Is LIGR a free scoreboard like KeepTheScore?

No. LIGR is an automated broadcast graphics platform for organisations: scores come from an official data feed or the LiveScore app, graphics fire from match events, and the video is handled in the cloud. If a free tap-to-score board for one match is all you need, KeepTheScore does that job well.

Do I need an account to use a free scoreboard overlay?

Not with KeepTheScore, which lets you create a board and start scoring without signing up, then gives you a browser source URL for OBS. LIGR needs an account, because the set-up, themes and match data carry across a whole competition rather than one board.

Does LIGR replace OBS or vMix?

It can. A scoreboard overlay tool always sits alongside OBS or vMix, because something else has to do the video. LIGR ingests the camera feed directly over SRT or RTMP, including from AI cameras such as Veo, Pixellot, Spiideo and Hudl Focus, applies the graphics in the cloud and publishes the output. You can still send LIGR a feed from OBS if you prefer to keep your existing switcher.

Can I move from a manual scoreboard to LIGR without changing how the match is scored?

Largely, yes. Most clubs below the top tier already have a person keeping score on a phone, and LIGR expects exactly that person. The difference is that the LiveScore app records real match events, a goal by a named player, a card, a substitution, each with a timestamp, rather than only incrementing a number. Same job at the scorer table, considerably more output from it.

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LIGR vs KeepTheScoreManual scoreboards or automated broadcast graphics

For keeping score at a Saturday morning netball game, KeepTheScore is a good product and often the right choice. LIGR solves a different problem: broadcast graphics that run themselves across a whole competition.

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The short answer

Both products draw a score on a video, and that is where the overlap ends. One is designed so a single person can run a single game with no preparation. The other is designed so nobody has to be present for the graphics at all, across a whole season of fixtures. Neither shape is better in the abstract, and the wrong one is genuinely painful.

Use LIGR if

Automated broadcast graphics driven by real match data, for organisations running seasons. The score, clock, squads, statistics and sponsor rotation come from a feed or a scoring app, and the graphics fire themselves. Set-up is per competition rather than per match, which only pays back when there are a lot of matches.

You are producing a season, not a match, and the number of fixtures makes manual set-up per game the bottleneck.
The competition brand has to look the same at a grand final and at a Tuesday night reserve grade game.
You have sponsors who are paying for exposure and expect a report on what they actually got.
You need more than a score bug: player introductions, scorer graphics, line-ups, statistics and interval panels.
There is an official data feed, or you want your scoring to also produce highlights, statistics and clips.
You cannot staff a graphics operator for each fixture, and you are not willing to drop the production standard because of it.
You need the same match published to several destinations at once, in more than one aspect ratio.

Use KeepTheScore if

Manual score-keeping for club, school and social sport, priced for an individual. You open it, pick a sport, tap the score up, and an overlay URL puts the board on your stream. There is no account required to begin and almost nothing to learn. For one match run by one person, that is close to the ideal shape of a tool.

You are scoring one game and you want a scoreboard on the screen in the next five minutes.
A volunteer is running it, they have never seen the tool before, and nobody is going to train them.
You need a board on a phone and a display on a TV in the hall, and that is the whole requirement.
The budget is a personal card, not a purchase order, and it needs to stay that way.
You are running social sport, a school carnival, a club night or a tournament bracket rather than a broadcast.
You already have OBS or vMix set up and you only want the score part solved.

If you read both lists and the KeepTheScore one describes you, stop here and go and use KeepTheScore, or the free LIGR scoreboard, whichever you prefer. A comparison page that talks somebody into the wrong product has failed at the only thing it was for.

LIGR vs KeepTheScore, side by side

We sell one of these, so read the table knowing that, and note the rows where we lose. Everything below reflects how each product is described by its makers at the time of writing. Features and pricing move, so check both before you decide.

What it is

LIGR

A cloud broadcast graphics and streaming platform, driven by live match data.

KeepTheScore

An online scoreboard you drive by hand, with a browser-source overlay for your stream.

Time to your first scoreboard

LIGR

Longer, because set-up happens per competition. After that, each fixture is already configured.

KeepTheScore

Under a minute. Pick a sport, start scoring, copy the overlay URL.

Account needed to start

LIGR

Yes. One account for the organisation, then every competition and fixture sits under it.

KeepTheScore

No. You can create a board and score a game without signing up.

Where the score comes from

LIGR

An official data feed, or the LiveScore app, which records timestamped match events.

KeepTheScore

A person tapping the board on a phone, tablet or laptop.

Graphics

LIGR

Animated Rive graphics with state machines and per-competition theming.

KeepTheScore

Clean, readable overlays with custom colours, team logos and CSS styling.

Beyond the score bug

LIGR

Lower thirds, line-ups, statistics panels, interval summaries, sponsor boards, transitions.

KeepTheScore

Score focused, with custom messages and a stream ticker.

Automation

LIGR

Rules fire graphics from match events and the clock. Set once per competition, no code.

KeepTheScore

An API is available to read and update scores, if you build the integration yourself.

Sponsors

LIGR

Timed and event-triggered sponsor slots, plus a log of what was on screen and for how long.

KeepTheScore

Team and sponsor logos on the paid tiers.

Video

LIGR

Ingest over SRT and RTMP, including AI cameras, then graphics and delivery in one chain.

KeepTheScore

Overlay only. You bring OBS, vMix, Streamlabs or Wirecast.

Outputs at once

LIGR

Several simultaneous outputs from one match, horizontal and vertical.

KeepTheScore

One overlay URL per board.

Highlights and clips

LIGR

Automated highlights built from the timestamped events the scoring app already produced.

KeepTheScore

Outside what a scoreboard overlay sets out to do.

Scaling across a season

LIGR

Configure the competition once. Each fixture inherits design, data model and automation.

KeepTheScore

Each match is set up by whoever happens to be running it that day.

Pricing shape

LIGR

Platform pricing for organisations producing sport at volume.

KeepTheScore

A free tier plus low-cost paid tiers, priced for an individual or a single club.

Best suited to

LIGR

A season of fixtures across venues you do not all control.

KeepTheScore

One match, one person, this Saturday.

Question	LIGR	KeepTheScore
What it is	A cloud broadcast graphics and streaming platform, driven by live match data.	An online scoreboard you drive by hand, with a browser-source overlay for your stream.
Time to your first scoreboard	Longer, because set-up happens per competition. After that, each fixture is already configured.	Under a minute. Pick a sport, start scoring, copy the overlay URL.
Account needed to start	Yes. One account for the organisation, then every competition and fixture sits under it.	No. You can create a board and score a game without signing up.
Where the score comes from	An official data feed, or the LiveScore app, which records timestamped match events.	A person tapping the board on a phone, tablet or laptop.
Graphics	Animated Rive graphics with state machines and per-competition theming.	Clean, readable overlays with custom colours, team logos and CSS styling.
Beyond the score bug	Lower thirds, line-ups, statistics panels, interval summaries, sponsor boards, transitions.	Score focused, with custom messages and a stream ticker.
Automation	Rules fire graphics from match events and the clock. Set once per competition, no code.	An API is available to read and update scores, if you build the integration yourself.
Sponsors	Timed and event-triggered sponsor slots, plus a log of what was on screen and for how long.	Team and sponsor logos on the paid tiers.
Video	Ingest over SRT and RTMP, including AI cameras, then graphics and delivery in one chain.	Overlay only. You bring OBS, vMix, Streamlabs or Wirecast.
Outputs at once	Several simultaneous outputs from one match, horizontal and vertical.	One overlay URL per board.
Highlights and clips	Automated highlights built from the timestamped events the scoring app already produced.	Outside what a scoreboard overlay sets out to do.
Scaling across a season	Configure the competition once. Each fixture inherits design, data model and automation.	Each match is set up by whoever happens to be running it that day.
Pricing shape	Platform pricing for organisations producing sport at volume.	A free tier plus low-cost paid tiers, priced for an individual or a single club.
Best suited to	A season of fixtures across venues you do not all control.	One match, one person, this Saturday.

Where LIGR wins

Automation from a data feed or a scoring app, broadcast-quality animated graphics, sponsor rotation with exposure reporting, multiple simultaneous outputs, automated highlights, and the ability to hold all of that steady across a full season. Those advantages are worth nothing for a single game, and decisive by the two-hundredth fixture.

Where KeepTheScore wins

Simplicity, price for one-off use, and an instant start with no account. There is a real cost to each set-up step a product asks for, and KeepTheScore has removed almost all of them. If your requirement is a scoreboard today, complexity you do not need is a tax rather than a feature. Any platform with per-competition configuration, LIGR included, loses that race and should admit it.

We give away the free scoreboard too

The manual scoreboard is a solved problem and it should be free. So we built one and put no price on it.

The LIGR online scoreboard covers ten sports, each with the scoring and clock logic that sport actually needs rather than a generic home versus away counter: shot clock and team fouls in basketball, the count and the bases in baseball, sets and serve in volleyball, down and distance in American football, games and tie breaks in tennis. It runs in a browser, needs no download, and produces an overlay URL that goes straight into OBS, vMix or Streamlabs as a browser source with a transparent background.

That tool exists because the honest answer to most people asking for a scoreboard is a free scoreboard, not a sales call. The platform is a separate conversation, and it starts when the number of fixtures makes doing it by hand the wrong shape of work. There is a wider view of what that platform covers on the broadcast graphics software page.

What changes when the graphics are driven by data

This is the actual difference, and it is not a longer feature list. It is that nobody has to be watching the match in order for the right graphic to appear.

Rive

The animation framework the designs are authored in. Vector animation with state machines, so a graphic transitions between states rather than cutting between stills.

FUSE

The configuration and publishing engine. FUSE binds those designs to live data fields and themes them per competition and per club, with no code. One design set covers each fixture in the competition.

LiveScore app

The sport-specific scoring app. Somebody still presses buttons, but they press real match events: goal by a named player, card, substitution, timeout. Each one carries a timestamp.

Game Plans

The automation layer. Line-ups before kick-off, a scorer graphic on a goal, statistics at the interval, sponsors on rotation. Set once per competition, applied to each match in it.

Control Room

The browser control surface for when a human should be in the loop. Correct a score, hold a graphic or drop a sponsor, live and without stopping the broadcast.

The compounding effect is the point. Because each event is timestamped, the same input that drives the score bug also produces automated highlights, statistics panels and sponsor exposure reporting. A manually tapped score cannot do that, because incrementing a number does not record who scored, when, or from what.

Where this runs at volume

Volume is the only real test of the model, because anything looks fine for one showcase match.

200,000+
Matches automated: 4,000+
Football Australia matches a year: 650+
DAZN matches a season: 70,000+
Automated highlights for DAZN

LIGR also runs the DAZN National League, AFL and SANFL football, the WTA Tour and ITF World Tennis Tour, Queensland Rugby League, Basketball NSW, Cricket Tasmania, the EuroMillions Basketball League in Belgium, Horizon League, World Sevens Football in Miami and the Corsican football league. Football Australia runs LIGR across 4,000+ live matches a year, spanning nine State Member Federations.

If you want the element-by-element detail on the graphic everybody argues about, we have written it up sport by sport in the guide to sports scoreboard graphics, and there are further comparisons against Singular.live, Flowics and a traditional production truck on the compare index.

Questions

It depends on what you are replacing. If you want the same job done, a scoreboard you tap on a phone with an overlay URL for OBS, then the honest answer is that KeepTheScore already does that well and most alternatives are variations on it. If you are outgrowing manual score-keeping because you now run a season of fixtures across several venues, you are not looking for another scoreboard app. You are looking for automated broadcast graphics driven by match data, which is what LIGR is.

Four things. It takes scores from an official data feed or a sport-specific scoring app rather than from someone typing. It renders broadcast-grade animated graphics, including lower thirds, line-ups, statistics panels and sponsor boards, not just a score bug. It fires those graphics automatically from match events and the clock. And it handles the video itself, ingesting camera feeds and delivering multiple simultaneous outputs.

Starting. You can be scoring a game inside a minute with no account and no set-up, and for a single match on a Saturday that matters more than anything on a feature list. It is also priced for an individual rather than for an organisation, and it is simple enough that a volunteer can be handed a phone and told to keep score with no training. Those are real advantages and we are not going to pretend otherwise.

A manual scoreboard is configured per match by whoever is running that match, so the effort and the quality both scale linearly with the number of fixtures. A data-driven platform is configured once per competition and each fixture inherits it, which is why leagues producing hundreds of matches a season end up on that model. If your season is twenty games at one ground, the manual approach is fine.

Bring us the fixture list

Use a free scoreboard for as long as it is the right tool. When the fixture list gets long enough that somebody has to be at each game just to run the graphics, bring it to us and we’ll show you what the season looks like automated.

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