Be your own ref: a padel scoreboard you talk to

Prop the phone by the net, press Listen, and keep the score with your voice between points: say "blue" or "red" for a point, "undo" to take one back, and "score" whenever you want it read out in a natural voice. Padel scoring with golden point, games and sets, the serve tracked, a sound for every point and a bigger one for every game. Buttons do everything the voice does.

Teams

Who serves first Blue Red

Length One set Best of three Best of five

Start listening when the match starts Read the score out loud

Wear earphones or earbuds if you can: the point sounds and the score reach you across the court, and their mic hears you far better than a phone lying by the net. Keep the browser open on this page while you play; the ref keeps the screen awake and warns you before the page closes. Say "serve" and it tells you who is serving. The microphone is the browser's own (Chrome, Edge and Safari have it). Say the colour clearly between points, "blue point" or just "blue"; the ref ignores anything said within a second of the last call, so the celebration does not count twice. It only speaks when you ask for the score, or when the match is over.

How the scoring works

Points go 15, 30, 40, game. At 40 to 40 the next point decides the game: golden point, the way most clubs and every professional tour play now. Six games with a margin of two wins the set, or seven if it gets to six all (a tie-break counted as one game, which is how it feels when you are the one keeping score). The serve changes every game and the board shows who has it. Best of three means the first to two sets.

Getting the mic to hear you

Earphones with a mic are the difference between a ref that hears every call and one that hears half of them. One wireless earbud in, phone in a pocket or by the net, and you never touch the screen during a match.

Stand within a few metres of the phone when you call it. "Blue" and "red" are enough; "blue point" if the court is noisy. Wind and a shouting partner are the enemies; the buttons are always there. If the browser asks for microphone permission, allow it; nothing is recorded by this site, the browser does the listening and hands over the words. The voice that reads the score is the best one your device has; on a phone that is usually a neural voice, on an old laptop it may not be.