Pool has a new presence.
New and innovative games, globally connected live matches, and stats on every shot.
Play. New reasons to pick up a cue
Original formats that make every practice night a competition.
Know. Why you win or lose
Score every shot, identify flaws in your game, and carry one rating across every game.
Connect. An opponent anywhere
Live, linked matches with a video feed from each table.
Belong. Join the movement to modernize billiards
Players, leagues and rooms building the next era of the game together.
The games
Four games at launch
Fairway Billiards™
Where golf meets billiards. Get ready to have some fun on the course with Mulligan Mitch, Chip the Gopher and The Ranger. Every shot matters in this golf-inspired game.
- 1–8 players
- Local head-to-head
- Global Remote Play
- Leagues & tournaments
- Spectre Stats: 40+ tracked
Ghost 9 Ball™
You against the table. One ball in hand, one shot at the whole rack.
- 1–8 players
- Points race
- Local head-to-head
- Global Remote Play
- Leagues & tournaments
- Spectre Stats: 50+ tracked
9 Ball Ascension™
Head-to-head 9-ball with real safeties and handicapped point races.
- 2–4 players
- Points race
- Local head-to-head
- Leagues & tournaments
- Spectre Stats: 88+ tracked
Spectre Sets™
Old-school 9-ball. The 9 wins any time, no calls. Race or play sets.
- 2–4 players
- Game race
- Local head-to-head
- Leagues & tournaments
- Spectre Stats: 88+ tracked
More in development: Scotch Doubles, 10 Ball, Bowlliards and others.
See it in action
Straight from the app
Global Remote Play
Your table. Their table. One match.
Play a live, linked match against someone across town or across the world. You see and hear each other, and the scoreboard updates on both ends as you play.
Spectre Stats™
Find the why. Fix the what.
Most scoreboards tell you who won. Spectre Stats tells you why, on every game you play, and the Spectre Index gives you one rating across all of them.
CORE
"How good am I?"
Performance rate, balls per inning, break and runs, from tonight to career.
DIAGNOSTIC
"Why is my rate what it is?"
Every error and foul broken out, with trends over time.
ANALYTICS
"How do I play under pressure?"
Safeties, ball in hand, push-outs and the shot clock, situation by situation.
"This game, there's something about it, something that draws you in and never really lets you go, almost like gravity."JOSHUA HOUSTON · FOUNDER
For pool rooms and bars
Turn slow nights into league nights
- New formats for golfers, groups and league players
- A live scoreboard on your TV
- Weekly events with no extra staff
- Remote matches against rooms in other cities
Next event
See it live at the Super Billiards Expo
Spectre Tech Billiards is exhibiting
33rd Annual Super Billiards Expo
Find our booth on the exhibit floor, play every game and meet the team. Booth number coming soon.
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The games
Four ways to play
One golf game on a pool table and three ways to play 9-ball. Every game is scored in the app and feeds the same Spectre Index.
Fairway Billiards™
Where golf meets billiards. Get ready to have some fun on the course with Mulligan Mitch, Chip the Gopher and The Ranger. Every shot matters in this golf-inspired game.
- 1–8 players
- Local head-to-head
- Global Remote Play
- Leagues & tournaments
- Spectre Stats: 40+ tracked
Ghost 9 Ball™
You against the table. One ball in hand, one shot at the whole rack.
- 1–8 players
- Points race
- Local head-to-head
- Global Remote Play
- Leagues & tournaments
- Spectre Stats: 50+ tracked
9 Ball Ascension™
Head-to-head 9-ball with real safeties and handicapped point races.
- 2–4 players
- Points race
- Local head-to-head
- Leagues & tournaments
- Spectre Stats: 88+ tracked
Spectre Sets™
Old-school 9-ball. The 9 wins any time, no calls. Race or play sets.
- 2–4 players
- Game race
- Local head-to-head
- Leagues & tournaments
- Spectre Stats: 88+ tracked
The 9-ball games
Which 9-ball game is yours?
| Ghost 9 Ball | 9 Ball Ascension | Spectre Sets | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Players | Solo, against the table | Head-to-head | Head-to-head |
| How you win | Highest score over a set of racks | First to your point goal | Win the race, or the most sets |
| The 9-ball | Worth 2 points | Worth 2 points, ends the rack | The only ball that wins |
| Safeties | None | Real, and scored | Real, plus push out |
| Best for | Practice with stakes, leaderboards | League-style matches | Old-school match play |
More in development: Scotch Doubles, 10 Ball, Bowlliards and others.
Fairway Billiards™
Where golf meets billiards
Play a course of holes on a pool table. Count every stroke. Beat par.
On the course
Meet the crew
Fairway Billiards turns a pool table into a golf course. Every hole is a rack, every shot is a stroke, and the lowest score wins. Handicaps let any two players tee off together, whatever their level.
How it plays
Tee off
Rack the hole the app shows you and break.
Count every stroke
Every shot counts. A scratch costs you a penalty stroke.
Beat par
Clear the hole in as few strokes as you can. Lowest score against par wins.
- Formats
- Stroke play, 6-Hole Shootout, Best Ball, Sudden Death
- Handicaps
- Built in, so new and strong players compete together
- Characters
- Chip the Gopher, Mulligan Mitch and The Ranger
- What you need
- A pool table, a set of balls and the Spectre Tech app
"My grandfather taught me two games. Fairway Billiards made them one."JOSHUA HOUSTON · FOUNDER
On a real table
Played in Kansas City
Inside the app
Every stroke on the card
Ghost 9 Ball™
You against the table
One ball in hand. One shot at the whole rack. No opponent to blame.
Ghost 9 Ball is solo 9-ball with no second chances. Break, take ball in hand once, then run the rack in order. Miss once and the rack is over, but every ball you made stays on the board, so every rack still counts.
How it plays
Rack the pattern
Every player gets the identical layout for each rack of the set.
Break, then ball in hand
You get ball in hand once. That's it.
Run it in order
Balls 1–8 score 1, the 9 scores 2, and a break and run adds 5. One miss, scratch or foul ends the rack.
- Why it's different
- Everyone plays the same racks, so your score can be compared with anyone's
- Scoring
- 15 points is a perfect rack. Ten racks is standard; run them all for a Perfect Set of 150
- Set lengths
- 5, 10, 15 or 20 racks
- Handicaps
- By Spectre Index class, so every level shares one leaderboard
Inside the app
Rack up and go
9 Ball Ascension™
Head-to-head 9-ball, measured shot by shot
Real safeties. Handicapped point races. Live Spectre Stats on screen while you play.
9 Ball Ascension is 9-ball the way a real match is played: two players, one rack, lag for the break, winner breaks. The difference is how you win. Every ball is worth a point and the 9 is worth two, and each player races to their own point goal set by their class. Nobody is handed games; the stronger player just has farther to go.
How it plays
Lag for the break
The winner of each rack breaks the next.
Play standard 9-ball
Hit the lowest ball first. A legal 9 ends the rack. A foul gives your opponent ball in hand.
Score as you go
1 point per ball, 2 for the 9. First to your point goal wins.
- Safeties count
- Every safety you call is recorded, along with whether it worked
- Live stats board
- Performance rate, balls per inning, safety success and fouls, on the TV for the room
- Formats
- Standard race, Short Race, Scotch Doubles
- Your rating
- Every match moves your Spectre Index. Climb from Prospect toward Spectre
Inside the app
Every shot, scored live
Spectre Sets™
Old school. Any time. No calls.
The 9-ball you grew up on. Make the 9 on the break, on a combo, off a kick. It counts.
Spectre Sets is straight 9-ball, the way it's been played in pool rooms for decades. The 9 is the only ball that wins, and a legal 9 wins no matter how it went in. Play a race to any number, or settle it in sets.
How it plays
Break from the kitchen
A 9 on a legal break wins the rack.
Lowest ball first
On the shot after the break, you can push out and make your opponent decide.
Win racks
Reach your number first, or take the most sets.
- Formats
- Races from 3 games to a marathon; best of 3, 5 or 7 sets
- Handicaps
- Each class races to its own number, from 3 for Prospect to 12 for Spectre
- Variants
- Casual race, No Early 9s, Scotch Doubles
- Stats that fit
- Early-9 win rate, push outs attempted and how often they worked
Inside the app
Set the rules before you break
How you play
At your table, or against the world
Play solo against the table, head-to-head in the room, or live against an opponent anywhere.
Create your account
Choose a plan on the Join the Realm page.
Join the Realm
Pick a plan and subscribe. Every game is in the base plan; add Full Stats or the Break Success Map whenever you want.
Play Now
Sign in at app.spectretechbilliards.com, rack up, and every shot is scored as you go.
Plans
Plans start at $4.99 a month
Fairway Billiards, Ghost 9 Ball, 9 Ball Ascension and Spectre Sets, with live in-game stats, in one plan. Add Full Stats for $2 and the Break Success Map for $2. Both cover every game, including all future games, for life.
Global Remote Play
Play anyone, anywhere. Live.
Set your device up at your table, get matched or invite an opponent, and play a linked match with a live feed from each table and one shared scoreboard.
- What you need
- [Camera position, device and minimum upload speed to confirm]
- Fair play
- Both players see every score input and a live view of the shooter's table
- Privacy
- [Whether feeds are recorded, and who can see them, to confirm]
- Best games for remote
- Ghost 9 Ball works anywhere, any time; head-to-head games run live
Spectre Stats™
Your game, measured
Every game on the platform is scored shot by shot, so your numbers come from what actually happened at the table.
CORE
"How good am I?"
Performance rate, balls per inning, break and runs, high run, every timeframe from 7 days to career. Part of Full Stats, +$2 a month.
DIAGNOSTIC
"Why is my rate what it is?"
Every error and foul broken out; safety, kick, bank, jump, combination and break rates; trends and likely ranges. Part of Full Stats, +$2 a month.
ANALYTICS
"How do I play in specific situations?"
Response to safeties, ball in hand, push-outs, the three-foul rule, the shot clock and class comparisons. Part of Full Stats, +$2 a month.
One layout for every rotation game
6, 7, 9 and 10 Ball share the same stats. View one game on its own, or all your rotation play together. 9 Ball is live now; 10, 7 and 6 Ball follow.
A scorecard for Fairway Billiards™
Score against par, scoring by hole length, tee shots that made a ball and penalty strokes, round after round.
The Break Success Map™ ADD-ON
Every player in a rack builds the same rack pattern with a Spectre Tech template rack, so every break starts from the same place. That makes the break a fair test, and the map shows where yours sends the balls, position by position.
- Builds as you break: counts first, the map at 100 breaks, the full map at about 400
- Compare with players who broke the same racks
- A map for every game, with 8-Ball tracked by suit
- A $2-a-month add-on that covers every game, including all future games, for life
How your numbers stay honest
- Scored once
- A foul is a foul and a miss is a miss. Nothing is counted twice
- Likely ranges
- Every rate shows how much to trust it, and small samples show as plain counts
- Live board for everyone
- Both players see the full in-game stats board during every match
- One rating, same rules
- Your plan unlocks more detail, never a different number
Spectre Stats™
The Break Success Map™
Your break, position by position.
Every rack is a set of fixed positions, and every break either clears a position or it doesn't. Track it across enough racks and the picture stops being one break and becomes a fingerprint of yours: what your stroke actually produces, where it produces it, and what it's quietly leaving on the table.
Why it exists
Your break deserves more than one number.
Break stats in pool have always stopped at one number: did a ball go in. Two players with the same break percentage can be doing completely different things to the rack, and only one of them is doing the thing that wins games.
The map reports every position in the rack separately. A break that lives on one position and a break that spreads its output across four are different breaks, and they fail in different ways.
As players log racks, your map sits against the platform baseline, and every position shows its likely range. So when your wing runs cold, you'll know whether it's real or just a short run of racks.
"Your accuracy is .74" gives you nothing to do on Tuesday. "Your wing converts at 31% against a 51% field" points straight at cut angle, speed and contact fullness.
The instrument
Seven maps. Five rack geometries. They don't agree with each other.
That disagreement is the point. The strongest position moves from a back corner to a flank to a wing depending on which game you're racking, so no single aiming habit covers them all. Train one rack and you can't tell whether you own a break or have memorized one.
The diamond puts one ball directly behind each wing and nothing behind that, so the wing takes a clean transfer along the rack edge. It is the single hottest position in the game — and the most sensitive to cut angle of any position in any game.
Same balls, same order: the 1 at the apex, the 9 in the centre. What moves is the rack. With the 9 on the foot spot, the whole diamond sits about two rows closer to the breaker, so every ball starts further from the corner pockets it feeds. The wing still carries the break but converts far less, output falls by about a sixth, and the 9 almost never drops on the break. That is exactly what the rule is for.
The 9-Ball wing mechanism with an extra row of mass behind it. The wing still carries the break but runs a quarter lower, and the surplus moves to the back corners. Strong on the 9-Ball wing but weak here means a break that only works on one geometry.
Fifteen balls spend the stroke before it reaches the middle, so output comes off the back corners — one solid, one stripe. Numbers mean nothing in 8-Ball, so the rack is prescribed by suit and the map reports which group the break actually opened up for you.
The black racks on the spot, which shifts the whole triangle about four inches up-table. Nothing inside the rack moves — the rack does. Every ball sits further from the pockets it feeds, and output falls by almost a fifth on exactly the same stroke.
The lightest rack in the set. With only six balls to absorb the stroke the energy stays in the system, the near back corner converts higher than any cell anywhere, and the cue ball comes off the collision carrying far more speed than you are used to. This is where speed control gets taught.
A hexagon, rotated off the triangular lattice every other rack uses. The apex lines up with the centre ball and the tail, so a full hit drives a chain into the rail and returns nothing. Everything productive goes sideways. No other rack punishes an off-centre hit this visibly.
Sample figures for illustration only, drawn from rack geometry rather than recorded play. Your live map is built entirely from your own logged racks.
What the five racks teach
Four things the atlas shows.
The strongest position moves
It's a back corner in 6-Ball, a flank in 7-Ball, and a wing in 9-Ball and 10-Ball. No single aiming habit produces all of them, and you'd never see it if you only ever broke one rack.
"On the spot" moves the whole rack
In 9-Ball the 1 is always the apex ball. Put the 9 on the spot and the rack shifts up-table until the 9, still in the centre, sits on the foot spot. British 8-Ball does the same with the black. The balls keep their places, but every one starts further from the pockets it feeds, so each condition gets its own map.
8-Ball is tracked by suit
Numbers mean nothing in 8-Ball, and racking fifteen balls in order would slow the game down. So the rack is set by suit, and the map reports which group your break cleared. It's a declared Spectre Tech rack, not the sanctioned one, and we say so up front.
7-Ball is the map nobody has
There's almost no published 7-Ball break data, and the hexagon rack works like nothing else in the set. Today's 7-Ball map is a hypothesis drawn from geometry. It's also the one most worth filling in.
What the map catches
Four things that stay invisible without it.
A break that only works once
Strong on the 9-Ball wing, weak on the 10-Ball back corners? That's a break tuned to one geometry. It holds up until the format changes, and then it doesn't.
Drift you can't feel
Wing conversion is the most cut-angle-sensitive result in the game. When it slides, almost nobody has lost power. They've lost angle, and the map shows it before the losses do.
Whether you adapt
Rack the 9 on the spot and the same break stroke pays less. Compare your two maps to see whether you've adjusted your speed and cue ball position, or are still breaking for a rack that isn't there.
Which group the rack opened
In 8-Ball the table is open after the break. The map tells you which suit your break actually clears, and that the answer flips depending on which side you break from.
How it fills in
Honest from the first rack.
Every player in a rack builds the same pattern with a Spectre Tech template rack, so every break starts from the same place. The map then sharpens as you break, and it never shows more certainty than your racks support.
Access
$2 a month. Every game, for life.
The Break Success Map is its own add-on: $2 a month on top of the $4.99 base, covering every game, including all future games, for life. 9 Ball is available now; 10, 7, 6 and 8-Ball maps join as those games launch, at no extra cost. The live in-game stats board stays free for everyone, always.
BREAK SUCCESS MAP™
"What does my break actually do?"
- Your map, position by position
- A likely range on every position
- Your map against the platform baseline
- Break side, rack method and spot-ball splits
THE LIVE IN-GAME BOARD
"How am I doing right now?"
- Score, goal and balls made
- Fouls and errors, as they happen
- Live Performance Rate for both players
PAIRS WITH FULL STATS
"Why is my rate what it is?"
- Core, Diagnostic and Analytics
- Break success, break outcomes and money ball on the break
- Every error, foul and shot type, with trends
Break ten racks. Watch your map start to take shape.
Your first counts land in about fifteen minutes. The map sharpens with every rack after that.
The Break Success Map is proprietary technology of Spectre Tech Billiards. 6-, 7-, 10- and 8-Ball maps arrive as those games launch.
For pool rooms and bars
Turn slow nights into league nights
Original pool games, a live TV scoreboard, remote matches against other rooms, and player stats your customers can't get anywhere else.
What your venue gets
- New formats that bring in golfers, casual groups and league players
- A TV-ready live scoreboard and leaderboard
- Ready-made weekly events and leagues, with no extra staff
- Remote matches against rooms in other cities
- Your venue listed as a place to play
- What you need
- A TV, a tablet or laptop, internet and a Spectre Tech template rack [confirm]
- Pricing
- $99 to $250 per month, based on tables and features
Request a demo
Tell us about your room and we'll set up a time to show you the platform.
Events
See it live
Find the Spectre Tech table, try every game and meet the team.
Spectre Tech Billiards is exhibiting
33rd Annual Super Billiards Expo
Four days of amateur and pro tournaments, with cue makers, equipment makers and retailers across the exhibit floor. Find our booth, play every game and meet the team. Booth number coming soon.
Behind the build
“I think better with a 9 Ball in my hand.”JOSHUA HOUSTON · FOUNDERHow it started
Test nights on the Tournament Tight Diamond Table
Every new build gets played here first, by league players, on the same table where the games are designed. The scorecard runs live on the overhead screen.
The debut
Kansas City, July 2026
Our first public test. Played on real tables, scored in real time, with the leaderboard on the room's TV.
Host a Spectre Tech event
Bring the games to your room, league night or tournament.
In the summer of 1986, two months shy of my thirteenth birthday, my grandfather introduced me to pool. He noticed right away how fascinated I was by the physics, the angles and the geometry of the game, so he asked one of the regulars, a hustler, to give me a few pointers. Back then hustlers guarded their trade secrets, but this one left me with three things: a solid, steady stance; a tight, closed bridge; and a smooth, straight stroke. Only three simple things to master, I thought. That was the only formal instruction I've ever had, and I still practice those same three things today.
Not everyone in my family was a fan, though. My father didn't support my pool-playing adventures as a teenager. He told me pool would take me nowhere. Forty years later, I might actually prove him wrong, but I'm glad I listened to him back then. Dad, thank you for everything. And Mom, you've always been my biggest cheerleader. Love you both!
My grandfather liked a good game of pool, but golf was his true love. He put a club in my hands when I was eight, and we played together until the last months of his life. He passed away when I was 22. I still think of him every time I step onto a course. Fairway Billiards, a golf course played on a pool table, came to me on a Sunday night in February. He would have gotten a kick out of that.
However hectic life got, I always found my way back to pool. In early 2021 I returned to competitive play after a 13-year break, though I never really stopped playing. That table and those balls, they don't care how long you've been away or what your excuse is. And it's not just the table. It's this game. There's something about it, something that draws you in and never really lets you leave, almost like gravity.
What I want to give everyone is simple:
- 01A reason to play tonightSee the games →
- 02An honest assessment of their gameSpectre Stats™ →
- 03Someone to play with, at any table in the worldGlobal Remote Play →
Oh, and one more thing: I want pool to be fun again. If you're already having fun playing this wonderful game, get ready to have even more. If you're not having fun, I'm about to put a smile on your face.
“And after all these years, I’m finally starting to become a pool player instead of someone who plays pool.”JOSHUA HOUSTON
— JOSHUA HOUSTON, FOUNDER, SPECTRE TECH BILLIARDS
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Build your plan
Base
Fairway Billiards, Ghost 9 Ball, 9 Ball Ascension and Spectre Sets, with the live in-game stats board for both players in every match.
Build my planFull Stats
Core, Diagnostic and Analytics, plus every new stat as it's added, on every game, including all future games, for life. Every error and foul broken out, every shot type, trends and situations.
Add Full StatsBreak Success Map™
Your break, position by position, in every game, including all future games, for life. 9 Ball now; 10, 7, 6 and 8-Ball maps as those games launch, at no extra cost.
Add Break MapYour plan
Full Stats and the Break Success Map each cover every game, including all future games, for life. The live in-game stats board is always visible to every player. See what each stats level shows.
- What happens next
- Create your account, pay securely, then sign in at app.spectretechbilliards.com
- Questions
- Read the FAQ or see how you play
FAQ
Questions, answered
Do I need special equipment?
A standard pool table, a set of balls and the Spectre Tech app. Some games use a Spectre Tech template rack so every player breaks the same rack.
Can I play on a bar box?
[Answer per game, from the handicap grid, to confirm.]
Do stats work on every game?
Yes. 6, 7, 9 and 10 Ball share one stats layout you can view game by game or all together, and Fairway Billiards has its own scorecard stats. See Spectre Stats.
What is the Break Success Map?
Proprietary break analysis that shows where your break sends the balls, position by position, on racks every player builds the same way. It's a $2-a-month add-on that covers every game, including all future games, for life. It fills in fully at about 400 breaks. See the Break Success Map.
Do the upgrades cost more when new games launch?
No. Full Stats and the Break Success Map are $2 a month each and cover every game, including all future games, for life. When a new game launches, its stats and its break map are included at no extra cost.
Is there a free version?
No. Spectre Tech Billiards is a paid platform, starting at $4.99 a month. Join the Realm.
Is there an in-game currency?
Coming soon.
How does Remote Play work?
You and your opponent each set up a device at your own table. You see and hear each other, and both of you see every score input. More on Remote Play.
Are remote matches recorded?
[To confirm, with a link to the privacy policy.]
How do I cancel?
[Link to the subscription and refund policy.]
How do I get Spectre Tech at my pool room?
Request a venue demo and we'll walk you through it.