The PoolPlay Feature Tour: Everything Your Pool Can Do

Most prediction apps give you a form, a leaderboard, and call it a day. PoolPlay is built for the way real friend groups actually run a pool — loud, chaotic, with a running argument that lasts the entire tournament.

Here's a tour of what's inside.

For players

Pick winners and exact scores. Every match is two predictions: who wins, and what's the scoreline. Admins decide how many points each is worth — so you can play a "result only" pool or reward the people brave enough to call 3-2 in extra time.

Bonus questions that get personal. Tournament-wide questions ("top scorer?", "how far does England go?") and per-match questions ("minute of Germany's first goal?"). Pick-from-a-list or free-text answers. The kind of stuff your group chat is already arguing about.

A live leaderboard that updates itself. Matches get scored automatically as results come in. No one's updating a spreadsheet at 1am. Climb, fall, gloat, repeat.

See everyone's picks the moment they lock. As soon as a match kicks off — or a bonus question's deadline passes — every prediction in the pool is revealed. Suddenly you know who called the 4-1 upset, who chickened out with a safe 1-1, and who genuinely picked Canada to win the group. It's where the trash talk goes nuclear.

Group chat built in. Predictions live next to the conversation about them. React with emojis, drop GIFs, post a screenshot of your friend's terrible bracket — it all lives in the pool, not scattered across five different WhatsApp threads.

Notifications that actually matter. Kickoff reminders so you don't miss your picks, match-scored updates so you know how you did, and a heads-up when someone in your pool gets marked as paid.

Six languages, one app. English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Slovak. Your cousin in Lisbon and your colleague in Berlin can play the same pool in their own language.

Install it like an app. PoolPlay is a PWA — add it to your home screen and it behaves like a native app. No app store, no 80MB download.

For admins

Run multiple groups, no extra work. Work crew, uni mates, family chat — run all of them from one account. Switch between groups with a tap.

Copy bonus questions between groups. Build your favorite set of bonus questions once and copy them to any of your other groups. Ship the same fun everywhere without rewriting it five times.

Tune the scoring to your group. Points for winners, points for exact scores, bonus question weights, even split rules for ties — everything is configurable. Run a casual pool or a brutally competitive one.

Share an invite link and you're done. No manual approvals, no "send me your email." One link, anyone with it joins instantly.

Prize pot tracking. Mark members as paid as they chip in. The pot total updates automatically, a system message posts in chat ("Alex paid 20 EUR. Pot is now 120 EUR."), and every member gets a notification so no one's chasing receipts in DMs.

Auto-unlocking knockout rounds. When the group stage ends, the Round of 32 unlocks automatically with the actual teams that earned their way through. You don't touch a thing — the bracket builds itself as the tournament evolves.

Feedback loop with the team. Hit a snag or have an idea? The in-app feedback button lands directly with me. Most requests turn into shipped features within days.

The stuff under the hood

• Free, no ads, no betting. It will stay that way.
• All 104 matches of the 2026 World Cup pre-loaded. Plus other tournaments as they come around.
• Works on any phone, any browser. No app store gatekeepers.
• Your data stays yours. No selling, no sharing, no creepy analytics.

What's next

This isn't the whole list — it's the headline reel. New features land almost every week based on what real pools ask for. If something's missing, the feedback button is right there.

Now go set up your pool. Kickoff is closer than you think.

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