Apple Watch · Wear OS

Look at your wrist. That's the whole score.

Goals and behinds, the total, the quarter and the clock — and who kicked the last one. It runs on the watch by itself: no phone app to install, nothing to pair, no account to make.

Men's and women's. Free for fourteen days of football — days football is actually played.

COLLCollingwood 8112 goals 9 behinds
WCEWest Coast 6610 goals 6 behinds
LIVE Third quarter, 11:49 Optus Stadium

12.9 is 81, and the app says both, because half the ground reads one and half reads the other.

What you actually get

Three things, and the round is the big one.

A round watch showing Round 22: Carlton 106, St Kilda 62 at full time, and Collingwood 117, West Coast 98 below it.

The round, sorted the way you'd sort it

Every match as a card — both clubs, goals and behinds, the total, and a line carrying the quarter and the clock. Matches in play sort to the top, so the game that is actually happening is the one under your thumb. Finished matches keep their final score; matches that haven't started show when they will.

Your club is drawn in its own colours, and its match sits above the rest of the round.

One match at Marvel Stadium: Carlton 106 from 16.10, St Kilda 62 from 8.14, with the score by quarter beneath.

One match, in full

The headline score with the breakdown underneath, the score quarter by quarter with the current quarter marked, and the leading goalkicker for each side. The margin is worked out for you, because nobody wants to subtract at the pub.

The goal feed: M. Hall for St Kilda in the last quarter making it 106 to 62, then T. Byrne for Carlton.

Every goal, newest first

Who kicked it, which quarter, the time on the clock, and the score after it went through. Open it ten minutes late and you can read exactly what you missed, in the order it happened.

And the rest of it

Six screens, and none of them is a list of everything at once.

Alerts

Know it happened without looking.

Everything is off until you turn it on. Then goals, quarter breaks and the final siren are three separate settings, and each one is off, your club, or every match.

So you can take every goal in the round and still only hear about your own club at quarter time. One buzz fifteen minutes before your club plays, with no score in it. And one game can be muted on its own without touching any of it.

The settings screen, as it is actually laid out.
Buzz me forOffMy clubEvery match
Goalschosen
Quarter breakschosen
The final sirenchosen

While your club is playing the score is checked at most once a minute. Between matches nothing is checked at all, and off the charger below 20 per cent it slows down further.

Apple Watch: alerts are Wear OS only for now. watchOS gives an app roughly one background wake an hour, so a goal alert would arrive fifteen to thirty minutes late — which is worse than no alert. Everything else on this page is on both.

Watching it later

Nothing gives it away.

Hide every score — on the tile, on the watch face and in the app — until you open a match yourself. The goals and behinds go with it, because 12.9 is 81 to anyone who follows football.

The alerts switch off at the same time, since every one of them is the result arriving early. Turn it back on after the replay and the round is as it was.

The round with every score hidden: dashes where the numbers would be, and the note that a match is final.

Two watches

Built twice, on purpose.

Not one app wrapped for both. The scoring, the ladder maths and the finals rules are the same tested logic; each watch gets the interface its own platform reads as native.

Footy Scores on Apple Watch, showing Round 22 with Carlton 106 and St Kilda 62.

Apple Watch

$9.99, once

watchOS 10 or later. Runs on the watch alone — there is no iPhone app, because there is nothing for one to do.

Alerts are not on this one yet. See above for why.

Footy Scores on Wear OS in club colours, showing Collingwood against West Coast.

Wear OS

$10, once

Wear OS 3 or later. Tile, complications and the full alert set.

Standalone: it installs to the watch, not through a phone.

What it costs

$10, once

Free to download, and everything works for fourteen days. After that one payment keeps it for good. No subscription. No advertising.

The fourteen days are days football is actually played, not days on the calendar. Install it in December and the fourteen days are still waiting for you in March.

$9.99 on Apple Watch — Apple has no $10 price point. The two are separate purchases on separate stores.

What it does not do

  • No account, and nothing to sign in to.
  • No advertising, and no third-party analytics.
  • No club logos — they are trademarks, and eighteen of them would be eighteen network fetches on a watch.
  • No phone app required, and nothing to pair.
  • Scores come from third-party sources. They are unofficial, and they can be late or wrong.