Comparison

ERNE Pickleball vs Vallio

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

Head to head
About

ERNE Pickleball

Control a pickleball machine to practice your game. Select different modes to enhance your skills and improve your technique on the court.

Highlights
  • Control pickleball machine
  • Select various serving modes
  • Improve pickleball techniques
  • Enhance on-court skills
Features
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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.

About

Vallio

Features
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Vallio starts with you, not the venue. Keep score on any court, find somewhere to play, run a league from your phone, and earn a rating from matches you actually played. Playing is free, forever. ON THE COURT • Keep score in singles or doubles. Serve, side-out and faults handled for you • Score from your wrist — Apple Watch and Wear OS, in sync with the phone • Substitutions and timeouts, tracked rather than improvised • Settle first serve with the in-app coin toss • Closing Shot — a branded card of how the match ended, over your own photo COURTS AND VENUES • Every venue near you, on a map or a list • Place your paddle to join the queue for a court, and get told when you're up • The people waiting vote on whether the next match is singles or doubles • Surface, lighting, nets, parking, reviews and community photos • Works at any venue, whatever software they already use — or none at all EVENTS AND LEAGUES • Round robin, pool play into a bracket, king of the court, ladders • An event runs and finishes. A league plays out over a season with standings • Registration, waitlists and join codes • Announcements and a calendar, so a season stops living in a group chat • Anyone can host — one wizard builds it, you run it from the court PADDLERANK Your rating moves after every match with a real opponent. Points come from what you scored plus a win bonus, multiplied by where you played and who you beat. Not self-reported, and not ELO — it rewards showing up and playing well, not just who you happened to face. COMMUNITY Posts with multiple photos, reposts, comments and hashtags. Groups for your regular crew, with chat and a roster. Follow players, venues, events and leagues. Private profiles, follow requests, blocking and reporting. OVER 100 ACHIEVEMENTS Badges from your first match to the ones almost nobody earns, plus challenges that refresh and long-run milestones. All free, all worth PaddleRank. CHAMPION Playing is free. Champion is the reading of it — the numbers behind your game. • Every stat on your Dashboard, and Trends showing which way you're moving • All six PaddleRank boards: Regular and Ranked, across Overall, Singles and Doubles • Your full match archive, back to your first game (free keeps 14 days) • Rivals in depth — the story behind the head-to-head record • Big Board — turn a phone or tablet sideways for a court-side scoreboard readable from the far baseline • Host bigger: 8 teams on 2 courts, three events and three leagues at once Champion is $14.99/month or $89.99/year, and a lifetime option is available. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the period ends; manage or cancel in your account settings. Any unused portion of a free period is forfeited when you subscribe. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://vallio.io/privacy-policy

Screenshots

ERNE Pickleball4 screens
Vallio4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: ERNE Pickleball at none against Vallio's 2. ERNE Pickleball also leads on update cadence (every 2 months vs every 4 months) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 14.0.0). Vallio's advantage is device support (4 vs 2). On price and ads 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. Vallio sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. ERNE Pickleball asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ERNE Pickleball ships an update every 2 months, Vallio every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
ERNE Pickleball versus Vallio: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterERNE PickleballVallio
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.1 (15 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews57.1% of reviews—
Number of ratings15 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 4 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS12.0 — better14.0.0
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB82 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperVictory Sports Technologies, LlcGameSetPickle, LLC

In-app purchases

None

ERNE Pickleball

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Vallio

Subscriptions2
  • Champion Monthly$9.991 Month
  • Champion Annual$99.991 Year

Questions

Is ERNE Pickleball free?
ERNE Pickleball is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Vallio free?
Vallio is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do ERNE Pickleball or Vallio have ads?
Neither ERNE Pickleball nor Vallio shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ERNE Pickleball or Vallio?
ERNE Pickleball ships an update every 2 months, and Vallio every 4 months. Most recently, ERNE Pickleball was updated on November 3, 2026 and Vallio on October 25, 2026.

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