Tileside
Version 1.0.0 · a scorekeeper, word checker and study aid for the Scrabble board game, played in person.
Tileside has a sibling: Pipside, a free domino scorekeeper at pipside.app.
Word game shirts and printable score sheets are in the Tileside shop on Etsy. The app itself has no ads.
License
Free: scoring, the turn timer, challenges, the tile tracker, past games, and the two-letter word list with its quiz. Pro: 1,078 three-letter and 4,221 four-letter words to study, memory tips, and a quiz that remembers what you miss, lifetime stats, scorecard links, scoring on the board, and Show on TV, a live scoreboard for a TV or everyone's phone.
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Pickled Geeks played Tileside on their Scrabble night.
Scoring is free. Pro adds Show on TV, stats and more.
“Yeah, it helped. It’s prevented us from having a knockdown drag-out.”
Support
Found a bug, a word that should be in the list, or need help with a license? Email support@tileside.app. Include what you were doing and, for word list questions, which dictionary setting you had on.
Your data stays on your device
There are no accounts. The game in progress, your last setup, the dictionary choice and your license key are stored in this browser so they survive a reload; clearing site data removes them, and you can re-enter your license key afterwards.
Your games stay on this device unless you choose to share them: a scorecard link or Show on TV (Pro) sends that game to our server, and buying Pro goes through Stripe. Page views are counted with Cloudflare Web Analytics, which uses no cookies, fonts load from Google Fonts on your first visit, and the Pickled Geeks video loads from YouTube only if you press play. The privacy policy lists every case.
Word lists
Word checks use the NASPA Word List 2023 (196,601 words), the official list for club and tournament play in North America, licensed from NASPA, the North American Scrabble Players Association. An optional set of 20 international (Collins) two-letter words can be switched on in Setup. Your group's chosen dictionary always wins.
For school clubs and classrooms, the School list switch in Setup rejects the words NASPA leaves out of its school list. To turn it on for every student at once, share this link: tileside.app/play?list=school.
Word list: NASPA Word List 2023, used under license. NASPA Word List 2023 Edition © NASPA 2023. The copy included in this app is licensed for personal use. You may not use it for any commercial purposes.
The words and short definitions in Learn come from the same list, used under license from NASPA. The few international (Collins) two-letter words aren't in it; their definitions are adapted from Wiktionary, the free dictionary, and are available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Every word in Learn also links to its Wiktionary entry, for a longer definition.
Tileside is an independent tool and is not affiliated with or endorsed by any board game publisher or dictionary.
The fine print
Privacy policy · Terms of service. Both are short and written in plain language.