Launched this week
Padelyst
Live padel scoring & tournaments on iPhone + Apple Watch
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Live padel scoring & tournaments on iPhone + Apple Watch
8 followers
Score live, sync history, and run tournaments from your wrist or pocket. Generate Americano, Mexicano, and round-robin schedules in seconds.
There are already plenty of padel apps out there, so I didn't set out to reinvent the sport. I just wanted to build the version I'd actually want to use.
The honest part: I'm a senior web developer — back-end and front-end — not a native mobile engineer. The Swift, the iOS app and the watchOS app were all built with Claude Code. I brought the product thinking and the architecture; AI wrote the Swift.
Meet Padelyst 🎾 — live padel scoring for the whole match, not just the phone.
⭐ What makes it different
Beyond simple scoring, Padelyst has a Detailed mode: classify every point as a winner, unforced error or forced error, and get real post-match stats on how you actually played — the kind of insight most padel apps just don't offer.
⌚ On Apple Watch (the heart of it)
• Score right from your wrist — Watch-first, no phone needed
• Runs as a real workout: live heart rate, active calories, Fitness-ring credit
• Score casual matches and live tournament matches on-wrist
📱 On iPhone
• Live scoring (simple or detailed) + full match history that syncs across devices
• Create & run tournaments and open events with a self-join lobby
• Leagues — individual and team, with standi
• Sign in with Apple, Google, Facebook or email
💻 On the web (padelyst.app)
• Dashboard for your matches and tournaments
• Create and manage events from the browser
• Multi-language
🛠️ Under the hood
The whole backend runs on Cloudflare — Workeects powering the real-time live-sessionWebSockets. The iPhone app is the network hub and bridges scores to the Apple Watch over WatchConnectivity, keeping watch, phone and web in sync. One small, edge-deployed stack doing a lot.
It's still early and there's a long road ahead — but it's a real, working product built by one person who just wanted a better way to play.
Does the live scoring actually sync between players mid-game, or only at the end of each match? Trying to figure out if I'd still need a separate scoreboard app during fast rounds.
Results sync live: the second a match is scored, everyone in the session sees updated standings and the next round instantly — you don't wait for the event to end or refresh anything. The point-by-point count during a game lives on the scoring device (usually the Watch of whoever's scoring), it isn't streamed to other players' phones mid-game. So for fast rounds you won't need anything to track results/standings, but if you specifically want a shared live point ticker per court, that's not in the app yet.
Does the scoring work offline, or does it need a live connection the whole match? Trying to figure out if my score syncs later when I'm back on wifi.
@ccumagil14794 Yes - scoring works completely offline. The score is kept on the Watch itself, so you don't need wifi or your phone nearby during the match.
When the match ends, the Watch hands the result to your iPhone over the normal Watch↔iPhone link (Bluetooth - no internet needed), and it lands in your History right away. If your phone isn't reachable at that moment, the Watch holds the match safely and delivers it the next time they connect.
Cloud sync is the only part that needs internet, and it's queued too: any match recorded offline uploads automatically the next time the app is online (e.g. when you open the app or the History tab). Nothing is lost in between - everything stays saved locally until it syncs.
One exception: live tournament sessions (where several phones share a running scoreboard) do need your phone online, since scores are pushed to the shared tournament in real time. Even there, if you score a tournament match on the Watch while offline, the result is kept and submitted once the session reconnects.
Tried generating an Americano schedule for our padel group and it popped out clean and ready to share in seconds. The wrist sync is a nice touch for keeping score mid-match without breaking the flow.
Would love a way to share a live match link with spectators so friends not on the court can follow the score in real time. Maybe even let them react or send cheers.