Automatic shift tracking for ice hockey — on your wrist, in your pocket, on your terms.
Every shift, measured. Your games stay on your own devices.
Over The Boards turns the smartwatch on your wrist into an automatic shift tracker. It detects when you're on the ice and when you're on the bench — live on the watch, and again after the game on your phone — then turns the game into per-shift metrics, trends, and honest coaching pointers. No buttons to remember at game time beyond Start and Finish. No account. No ads. No subscription.
Automatic shift detection. Per-shift metrics and trends. Honest coaching pointers. All of it running on your device, and all of it free — no time limits, no feature locks, no caps on history.
Why Over The Boards
The category's apps promise far more than they deliver. We show the numbers we can stand behind.
Free, no catch
No time limits, no feature locks, no caps. Every shift of every game, unlimited history. The core tracker is free and stays free. If we ever add features that cost us to run — like optional cloud backup — those may be a paid extra. The app is never hobbled to sell you the fix.
On-device & private
Detection, storage, and analysis all happen on device. No account, and no server of ours. Crash reports (no health data) are always on; usage analytics are opt-in and off by default.
Wear OS + Android native
The watch app is a first-class citizen — not an iOS app waiting for a port.
Honest numbers
We don't show metrics we can't defend. Fewer numbers that are real beat more numbers that are marketing.
Built on real games
The detection engine was tuned against actual captured games — heart rate and wrist motion — with a replay pipeline that re-tests every algorithm change.
What it does
Four pages deep-dive the product. Here's the map.
Automatic shift detection
Detects ice vs bench from heart rate and wrist motion — live on the watch, again on the phone.
Learn More →Per-shift & game metrics
Ice time, shift counts, per-shift heart rate, shift intensity, effort, and recovery — in plain language.
Learn More →Pre-game readiness
Sleep-derived resting heart rate and last-played awareness — without pretending a number is precise when it isn't.
Learn More →Live watch companion
One-tap start, live ticker, confirmed-transition haptics, and HOLD TO FINISH.
Learn More →The honest numbers
Our strongest marketing asset is what we don't claim.
Who it's for
Built for the people who actually show up — every night, every league, every shift.
Hockey players
From beer-league to club to pond hockey — you want your ice time, shifts, and cardio in numbers, without a subscription eating into your gear budget.
Parents of youth players
You want to see effort, not just the box score.
Youth hockey →Fitness-minded skaters
You track heart rate seriously and want it tied to your actual shifts.
Coaches
Roster views are on the roadmap — the data your players are already wearing.
Women's hockey
Same engine, calibrated to you — no preset template, no made-up numbers.
Women's hockey →On-ice, not just total
Most trackers report work:rest from the whole session. We compute it on-ice: duty cycle, ice time percentage, and rest efficiency all measure the hockey, not the minutes on the bench between periods. We believe we're the only app in the category that separates these.
Common questions
The answers players actually ask about automatic shift tracking.
Join the Over The Boards beta
Join our Android beta in 3 quick steps:
⏳ Note: Google Play download link may take up to 30 minutes to sync after joining.
Team management + individual tracking
RinkTime handles your team's schedule and roster; Over The Boards tracks your own game. The two halves of hockey software.
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