Best Electronic Dartboards of 2026

There is no screen on the DARTSLIVE Home, and that is the first thing to get straight. The 15.5-inch board pairs over Bluetooth with the DARTSLIVE app on a phone or tablet, and that device becomes the scoreboard: animated lanes, per-dart stats, computer opponents and online matches against real players. We think that is a fair trade rather than a downgrade. A fixed LED panel will never show you a three-dart average, and this one drops you into a lobby with people you will never meet in person.

The board itself is the sturdy half of the package. It is 7 pounds of ABS and nylon, with mounting screws and anchors in the box, and it runs off the included USB-C cable or a pair of AAA batteries when there is no outlet near the wall you picked. Nothing about the segments or the mounting feels like an afterthought; the variables live in the app.

So plan the second screen before you buy. A phone that is also your phone gets awkward mid-leg, and a cheap tablet or an old iPad mounted beside the board is the setup this board is designed around. If you do not want a screen in the room at all, one of the boards with a built-in display will suit you better, and that is the honest dividing line in this group.

The doors are the whole idea. Closed, the board vanishes into a piece of furniture; open, the darts and spare tips are sitting in racks on the inside of the doors, where you left them. At roughly 21 by 27 inches and 20.3 pounds it is a genuine cabinet rather than a frame around a board, and it finishes a wall in a way a bare plastic face never will.

The target inside is the full regulation 15.5 inches, backed by 57 games and more than 300 scoring options, including the Minnesota and Spanish Cricket variants you will not find on most boards here. The extended backlit display is the practical piece: those Cricket formats are unreadable on a small screen, and this one shows every player's marks at once. Scoring covers up to 16 players, which is more than most rooms can seat.

Mounting is the part to plan. The cabinet is heavy and closed at the back, so you are working blind against the wall: drill the bracket, measure twice, and rope in a second person to hold it while you drive the screws. Keep the throw line tape and measuring tape that come in the box. With six darts, 24 spare tips, mounting hardware and the AC adapter included, there is nothing else to buy.

The part that gives us pause is the electronics. Boards in this line can run happily for a year and then refuse to power on, and a 30-day warranty is no help by then. That is the price of the cabinet, and it is worth paying when the board hangs where guests sit. For a garage or a basement, a bare regulation board like the Viper 850 plus a backer board makes more sense.

If the Neptune is more furniture than your room needs, this is the cabinet to look at. The board inside is 13 inches rather than regulation 15.5, and the whole unit is 18.5 by 24 inches, which opens up hallway walls, the end of a basement and the awkward strip beside a door. The wood cabinet closes over the board and holds up to twelve darts on dual racks.

The specification reads well for the size: 34 games and more than 180 scoring options, scoring for up to eight players, and a handicap setting that lets a beginner and a league player throw the same leg. Six starter darts, six extra tips, the AC adapter and mounting hardware are in the box.

We got more use out of that handicap setting than we expected to. It is the feature that decides whether the board comes out when one person is much better than everyone else, which is most houses. The trade for the smaller cabinet is the smaller face: 13 inches is a tighter target, adults adjust inside an evening, and young children will bounce a few more darts off the dividers before they find the rhythm.

Two practical notes. The bundled darts are the usual weak link, and the power cord needs routing away from the board, because a stray dart or a foot can knock it loose and take the score with it mid-leg. Both are ten-minute fixes on setup day rather than reasons to pass.

You can spend far more on an electronic board and give a family a worse first year. This one is 15 inches of polyethylene with a scoreboard that counts, calls out turns and makes the right noises, six soft-tip darts and six replacement tips in the box, and three AAA batteries instead of a cord. We think the cordless part matters more than it sounds: no outlet to find, no cable for a kid to trip over, and it hangs on a garage wall or the back of a closet door just as happily as in a game room.

What you are paying for is the scoring, not the hardware. The plastic is plainly built to a price and the segments will never feel like a bar machine's, which is the correct place to economize on a first board. The soft tips also mean a wild throw bounces off instead of putting a hole in the drywall.

Two things to know before you hang it. A hard, flat throw can skate off the bullseye without registering, and throwing a touch softer fixes it, so watch that before you blame the electronics. The whole thing is also light enough that a solid mounting point matters more than it does on a heavier board. Come in expecting a starter board for kids and parties and it does its job; come in expecting regulation, and you will be shopping again by spring.

The two color LCDs are the reason to look at this one. Rather than a strip of numbers, you get backlit panels that draw the cricket marks as you close them out, which makes a game legible from across the room and much easier for someone who has never played cricket to follow. Behind the screens sit 40 games, 427 scoring options, five levels of computer opponent, six aluminum-shaft darts and 100 soft tips, powered by the included adapter or three AA batteries.

The package is where the value sits. A hundred tips is years of throwing, the aluminum-shaft darts are a step above what most boxes include, and the two-year limited warranty is the longest of anything in this guide. In a category where 30 days is the norm, that is worth real money. The trade is size: at 17 by 21.5 inches it is a smaller board than the regulation-face picks here, and a bar regular will notice the tighter grouping.

Setup is simple, with a screw in the wall and understandable instructions, and the backlight does more for a dim basement than you might expect. Keep a handful of spare tips in a drawer, because the included ones are the softest part of the package. For a family room that wants a bright, talkative board without paying cabinet money, this is the one we point at.

Opponents, not numbers, are what this board sells. It pairs over Bluetooth with the GranBoard app on a phone or tablet, and the app drops you into a lobby of players around the world: a leg against a stranger in another country, then a look at the round-by-round stats afterwards. The board has no scoring readout of its own. The app is the scoreboard, the announcer and the record book.

The community is why the Dash has the following it does. There is usually somebody online to play, pairing is quick, and the app keeps your averages over time so you can see whether the practice is working. Set it up once with a tablet mounted nearby and your phone stays in your pocket.

Physically it is a light board, and it is a noisy one: a soft tip into a nylon segment makes a click that carries through a floor. You can turn the sound effects down, but you cannot soften the click. Darts heavier than about 16 grams can also jam a segment, which you will notice immediately if you are used to throwing a heavier barrel. Lighter soft tips and a garage or basement wall solve both.

Our reservation is the one that applies to any app board: no app, no game. If the tablet usually lives in somebody's backpack, a board with a built-in display is the safer buy. If you want the closest thing here to a night in a darts bar full of strangers, this is the one to hang.

Thirteen inches of target face, a catch ring around it, and a 16.4-by-17-inch footprint. This is the board for the wall you did not think you had room for: above a desk, at the end of a hallway, in a small apartment where a regulation cabinet would dominate the room. It is the smallest target here, and that shows up in your average, because 13 inches leaves less room between segments than a 15.5-inch face.

Do not mistake small for simple. There are 43 games and more than 200 scoring options inside, scoring for up to eight players, automatic counting on the LCD, six darts and two dozen spare tips. Three AA batteries mean no cord and no outlet to plan around, and the catch ring earns its keep the first time somebody aims badly.

Who it suits: a tight wall, a small apartment, or a group that can already throw. Beginners will find the 13-inch face unforgiving, and the 30-day warranty is thin cover for electronics. For everyone else it is the lowest-priced board here, and nothing else in this guide fits in less space.