What’s New in Smashpoint 3 for iPhone iPad and Apple Watch
We’ve been building Smashpoint for a long time, and this is the release we’re most excited to ship. Not because of any one feature, but because of what they add up to:
Smashpoint finally does what we set out to build it for, turn every match you play into data you actually own, at whatever level of detail you want, shared with exactly who you choose.
A New Design
The app has been rebuilt from the ground up. New navigation, new layouts, light and dark themes that actually feel native, and a visual language that’s consistent whether you’re checking a score courtside or reviewing your stats later that night. It’s faster, it’s cleaner, and honestly, it’s the app we always wanted Smashpoint to look like. This is also the foundation for everything else in this release. The new features weren’t bolted onto the old app, they were designed in from the start.
Five Levels of Tracking (Up From Three)
Not every match deserves the same level of attention, and Smashpoint has never assumed it does. With 3.0, you now have five ways to track a match instead of three:
- Games: the fastest way to record a result. Just the score.
- Points: full point-by-point scoring with match flow.
- Serve & Points: adds serve stats: first serve percentage, aces, double faults, points won on serve.
- Point Outcomes: log winners and errors, so you know how points were actually won and lost.
- Full Shot-Tracking: winners, errors, and shot types, for a complete picture of your game.
Pick your depth before the first serve. A Tuesday night doubles match might get “Games.” A match you’re actually trying to learn from might get the full treatment. The point is that it’s your call, every time.
Track Live, Broadcast Live
This is the one we think people are going to love. When you want an audience, one tap opens the match up. Send the link, and anyone can follow along live, point by point — and when the match ends, that same link becomes the match page: final score, full stats, everything. One link, before and after. Text it, post it in the group chat, drop it in a club newsletter. Turn it off whenever you want, match by match.
ELO Rankings
Win-loss records tell you that you won. They don’t tell you much about who you beat. Smashpoint now calculates ELO ratings alongside traditional rankings, so your rating reflects the strength of your opponents, not just the number of matches you’ve won. Beat a tough player and it shows. Beat someone below your level and it barely moves the needle. It’s a more honest picture of where you actually stand — and it updates automatically every time you play. Learn more about Smashpoint ELO rankings.
Publish Results Online
Every match, group, and ranking in Smashpoint is private by default — that hasn’t changed and never will. But now, when you do want results visible beyond the people in the match, you can publish them: to a group’s standings page, to a public match page, wherever makes sense. It’s the same principle as live broadcasting — sharing is a decision you make, not something the app does for you.
Smashpoint for AI Agents
This one’s a little different from the rest, and it’s for the more technical players and organizers among you. Smashpoint now exposes your match and stats data through MCP — the protocol that lets AI tools like Claude connect directly to outside data sources. In practice, that means you can ask an AI assistant things like “what’s my head-to-head against Marcus” or “how has my ELO trended this season” and have it pull real answers straight from your Smashpoint data, instead of you digging through the app. We built the shot-by-shot tracking and the stats engine to be the best data layer in racquet sports — this is the first step in making that data actually useful to the tools you already use.
Built for Everyone on the Court and Off It
This release is for the player who wants to know if they’re actually improving. The parent following a match from three courts away. The club running a ladder. The federation overseeing sanctioned play across affiliated clubs. The doubles group that just wants an honest head-to-head record, once and for all.
That’s always been the idea behind Smashpoint — every match becomes data, tracked at whatever depth you choose, shared only if and when you decide to. 3.0 is the clearest version of that idea we’ve built yet.
Update your app and give it a try. We’d love to hear what you think. Get in touch.
