Frequently asked questions about Flobit

Flobit is a free app for people who play sport for fun. You can post open matches to find players, start a Quick Match lobby with a code, keep live scores, run tournaments and organize communities. It covers eight sports, from padel and tennis to football and ultimate frisbee. See all features.

Flobit is for amateur players: people who want a game tonight, a regular group, or a tidy way to run a club night or a small tournament. It is built for playing, not for watching. Beginners and strong players are both welcome, and you can set a level range on your match so players know the level you want.

Yes. Flobit is free on iPhone, on Apple Watch and on the web at flobit.app, with no ads and no subscription. The App Store lists optional supporter tips, which unlock no features. Tournament organizers can show an entry fee on the page, but Flobit doesn't collect it, so any money changes hands between players and the organizer.

Flobit is made by Flobit MMC, a company based in Baku, Azerbaijan. The app speaks English, Azerbaijani, Russian, Turkish and Spanish. If you play in Baku, see the guide to sport in Baku for venues and how to find a game.

No. Flobit is a separate product from Flobi, a tennis and padel app, and from FloSports, a sports streaming company. Different companies make them. Flobit is at flobit.app, and on the App Store it is listed as Flobit - Social Sport.

Post an open match: choose the sport, rules, time and a city or venue, and who can join. Players near you, within 50 km by default, say they are interested, and you approve who plays. You can also browse matches other hosts have posted. Open matches explains each step.

A Quick Match is a lobby for people you already play with. You share an 8-character code, a QR code or a flobit.app/join link, and people join as a player or as the referee. Guests don't need an account. It includes a coin toss and a rematch. See Quick Match.

Post an open match for the sport with the time and venue, and write in the note how many players you still need, up to 280 characters. Players nearby ask to join and you approve them. For a regular group, a Quick Match code is faster. Reserve the court with the club first, because Flobit doesn't book courts.

Yes. A host can set an optional level range. It is shown on the listing so players know the level you want, and Flobit doesn't block anyone outside it: you approve each request. When you browse open matches you can filter by sport and by anytime, today or this week, but there is no level filter, so read each host's range and note before you ask to join.

Yes. When you post an open match you choose who can join: anyone, men, women or mixed. Tournaments have categories too: Men, Women, Mixed or Open, and an optional age range. The host still approves each player, so you control who ends up on court.

Open matches within 50 km of you show up by default, and you can widen or narrow the radius from 5 to 100 km. A digest of open matches nearby arrives each day at 10:00. There is no automatic matchmaking: players express interest and the host decides who joins.

Tennis and padel are scored point by point. Table tennis is scored by game, volleyball by set, and basketball with +1, +2 and +3 buttons and a clock. Football counts goals, with referee events for cards and substitutions. Frisbee is a tally and eFootball takes a final score. Every sport has undo. See live scoring.

Yes, golden point is the default for padel, so at 40-40 one deciding point settles the game. You can switch to advantage, and a deciding set can be a full set or a super tiebreak to 10. The padel scoring guide explains each rule.

With score calls on, your phone says the score out loud after every point in tennis and padel, so you can play without looking at a screen. They work in English, Azerbaijani, Russian, Turkish and Spanish, and they work well alongside an Apple Watch on your wrist.

Yes. The Apple Watch app scores matches on your wrist, and Apple Watch scoring works offline, so a court with a weak signal doesn't stop you. See the Apple Watch app for what it does.

Yes. A match has a public live page at flobit.app/live followed by the match id, which anyone with the link can open. On iPhone there is also a Live Activity and a courtside mode. The page updates as points are scored, so friends can follow without the app.

A result confirms automatically after 24 hours. Within that window, players in a casual match can dispute it, and ratings from a disputed result are reversed. In a tournament, the organizer corrects results.

Your level is what you declare: it tells other players roughly how well you play. Your rating is a per-sport ELO number that Flobit calculates from confirmed results. The level is a starting guess and the rating is the record. Hosts use levels for their range, and ratings move after every confirmed match.

Tennis and padel use a 1.0 to 7.0 scale, with tennis wording based on USTA NTRP and padel wording based on the LTA padel levels. Other sports use Beginner, Intermediate or Advanced. See the padel levels guide and tennis levels to pick yours.

Each sport has its own rating. It starts between 900 and 1500 based on the level you declared, or at 1000 if you declared none. It moves more during your first 10 matches. In doubles, your result is measured against the opponents' average. It updates when a result is confirmed. Ratings has the detail.

It is a separate 1 to 5 star rating for how someone was to play with. You can edit a rating you gave for 48 hours, and a sportsmanship rating can be hidden. It is kept apart from the ELO number, so skill and behavior are measured separately.

No. Flobit has no city, national or global rankings. Each sport has your own ELO rating, and a community shows its own member standings and a top-players podium, so you compare yourself with the people you actually play with.

You can run single elimination, double elimination, a league (round robin, played once or twice), group stage plus knockout, and Mexicano for tennis, padel, table tennis and basketball. The app builds the bracket or table and updates it as results come in. See tournaments and the tournament formats guide.

Mexicano is a social doubles format where partners rotate and players of a similar standing meet. Yes, Flobit runs it for tennis, padel, table tennis and basketball: you set the courts and rounds, plan every round in advance or draw each round from the table, pick first to N or a combined N, choose random, balanced or never-repeated partners, and add walk-up guests before the draw. See the Mexicano guide.

Americano isn't a format you can create in the Flobit app, which runs Mexicano instead. For an Americano schedule, use the free padel Americano generator on the web, enter the players and courts, and share the rounds with your group. The Americano guide explains the rules.

Players ask to join and the organizer approves the entry. Organizers can keep a waitlist, allow pair invites and guests, let a captain enter a team, set a category and an age range, and cap entries anywhere from 2 to 512. Tournaments run inside a community.

No. An organizer can show an entry fee on the tournament page, but players pay the organizer offline, and Flobit collects no entry fees and pays out no prize money. The app does give winners automatic trophies. Players contact the organizer by WhatsApp, Telegram, Viber, phone or SMS.

A tournament can have up to 20 referees who score its matches. Team events use lineups, and organizers can correct results afterwards. The organizer can also share the roster as a message formatted for WhatsApp or Telegram, and share cards for results.

A community is a home for a regular group, a club or a local court. It has roles, a group chat, member standings and a top-players podium, and it is where tournaments run. A community can be public or private. See communities.

You can own up to 3 communities. Each community can run up to 5 tournaments at the same time, and tournaments run inside communities, so one community is usually enough for a club or a regular group.

A community shows member standings and a top-players podium. Its tournament leaderboard scores 3 points for a win, 1 for a draw and 0 for a loss. These standings are for the people in that community only. They are separate from your personal per-sport ELO rating.

Yes. A community has its own chat, and you can send direct messages to other players. Community chat carries text, mentions, replies and share cards, and direct messages add reactions, but neither carries photos or voice. Tournament organizers can also send a broadcast message.

Only if you approve them. Players ask to join an open match and the host decides. You can limit who can ask to anyone, men, women or mixed, add a level range as guidance, and choose the match's visibility. Tournament organizers approve entries too.

Yes. Flobit has block and report tools for players who behave badly. You can also give opponents a 1 to 5 star sportsmanship rating after a game, separate from the skill rating, and edit it for 48 hours.

Partly. You can hide your sportsmanship rating in Settings, under Privacy, and choose whether each open match you post is public or visible to followers only. There is no private-profile switch in the iPhone app. Keep in mind that a match's public live page shows that match's score to anyone with the link.

Direct messages carry text, share cards, reactions and replies, and community chat carries text, mentions, replies and share cards. Messages in both are not end-to-end encrypted, so don't send anything you wouldn't want stored on a server. Photos and voice messages aren't supported. Use block and report if someone bothers you.

Use the removal request form on flobit.app, or write to us through the support page, and say what you want taken down. This covers details that appear on Flobit's public pages, such as a live match page.

Approve players yourself, keep a tournament waitlist, and use reminders so everyone remembers the time. After a game, give a sportsmanship rating so players can see how others behave. The no-shows guide has more habits that work.

Flobit runs on iPhone (iOS 17 or later), on Apple Watch, and as a web app at flobit.app. The Android app is coming soon. You can download Flobit for iPhone from the App Store and use the web app on any computer.

Yes, in the browser at flobit.app, with nothing to install. A dedicated Android app is coming soon, and iPhone users can already get the app from the App Store.

Flobit is available in English, Azerbaijani, Russian, Turkish and Spanish. Spoken score calls for tennis and padel work in the same five languages, so the score can be read out in the language your group plays in.

No. Flobit doesn't book courts or take payments for them. It has a venue map with courts, surfaces and reviews, and directions through Apple Maps, Google Maps, Waze or Yandex. Reserve with the club or a booking app, then post an open match for that time.

Yes. Use Suggest a venue to submit a court or pitch that isn't on the map yet. A suggestion is reviewed before other players can use it. You can search venues, see courts near you and read reviews before you go.

You can post a match for any city or venue, and open matches show players within a radius of 5 to 100 km. Whether you find someone depends on how many people near you use Flobit, so in a new area you may be the one to post the first game. The guide to finding partners in a new city helps if you are starting from zero.