Comparison

Handball Watch vs zRef

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

Head to head
About

Handball Watch

This app provides referees with a digital tool to track game time, scores, and player penalties, including 2-minute suspensions. It offers a clear overview of all warnings and penalties per team and player, with notifications for penalty expirations. All game events are logged and can be shared easily.

Highlights
  • Game time tracking
  • Score management
  • Penalty registration (incl. 2-min)
  • Penalty expiration signals
  • Overview of warnings and penalties
  • Event logging and sharing
Features
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Finally a digital solution for the handball referee! With this app you can easily register 3 game related details: - game time - score - penalties (incl 2-min!!) Please Note: the app fully supports English, French, German and Dutch. Screenshots in Dutch/English are just me deciding to spent time improving app and not spend time to make language specific screenshots.. sorry ;) Especially the registering of time penalties is made extremely easy. No matter how many time penalties are given, every penalty is properly shown and a signal is given when one or more are finished. A full overview of all given warnings and penalties per team and player makes it easy to keep track of what penalties have been given to whom. Finally all events are logged on the related iPhone App and can be shared with one push of the button. For now this app is still free, but this is temporary. Take this chance as early adopter and help us further develop this to become the ultimate watch for a handball referee!

About

zRef

This app helps referees manage sports matches by tracking time, logging goals, cautions, and ejections. It provides a timer and stopwatch for game management and generates end-of-game reports with scores and event details.

Highlights
  • Match time tracking
  • Goal logging
  • Caution and ejection tracking
  • Timer and stopwatch
  • End-of-game reports
  • Simple match creation
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zRef is a refereeing app to help you keep track of your matches. The app can keep track of time, log goals, cautions, ejections, and more. The app is simple to use. Simply create a new match, and supply the time per half. Click the start button to start the timer and press it to stop. There is a timer and stopwatch, so you can know he time remaining and the elapsed time for filling out game cards. You can also click and hold start/stop the button to log things such as goals, cautions, and ejections. When the game is over, you will be given an end of game report. This will contain the final score and each event that occurred (including time).

Screenshots

Handball Watch4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: zRef at 4.3 against Handball Watch's 2.0. zRef also leads on ratings volume (7 vs 2). Handball Watch's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 2 months) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 13.0). On price, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

zRef holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 2.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 7 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 50% and 50% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Handball Watch ships an update weekly, zRef every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Handball Watch versus zRef: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHandball WatchzRef
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.0 (2 ratings)4.3 (7 ratings) — better
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews50.0% of reviews
Number of ratings27 — better
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPod, Apple WatchiPhone, iPod, Apple Watch
Requires iOS11.0 — better13.0
Further details — not scored
Size39 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLazymen Solutions BVRami Sinno

Customer experience

Handball Watch

All ratings2 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral50.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral12.5%
Negative37.5%

zRef

All ratings6 ratings
Positive83.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative16.7%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

In-app purchases

None

Handball Watch

No in-app purchases

None

zRef

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Handball Watch free?
Handball Watch is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is zRef free?
zRef is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Handball Watch or zRef?
zRef is rated higher. Handball Watch averages 2.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while zRef averages 4.3 from 7 ratings.
Do Handball Watch or zRef have ads?
Neither Handball Watch nor zRef shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Handball Watch or zRef?
Handball Watch ships an update weekly, and zRef every 2 months. Most recently, Handball Watch was updated on October 18, 2026 and zRef on October 24, 2026.

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