Big Scorekeep, the first app I ever developed, is a card game score manager designed specifically for the popular foregin card game known as Big 2. The project served as a kickoff point for my passion of app development, and has a multitude of features that I am still very proud of. These included a serious amount of sharable data through a URLScheme which is clickable through a website, three alternate variations on the card game rules, and a scoreboard that ranks all players.

The idea for this app came about just after taking a computer science course often had students make small projects in Code.org, which would be displayed in a phone sized format. During COVID lockdowns, my family and I played a lot of the card game, Big 2, and so I decided to make one of these Code.org projects to handle the scorekeeping, because goodness does that game have a lot of it. Quickly it became clear that there were too many limitations with Code.org, such as a lack of persistance storage, and so I moved on to Swift and SwiftUI. Ever since then I have been making apps, and it has become a passion of mine unlike any other.

Privacy Policy

Big Scorekeep does not gather any data. You have the option to input names and scores, but absolutely nothing is sent back to me, and the app should work without internet. The only outgoing data from the app is the "Copy Game Data" button located in Settings. This copies a set of all your data to your clipboard, so that you can text it to friends and family. This enables users to then import that data in the Text Field just above the buttons, allowing you to all have the same progress and match data. None of this data is seen by us though, it's simply generated and placed in your clipboard.