scores, or just leave the scoring till the end and maximize your enjoyment! The Pointsman will tally up all player routes, route scores, station placements, longest train routes and other game specific bonuses, plus all destination tickets. Everything is presented on a beautiful “score ticket” you can share as a memento of your game.
 
Pointsman uses ARKit, CoreML and custom machine learning to recognize trains on the game board; training the models to make this possible is specific to each set. As such, the Pointsman currently only works on the following versions of the game:
 
Ticket To Ride (USA)
Ticket To Ride: USA 1910 Expansion
Ticket To Ride: Europe
Ticket To Ride: Europa 1912 Expansion
Ticket To Ride: Rails and Sails, The Great Lakes

Coming Soon:
Ticket To Ride: Rails and Sails, The World

Known Issues:
1. The Pointsman is not trained to recognize the transparent promotional train sets
2. The Pointsman is not trained to recognize the turquoise variant of the blue trains


For best results, stand in squarely in front of the game board and hold your device at approximately a 45 degree angle to the game board.  To confirm that the score is accurate, you can perform the following two checks:

1. For each player the number of unused trains is printed on the score ticket, just confirm the number matches the actual number of unused trains.
2. Every connection for each player is listed on the score ticket, you can manually confirm each connection is accurate.

If the Pointsman does make a mistake, simply tap on the player's score to access the score editing interface to make the necessary corrections.

Want to try it out but don't have a finished game handy?  Just go to  and use the Pointsman on the image there!
 
Please note that the Pointsman is not affiliated with Days of Wonder or Ticket to Ride in any manner whatsoever. I am just a fan that finds counting trains to be quite tedious. If you are reading this then you probably do as well!

## Pointsman Screenshots
- [Screenshot 1](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple113/v4/97/e6/74/97e67461-6e28-8a44-e973-926a2990f39a/mzl.zokfodcs.jpg/392x696bb.jpg)
- [Screenshot 2](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple113/v4/4c/24/48/4c2448a9-97ac-b6e0-ea17-3c750f6f4e47/mzl.myngmbzj.jpg/392x696bb.jpg)
- [Screenshot 3](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple123/v4/4b/99/73/4b99733b-ccb9-da86-b797-80a0bcdc612d/mzl.xbcfxdty.jpg/392x696bb.jpg)
- [Screenshot 4](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple113/v4/1d/69/ce/1d69ce1c-649f-7293-c249-b0a0660cf94b/mzl.dahebcld.jpg/392x696bb.jpg)
- [Screenshot 5](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple123/v4/a8/86/71/a8867197-f9d9-4b25-7fa9-a1e25ff0c436/mzl.tcwmcxae.jpg/392x696bb.jpg)

## Pointsman Rating Breakdown in United States
- 5 stars: 47 (72%)
- 4 stars: 11 (17%)
- 3 stars: 1 (2%)
- 2 stars: 1 (2%)
- 1 stars: 5 (8%)

## Pointsman Reviews in United States

### ***** "Great"
Works great. Only wish I knew how to edit tickets/destinations
-- Lil Eff, 2024-11-17

### ***** "Really helps with quick scoring!"
Great app!! My only comment is that on newer printings of Ticket to Ride, the game tokens have been made translucent. On occasion the app has trouble discerning that the blue tokens on top of a yellow, or green route are not in fact green tokens.
-- Antcomp, 2024-11-08

### ***-- "Love the concept"
Love the concept and it has worked flawlessly in the past, but just tonight noticed an incorrect scan of a route card.  Tried it multiple times and still fails.  

In this particular instance, I was trying to scan “San Francisco to Atlanta” (17 pts) but it always scanned as “Los Angeles to Oklahoma City” (9 pts).  Tried multiple times, same result. 

I’ve suggested this apps to friend and now I’m embarrassed to tell them that it doesn’t always work, sorry.
-- olliemail, 2024-01-15

### ***** "Saves so much time!"
This is a great app for counting scores at the end of the game. Very easy to use! It mostly gets things correct, you just have to quickly double check the routes registered correctly. But more often than not, they are fine. The manual interface is easy to use so you can correct anything that looks off.

Only shortcomings I’ve run into so far is that they don’t have the Asia map. Hopefully they add it at some point.
-- Xyzzy4567, 2023-03-25

### ****- "Trouble recognizing black train cars."
This is a fantastic app that does a great job of scoring through the iPhone camera, but it does seem to have trouble accurately scoring the black train cars. I was getting negative points for incomplete tickets, so as a test I replaced all the cars with blue pieces and used the app again, after which it scored correctly. 

It also occasionally reads printed route colors as train cars, but this happens less often and can be ignored.
-- Casatron, 2022-07-14

### ****- "Trains great, routes not as great…"
As far as I am concerned it is magic how this app counts the trains.  Amazing.  The routes need some work.
-- PharmDQB, 2022-04-18

### ***** "Works pretty good…"
Once we figured out getting it to read the map it works pretty good.  However, it has trouble with the clear purple train cars that were promotional giveaways at some point. It makes a mistake or two here and there that might be manually corrected but the correction screen has a problem.  The switches to turn routes on and off are there but the names of the routes themselves are not… makes it kinda hard to figure out which ones to turn on or off. Otherwise it does a fine job of the tedious task of summing up the game.
-- Elhanan2, 2022-01-01

### ****- "Almost perfect"
The UI is great. Counts points well. Only issues are reading train stations and that I’m unable to view the editors to fix any errors. Nothing major and I plan on keeping the app. Great jorb!
-- TrainBlocked, 2022-01-01

### *---- "Doesn’t work"
Scans are not accurate and the manual edit is blank so it can’t fix a bad scan. To bad as this used to work
-- ATL-MCW, 2021-12-04

### ***** "Nice once you get the hang of it."
First of all, let me just say, kudos to the person that engineered this app. I really enjoy using this app simply for what it does and how cool it is that someone created something that, in my mind, does something so amazing. Mostly though, I enjoy sending the score cards to the group to rub in an exceptional victory.
-- Angsty Aggie, 2021-07-26

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## Pointsman In-App Purchases
| Item | Price |
|------|-------|
| Massive Tip | $2.99 |
| Generous Tip | $0.99 |
| Amazing Tip | $5.99 |



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## Pointsman Available In
- [United States](https://apptail.io/app/pointsman-fpre/united-states)
- [United Kingdom](https://apptail.io/app/pointsman-fpre/united-kingdom)
- [Australia](https://apptail.io/app/pointsman-fpre/australia)
- [Canada](https://apptail.io/app/pointsman-fpre/canada)
- [Brazil](https://apptail.io/app/pointsman-fpre/brazil)
- [Russia](https://apptail.io/app/pointsman-fpre/russia)
- [New Zealand](https://apptail.io/app/pointsman-fpre/new-zealand)
- [Hong Kong SAR China](https://apptail.io/app/pointsman-fpre/hong-kong)
- [South Africa](https://apptail.io/app/pointsman-fpre/south-africa)
- [Ukraine](https://apptail.io/app/pointsman-fpre/ukraine)
- [Mexico](https://apptail.io/app/pointsman-fpre/mexico)
- [Switzerland](https://apptail.io/app/pointsman-fpre/switzerland)
- [Norway](https://apptail.io/app/pointsman-fpre/norway)
- [India](https://apptail.io/app/pointsman-fpre/india)
- [Japan](https://apptail.io/app/pointsman-fpre/japan)
- [South Korea](https://apptail.io/app/pointsman-fpre/south-korea)
- [Kuwait](https://apptail.io/app/pointsman-fpre/kuwait)
- [Kazakhstan](https://apptail.io/app/pointsman-fpre/kazakhstan)
- [Lebanon](https://apptail.io/app/pointsman-fpre/lebanon)
- [Malaysia](https://apptail.io/app/pointsman-fpre/malaysia)
- [Nigeria](https://apptail.io/app/pointsman-fpre/nigeria)
- [Nepal](https://apptail.io/app/pointsman-fpre/nepal)
- [Peru](https://apptail.io/app/pointsman-fpre/peru)
- [Philippines](https://apptail.io/app/pointsman-fpre/philippines)
- [Pakistan](https://apptail.io/app/pointsman-fpre/pakistan)
- [Saudi Arabia](https://apptail.io/app/pointsman-fpre/saudi-arabia)
- [Singapore](https://apptail.io/app/pointsman-fpre/singapore)
- [Thailand](https://apptail.io/app/pointsman-fpre/thailand)
- [United Arab Emirates](https://apptail.io/app/pointsman-fpre/united-arab-emirates)
- [Taiwan](https://apptail.io/app/pointsman-fpre/taiwan)
- [Türkiye](https://apptail.io/app/pointsman-fpre/turkey)
- [Argentina](https://apptail.io/app/pointsman-fpre/argentina)
- [Azerbaijan](https://apptail.io/app/pointsman-fpre/azerbaijan)
- [Brunei](https://apptail.io/app/pointsman-fpre/brunei)
- [Belarus](https://apptail.io/app/pointsman-fpre/belarus)
- [Chile](https://apptail.io/app/pointsman-fpre/chile)
- [Colombia](https://apptail.io/app/pointsman-fpre/colombia)
- [Dominican Republic](https://apptail.io/app/pointsman-fpre/dominican-republic)
- [Algeria](https://apptail.io/app/pointsman-fpre/algeria)
- [Ecuador](https://apptail.io/app/pointsman-fpre/ecuador)
- [Egypt](https://apptail.io/app/pointsman-fpre/egypt)
- [Indonesia](https://apptail.io/app/pointsman-fpre/indonesia)
- [Israel](https://apptail.io/app/pointsman-fpre/israel)
- [Uzbekistan](https://apptail.io/app/pointsman-fpre/uzbekistan)
- [Vietnam](https://apptail.io/app/pointsman-fpre/vietnam)
- [Bermuda](https://apptail.io/app/pointsman-fpre/bermuda)
- [North Macedonia](https://apptail.io/app/pointsman-fpre/north-macedonia)
- [Iceland](https://apptail.io/app/pointsman-fpre/iceland)

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