REF! vs Arrowdex
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
REF!
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REF! is the ultimate app for football referees. Create the match, invite your trio, run it from your watch and fill in the match report on your federation's intranet without leaving the app. No paper, no hassle. BEFORE THE MATCH - Create the match with teams, category, pitch, date and time. - Save your teams with crest, colours and short name, and your usual pitches. - Match and travel fees by category, editable for each match. - Choose whether you're the referee or an assistant. - History for each team: how often you've refereed them and how it went. - Countdown to your next match in the widget, the Live Activity and on your watch face. - A calendar event, created automatically. ON THE PITCH, FROM YOUR APPLE WATCH - Timer by periods: set how many, how long and how long the break is. - Haptic alert when time is up and when the break runs over. - Added time: enter the minutes announced and the watch tells you when they run out. - Choose who kicks off at the start of each period. - Goals with one gesture and the scorer's number; stoppage time is logged like a match report: 45+2. - Yellow and red cards to players and team officials, with second yellows handled for you. - The reason for each card: reckless, promising attack, serious foul play, violent conduct… - Substitutions in the order you write them down, at half-time too. - Substitution windows: how many stoppages each team has used to make changes. - Events view for each team: you choose whether to see goals, cards or substitutions. - Match summary on your wrist at the final whistle. - Tournament mode: create and run matches on the watch itself, with their own times and fees. - If the app closes, the match picks up where you left it. AFTER THE MATCH - Fill in the match report: one tap takes you to your reports on the RFEF or regional federation intranet. - The full report in the app: goals, cards with their reason and substitutions, each with its minute. - Distance covered, per half too, sprints, top speed, heart rate, calories and steps. - Heat map of your position over the real image of the pitch, in satellite or pitch view. - Effort zones calculated from your real maximum heart rate, read from Apple Health. - The match is saved to Apple Health like any other workout. YOUR SEASON - Statistics by season or date range, as referee and as assistant. - History of teams, categories and pitches. FEES - Paid and pending for the season, by category and by month, with match and travel fees kept separate. - Annual PDF and CSV report, for your committee or your tax return. - Mark matches as paid one by one or all at once. WITH YOUR TRIO - Add other referees as friends by name or @alias and invite them to your matches. - The match syncs in real time between the three of you. - Combined heat map and statistics for the whole refereeing team. - Profile with avatar and alias, plus blocking and reporting. AND ALSO - Your federation's intranet one tap away from Home; your password never goes through REF!. - Everything synced with iCloud between iPhone and Apple Watch. - Exportable and importable backup. - Works without signal: whatever you record on the pitch is sent as soon as you're back online. - Match reminders, tutorials and a suggestion box. REF! PRO Refereeing with REF! is free, with no match limit: timer, goals, cards and substitutions from the watch, match metrics and effort zones. REF! PRO unlocks the heat map, statistics across all seasons and by date range, fee reports, friends and shared matches, tournament mode, substitution windows and card reasons. €2.99/month or €16.99/year, with the first month free on the annual plan. The subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the period. You can manage it in your Apple ID settings. Terms of use (EULA): https://therefapp.es/en/terms.html Privacy policy: https://therefapp.es/en/privacy.html
Arrowdex
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Arrowdex is the archery app for archers who take their progression seriously. Score every end, understand what your numbers actually mean, and keep your bow dialed in — on the shooting line, offline, in one place. SCORESHEET & TRAINING LOG Score arrow by arrow through WA 720, WA 1440 and WA 18m rounds, or set up your own. Tag each shot with its physical arrow number, fix a wrong score with one tap, and read back every past session end by end. ARROW PLOTTING & GROUPING Plot your impacts on the target face and let Arrowdex read the group for you: group center, spread, and the sight adjustment that would move it back to the middle. SIGHT MARKS Keep a sight mark chart per bow and per distance, so the right mark is with you at every distance instead of in a notebook at home. EQUIPMENT & BOW TUNING Manage your bows, arrows and components, then work through guided tuning for brace height, tiller, nocking point, center shot, plunger, clicker and the rest. Every step is a symptom, a diagnosis and a correction — not guesswork. TRAINING PLANS Build a plan from templates, ramp volume up and taper down toward an event, and tick sessions off as you shoot them. A planned session turns into a training day you can actually score. MENTAL TRAINING Fourteen guided psychological-skills exercises with a breathing pacer, shot routine rehearsal, imagery, cue words, refocus drills and a tension/focus check-in before and after. Schedule them in your training plan, keep a journal, and see how your practice days compare with the rest. MATCHES & TOURNAMENTS Shoot head-to-head matches with the World Archery set system, compound cumulative scoring or the Bundesliga team format, and run single-elimination brackets, round robins and match days. CLUBS & LEADERBOARDS Join your club, connect with other archers, and compare personal bests on leaderboards segmented by round format and bow division. COACHING Grant your coach access to exactly the data you pick — scores, conditions, technique, even your bow setup — and revoke it whenever you want. Your coach gets a roster view, comments on your sessions and proposes plan changes you accept or reject. WEATHER Attach wind and conditions to a session with one tap and see how your scores move with them. DASHBOARD Recent sessions, progression and your training heatmap on one screen. ANALYSIS Build your own graphs from your training: score, group size, arrow volume and inner-10 rate by week, bow, distance, wind or how you felt. Pin them to your dashboard; your coach can run the same graphs across the whole squad. EVERY BOW STYLE Recurve, compound, barebow, longbow and traditional — each with the tuning, divisions and terminology it actually uses. ARROWDEX PRO The training log is free. Pro adds multi-device sync, deeper analysis and the full training toolkit. PRIVACY FIRST Built in Germany under GDPR. Your training data is yours: export it as JSON or delete your account right in the app. Analytics are anonymous and strictly opt-in, and everything optional is off by default. Offline-first — it all works on the shooting line without a signal. Privacy policy: https://arrowdex.app/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Questions or feedback? contact@pott.dev — we read everything.
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Verdict
REF! and Arrowdex are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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. REF! sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Arrowdex sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | REF! | Arrowdex |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 — better | 18.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 119 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Rodrigo Vicente Valmorisco | Johannes Ptaszyk |
In-app purchases
REF!
- REF! PRO Monthly$2.991 Month
- REF! PRO Yearly$14.991 Year
Arrowdex
- Pro1 Month trial$2.991 Month
- Pro1 Month trial$22.991 Year









