A family business, based in North Yorkshire

I'd kept some of my old scorecards but thought it would be useful to have somewhere to log all my matches, so I built Green Bowler. I used it throughout the season and gradually realised that it was becoming more than a way of tracking my performance, it was becoming a record of my bowling life. I just wish I'd had it when I started bowling four years ago.

Then, this season, I became a team captain for the first time. I found myself putting the team's results into a spreadsheet every week and thought, I could make an app for this too. That became Green Captain.

Around the same time, I joined the Bowls Yorkshire Board as Media and Communications Officer and built a new website for the county. The competitions pages quickly became some of the most visited, as bowlers followed the draws and results. Towards the final stages, people were regularly asking on the Bowls Yorkshire community page if someone could post updates from the matches.

So I thought, we could have an app for that. And Green Score was born.

Green Score was used for the remaining final-stage competition days and then for the Bowls Yorkshire Finals Weekend, where it had hundreds of views and some really positive feedback.

That left Green Rinks. I'd already been involved in setting up and administering a rink diary at my own club, and over time I'd had quite a few ideas about how a rink booking system could work better. I thought it would be interesting to try building one myself. It turned out to be quite a lot harder than I thought but having built the other three apps, I'd learnt a lot along the way.

So I finally finished it.

And that's really how Green Apps has come about, one idea at a time, from things I've actually needed in bowls.

I use all four of these apps myself, and I hope you enjoy using them too. If you've got an idea for something that would make life easier in bowls, I'd love to hear it.

Jackie, Green Apps Founder