Dink! Pickleball Round Robins vs LaneSync
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Dink! Pickleball Round Robins
This app simplifies organizing pickleball group play, including round robins and open sessions. It allows for easy scheduling, player management, live scoring, and social connectivity, making it easier to focus on the game.
- QuickPlay Round Robins
- Seamless Event Creation
- User-Friendly Scheduling
- Substitution Management
- Live Updates and Scoring
- Group Management
- Multiple Divisions
- Playoff Rounds
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Planning your pickleball group play can be complicated. Dink! simplifies the process, so you can focus on the game. Whether you're organizing a round robin, planning open play, or keeping score, Dink! replaces endless group messages and confusing spreadsheets. Set up a group, invite your players, and let the fun begin! Start free. Every new account gets 10 days with everything unlocked — no payment details required. What makes Dink! stand out: NEW! King of the Court: A fast-paced session format where winners move up and losers move down. Watch players climb the courts in real time, see head-to-head tiebreakers resolved automatically, and crown your champion on the final podium. NEW! Player Stats & Profiles: Track your win/loss record, discover your best partner, and find out who your toughest nemesis is. NEW! Group Leaderboard: Rank every member of your group by score or win percentage, filter by date range, and search for any player instantly. NEW! DUPR Export: Export match results in DUPR club format — an entire event or a single game. NEW! Singles Round Robin: A dedicated format for singles play. QuickPlay Round Robins: Create private round robins without groups. Add guests or existing Dink! users. Only players in the QuickPlay can see it. Seamless Event Creation: Set the date, time, location, format, and maximum players. User-Friendly Scheduling: Players mark themselves "in" or "out" for each event, eliminating last-minute surprises. Substitution Management: Track substitutes and fill empty spots automatically. Mid-event subs credit stats fairly and keep the incoming player on the right court. Smart Partner Matching: Pair up everyone who needs a partner with a single tap. Split a team or swap a single player without disrupting the court. Live Updates and Scoring: Changes are seen immediately by all players, with live scores and standings as events progress. Group Management: Invite and manage groups, making it easy to schedule games with regulars or meet new opponents in your area. Notifications: Stay informed about current and upcoming events so you never miss a game. Social Connectivity: Connect with players through group or direct messages and build a vibrant community within the app. Multiple Divisions: Split events into custom divisions. Rounds, scores, and stats are kept for each. Playoff Rounds: Add quarterfinals, semis, and finals with automatic seeding to increase the stakes! Round Robin Types: Choose fixed partner or rotating partner setups, with the option to mix players between divisions. Team Names: Let players create team names for fixed partner events. Guest Players: Let last-minute additions join by adding guest players. Download Dink! now and enjoy pickleball like never before. Subscription Information Your first 10 days unlock every Premium feature — no payment details, no subscription, nothing to cancel. After that you move to the free plan: no charge, no interruption. Join any group you're invited to, sign up for events, play in QuickPlays, and see your own stats, free forever. Upgrade at any time: BASIC — for regular players • Start your own QuickPlays (one at a time, up to 8 players) • View event standings • See other players' stats and group stats • Be made a scorekeeper in someone else's group PREMIUM — for organizers. Everything in Basic, plus: • Create your own groups and events • Unlimited QuickPlays, with unlimited players • Send direct messages and group chats • Reopen closed events • Hold admin roles in your groups Monthly and yearly subscriptions are billed to your iTunes account and renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Cancel anytime in your iTunes account settings. Lifetime is a one-time purchase and does not renew. Terms of service: http://thedinkapp.com/terms-of-service.html Privacy policy: http://thedinkapp.com/privacy-policy.html
LaneSync
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LaneSync turns two iPhones, or an iPhone and an Apple Watch, into a finish-line timing system for sprints. No internet, no Wi-Fi network and no extra hardware: the devices talk directly to each other, so it works on any track or field. HOW IT WORKS • Sync: put the two devices side by side and tap Sync clocks. • Start: the start device calls "Runners, take your mark… Set…" and fires a starting gun after a random pause. The clock starts on the gun. • Finish: the finish iPhone films the line and detects every runner who crosses it, on the device, using body-pose detection. • Review: bring the devices back together. Step through each finish frame by frame, mark the exact moment each chest crosses the line, assign it to a runner and save. Clock drift is measured at both ends of the session and corrected, and times are shown in hundredths, rounded up as fully automatic timing does. BUILT FOR COACHES AND ATHLETES • Two phones, or one iPhone with an Apple Watch as the starter • Any distance from 5 to 1,000, in metres or yards • Groups of runners: time a whole squad, with several runners per clip • History by day and session, with PB and SB badges • Share a result card, and save finish clips to Photos • Export every time as CSV, or share sessions and personal bests (LaneSync Pro) • Light and dark appearance YOUR FIRST WORKOUT IS FREE Time your first workout free: a whole session, with as many runs as you like, reviewed and saved. After that, more workouts with that iPhone as the finish phone need LaneSync Pro on it, or on the start phone: a start phone with Pro covers the finish phone it times with. Everything you save stays free to view: History, every result with its PB and SB badges, result cards and clips saved to Photos. You can delete any of it at any time, and nothing you record is ever hidden. LANESYNC PRO An optional subscription for coaches and athletes who time regularly: • Unlimited workouts, and your start phone covers any finish phone it times with • Export every time as CSV, and share sessions and personal bests as text • Progress charts of every run at each distance • Personal-best progression over time • Each runner's own trend, or the whole squad on one chart • Last run against the PB, and the average of the last five runs New subscribers start with a 7-day free trial. If your subscription ends, everything you saved stays in History, and a session you've already started can always be finished and saved. APPLE WATCH AND HEALTH When the watch is the starter, LaneSync starts a workout session (HealthKit) only so the watch stays awake during the countdown with your wrist down. It reads no Health data and saves no workouts. PRIVACY No account, no ads, no analytics, no tracking. Your times, runner names and clips stay on your devices. SUBSCRIPTION TERMS LaneSync Pro is an auto-renewable subscription, available monthly or yearly. New subscribers start with a 7-day free trial (once per Apple ID). When the trial ends it converts automatically to the paid plan you chose and your Apple ID is charged that plan's price, unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the trial ends. Without a trial, payment is charged to your Apple ID when you confirm the purchase. The subscription renews automatically at the same price and for the same period unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel any time in Settings › your name › Subscriptions; cancelling keeps Pro until the end of the trial or of the period you've paid for. Prices are shown in the app and may vary by country. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internal-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://moonyose.github.io/lanesync-support/privacy.html Requires two iPhones, or an iPhone and a paired Apple Watch with LaneSync installed (Apple Watch works with iPhone only). The finish iPhone needs its camera.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: LaneSync at 5.0 against Dink! Pickleball Round Robins's 4.6. Dink! Pickleball Round Robins's advantage is ratings volume (17 vs 1). On price, update cadence, 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. Dink! Pickleball Round Robins sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and LaneSync sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
LaneSync holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Dink! Pickleball Round Robins has 17 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Dink! Pickleball Round Robins | LaneSync |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (17 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 91.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 17 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days | Every 6 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 93 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Thomas Blankenship | AUSTIN ANDRES MUNOZ |
Customer experience
Dink! Pickleball Round Robins
LaneSync
In-app purchases
Dink! Pickleball Round Robins
- Pro Starter Monthly7 Days trial$2.991 Month
- Annual access7 Days trial$4.991 Year
LaneSync
- LaneSync Pro Monthly7 Days trial$4.991 Month
- LaneSync Pro Yearly7 Days trial$39.991 Year
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