Baloot
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A score keeper for Baloot

Cards on the table, score on the phone.

Baloot is the national card game of Saudi Arabia, played across the Gulf: four players in two teams buy the turned-up card as Hokm, with trumps, or as Sun, without, and the score runs to 152. This app takes the place of the pencil and paper: it knows who deals, turns card points into game points, spots a lost deal and keeps the score to the end.

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  • No ads
  • No accounts
  • Works offline
  • Seven languages
At the table

Everything you used to scribble in the margin

The app knows the rules of Baloot, so all that’s left at the table is to play and call out the points.

  • Two teams of two

    Four players, partners sitting opposite. Use your own names or just “Us” and “Them”.

  • Hokm and Sun

    Mark who bought and what: Hokm, with trumps, a deal worth 16 game points, or Sun, without, worth 26. Enter one side’s points and the app gives the rest to the other.

  • Double, three, four and gahwa

    Mark how high the stake went: a double, three or four multiplies the deal, and a gahwa settles the whole game at once.

  • A lost deal

    Did the buyer take less than the opponents? That’s LOST — the whole deal goes to the opponents, projects and all.

  • Projects and the baloot

    Sira, fifty, hundred, four hundred and the baloot, counted with “−” and “+”. The app turns them into game points and gives them to the side they belong to.

  • Rules to hand

    The rules of Baloot are built in — in all seven of the app’s languages, no internet needed. Or read them in advance right here.

Privacy

Your game stays on your phone

The app collects nothing and sends nothing anywhere. The privacy policy is short, because there is very little to say.

  • No accounts, no sign-up
  • No ads
  • No analytics or tracking
  • Scores stay on the device
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Where to get it

For Android, Linux and Windows, download the app right here. It will come to the app stores later.

  • Download .apkAndroid

    Phones and tablets

    1. Open the downloaded file.
    2. If the phone asks, allow installing from this source.
  • Download .debLinux

    Debian, Ubuntu and their derivatives

    1. Open a terminal in the folder with the downloaded file.
    2. Run sudo apt install ./baloot.deb
  • Download .exeWindows

    Windows 10 and 11

    1. Run the downloaded file. No administrator rights are needed.
    2. If a warning about an unknown publisher appears, click “More info”, then “Run anyway”.

    No installation: .zip archive — unpack it into any folder and run baloot.exe.

Rather not install anything? Use the web version: it opens right in your browser, and once added to your home screen it works offline too.

Open the web version

Version 2026.11.314

  • Coming soonGoogle Play
  • Coming soonApp Store
  • Coming soonMicrosoft Store

Open source

The app’s code is open: see exactly how it keeps the score, and suggest changes.

View the code

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