Ever lost track of the score during an intense rally? badmintho is a badminton score tracker for your Apple Watch and iPhone.
badmintho keeps the score on your wrist so you can keep your eyes on the shuttle. Tap to score, glance to check, and let the match record itself — the running score, the jumps, the effort and the time on court all land in Apple Health when you finish.
It handles the standard 21-point game with the two-point advantage, and if your club plays something else you can set your own target and win condition. Free on the App Store, for iPhone, Apple Watch and iPad.
Game details and drills
Every match is saved with its full detail: the score progression, how long each game ran, and how hard you were working through it. Drills are recorded the same way, so a training session is not a gap in your history — it sits alongside your matches with its own effort and duration. You can build a drill session on the phone and run it from your wrist, with the corner called out loud.
Score synchronisation
The score lives on both devices at once. Score a point on the watch and the iPhone follows; correct a mistake on the phone and the watch catches up. That matters in doubles, where the phone is usually in a bag on the side of the court and the watch is the only thing you can reach between rallies.
A second phone can join the match over Bluetooth and show the score full-screen at the side of the court. In Live Umpire Mode the person holding it marks each rally as a winner, an unforced error or a service fault, while the players keep the score. Marking is free on both phones; the breakdown per side appears in the match details, with badmintho Pro.
Apple Health: jumps, games and drills
Start a badminton workout on the watch and badmintho counts your jumps as you play, then writes the session to Apple Health alongside your heart rate and the energy you spent. The workout summary breaks it down properly: jumps per game, average and maximum jump intensity, average effort, duration and speed for both games and drills.
Because it goes to Apple Health rather than somewhere of ours, the rest of your training picture stays in one place — your badminton sits next to your running, your sleep and everything else you already track.
Game history
Past matches stay where you can find them, with the scores and the numbers that went with them. It is the difference between knowing you played on Tuesday and knowing how that session actually went — whether you were jumping less by the third game, or whether the long rallies were costing you more than they used to.
Custom scoring, and water on the wrist
Not every club plays to 21. Set the target score and whether the two-point advantage applies, and badmintho scores your format rather than the one it assumed. There is a shake-to-reset gesture on iPhone for when a game ends badly, and a screen-always-on option for when you would rather not keep waking the phone.
You can also log water straight from the watch between games, which goes to Apple Health with everything else. Dark mode throughout, and the whole thing works on iPad too.
Private by design
Your matches, drills and workouts are written to your own Apple Health and stay on your devices. There is no badmintho account to create in order to score a game, and the scoring, the jump counting and the history all work with no network at all.
One thing does leave the device, and only if you ask for it: joining the badmintho Community waiting list sends the email address you type in to our backend, so your place can be matched when Community arrives. That is an opt-in you make deliberately, and it is the only thing about you the app sends anywhere. We would rather name it than let “nothing ever leaves” quietly stop being true.
What you need, and what it costs
badmintho runs on iPhone, Apple Watch and iPad with iOS 18.0 or later, in 22 languages. Scoring works on its own; the jump counting and workout tracking need an Apple Watch.
It is free to download, and badmintho Pro — a monthly or yearly subscription, or a one-time lifetime unlock — is available in the app; current pricing is in the App Store.
More about badmintho
- The full guide lives on badmintho.com — including support, the FAQ and the privacy policy.
- badmintho changelog — every release in one place.
- All badmintho posts — write-ups and release notes as they land.
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