Drill vs Dinking Up
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Drill
Control your tennis ball machine remotely with this app. Duplicate all control panel functions, including oscillation and individual shot settings, to create custom drills for various brands.
- Remote control duplication
- Control oscillation
- Control individual shots
- Create custom drills
- Supports multiple brands
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The Drill Maker remote controller duplicates all the control functions of the tennis ball machine's control panel.It can control several brands of ball machine released by Spinball-Sports Industries Inc.Each oscillation feature or even every shot can be controlled through the application to make up different drills.
Dinking Up
This app helps referees and players track pickleball scores and analyze game performance. It offers an AI-powered post-game analysis to identify player strengths and weaknesses, replacing traditional paper score sheets.
- Real-time pickleball scoring
- AI-powered post-game analysis
- Player strength and weakness identification
- Doubles and singles match support
- Court view with player positioning
- Game action time logs
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'Dinking Up' is a Pickleball Tool for Scoring and Performance Analysis of Players during Games with AI Algorithm for Post-Game Analysis to Determine the Player's Strength and Weakness. This app was design for the intention for Referees to use during the matches to replace traditional paper scoring sheet. HOW TO USE: ------------------------------------------- 1) To add score, tap on the serving team button with the text "TAP TO ADD" (only can add score to active serving team) 2) To move to next server, tap "Next Server" or "Side Out" button. Note: "Next Server" only applies for doubles matches and the current was the first server. "Side Out" gives control of the ball to the other team to serve. 3) If adding a score or switching servers was by mistake, tap the "Undo" button to revert that action. 4) If team takes a time out, tap the "Timeout" under that team - tracks the number timeout taken. 5) In the game setting ("gear" icon to the right of the game title), you can edit the team and player names. Also, you can switch the teams court sides and swap the player serving positions (if necessary). VIEWS: ------------------------------------------- 1) Top Score Panel has 2 views: 1.1) The court with player in the proper positions on the court 1.2) The standard grid layout score board. Both indicates the active servers. 2) Bottom Tab View contains 3 views: 2.1) Scoring: Action to add score, change servers, and undo actions 2.2) Stats: The stats for player for each game along with the Analysis 2.3) Logs: The time logs for each game action (serve, next server, side outs, etc.) Use it to track scores for doubles and singles with court view to show where each player should be position for every point. As games are being played and scored, the AI algorithm will run a post-game analysis to determine the player's strength and weakness. This is a good data points to be used by coaches to see what the area of focus needs to be. Every game is saved to be reviewed later to see if the performance metrics have improved over time.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Dinking Up at 4.6 against Drill's 3.1. Dinking Up also leads on review sentiment (60% vs 29%) and update cadence (every 9 days vs every 6 weeks). Drill's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 13.0). On price, ratings volume, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Dinking Up holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 25 and 9 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 29% of Drill's written reviews are positive against 60% of Dinking Up's.
Drill ships an update every 6 weeks, Dinking Up every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Drill | Dinking Up |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.1 (25 ratings) | 4.6 (9 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 28.6% of reviews | 60.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 25 — better | 9 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Spinshot Trading Company Ltd. | Arch Square |
Customer experience
Drill
Dinking Up
In-app purchases
Drill
No in-app purchases
Dinking Up
No in-app purchases







