Tennis Padel Scoring is a free app that keeps score for padel and tennis, so the players don't have to. We built the app and its website, tennispadelscoring.com, to a client's specification, and it is now available on iPhone, iPad and Android.
The brief was simple to say and harder to get right. Anyone who plays regularly knows the moment: a long rally ends, everyone is out of breath, and nobody is quite sure whether it is 30–15 or 15–30, or who is meant to be serving. The app had to settle that question without anyone walking over to a phone between points.
Press. Play. Hear the score.
The whole product is built around one idea. You mount your phone courtside and keep playing. When a point ends, you press a button, and the app updates the score by the rules and calls it out loud.
That button can be:
- a Bluetooth shutter remote on your wrist or racket
- a Flic 2 smart button
- the phone screen itself
Each press assigns the point. Holding the button undoes the last one. Because the input is a single press, the app has to do the thinking: which game, which set, who serves next and when the players should change ends.
Every format, scored right
Padel and tennis share a scoring system, but clubs and groups play it in many different ways. The specification called for the app to handle the formats people actually play, not just the textbook version.
Tennis Padel Scoring covers singles and doubles in both sports, with presets for common formats and the option to tune every rule:
- At deuce: advantage, golden point or star point
- Tie-breaks: a tie-break at 6–6, a match tie-break to 10, or no tie-break
- Match length: one set, best of 3, best of 5, or "just play"
It tracks the server, the doubles rotation and the change of ends. Your last format becomes the default, so the next match with the same group starts in a couple of taps.
Your own umpire
The spoken score is what makes the app hands-free. After each point it announces the score, including deuce, golden point and set point, and tells the players who serves next and when to change ends.
Players can choose how the score is called, either the server's score first or the leader first by name, and pick the voice, speed and volume. Announcements keep going with the phone locked, so the screen doesn't need to stay on for the whole match.
Undo anything
A scoring app that can't recover from a mistake doesn't get used twice. Someone will press the button at the wrong moment, or the group will disagree about a point. So correcting the score was treated as a core feature rather than an afterthought.
Undo is unlimited and exact, and corrections can themselves be undone. There are also plus and minus controls for sets, games and points, so a score can be fixed directly without replaying the match. The score is saved after every point, and the app picks up where you left off if it closes. Every finished match is kept in a set-by-set history.
Put it on the TV
Not every court has a scoreboard. The app has a TV layout that shows a clean, broadcast-style scoreboard, so the score can go on a big screen as well as the phone. It works in portrait or landscape on iPhone, iPad and Android.
A remote that just works
Not every Bluetooth remote behaves the same way. The app includes a built-in remote tester that shows every press, so players can check their button before the match starts.
The website also sells a remote that has been tested with the app, for a one-off €9.99 through a Stripe checkout. The app itself stays free: no ads, no subscriptions and no in-app purchases.
The website
The website at tennispadelscoring.com follows the same principle as the app: everything you need, nothing you don't. It explains how the app works in a single page, from the button press to the TV scoreboard, and links straight to the App Store and Google Play.
It also hosts a research page, Padel and Tennis Statistics 2026, which brings together published figures on players, courts and the growth of both sports, with a source for each number.
Building to a specification
Working from a client's specification means the product decisions are theirs. Our job was to turn the specification into an app that behaves correctly in every format it supports, stays out of the way during a match, and is easy to trust when something goes wrong.
Most of the effort went into the parts players never think about: the scoring rules, the spoken announcements, and the undo and recovery that make a single button enough.
If you play padel or tennis, the app is free to download on the App Store and Google Play. Your next match, scored.