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Hektors RefWatch (soccer/sports referee watch)

· v1.9
★★★★★ (28) ↓ 1,000 downloads 2 Free

About

A referee watch to aid referees during soccer games. See instructions on screen images. See explanation of menu below the "features" list. Features: - Track activity as a run activity. - Selectable number of periods: 1-9 - Selectable period length: 15, 20, 25, 40, 45 minutes and a custom length of max 59:59. - Countdown timer that can be paused (FIFA counting) - Total timer that always counts up, even in pauses, but not during period break. (FIFA counting) ...OR - Total timer that pauses when game is paused (NCAA counting) - Stop timer to keep track of current pause/break - Up/Down input to keep track of goals (up means +1 for the home team, down +1 for the away team) - Add yellow/red cards - Track subsitutions - Give home/away fields colors matching their uniforms - Reset scores/cards/substitutions via menu - Vibration (no sound) to alert referee when period ends - Reminder at half of the middle period, if odd number of periods, to remind teams to switch side - Vibration every 30 seconds in pause/break in order to not let the referee forget to start time again - Score card of current game and history of the last 3 games. Explanation of "Game Settings": - Periods: the number of periods during normal time - Period length: the length for each period - Break length: time before the "buzzer reminder every 30 sec" will start during period break. - Home/Away color: the color of the score field. Either transparent or a color matching their uniforms. - Advanced scoring: if true, adding a goal will also pop up a menu to let you note the scoring player. If false, only the goal is recorded without any additional popup menus. - Overtime: if true and the game is tied at the end, the game will proceed to overtime tracking. If false, the game ends regardless of the score. - Overtime periods: the number of periods during overtime - Overtime period length: the length of each overtime period - Save activity: if true, activity will be saved to garmin connect. - Use GPS: if true, and "save activity" is true, the activity will be saved with gps track. If false, it will be recorded as indoor activity, where distance is measured by step counting.

What's new

1.9 - Fixed bug with crashes related to activity tracking on Fenix5S/5/5x. Added FR70/170. 1.8.1 - Fixed bug with team colors not displaying correctly. Added Orange color. Added FR570/970 1.8 - Possible to choose a color for the score field for home and away team, respectively. 1.7.1 - Added devices FR570 and FR970 1.7 - Added option in settings to switch between FIFA counting and NCAA counting (i.e. wether or not total time should increase or not when the game is paused due to e.g. injury) - Let stop time accumulate all pauses during a period. Reset during period break and at start of new period. 1.6.2 - Fixed bug with storing selection of day/night mode 1.6.1 - Added Spanish translation, thanks to Omar Álvarez 1.6 - Added option to end period, end game, or exit app when pressing back button. - Added option to switch position of total time and countdown time. - Re-wrote major parts of the code to a MVC type pattern. 1.5 Added light color mode to complement dark mode. Added tracking of extra time minutes in game summary (e.g. goal scored in minute 48 in first half will be noted as "45+3" in summary). 1.4.2 fixed crash viewing history if there is no history. 1.4.1 fixed bug when selecting custom period length. 1.4 - Re-write code to minimize exposure to a potential bug in FW causing crashes on FR265 and FR965. 1.31 - Added Fenix E and ForeRunner165 1.3 - Added Enduro, Enduro3 and Fenix8 - Vibration alert when a player gets its second yellow card - Keep track of substitutions for the game summary 1.2 - big updates - Added Epix watches - Removed touch features during a game to avoid accidentically stopping/starting time. - History of last 3 games. When a new game is started, the current game summary is transferred to history and a new blank game summary i started. - Overtime possibility - choose between simple scoring (only goals) or advanced scoring (goals + scoring player) - added 30 and 35 minutes as "speed dial" for period length - added Time of Day to the game view. - added unit testing for easier development 1.1 - Added possibility to add yellow/red cards to players via menu. - Changed behavior of goals. When a goal is added, you select player numer or "unknown". This is becase of the next feature... - Game Card: a summary of the cards/goals in the game and in what minute they happened. Found in the menu. Card is stored until next game is started (i.e. when transferring from KICKOFF to RUNNING). - Possibilty to regret latest score/card. 1.0 - Major updates! - New menu system, dropping support for old (not used) watches: FR230/235, Fenix3, FR630, FR735xt. - Added possibility to track a game as a workout to upload to Garmin Connect. - Change behavior of when period ends. No longer automatic transition to break, instead counter continues down (on negative values) and wait for user to press start/stop before entering break. During the "negative counting", a buzzer is issued every 30s as a reminder to the ref. - Added 7:00 as quick option for period length, for use in Rugby 7s (!) - Made use of Application.Storage instead, shifting to API level 3.0 0.9 - Added 40:00 as a quick option for period length, to comply with P15/F15 in Sweden. 0.8 - New more dynamic layout to look "better" on all different devices. Added Fenix3 0.7 - Significant performance enhancements 0.6* - Added custom period length of 00:01-59:59 and 1-9 periods. Support for Fenix 5 and 6 series. New graphics. Swedish/English. 0.5 - Replaced logo 0.4 - Corrected total time behavior 0.3.2 - Bug fixes 0.3.1 - Bug fixes 0.3 - Added confirmation on exit. Added possibility to start back-to-back games without restarting app. 0.2 - Added short period of 30 seconds for testing, more vibrations, fixing freeze on exit. 0.1 - First try.

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Details

Compatible with 96 devices
Updated May 29, 2026
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