padel scorekeeper garmin watch app, available in garmin connect app store
Keeps full padel match score: sets, games, standard tie-breaks, and super tie-break when configured.
Setup
- Quick presets: Tournament (best of 3, golden point, no super tie), Tournament with super tie, Pro set tournament (single pro set), Friendly (unlimited sets), or Custom to tune everything.
- Custom match: number of sets (1, 3, 5, or unlimited), set type (normal, pro set, or mini set), optional super tie-break (when using 3 or 5 sets), and point rule:
- Golden point — deuce is decided by the next point
- Advantages — classic advantage / deuce
- Silver point — one advantage cycle; if it returns to deuce again, the next point wins the game
- Star point (FIP-style) — up to two advantage cycles, then a decisive point at deuce
During play
- Score with Up / Down (or top / bottom half of the screen on touch devices).
- Real time heart rate on the score screen.
- Options menu (Enter / Start, or long press on touch): undo last point, track an unforced error, or finish the activity.
Activity / Garmin Connect
- Records a padel activity; on save, writes match score (full history string), steps during the session, unforced errors count, and app version into the activity for Connect / FIT.
When you open the app, the initial screen appears. Press Enter / Start, or tap the screen on a touch device, to continue.
You’ll see the Game Mode menu first:
- Tournament, Tournament (super), Pro Set Tournament, or Friendly — pick one, review the summary, then choose Start match.
- Custom — walk through Sets (1 / 3 / 5 / Unlimited) → Set type (Normal / Pro set / Mini) → Super tie (only for 3 or 5 sets) → Score rule (Golden / Star / Advantages / Silver), then start.
Use Up / Down to move in menus and Enter to select. For exact scoring mechanics (set lengths, tie-breaks, deuce rules), see Match rules reference.
The score view shows sets, games, and points (or Tie / Super when applicable), plus a clock and heart rate. Your team is scored with Up; the opponent with Down. On touch devices, tap the top half for your point and the bottom half for theirs.
Press Enter / Start on the score screen, or long-press on a touch device, to open Options:
- Undo last point — asks for confirmation before reverting.
- Unforced error — increments the error counter (also saved with the activity and available in garmin connect later).
- Finish activity — Save and exit, Discard, or Cancel back to the score.
Pressing Back from the score screen opens the same Finish activity menu (save, discard, or cancel).
If the match ends because a player/team has won the required sets, a summary screen is shown. Press Enter or tap to open Finish activity and save or discard as above.
After syncing, open the saved padel activity in Garmin Connect to see the recorded score, steps during the session, unforced errors, and app version in the activity details (exact layout depends on Connect / device).
This section describes what the app implements, not the on-watch menus (those are covered in How to use).
- 1, 3, or 5 sets: the match ends when one side has won enough sets (e.g. 2 of 3, 3 of 5).
- Unlimited: the session does not auto-finish on set count; you end it from Options or Back when you want to save or discard the activity.
Super tie-break can be turned on only when you chose 3 or 5 sets. If sets would end in a draw at the last possible moment (e.g. 1–1 in a best-of-3 match with super tie enabled), the deciding set is not played as games: it is a single super tie-break (see below).
All set types use standard padel-style game scoring (0 → 15 → 30 → 40, then game / deuce, depending on the point rule you picked). Tie-breaks inside a set are first to 7 points, win by 2.
| Set type | Win the set | Tie-break when |
|---|---|---|
| Normal | First to 6 games, win by 2 | 6–6 |
| Pro set | First to 9 games, win by 2 | 8–8 |
| Mini | Games start at 2–2; first to 6 games, win by 2 | 5–5 |
When the match configuration uses a super tie for the decider, that entire final “set” is a super tie-break: first to 10 points, win by 2. There are no games inside that set.
These options only change what happens when a game reaches 40–40 (deuce):
- Golden point — the next point wins the game.
- Advantages — classic advantage / deuce: after deuce, a side needs advantage and then another point to win the game; losing advantage returns to deuce.
- Silver point — like advantages, but each time play returns to deuce after the receiving side had advantage, a counter advances. After one such return to deuce, the next time the score is 40–40, the following point wins the game (no further advantage play in that game).
- Star point (FIP-style) — same hybrid idea as Silver, but two returns to deuce from that advantage situation are allowed before the next 40–40 point becomes decisive (wins the game).
During a normal set tie-break (not the super tie), the UI shows Tie: points–points. Points are counted numerically; win the tie-break by reaching 7 points with a margin of 2.
See <iq:products> element in manifest.xml file.
While there's nothing preventing other devides to be supported, due to limited access to test on other devices, support is only focused on the following ranges at this moment:
- garmin forerunner (165, 245, 265, 645, 735, 745, 935, 945, 965)
- garmin fenix 5, 6, 7, 8 (s/X/pro)
- garmin epix 2
- garmin descent mk2i/mk2s, mk3
Feel free to raise an issue asking support for any specific device.
Note: api level by device listed in garmin dev docs
available in garmin connect app store
Release workflow and developer resource links: RELEASING.md.