Comparison

SFRef Soccer Referee Watch vs Goalkeeper Performance Tracker

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

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About

SFRef Soccer Referee Watch

This app helps referees manage soccer and futsal matches directly from their smartwatch or iPhone. It tracks game time, scores, substitutions, fouls, and player statistics. Rosters can be imported via Airdrop or OCR, and game reports can be generated instantly.

Highlights
  • Independent watch operation
  • GPS location tracking
  • Preconfigured match setup
  • Substitution tracking
  • Roster import (Airdrop, OCR)
  • Instant game reports
  • Workout statistics
Features
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Run the app independently on the watch - don't need the phone at all, even for configuration. You can also setup a match on the phone and transfer it to your watch, if you prefer. Run the app independently on the iPhone if you don't have a watch. Use GPS to track referee locations on the field. Preconfigure matches for the next week/month/season and load it up whenever you need it. Your matches can be saved on the phone and/or the watch. Doing tournaments? Save current match results on the watch and move on to the next match. Your results can be accessed at a later time when you want to file a report. Track substitutions by enabling them in your match setup. Tracking is not enabled when you do a quick game setup on phone or watch. Getting rosters late? Ask coach to install app and Airdrop (or send it as an email attachment). You can also scan and use OCR to fill in rosters. No more manual entry. Setup your match and Airdrop it to your Assistant Refs, so the match is configured on their app also. Send a game report from your device after the game with the press of a button. Reports include goal/card details as well as player game time. Look at your workout stats (distance, calories burned heart rate). More statistics will come soon! See how to set it up on the watch: https://youtu.be/nv2hU8S2OWI Tip: Remember to: - Put your watch in Airplane mode during the game. It ensures you are not interrupted by other events. Your watch will also not constantly search for the phone across the field and lose charge. Free app can track games with up to 10 minute halves. Purchase in app to track longer duration. Users who purchased the app from 1.0 to 6.5 will have no restrictions. Now the details: The app has three timers - game clock, stoppage clock and elapsed time. Elapsed time starts at zero and runs uninterrupted during the game. Game clock and stoppage clock are tied together - either game clock is running during the game or stoppage clock is running. They are controlled by a tap on screen. From Game clock screen, swipe left to go to the game record screen. Here all elements are editable with a tap. You can change home and away team names. You can record scores or record yellow and red cards. The app automatically records the time at which the event took place. In case, you added a goal event or card event in error, you can delete the incorrect entry. On the watch, do a force touch and go to event logs. Tap and delete whichever event you entered incorrectly. Displays will update automatically. On the phone, go to events, then hit Edit and then delete. From the game record scene, swipe left to go to Futsal DFK accumulated fouls tracker scene. Swipe up on the numbers to increment. If you made a mistake, swipe down to decrement. Displays turn yellow after 5 fouls and on the watch, a haptic is sent. After the sixth accumulated foul, the display turns red and watch also plays a haptic. On the game clock screen, force touch takes you to a menu where you can set game duration, enable GPS (for referee location tracking), reset clocks, discard the entire game or load game settings from watch filesystem or the paired iPhone. If you select reset clocks, you can select which period to start to set elapsed time appropriately. You can also generate a game report to the paired iPhone running the app and send it out from iPhone app to Notes, iMessage, email or other eligible apps. From Futsal DFK screen, swipe left to look at referee workout statistics. If you run the app on the phone, it also maps the referee location during the course of the match. To view your map after the game, go to menu on the game clock scene -> Load/Save -> View Map. The map will show on the paired iPhone. Privacy Policy: On the Apple Watch, the app uses HealthKit to get distance walked and energy burned while a game is in session. On the iPhone, the app collects referee location while a game is in session.

About

Goalkeeper Performance Tracker

Features
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At the top of the game, a goalkeeper is measured by people paid to do it. Everywhere else, almost nobody measures anything. Closing that distance means a camera system, a mount and a subscription running to hundreds a year, and even then the analysis is built mostly for outfield players. This is goalkeeper video analysis on the phone you own, in twenty minutes a match. NOT BEHIND A PAYWALL The whole loop is free. Tag your matches, rate them, watch your save percentage move across a season, read every match report, cut your highlight reels. A subscription adds depth, not the point. YOU LEARN IT BY TAGGING IT No AI does the watching, deliberately, because the watching is where keepers improve. Labelling your own match is the review. You see the 1v1 you saved and realise you should have swept it, ten yards earlier. The short pass you ignored for an aimless long kick. Your left back calling while you were tunnel-visioned. Then the season adds up what you half knew: you get beaten low, or your weak side is costing goals. A MATCH RATING THAT NEVER SEES THE SCORE The final score is not one of its inputs. Your rating comes from the moments you tagged, so twelve saves in a 3-0 defeat can out-rate a quiet afternoon behind a winning team. Every shot is priced by how likely it was to be saved. Tipping one over the bar is worth more than catching one at your chest, because you only tip over what was going in. Too few moments to judge and it says so rather than guessing. 6.0 means you did your job. GOALKEEPER STATS, WIRED TOGETHER Six attributes, and one moment can move more than one. A parry counts as a save and marks down your handling. Claiming a cross credits your catching, not just your command of the area. Save percentage and distribution success, match by match and across a season. Clean sheets, goals conceded and where each one beat you. Shot maps, pass maps, save percentage by shot height, and a match report for every game. A GOALKEEPER COACH IN YOUR POCKET At grassroots there is often no goalkeeper coach. A parent or a mate steps in with a position they never played, and what a keeper gets is "nice save" and "you need to make that play". Every coaching card names its source, a goalkeeping coach, a governing body or a published paper, and links to the original. Between that and watching your match back, you work out what to fix. HIGHLIGHT REELS Every moment you tag is already a clip, so your reels are cut by the time you finish tagging. They open on a fixture card that gives nothing away and close on your report and shot map. Star the ones worth keeping and they build into a career reel. WHEN A CLUB ASKS FOR A CV They want three things: a one page football CV, a short reel and your stats. The app writes the CV as an A4 PDF carrying your clubs, honours, references and your record, with the count behind every strength. KEEP THE REELS, FREE THE SPACE Match footage is gigabytes. Finalise a match and the app cuts every reel, then lets its copy go. Your reels, moments and report stay, and export years later. YOURS, ON YOUR PHONE No account, no sign-up, no server, no analytics. Nothing is uploaded, because there is nowhere to upload it. It works offline, and one tap writes a backup you keep. WHAT A SUBSCRIPTION ADDS The career Showcase reel, cut in chapters. The watermark off the copies you share, while reels on your phone stay clean either way. Every clip saved as its own file. Eight deeper stats and every named strength. The CV as a PDF. And the coaching card that fires because one of your numbers moved. No ads, and nothing interrupts a match to ask you to upgrade. New subscribers start with 1 month free. Premium is monthly or yearly at the price shown on this page. Your Apple Account is charged when the free month ends unless you cancel 24 hours before, and it renews until you cancel, in Settings. Built by a goalkeeper who has played at several levels of the English pyramid, and got coached properly at none of them.

Screenshots

SFRef Soccer Referee Watch4 screens
Goalkeeper Performance Tracker4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Goalkeeper Performance Tracker at every 3 days against SFRef Soccer Referee Watch's every 3 weeks. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. SFRef Soccer Referee Watch sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and Goalkeeper Performance Tracker sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SFRef Soccer Referee Watch ships an update every 3 weeks, Goalkeeper Performance Tracker every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
SFRef Soccer Referee Watch versus Goalkeeper Performance Tracker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSFRef Soccer Referee WatchGoalkeeper Performance Tracker
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (153 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews59.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings153 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS14.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size29 MB41 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPeramanayagam MarimuthuLuke Pillar

In-app purchases

2 purchases

SFRef Soccer Referee Watch

One-time2
  • Limited Access$3.99
  • Full Access$6.99
2 purchases

Goalkeeper Performance Tracker

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly1 Month trial$3.991 Month
  • Yearly1 Month trial$39.991 Year

Questions

Is SFRef Soccer Referee Watch free?
SFRef Soccer Referee Watch is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Goalkeeper Performance Tracker free?
Goalkeeper Performance Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do SFRef Soccer Referee Watch or Goalkeeper Performance Tracker have ads?
Neither SFRef Soccer Referee Watch nor Goalkeeper Performance Tracker shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SFRef Soccer Referee Watch or Goalkeeper Performance Tracker?
SFRef Soccer Referee Watch ships an update every 3 weeks, and Goalkeeper Performance Tracker every 3 days. Most recently, SFRef Soccer Referee Watch was updated on October 9, 2026 and Goalkeeper Performance Tracker on October 10, 2026.

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