ERNE Pickleball vs PickleBuddy
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ERNE Pickleball
Control a pickleball machine to practice your game. Select different modes to enhance your skills and improve your technique on the court.
- Control pickleball machine
- Select various serving modes
- Improve pickleball techniques
- Enhance on-court skills
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ERNE Pickleball is a tool APP as controller for ERNE pickle ball machine. It sends orders to machine to serve balls. Use it, you can select various modes to improve your pickle ball techniques.
PickleBuddy
Organize pickleball sessions, manage player RSVPs, and communicate with your group seamlessly. Features include automated waitlists, threaded chat, and recurring session setup to simplify group play.
- Group and session management
- Automated waitlists
- One-tap RSVPs
- Threaded chat with notifications
- Recurring session setup
- Player announcements
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PickleBuddy is a group and session management app built for pickleball. Create your group, organize sessions, and keep your players in the loop without the group chat chaos. Share a join code and your players sign up with just a phone number. Sessions, RSVPs, waitlists, announcements, and chat, all in one place. Create sessions with date, time, location, format, skill level, and player limits. Players RSVP with one tap. Yes or no, no maybes. You always know your headcount. When a session fills, the waitlist takes over. Someone drops out, the next player gets notified and has a window to claim the spot. No more chasing replacements. Announcements are separate from chat. Cancellations and court changes always push. They never get buried. Chat is threaded. Players control their own notifications. Organizers can mute or remove members. Recurring sessions create themselves on schedule. Set it once. Built for Pickleball. Nothing else.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: PickleBuddy at 100% against ERNE Pickleball's 57%. PickleBuddy also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.1) and update cadence (every 9 days vs every 2 months). ERNE Pickleball's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 16.6). 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.
PickleBuddy holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 15 and 10 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 57% of ERNE Pickleball's written reviews are positive against 100% of PickleBuddy's.
ERNE Pickleball ships an update every 2 months, PickleBuddy every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ERNE Pickleball | PickleBuddy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (15 ratings) | 5.0 (10 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 57.1% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 15 — better | 10 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 49 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Victory Sports Technologies, Llc | SudoWorks LLC |
Customer experience
ERNE Pickleball
PickleBuddy
In-app purchases
ERNE Pickleball
No in-app purchases
PickleBuddy
No in-app purchases
Questions
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