Hockey Shoot-outThe 8-second timer, and the whole shoot-out.
Tap the moment the whistle goes. Or run the lot: team names, five attackers and a keeper, the toss, every attempt through sudden death to the winner, and a record to paste into the match report.
Free. No account. Nothing leaves your device. The web version works offline once loaded.
Green from the whistle. Red at eight.
The whole screen is the tap target, so it works without looking at the phone. It floods green and counts down in tenths; at exactly 8.000 seconds it flips red and beeps.
- Counted off the clock, not a chain of ticks, so it never drifts and comes back right if the phone locks.
- Stray touches are ignored while it runs. A small Reset in the corner aborts.
- Three sharp beeps pitched to cut through a crowd and never mistaken for a whistle, plus a buzz in the hand.
The same timer sits as a block on the live screen, so the table keeps entering numbers around it. It is also on the Apple Watch and at shootout.hockey/timer for any phone.
From the toss to the winner, one tap per attempt.
Set it up in the five-minute break, then run it without thinking about the arithmetic.
Teams and squads
Names, a colour, players with shirt numbers, or a block of numbers in one tap. Each team names five attackers and a goalkeeper. No list? Numbers are typed as they come.
The toss
Who won it and whether they chose to attack or defend first. There is a coin in the app if nobody has one. The order flips every set after.
Goal or no goal
Whose turn, who is attacking, who is keeping, the eight seconds, then one tap. Retake if the umpire orders one. Undo if a thumb slips.
Sharks v Eagles · sudden death
Sharks win the shoot-out 4–3
Five dots each, per set.
The first five is decided the moment the other side can't catch up. Level after five each and it goes to sudden death: the order flips, and each pair decides. Still level after five more pairs? Another set, flipped again, until somebody wins.
Attackers who have taken their turn in a set grey out until the next one. The keeper stays picked between attempts.
Retakes, strokes, the record.
The parts of the shoot-out that trip up a table under pressure are the parts the app does for you.
- A retake stays on the record but neither scores nor uses up the turn. The same attacker comes straight back up.
- Awarded as a penalty stroke when the keeper offends: any player may take it and the defending side may change keeper for it. Its result is still the attempt's result.
- The record lists every attempt in order, with who took it, who kept, and how. Share it or copy it as plain text for the match report.
- Corrections without restarting: fix a number, change a result, edit the squads, or undo the last attempt.
The rules engine is the same one that decides shoot-outs in PIVOT TMS, so a result recorded here agrees with one recorded at a tournament table.
Eight seconds on the wrist.
For the umpire on the pitch: tap the watch face when the whistle goes, feel a firm buzz at eight. No phone needed, nothing to look at. The same face on Apple Watch and on Wear OS watches.
Apple Watch
Wear OS
The whole face is the button
Tap anywhere the moment the whistle goes. The face floods green and counts in tenths.
Haptics, not sound
At exactly 8.000 s it goes red with a firm buzz and two more, so it can't be mistaken for a notification. Long-press aborts a live count.
Runs on its own
The count is taken off the clock on the watch itself. Leave the phone in the bag. On Apple Watch it installs with the iPhone app; on Wear OS it comes from Google Play on the watch.
The whole shoot-out, nothing to install.
shootout.hockey/app runs everything the iPhone app does: teams and squads, the toss, the timer, every attempt through sudden death, and the record to share. On a laptop at the table, a tablet, or any phone.
- Works offline once it has loaded. Add it to your home screen and it opens like an app.
- Same rules engine as the iPhone app and PIVOT TMS, so the result agrees with the table.
- Saved in the browser, on your device only. No account, no server.
One address for the table
Bookmark shootout.hockey/app on the tournament laptop. The 8-second timer sits inside the live screen, so the technical official times the attempt and records the result on the same page.
Questions umpires and technical officials ask
Can I just use the timer?
Yes. It is the first thing on the home screen of the iPhone app, it is the whole of the Apple Watch app, and it runs at shootout.hockey/timer in any browser with nothing to install. Add that page to your home screen and it opens full screen.
Do I need an iPhone?
No. There is an Android app with a Wear OS watch app, and shootout.hockey/app runs the whole shoot-out in any modern browser, on a laptop, tablet or phone, offline once loaded. The iPhone and Android apps add the wrist timer and the haptic cue.
Which rules does it follow?
The FIH shoot-out competition: five attempts each, alternating; the toss winner chooses whether to take the first or the second; decided early once the other side cannot catch up; then sudden death in sets of five with the order flipped each set. Retakes and attempts awarded as penalty strokes are handled as the rules describe.
Do I have to enter the players?
No. A team with no players listed has its shirt numbers typed as each attempt comes. Listing them means one tap per attacker and the app stops the same player going twice in a set.
Does it work with the screen locked or the phone in a pocket?
The screen stays awake while a shoot-out or the timer is open. The count is taken off the clock, so if the phone does lock mid-count the timer is still right when it comes back.
Will it beep on silent?
Yes. The cue plays as media, so the mute switch does not silence it. Turn the volume up.
Where does my data go?
Nowhere. Shoot-outs are saved on the phone, or in your browser for the web version, and shared only when you tap Share. There is no account and no server. See the privacy policy.
Get Hockey Shoot-out
Free on iPhone and iPad with the Apple Watch app included, on Android with the Wear OS app, or straight from this website with nothing to install.