What we build and what shipped

PadelGod 1.0.15: tournaments, rebuilt.

• Create a tournament in 2 steps and see rounds, length and finish time right away
• Americano, Mexicano and team formats, with or without a venue
• Add players from your people, guests without an account, a link or a QR code
• The Now tab: your match, drawn courts and one-tap scores
• The next round starts by itself 25 seconds after the last confirmed score
• Stand-ins and late arrivals without breaking the standings
• Results with a podium, trophies and the awards of the night
• Head to head against every opponent
• Your trophy cabinet on your profile
• Notifications grouped by subject, with clearer texts
• Every notification opens exactly the right screen
• New images to share your matches and tournaments
• Halloween on the court: 6 free avatar items until 1 November
• New avatar expressions, makeup and Giuls Activewear outfits, and a celebration when you unlock an item
• A new welcome: a short tour of the app and a quick setup
• Face ID remembers your account
• Sign-in links in emails work every time
• Fixes and polish everywhere

PadelGod 1.0.14: your player, your story.

• Create your avatar: face, hair, build, outfit, gear and your country's colors
• Put your avatar on an indoor or outdoor court, a night match or a sunset
• Earn special items from real results, kept for good once earned
• Your avatar on your profile cover, full figure with its court
• Tap the cover to see your avatar full screen
• Small portraits now show your court instead of a flat color
• The avatar editor keeps your changes if you leave the app
• Your photo is never lost: switch between photo, avatar and initials anytime
• New photo editor: smooth rotation, magnetic angles and gentle haptics
• The profile cover no longer slides when you open it from Home
• Profile header: your avatar on court, your name and level beside it
• A simpler ranking card: your tier, level and place at a glance
• The tab bar shrinks as you scroll, everywhere in the app
• Clearer dark glass behind the tab bar
• Apple Watch sessions attach to the right match automatically
• Mark sessions without a match as Training, Warm-up or Lesson
• Share a session in a post, only when you choose to
• Faster, steadier refresh of matches, history and profile
• The app follows your phone's language until you pick one

Account, sign-in and contact

• Public contact and club-interest forms verify submissions and clearly report delivery.
• Password recovery follows the same safe path across Web, Club and Admin.
• HTTPS recovery links open the installed iPhone or Android app and can continue on the web.
• After a password change, normal navigation stays blocked until old sessions are confirmed closed, including across restarts.
• Linked sign-in methods can be viewed and managed from security settings.
• “Continue with Face ID” is voluntarily available after an eligible session, with Apple, Google and email retained as fallbacks.
• A new password must contain at least 8 characters and match its confirmation.
• A reset link that no longer matches the current account is rejected, with guidance to request a new one.
• Signing out, recovering the password or re-enrolling biometrics invalidates the previous local biometric credential.
• Email sign-in handles focus and the keyboard correctly and remains readable in Light and Dark Mode.
• Authentication forms focus the first invalid field and keep all actions reachable when the keyboard appears.
• Expired web sessions recover without unnecessarily trapping sign-in or profile claiming.

Matches, scoring and drafts

• Manually entered scores explicitly preserve sets, tiebreaks and outcome across Web, iPhone and Android.
• Android requires a valid completion before saving and protects the result from accidental confirmation.
• Historical matches accept incomplete or unusual scores when that is the genuinely recorded result.
• Deciding tiebreaks saved by older versions remain correctly displayed and interpreted.
• The manual score form is shorter and infers the Friendly outcome when the score makes it clear.
• Point intervals exclude paused time, so match pace is no longer artificially inflated.
• A match-linked fitness session can be recovered and correctly assigned if saving is interrupted.
• A new-match draft is preserved when the user accidentally leaves the editor.
• Recovered drafts offer clear resume or discard actions without automatically overwriting new work.

Tournaments

• Discover distinguishes having no tournaments from filters that currently return no matches.
• The public live page presents important actions in a clearer order.
• The round timer uses the same states across public, TV and management views, including after expiry.
• Participant order remains stable in the public roster after edits.
• For fixed-team tournaments, the organiser creates a named team and explicitly selects its two members.
• Team identity and its name survive editing, reordering and withdrawal.
• Fixed-team round-robin scheduling treats pairs as units and avoids incorrect pairings.
• A tournament score link allows full correction of its associated schedule and result.
• Save and Back actions in the web editor have clearer visual hierarchy.

Profile, history, streak and Apple Watch

• On Android, profile photos can be cropped and repositioned before saving.
• Android’s city selector uses search and verified selection instead of ambiguous free text.
• Own and public profiles are more compact while keeping long names readable.
• Public profiles show a loading skeleton and reveal sections together instead of filling blank areas in stages.
• Public profiles provide direct access to player comparison.
• A player’s public history can be expanded to show every available match.
• History cards use stable width, explicit set labels and aligned score columns.
• Mobile leaderboards use more compact selectors and no longer reserve empty space for inactive filters.
• Streak Freeze is granted and consumed consistently, including the new eight-week reward cycle.
• Mobile onboarding is a native bilingual nine-step flow that follows the system Light/Dark appearance.
• Apple Health permission is requested only when the system says it is needed, and concurrent requests are coalesced.
• On Watch, a fitness-only session has explicit stop, save and discard actions.
• A match’s Apple Watch source is correctly identified in history and activity.
• Watch transfers retry until acknowledged and cannot be assigned to a different account signed in later.

Fitness, history and stability

• Delayed Watch scores are accepted only for the account that started the match.
• The iOS match report no longer crashes when it contains many statistics.
• iOS history groups matches under Today, Yesterday and the date on which they started.
• Existing matches remain visible during refresh, and a cancelled refresh does not show a false error.
• Fitness Sessions has its own page outside match history and shows the number of pending Watch sessions.
• The fitness inbox shows source, date, time, duration, heart rate and available calories.
• A fitness session can be attached once to a compatible score from the same time window.
• If no compatible score exists, Add Score opens with the session already selected.
• A session that is not a match can be dismissed and removed from the action list.
• Pending Watch sessions explain whether they are waiting for Health or connectivity and confirm that local data has not been lost.
• Android does not request Health Connect access on the phone. Galaxy Watch sessions are recorded explicitly in PadelGod for Wear OS and synced safely with the app.
• iOS sessions are explicitly separated into PadelGod Watch with score, PadelGod Watch fitness-only and Apple Health.
• When origin cannot be proven, the session remains Unconfirmed source and is not automatically assigned to PadelGod or Apple Health.
• The privacy page explains that the phone does not read Health Connect and how permission-gated fitness aggregates recorded on Wear OS are used.

PGR, claiming and notifications

• Men, Women and Mixed competitive ladders are fully separate.
• Overall skill remains a cautious general estimate and does not determine a public ladder position.
• PGR is presented from 1.0 to 7.0 in 0.1 steps, with calibration progress for the selected context.
• The selected Ranked category is separate from the optional profile gender.
• Eligible mixed matches contribute to PGR, while each player appears in only one selected leaderboard.
• Calibration explains the minimum match requirement separately from the period in which the rating is still stabilizing.
• Sporting division is requested at the first relevant Ranked action, not during account registration.
• Invited players without an account can claim their place in a result on Web, iPhone and Android.
• Claiming recovers after an expired session and completes automatically when identity is already confirmed.
• The organiser can generate a unique claim link for each name-only player slot.
• The organiser can approve or reject the account claiming the slot.
• An active claim link can be revoked, and a consumed link cannot be reused.
• Claim conflicts require explicit review and never change the roster or accounts automatically.
• A Ranked notification opens the exact match report instead of only the general list.
• Marking notifications as read stays synchronized and does not accidentally revert to unread.
• The notification depth expanded through Show More is preserved while the app remains open.
• Marking one or all notifications as read immediately updates rows and the unread badge.
• If marking as read fails, the interface returns to the confirmed state instead of hiding the failure.
• On iPhone, a notification tap is retained after a cold launch or while offline and retried when connectivity returns.
• On the web, browser push can be enabled, retried or disabled with clear states.
• Android includes complete notification controls and About information.

Share Studio for matches and tournaments

• Match results provide five distinct canonical compositions, each with a clear purpose.
• Tournaments provide five dedicated compositions: champions, podium, standings, venue and event recap.
• Full cards export natively at 1080×1920 in vertical 9:16 format.
• The same result can be shared as a Card, over a photo or as a transparent Sticker.
• The Venue variant uses the court’s real coordinates and displays Apple Maps or OpenStreetMap attribution.
• If the real map cannot load, the user receives a clear message and can retry.
• Streets, venue and the PadelGod pin remain part of the map-led composition in Card, Photo and Sticker modes.
• Stickers retain true transparency, while the preview uses a checkerboard to make it visible.
• Photo mode applies a dark treatment that keeps score and text readable over the selected image.
• Long doubles names first try one line and fall back predictably to two lines in the score table.
• A partial set is explicitly marked so the card does not present it as completed.
• Padel/Tennis and Ranked/Friendly labels use distinct sporting icons rather than text alone.
• The app icon and PadelGod wordmark are optically centered and have matching visual presence on iOS and Android.
• The iOS preview supports horizontal swiping with page snapping, haptics, edge resistance, Reduce Motion and VoiceOver.
• Variant title, page number and indicators remain studio controls and are not embedded in the exported image.
• The iOS preview keeps only the current page and its neighbors in memory for smooth swiping between large images.
• Fitness cards appear only when the result has real values from the session attached to that exact match.
• Duration, average/maximum heart rate, active calories and intensity are presented in a centered Fitness grid.
• The V4 Card background uses the larger court with the original perspective; Photo and Sticker do not receive this opaque background.
• Only the score area uses a visible panel, with greater transparency over photos; other information stays compact and unboxed.
• Inside the score table, every player stays on a separate row for quick reading.
• In doubles matches, winners can appear together with & when space allows.
• Individual tournaments keep players on separate rows, while team tournaments preserve pairs as teams.
• Cards can represent manual, tied or incomplete scores and one to five sets without inventing a winner.

Strava

• Strava can be connected or disconnected from Connected Apps on Web, iPhone and Android.
• Connected Apps clearly shows connecting, connected, reconnect-required and unavailable states.
• Strava authorization opens in the system browser, and PadelGod never sees the Strava password.
• Automatic Strava sharing is off by default and must be enabled explicitly.
• Strava exports omit partner and opponent names and do not use private Health data.
• Disconnecting stops future sharing without deleting activities already published to Strava.
• Automatic match sharing to Strava has its own separate control.
• Returning from Strava authorization lands back in Connected Apps through the app’s verified link.
• A saved Padel match can be manually sent to Strava from its report, including an older match.
• The report shows export status, allows retrying and opens the confirmed Strava activity.
• The score is formatted vertically in the activity description for readability.
• Manual export includes time, duration and score without private heart-rate series from Apple Health or Health Connect.
• Short but valid activities are no longer mistaken for abandoned exports.
• Duration sent to Strava uses the fitness session assigned to that exact participant and match.
• Manual sharing is discoverable from the profile, history and match report.
• Strava accepts only completed matches with a meaningful sporting score and explains why a result is not eligible.

New across every platform

• Home and navigation have been redesigned: see your rating, latest-match change, playing streak and recent results faster, while live scoring stays within easy reach.
• The keyboard once again dismisses naturally when you tap outside it, scroll, change sections or leave a screen.
• Live scoring is fluid again, with clean number animations and no labels covering the scoreboard.
• History and profiles are easier to read. Older venues were corrected, partner clubs use the right name and map pin, and nearby clubs remain distinct.
• Tournaments include the full schedule, courts and resting players, standings, statistics, TV mode, podium and complete match history.
• Guests can claim their place by link or QR without duplicates, while organisers can safely correct scores and permitted settings.
• Pairs and groups are clearly distinguished, and city selection uses a verified list of locations worldwide.
• The photo editor adds rotation, straightening, flipping and reset, while vibrations and haptic feedback can be controlled from one setting.

Specific to iPhone and Apple Watch

• Text fields respond immediately on the first tap, without the stall that delayed the keyboard.
• Launching and returning to the app are faster, while the Apple Watch scoring experience remains unchanged.

Specific to Android

• The Android release includes natural keyboard dismissal and the same fluid score animations as iPhone.

On the web

• You can claim guest entries, control result visibility, manage your account and find help, rules and privacy information more easily.

For clubs

• Booking and cancellation messages include clearer contact details, while client management, history, search and export have been improved.

• Player search everywhere: find any account by name or username, not just people you follow. Friends come first, the same in the final score, the scoreboard, team setup and tournaments.
• Friendlier friendly matches: enter any score, tied sets included, and it's saved as a draw if everything ends level. Ranked matches stay strict (every player with an account, complete sets, a clear win), so the ranking stays fair.
• Even better tournaments: settings fully rethought, with big in-page buttons and direct editing of the name, slots, courts and rounds. Add guests one after another, and replace a guest with a real account in a single tap.
• Confirmation when removing a player or a team, an action history grouped by participant, complete podiums (partial ones too) with head-to-head tie-breaking and better Americano schedules.
• Smarter locations: a place that already exists as a club shows once in search, with the club's correct name and position, instead of being duplicated by a map entry.
• Scoring details: match duration to the exact minute, clear limits on the number of sets and warnings for unusual scores.
• Profile, notifications and Apple Watch: a refined activity heatmap, better notifications and score entry, and the watch no longer keeps showing a match in progress that had already finished.

• The full tournament schedule, visible from the first moment: a new Schedule tab in the app, a dedicated manager card and every round on the public page - who plays with whom, on which court, who rests, with each round's status.
• Tournament settings, reorganized: big buttons right in the tournament page instead of a hidden menu. Quickly edit the name, slots, courts and rounds without extra dialogs, add guests one after another, get a confirmation when you remove a player or a team, and see an action history grouped by participant.
• Automatic Americano rounds are perfectly equal: everyone plays exactly the same number of games, and small groups cover every partner pair. The form shows the exact rounds and games per player.
• Open scoring: active participants with an account enter and correct scores directly, with no confirmation. Choose Organizer, Confirmed or Open, switchable at any time.
• Editing after start: rename the tournament any time, and Mexicano lets you change slots and courts mid-tournament.
• The live standings now show everything the final ones do: games, wins, ties, losses, points for/against, difference and win rate.
• Faster scoring on the web: one side auto-fills from the other, Enter saves, walkovers get a dedicated checkbox.
• The tournament handbook: a new page explaining every format and every setting, in depth.
• Apple Watch: the match-in-progress card no longer sticks on Home after a match finished on the wrist in a weak-signal spot.

• A new, simple sign-in: one tap with Apple or with Google (new!). Prefer email? It's still there, below. We only ask for the details we need right after.
• Team Mexicano (new): play the whole tournament with your fixed partner, with opponents picked every round from the team standings - leader vs 2nd, 3rd vs 4th. At creation you simply choose Individual or Teams.
• King of the Court, consistent everywhere: fixed pairs now show as pairs (Kings of the Court) in standings, on the public page and on TV, and creation checks the exact rule early: at least 12 players, an even count, at least 3 courts and no more than one pair sitting out.
• Fairer tournament standings: playoff games no longer alter the group standings, and the champions are the winners of the final, not the points leaders.
• An end-of-tournament recap: when it's over, the TV screen shows the champions, the podium, the biggest win, the closest match and the total points - and the tournament pages get the same stats.
• More control for the organizer: edit spots and courts right from the lobby (in the app and on the web), change tournament settings after creation, and confirm or reject player-submitted scores.
• Tournament creation is now atomic: every setting (final, player scoring, timer) is saved together - no more half-configured tournaments.
• Web tournaments, on par with the app: a Discover tab with all the filters (distance, format, sport, date, free), the friends you play with most appear first when inviting, multi-select invites, a join button and a mini-map of the chosen location.
• The teams championship final gets its own card and can be configured after creation too; time suggestions at creation start from your actual local time.
• Plus fixes: custom rounds kept when duplicating an Americano, withdrawing a pair removes both teammates, and the custom-interval timer no longer collapses.

• A complete social feed: post text, photos or match results, with likes, comments, comment replies and emoji reactions. The feed now has its own tab, next to Home.
• A new post card: photo and match as one symmetric block, with 1-2 preview comments and a 'View all' that expands in place; tap the match to open the full report, and photos now sit on a CDN (faster).
• Tournaments 2.0: alongside Mexicano, Americano and King of the Court, you now get fixed teams and a knockout championship final (quarters, semis, final).
• TV mode: put the tournament on any club screen, with live standings, an animated bracket and a join QR.
• A round timer synced across every screen (phone + TV), with a preset or custom interval and an alarm when it ends.
• Reserves and late players: whoever misses a spot is promoted automatically, and players who arrive late are added on the fly (Mexicano).
• Scores sent by the players themselves (optional): each court sends its own score, opponents confirm it.
• An individual final for Mexicano/Americano, optional ranking-based seeding, and a flexible Americano (play as many rounds as you want, with pairings and rest rebalanced).
• Run tournaments from the browser too, on padelgod.ro, inviting account players, not just guests.
• Your web account area is now a full dashboard: profile, matches, ranking and tournaments, with an activity heatmap, a rating chart, profile editing and mobile navigation.
• A full profile-photo editor: zoom, pan, rotation and flip, at upload and afterwards.
• A faster launch: we removed an up-to-30-second stall on slow networks.
• A Sport filter (Padel/Tennis) for clubs and a 'Where you play most' shortcut when you open a match at a location.
• Dozens of fixes: correct navigation between matches, posts open from your profile with their comments, clubs show a map and directions (Google Maps/Waze), plus better Apple Watch sync.

• Profile 2.0: a new header with the big photo, tier and streak, unified stats (a grid of cards with deltas, the form curve and records), rails with your favorite partners and the places you play, a QR code and a one-tap rematch.
• Player comparison: win probability (Glicko), rivalry streaks, the matches you played together and doubles 'chemistry'.
• Fitness premium: real heart-rate recovery (HRR), load and readiness (ACWR), 12-week trends and a 9:16 card for your story.
• Tournaments: a displayed entry fee, real discovery filters, a per-tournament chat, club stats and duplicating a tournament as a template.
• Real cities via Google Places: pick your city in your profile and at signup, anywhere in the world.
• Bilingual notifications: every notification arrives in Romanian or English, following your language.
• Streaks: freezes and a vacation mode, so you don't lose your streak when you take a break.
• Matches: real city and distance filters, an 'open match near you' deep link, and adding a guest with Enter.
• Apple Watch: fixed a first-point crash on older watches, plus HealthKit stability and safer score sync.
• Phone becomes optional at signup, with auto-suggested usernames.
• A profile-photo editor, cover positioning and a fluid photo viewer on the profile.
• Hundreds of stability, performance and design fixes, plus a faster, better-indexed website.

• All-new design: premium dark theme, volt accent, Saira typography, new logo and launch screen, in the app and on the web.
• Tournaments (new): Mexicano, Americano and King of the Court, with live standings, auto rounds, duration estimates and premium sharing.
• Rebuilt competitive ranking, with a clear calibration state and an explanation for every rating change.
• Reorganized Matches tab (My matches, Public, History) and one-tap join.
• Powerful history search and filters: result, period (including a custom date range) and guests only.
• Chat: long-press reactions and swipe-to-reply.
• Apple Watch: a tap-anywhere scoring mode, an in-match server picker and an always-on display.
• A web account portal and an App Clip for live scores from a shared link.
• Hundreds of stability, performance and design fixes, including several crashes.

• In-app support: tickets with a reply directly from our team.
• Safety and reputation: reports, a reliability score, graduated rule enforcement and appeals.
• Open match near you alerts (opt-in, with quiet hours).
• Per-match approval policy (open or approval join) and a message to the host.
• A Ranked label for rated matches and campaign stats in the admin panel.

• A premium match report, with an animated result and avatars on the score rows.
• Distance-aware club browsing and saving the location with the final score.
• Ranking with 7 named tiers and access to rated matches based on your tier.
• App Clip: a live score from a shared link, no install needed.
• Live Activity (Dynamic Island and Lock Screen) for the in-progress score.
• Improved Apple Watch sync.

• An in-app admin dashboard (owner only).
• Security hardening: closed data exposure, edge-function auth and admin MFA.
• A global phone country picker and a profile-save fix.
• A leaderboard podium and redesigned avatars.
• The website and admin panel are now fully responsive.

• A competitive ranking engine (Glicko) with nightly verification and auto-healing.
• Account security: password change and reset, plus a Notifications and permissions screen.
• Crash monitoring (Sentry) and branded sign-in emails.
• Faster history and charts on device.

• The initial PadelGod release: live scoring, a player profile, rankings and an Apple Watch app.