Scory on iPhone Duo: a score keeper app made for the big screen

What changes when you unfold your iPhone Duo

Apple's iPhone Duo is the first foldable iPhone. Closed, you use a 5.4-inch cover screen. Open, you get a 7.6-inch screen.

On game night, that extra room matters. You can see every player at once, and you do not have to close a panel to check who is winning. Scory now fits its layout to the space it has. Open the phone and the score sheet, the counters and the game screens all spread out.

Screen sizes from Apple's iPhone Duo announcement

Quick Counter: your players in two columns

Quick Counter is the fast mode: one card per player, with a plus and a minus button. On the open iPhone Duo, the cards line up two by two, so four players fit on the screen without scrolling.

The cards keep their normal size. They do not stretch to fill the screen, so the buttons stay where your thumb expects them. If you play alone, your card stays full width. If you use very large text, Scory goes back to one column so nothing gets cut off.

Score sheet: the editor sits next to your scores

In the Advanced Counter, the score sheet shows every player and every round. When you are not typing, the table uses the whole screen.

Tap a box to enter points. If the open phone is sideways, the Edit Score panel opens on the right and the table stays on the left. The whole table stays in view while you type. Close the panel and the table takes the full screen again.

Held upright, the open iPhone Duo is not quite wide enough for both. So Scory keeps the table at full height and opens the editor as a sheet from the bottom, like on a regular iPhone.

Darts, Yahtzee, Skyjo, Flip 7 and Belote side by side

The five special games use the same idea. With the open phone sideways, the board stays on one side and what you need to enter a turn sits on the other.

• Darts: the players and their scores on the left, the number keypad on the right. The x2 or x3 you picked stays selected if you fold the phone.
• Yahtzee: tap a box and enter the dice or type the score, in Classic, Four-Column or Multi-Column mode.
• Skyjo and Skyjo Action: pick who ended the round, enter each score or use the calculator, next to the table.
• Flip 7: enter the cards, the modifiers and check the round summary in the side panel, in Classic, With a Vengeance or Brutal mode.
• Belote and Coinche: pick the taker, the bid, the trump, coinche or surcoinche, then the points and announcements.

Fold or unfold mid-round: nothing is lost

Say you start typing 17 for Diana in round 3, then you open the phone to show the table to everyone. Scory keeps the same box, the number you typed and the add or remove mode. In Skyjo, the calculator keeps its total too.

The same goes when you turn the phone or when the players get sorted again. You pick up where you were.

Nothing hidden under the fold, the side bar or the corners

On the iPhone Duo, iOS 27 puts the navigation on the side of the screen, and the screen has a fold and rounded corners. Scory keeps its titles, scores and buttons away from all three.

The game actions now live in the top bar, next to the menu. The floating button no longer covers your score columns.

Folded: Scory on the cover screen

Closed, the iPhone Duo works like a regular iPhone, and so does Scory. You get the usual one-column layout, and score entry opens from the bottom. Start a game folded, open the phone when the table gets busy, close it again for the last round.

How to use Scory on your iPhone Duo

1. Install Scory from the App Store, or update it to the latest version.
2. Start a game: Quick Counter, Advanced Counter or one of the special games.
3. Open the phone. The layout changes on its own, no setting needed.
4. Turn the open phone sideways to keep the score editor next to the table.

iPhone Duo FAQ

Keep reading

• Flip 7
• Skyjo
• How to count points in Flip 7
• Skyjo rules and scoring
• Scory, the score keeper for all your games