About the App
WristPadel tracks the score of a padel or tennis match directly on your wrist. The Apple Watch app works on its own — you don't need your iPhone on court.
On the watch: real-time scoring, optional best-of-3 sets with tiebreaks, golden point or star point, a serve indicator, pause/restart, undo, and automatic workout recording in Apple Health.
On iPhone and iPad: your match history and statistics — recent form, win rate, win streak, court time, comebacks, deuces, tiebreaks, and a game-by-game breakdown of every match with its heart rate and calories.
How to Use
On your Apple Watch
- Open WristPadel. Tap the Padel tile to jump straight into a Best of 3 match with Star Point and the serve indicator, or Custom to set up your own match first.
- On the Custom setup screen, toggle Golden Point or Star Point, Best of 3 sets and Serve Indicator, then tap Start Match. With the serve indicator on, you'll be asked who serves first, and a small arrow next to the score shows who is serving and from which side.
- During the match, tap the green "You" side or the yellow "Them" side to award a point.
- Tap Undo below the score at any time to revert the last point — this also undoes any game, set, or tiebreak transition it caused.
- Swipe sideways from the score screen to reach the menu page (End, Pause/Resume, Restart, Undo) on one side and the sets overview on the other.
- The app records a Tennis workout in the background. It appears in the Health and Fitness apps after the match ends.
- When the match is over, tap New Match to start a new one. For about a minute you can also tap Undo Last Point to reopen the final point; after that the match is saved to your history.
On your iPhone or iPad
- Finished matches appear in the WristPadel app on your iPhone automatically, and on your iPad through iCloud. Open it to see your Overview: recent form, highlights, and your latest match.
- Tap View more for all your statistics, or History for every match, filterable by wins and losses.
- Tap a match for its Match Breakdown: set-by-set games, deuces, golden or star points, love games, and the workout's duration, heart rate and calories.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do I need my iPhone nearby?
Not during a match. Scoring and workout recording happen entirely on your Apple Watch. Finished matches are sent to the iPhone app the next time your watch and iPhone are connected, or through iCloud.
What are Golden Point and Star Point?
Both limit how long a game can go on at deuce (40-40). With Golden Point, the first deuce is decided by a single point: whoever wins it wins the game, with no advantage at all. With Star Point, the rule used on the professional padel tour, advantage is played at the first two deuces; if the game reaches deuce a third time, a single point decides it. With both off, advantage is played until someone wins. You can turn on one or the other, not both.
What is Best of 3 Sets?
When enabled, the match tracks up to 3 sets and the first player to win 2 sets wins the match. A tiebreak is played at 6-6 in each set. When disabled, a single set is played.
How do I undo a point?
Tap the Undo button below the score during a match, or the Undo button on the menu page. One undo reverts the last point, including any game or set transitions that resulted from it.
Can I pause or restart a match?
Yes. Swipe to the menu page for Pause/Resume and Restart buttons. Pausing also pauses the workout. Ending or restarting a match asks for confirmation first. A match you end early is not saved to your history.
A match doesn't show up on my iPhone. What should I do?
Only matches played to the end are saved. Make sure the WristPadel iPhone app is installed and your watch is connected to your iPhone, then open the app. If iCloud is turned on for WristPadel, matches also sync through iCloud, which can take a few minutes.
What does WristPadel use iCloud for?
Only for your match history. If you're signed in to iCloud, finished matches are stored in your own private iCloud account, so they're backed up and appear on all your devices signed in to the same Apple Account. Only you can access this data; we, the developer, cannot. Heart rate and calories are never stored in iCloud — they stay in Apple Health. iCloud is optional: without it, matches still go from your watch to your paired iPhone, they just aren't backed up or shown on other devices.
Can I use the app on an iPad or an iPhone without an Apple Watch?
Yes, to view your history. Matches are scored only on the Apple Watch, so on its own the app shows "Start a match on your Apple Watch". An iPad can't pair with a watch, so it gets your matches through iCloud: sign in with the same Apple Account as the iPhone your watch is paired with, and keep iCloud turned on for WristPadel on both.
What does the crossed-out cloud icon on the Overview mean?
iCloud is off for WristPadel. Matches still arrive from your watch, but they aren't backed up or synced to your other devices. Tap the icon for details. To turn iCloud on, go to Settings → [your name] → iCloud on your iPhone.
How do I remove a match from my history?
In the iPhone app, open the match from Match History and tap the trash icon in the top-right corner, or touch and hold the match in the list and choose Remove Match. The match is removed from your history and stats on all your devices. Its workout stays in the Health app; you can delete it there if you want to.
Why does the app ask for Health permissions?
On the watch, WristPadel saves a Tennis workout to Apple Health so your activity is tracked automatically. On the iPhone, it reads that workout to show the match's heart rate and calories. You can deny either permission — scoring and match history still work normally; the workout just won't be saved, or its heart rate and calories won't be shown.
The workout or its heart rate isn't showing. What should I do?
Make sure you have granted Health permissions to WristPadel. On your iPhone, go to Settings → Health → Data Access & Devices → WristPadel and enable both read and write access. A new workout can take a little while to sync from your watch to your iPhone's Health app; the Workout section of the Match Breakdown appears once it has.
What does "Win Streak" count?
The number of matches you've won in a row since your last loss. A loss resets it to 0. "Best" is your longest winning run ever.
Can I use WristPadel for regular tennis?
Yes. The scoring rules follow standard tennis conventions and work equally well for padel and tennis.
Contact
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