Score the game
from your wrist.
Tap the scorer on your Garmin watch: one press is 1 point, two or three quick presses are a 2- or 3-point basket. The scoreboard on everyone's phone follows, live. Sign-ups by shared link, season table that keeps itself, and a proper basketball activity recorded alongside. Built for the Tuesday-night pickup crowd.
The club room is free. The watch app lives in the Connect IQ store.
Playing, not organising? You need nothing here — ask whoever runs your club for the sign-up link.
No Garmin watch in the club? Ask for a phone version — at 1000 votes it gets built.
Three steps, once
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1. Join the room
Create a club here and you get a six-character room code. Dial it and your PIN into the watch once, with the buttons — no keyboard needed. The watch remembers it.
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2. Pull the squad
Load Squad brings across everyone on the court, in the jersey colours you picked. Start Recording turns it into a Garmin basketball activity with heart rate and the final score.
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3. Press once per basket
Up and down pick the scorer by name, one press records a point, two or three presses within 5 seconds record a single 2- or 3-point basket. Out of Bluetooth range they queue on the watch — the +9 in the corner — and sync later, and a resent batch never counts twice.
What the club gets
A scoreboard everyone can see
Substitutes, injured players and whoever is running late all watch the same page update as the points go in. No phone in anybody's pocket on the court.
Sign-ups without accounts
Share one link in the group chat. People tap their name, the list sorts itself by who answered first, and one press turns it into tonight's line-up.
Even teams
Balancing splits whoever showed up into two sides of matching strength by career points, so nobody has to argue about it in the locker room.
A season that writes itself
Wins, points and a match archive per player, kept from the first game. Nothing to type up afterwards, nothing to lose track of.
Jersey colours that match
Pick the jersey colours you actually wear. The watch shows the same ones, so a glance at the wrist tells you the score without reading a word.
Nicknames only
No contact details are ever stored for players. The app is built around the name people are shouted by on the court, and says so wherever a name is typed.
What everyone else sees
While one person taps points on the watch, this is what the rest of the club has open on their phones.
Top scorers this week
Nothing yet this week. The board fills up as clubs finish their matches.
Two watch apps
PLAYER 1–7. No room, no internet.
Mini Basketball Lite — free
The scoreboard on its own: a fixed roster, two jersey colours, one button per point, and the activity recorded. No account, no setup, nothing to sign into. The way to find out whether scoring from the wrist suits your game.
Your own names, straight off the club room.
Mini Basketball Pro
Everything above plus the room: your real squad on the watch, points pushed live to the club page, sign-ups, season stats and team balancing. One purchase, no subscription.
Questions
Which watches does it work on?
Over a hundred, from fenix 5 onwards: the whole fenix, epix, Forerunner, Instinct, venu, vivoactive, MARQ, Descent and D2 range with Connect IQ 3 or newer.
Does the watch need a phone?
Only to sync. Points recorded out of range queue on the watch and go across the moment a phone with Garmin Connect is nearby again. Nothing is counted twice.
What does it cost?
The club room and the web page are free. Lite is free in the Connect IQ store; Pro is a one-off purchase there. No subscription anywhere.
Do the players need accounts?
No. Only whoever runs the club signs in. Players use a shared link to sign up for the next game and to see the season table.
What about our data?
Nicknames, points and match results. No contact details for players, ever. Any club can keep itself off the public weekly board. See privacy.
Your next match could keep its own score.
Setting up a club takes about a minute.
Start a club — free