PB Vision vs PickleBuddy
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PB Vision
This app uses AI to analyze your pickleball game recordings, providing detailed skill ratings and insights. Identify your strengths and weaknesses to improve your game faster and with greater confidence.
- AI-driven game analysis
- Actionable skill ratings
- Identify strengths and weaknesses
- Accelerated game improvement
- Detailed player insights
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Every pickleball game you record becomes a lesson. PB Vision uses AI to turn complete pickleball game videos into shot-by-shot stats, automatic skill ratings, highlights, and coaching cues you can act on. See what's working, uncover what needs attention, and practice with purpose. KNOW EXACTLY HOW YOU RATE Get an overall PB Vision Skill Rating plus detailed ratings for Serve, Return, Offense, Defense, Consistency, and Agility. Track your recent performance and understand how you played - not just whether you won. STUDY THE SHOTS THAT MATTER Use Shot Explorer to find drives, drops, dinks, lobs, Ernes, ATPs, errors, and more. Review shot quality, accuracy, speed, depth, placement, and 3D trajectories without scrubbing through an entire match. SEE THE WHOLE COURT Explore movement, positioning, court coverage, kitchen-line transitions, partner dynamics, and your performance on the left or right side. REVIEW AND SHARE Watch rally-only video, bookmark important moments, draw on screen, create highlights, export clips, and share games with friends, partners, or coaches.
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 PB Vision's 59%. PickleBuddy also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 10) and ads (none vs shown). PB Vision's advantage is ratings volume (135 vs 8) and chart position (#183 vs unranked). On price, update cadence, device support and iOS requirement 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. PB Vision sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $19.99 per month. PickleBuddy asks for nothing beyond the download.
PickleBuddy holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: PB Vision has 135 ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 59% of PB Vision's written reviews are positive against 100% of PickleBuddy's.
PB Vision ships an update every 2 weeks, PickleBuddy every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PB Vision | PickleBuddy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (135 ratings) | 5.0 (8 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 59.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 135 — better | 8 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #183 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 158 MB | 49 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Pickleball Vision AI Inc. | SudoWorks LLC |
Customer experience
PB Vision
PickleBuddy
In-app purchases
PB Vision
- Starter$19.991 Month
- Premium$49.991 Month
- Starter$99.991 Year
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- Premium$399.001 Year
- 60 Minutes$9.99
- 1 Credit$9.99
- 5 Credits$29.99
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- 300 Minutes$39.99
- 1,200 Minutes$99.99
- 30 Credits$99.99
PickleBuddy
No in-app purchases







