Overview
WatchStats is a pickleball scorekeeper for Apple Watch and iPhone. We built it to work on your device: your data stays with you unless you choose to share a match on a Live board.
What We Collect
- Match history: scores, formats, duration, and score timeline for each game you play. Stored locally on your device only. Never uploaded to any server (the optional Live board, below, shares only the match in progress while you have it turned on).
- Apple Health data: heart rate and active calories, read from HealthKit during and after a pickleball workout session. It stays on your device and is never sent to our server.
- Settings and preferences: player name, opponent names, default court side. Stored locally using standard iOS app storage.
How We Use It
All data is used solely to operate the app on your device: to display scores, record workouts in Apple Health, and show your match history. We do not use your data for advertising, analytics, or any other purpose.
HealthKit
WatchStats uses HealthKit to:
- Read your heart rate and active calories during a match to display real-time workout stats.
- Write a completed pickleball workout session to your Apple Health record so you can track activity over time.
- If you allow location, save the route of the workout with it in Apple Health, so it shows on the map in the Fitness app.
HealthKit data, including your workout route, is processed on-device. It is never sent to our server (Live board included) and never shared with any third party. We do not use HealthKit data for advertising.
Weather
To show court conditions with a match, WatchStats sends your approximate location (rounded to about one kilometer) to Open-Meteo, a weather service, to fetch the current weather. Open-Meteo requires no account and does not track users. Your location is used only to retrieve that weather reading; we do not store it on any server or share it for any other purpose. Apart from the optional Live board described below, this is the only information the app sends off your device.
Live board (optional)
Live board lets another screen, such as a TV, tablet or laptop, show your match score. It is off until you open Live board on the iPhone scoreboard. While it is on, WatchStats sends the match in progress to our server at thecloudgrid.com so that any screen opened with its 6-character code (or QR code) can display it. What is sent:
- the player and opponent names you entered for the match;
- the score, serving side, game count and match timer;
- if a workout is running on your Apple Watch, how long it has been running.
No health data, such as your heart rate, is sent to the board.
Anyone who has the code can view the board, so share it only with people you want watching. The board is not linked to an account or to your identity, is not used for analytics or advertising, and is never shared with third parties. It is kept in temporary server storage and deleted automatically 12 hours after the last update. Tap Stop sharing to stop sending at any time, or New code to stop screens that have the old code from following your matches.
Third-Party Services
WatchStats does not integrate any third-party analytics, advertising, or data collection services.
Data Sharing
We do not sell, rent, or share your personal data with any third party.
Data Deletion
- Match history: Go to the Matches tab → select matches → Delete. Or uninstall the app to remove all stored data.
- Health workouts: Open the Health app → Browse → Workouts → swipe left on individual sessions to delete them.
Children
WatchStats does not knowingly collect data from children under 13. The app has no account system and stores no personal information on any server, apart from a Live board you choose to turn on, which is deleted automatically within 12 hours.
Changes to This Policy
We will update this page if our practices change. The effective date at the top will reflect the latest revision.
Contact
Questions? Email us at [email protected].