Best Curling Wearables and Trackers (2026)

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A national-team practice, a weekday afternoon. The lead finishes a hard sweep, and the coach turns a tablet around: stroke rate, downward pressure, broom angle, compared with the second’s numbers from the stone before. Down the hall, a league curler checks her watch after the game: 2 hours, a few thousand steps, heart rate spiking every time she swept. Honest truth first: curling wearables are a small category. There are only a few curling-specific tools, and most curlers get what they need from an everyday watch, a heart rate strap or a sleep tracker. This page sorts out what exists in 2026, what it measures and who it’s worth it for.

Prices change often. The prices below are what we saw at the maker or a major retailer in October 2026; check the current price before you buy. Back to the curling hub.

Our top picks

Curling tech compared

Tool	What it measures	Best for	About (Oct 2026)
SmartBroom 3	Sweeping pressure, frequency, angle	Competitive teams, coaches	$1,549 (Broomfitters)
SmartBroom 4	Force and frequency of every stroke	National programs, clubs	CA$1,999.99 (maker)
Polar H10	Heart rate, beat to beat	Anyone curious about sweeping effort	Under $100
Apple Watch SE 3	Heart rate, activity, sleep	iPhone users, older curlers	From $229
Garmin vívoactive 6	Heart rate, sleep, HRV; strokes per end with a community app	Android or Garmin users	About $300
Oura Ring 5	Sleep, HRV, resting heart rate	Bonspiel weekends, recovery	About $399 + $5.99/month
Rockwatcher Pro	Stone split times	Sweepers and skips judging weight	$59.99 (Broomfitters)

The best curling wearables and trackers

1. SmartBroom: best sweeping tracker

The only true curling wearable is built into the broom. SmartBroom 3 from Canadian Curling Tools has sensors in the broom that record pressure, frequency and angle on every stroke and send them to a companion app, where coaches compare teammates and track progress; the retailer says it’s used by national teams and high-performance athletes and lists it at $1,549. The newer SmartBroom 4 (CA$1,999.99 at the maker) logs the force and frequency of every stroke; with its World Curling certified foam and fabric sleeve, the maker says it’s fully approved for officiated play. It’s a serious tool for competitive, junior high-performance and college programs. For most league curlers it’s more than they need, though clubs sometimes buy one to share.

2. Polar H10: best for sweeping effort

Hard sweeping drives the heart rate up fast; a curling sports science review reports elite curlers averaging about 170 beats per minute in 20-second bouts. Wrist sensors struggle with that: in a Cleveland Clinic study, chest straps matched an ECG almost exactly, while wrist devices were less accurate and got worse as intensity rose, and the scrubbing arm motion of sweeping doesn’t help. A chest strap like the Polar H10 pairs with most watches and phone apps and gives you an honest read of how hard each sweep was. Our best heart rate monitors guide compares others.

3. Apple Watch SE 3: best everyday watch

Curling is one of the workout types in Apple’s Workout list, so the Apple Watch SE 3 (from $229 at Apple) logs a game as curling, with heart rate, time and calories, and tracks sleep. It also has Fall Detection, which Apple says can’t detect all falls but can call for help if you’re unresponsive after a hard fall, a sensible feature on ice, especially for older curlers. Wear it on the wrist that doesn’t hold the stone handle if it gets in the way of your release.

4. Garmin vívoactive 6: best Garmin for curlers

Garmin has no built-in curling profile, but you can record a generic activity, and a free community-made curling app (open-source code published on GitHub) supports watches including the vívoactive 6, Forerunner 970, Venu 3 and fēnix 8. It counts brush strokes for each end and adds a stopwatch for hog-line split times with an estimate of where the stone will stop. Its developer is upfront that every path on the ice is different, so treat the estimate as rough. The vívoactive 6 itself (about $300) lasts up to 11 days and tracks sleep and heart rate variability (HRV).

5. Oura Ring 5: best for sleep and recovery

Bonspiel weekends are where curlers run short on sleep. A recovery tracker like the Oura Ring 5 (about $399 plus $5.99 a month) tracks sleep, resting heart rate and HRV, and gives a daily readiness score. Take rings off your throwing hand before you curl if they affect your grip on the handle. Compare options in WHOOP vs Oura vs Garmin, best sleep trackers and HRV for athletes.

6. A curling stopwatch: the low-tech essential

Not a wearable, but the most-used piece of curling tech in competitive play: timing a stone from the back line to the hog line tells sweepers how heavy it is. Curling stopwatches like the Rockwatcher Pro ($59.99) or Hardline Stopwatch ($29.99) at Broomfitters are built for it. Laser timing systems used by high-performance teams also exist.

How to choose curling tech

• League and new curlers: the watch or phone you already have is enough. Log the game and enjoy it.
• Fitness-minded curlers: add a chest strap if you want real sweeping numbers.
• Competitive, college and high-performance teams: a SmartBroom for technique and a stopwatch for weight judgment are where the real gains are.
• Older curlers: a watch with fall detection is worth considering; so is a helmet (see our curling injuries page).
• Count the subscriptions: Oura needs a membership; Apple and Garmin’s basics don’t.

Put the numbers to work on our curling training and curling recovery pages. For a sport with a bigger wearables market, see our soccer wearables.

Curling wearable questions

Is there a fitness tracker made for curling?

Not really as a wrist device. The curling-specific tracker is the SmartBroom, which measures sweeping inside the broom. Apple Watch has curling as a workout type, and a community app adds curling tracking on many Garmin watches.

Can I use a SmartBroom in competition?

The maker says SmartBroom 4 with its World Curling certified foam and fabric sleeve is fully approved for officiated play, and Curling Tools has also described SmartBroom 3 as World Curling certified. Check your event’s broom rules before you play.

Does Garmin track curling?

Not with a built-in profile. You can record a generic activity, or install a free community-made curling app on supported models that counts brush strokes per end.

Why is my watch heart rate wrong while sweeping?

Wrist sensors are less accurate at high intensity and with vigorous arm movement, both of which describe hard sweeping. A chest strap gives a much closer reading.