MatchPoint vs NewSet
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MatchPoint
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Match Point turns your Apple Watch into the scoreboard. Tap your half of the court to win the point, glance down at a giant courtside numeral, and let your iPhone mirror every point live, like a broadcast scoreboard on the sideline. Built for tennis, padel, pickleball, and beach tennis. Set up on the phone, score on the wrist. SCORE ON YOUR WRIST • Split Court layout: your half glows green, the rival half glows red • Tap your side to score the point, no fiddly buttons • Press and hold (or swipe down) to undo, a radial ring shows your progress • One huge 128pt tabular numeral you can read across the court • A glowing net carries games and set pips, and lights up during a tiebreak YOUR iPHONE IS THE SCOREBOARD • A clean, broadcast-style live mirror of the watch score • Updates within about a second as you score on the wrist • Set up the match here: pick the sport, format, singles or doubles, and player names • Browse full history and stats after the match SPORTS AND FORMATS • Four sports, each scored by its own real rules and accent color, no more one-size-fits-all tennis math • Tennis: 0, 15, 30, 40, deuce with Advantage or No-Ad, tiebreak to 7 at 6-6, sets to 6, in Best of 3, Best of 5, or Pro Set • Padel: real Golden Point sudden death at 40-40 (or classic Advantage), doubles, best of 3 • Pickleball: true integer scoring to 11, 15, or 21, win by 2, with your choice of Rally or Side-out serving (the 0-0-2 two-server doubles sequence) • Beach Tennis: real ITF No-Ad games with one Deciding Point at 40-40, 6-game tiebreak sets (to 7 at 6-6), best of 3, and a 10-point Match Tie-Break in place of the deciding third set at one set all, singles or doubles • Live serve indicator, set and game grid, and pressure badges (Set Point, Game Point, Golden Point, Deciding Point) all follow the sport you picked LIVE WORKOUT TELEMETRY • Start a match and an Apple Watch workout runs alongside it • Live heart rate (bpm), active calories (kcal), and a match clock on both wrist and phone • Matches save to Apple Health as workouts • HealthKit is optional, scoring and history work fully without it HISTORY AND STATS • Reverse-chronological match list with win, loss, and abandoned badges • Per-set scores, match duration, win rate, and current streak • Quick undo of recent points with an event-by-event log FREE AND PRO • Free includes 4 new matches each calendar month — every match you start gets full scoring, the live mirror, history, stats, and cloud sync • MatchPoint Pro removes the cap: unlimited matches, all season • Pro adds Advanced Trends: win rate over the months, sport and match-type splits, and your weekly playing rhythm • Pro adds Match Presets: save your go-to setups and rematch any result in two taps • Go Pro with an auto-renewing monthly or yearly subscription, or a one-time lifetime purchase OFFLINE FIRST, SYNCED LATER • Every point is saved on device first • Watch and phone stay in sync within about a second • Keep scoring with no signal, it syncs to the cloud when you are back online • Sign in with email to keep your match history across devices BUILT TO BE SEEN • Full VoiceOver support and Dynamic Type • High-contrast variants and Reduce Motion • Color is always paired with a text label, never color alone • High-contrast Courtside design on deep OLED black A NOTE ON YOUR DATA Your email and match history are stored in your account so they sync across devices. Health data is used only inside the app to show your live workout and save it to Apple Health, never for tracking or advertising. An account is required to save and sync your matches. TERMS OF USE By downloading or using MatchPoint you agree to our Terms of Use (EULA): https://matchpoint.marceloamoretti.com/terms Grab your racket, strap on your watch, and play the next point.
NewSet
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Right now your padel is scattered. The score in someone's head. The group in a messaging app. The league table in a spreadsheet nobody updates. Saturday's time buried in a chat that scrolled away. The results gone the moment you leave the club. NewSet brings all of it together: your matches, your people, your competitions, your conversations and your numbers, in the one app you already have open on court. THE SCORE TAKES CARE OF ITSELF Nobody remembers if it was 30-40 or 40-30. Someone always insists they do. Tap the point as it happens and NewSet handles the rest: games, sets, tie-breaks, change of ends. You glance down, you know exactly where you are, and you get back to playing. SCORE WITHOUT TOUCHING YOUR PHONE Your Apple Watch is enough. Tap between points and leave the phone in the bag. Your heart rate and calories are part of the match, and it all lands in the Health app as a workout when you're done. EVERYONE SEES THE SAME SCORE Start a live match and your partner, your rivals and anyone watching from the side follow it in real time, point by point. No shouting across the net. No "wait, what was it?" PLAY WITH YOUR FRIENDS, NOT JUST AGAINST THEM Set the match up in advance: pick the day, choose who plays where, send the link. Their spot is saved, everyone gets a reminder, and if plans change you can move it without starting over. TURN A GROUP OF FRIENDS INTO A COMPETITION An Americano on Saturday, a knockout tournament, or a league that runs for weeks. NewSet does the draw, builds the rounds, sorts out the schedule and updates the standings the moment a match ends. You organize it once, then you just show up. TALK ABOUT IT WHERE IT HAPPENS Every competition, every match and every group of friends has its own chat, sitting right next to the score it's about. Agree on a time, settle it with a poll, share the result, keep the banter. Organizing a game of padel stops meaning four apps and three group chats. WATCH YOURSELF GET BETTER Every match adds up on its own. Win streaks, your best partners, how the season is going. The numbers you actually care about, in one place, without doing a thing. ONE PLACE FOR ALL OF IT From the first point of your first match to a league table months later, it stays together and it stays yours. Your padel, all of it, in one app. Your next set is waiting.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: NewSet at none against MatchPoint's 3. MatchPoint's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 4 weeks). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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
Both are free to download. MatchPoint sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. NewSet asks for nothing beyond the download.
MatchPoint ships an update every 4 days, NewSet every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 7, 2026 and September 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MatchPoint | NewSet |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Every 4 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 38 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Marcelo Amoretti | Pau Peirats |
In-app purchases
MatchPoint
- Pro Monthly$0.991 Month
- Pro Yearly$9.991 Year
- Pro Lifetime$49.99
NewSet
No in-app purchases









