Comparison

ProTrainUp vs PaddleCounter

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

ProTrainUp

This app streamlines sports academy management for owners, coordinators, coaches, players, and parents. It offers features like club calendars, payment tracking, attendance control, and direct communication tools for seamless organization and engagement.

Highlights
  • Club and team calendars
  • Payment and attendance tracking
  • Direct messaging and group conversations
  • Match planning and results
  • Player statistics and performance tracking
  • Content sharing for teams and staff
Features
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The app is designed for ProTrainUp users. It can be used by academy owners, coordinators, coaches, players, and their parents. The app allows you to manage the academy’s operations using the club calendar, monitor the status of membership fee payments, track attendance, and facilitate simple and effective communication among all club users. What’s more, coaches can use the app to schedule practices and games and check attendance. Thanks to the app, you won’t miss any important information. You’ll receive notifications directly on your phone about, among other things: • activity in the locker room, such as messages from the coach, • club announcements, • game rosters, • practice rosters. APP FEATURES Manager • Club Calendar – managing training sessions and adding club events, • Club News – the ability to send messages to all users; once the website is integrated with the ProTrainUp system, this feature also allows you to publish news directly on the website, • Club Bulletin Board – sharing materials and other content with the coaching staff, • Managing teams, players, and the coaching staff, • Messenger – communication via private messages. Coach • Team Calendar – adding games, practices, and other events, • Attendance – tracking attendance at practices, • Locker Room – sharing materials and other content with players and parents, • Games – adding games, setting the lineup, and updating scores. The coach can also track ball possession live and update match statistics in real time, • Schedule – planning practices and viewing practice outlines, • Messenger – private messages and group chats, • Dues – checking payment status. Player / Parent • Personal Calendar – access to all events related to a specific player, • Statistics – view your own match statistics and attendance records, • Matches – access to the league table, schedule, and match statistics, • Class Schedule – view the class schedule, • Messenger – private messages and group chats, • Dues – check your balance and pay dues via the app.

About

PaddleCounter

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Keep your eyes on the ball. PaddleCounter listens for your paddle-hit sound and automatically counts your rallies. CALIBRATE TO YOUR PADDLE Teach PaddleCounter with examples of your own paddle hits. Adjust sound sensitivity to suit your distance, equipment and playing environment. A BIG, EASY-TO-READ COUNTER The landscape play screen puts your hit count front and centre. A configurable quiet pause ends and saves each rally, then resets the counter for the next one. CELEBRATE YOUR STREAK Optional milestone sounds and haptics celebrate 10, 25, 50 and 100 hits, then every 50 hits after that. EXPLORE YOUR RHYTHM Keep a history of sessions and rallies. View hit-rate and timing graphs, see how your pace changes, and explore how evenly spaced your hits are. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Microphone audio is processed on your iPhone. Raw microphone recordings are not saved or uploaded. Calibration features, settings and rally history stay in the app. No account is required. For best results, calibrate where you play and position your iPhone safely nearby. Sound recognition depends on your environment and may miss hits or count other sounds. Use the detector test and sensitivity controls to tune it before playing.

Screenshots

ProTrainUp4 screens
PaddleCounter4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: ProTrainUp at 3 against PaddleCounter's 1. ProTrainUp also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard2 real differences · 6 level
ProTrainUp versus PaddleCounter: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterProTrainUpPaddleCounter
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews31.6% of reviews—
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size87 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperProTrainUpMATTHEW LOUIS BILELLA

In-app purchases

None

ProTrainUp

No in-app purchases

None

PaddleCounter

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ProTrainUp free?
ProTrainUp is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is PaddleCounter free?
PaddleCounter is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do ProTrainUp or PaddleCounter have ads?
Neither ProTrainUp nor PaddleCounter shows ads.

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