PB Vision vs Game Maker
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 your match videos into shot-by-shot stats, automatic skill ratings, highlights, and personalized coaching insights. Discover what's working, uncover what needs attention, and take your game to the next level. YOUR PERSONAL AI PICKLEBALL COACH Go beyond the stats with AI Coach. Ask questions about your performance, explore specific shots, and get personalized answers based on your actual match data. Analyze a single game or ask questions across multiple games to identify trends, compare performances, and discover opportunities to improve. 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 progress over time and understand how you played—not just whether you won. EXPLORE EVERY SHOT Explore your matches shot by shot. Find drives, drops, dinks, lobs, Ernes, ATPs, errors, and more. Analyze shot quality, accuracy, speed, depth, placement, and 3D trajectories without searching through an entire match. BOOKMARK YOUR BEST MOMENTS Save important plays with Bookmarks. Add notes, draw directly on your video, and quickly revisit key moments to review your performance or share feedback with others. CLIP, EXPORT, AND SHARE Turn your favorite shots, rallies, and highlights into shareable videos. Export individual clips or multiple clips at once, choose your preferred aspect ratio, and share your favorite moments to social media. You can also share complete games with friends, partners, or coaches.
Game Maker
Organize pickleball games, find nearby courts, and connect with players. Create custom game formats, manage groups, and communicate with other players.
- Find nearby games and courts
- Connect with players by DUPR, age, gender
- Create private groups and chat
- Organize games with custom formats
- Scramble, Round Robin, King of the Court modes
- DUPR rating sessions
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Game Maker is made for pickleball — the one app you open before, during, and after every session. Find courts and players near you, set up games in seconds, run brackets, track your DUPR rating, and stay connected with the people you play with. Whether you're organizing your regular doubles group or chasing your next rating bump, Game Maker keeps your whole pickleball life in one place. Meet Pickles AI Just ask. Say "set up a private game Saturday morning at 9am with my advanced players group" and Pickles AI — with voice dictation — turns it into a real, confirmable game inside the app. Organizing play has never been this fast. Your games, on your Calendar Every game you create syncs straight to your iPhone's Calendar, including recurring sessions — so your schedule lives where you already look. Find your game • Discover nearby courts and players on the map • Filter by distance to find games that fit • Host or join games and manage invites Play & compete • Build round-robin and tournament brackets • Record match scores • Head-to-head history and leaderboards Track your progress • Connect your DUPR rating • See 90-day performance trends and match insights • Follow your improvement over time Stay connected • Add friends and create groups • Message the players you play with • Game Maker player indicators so you know who's on the app Play anywhere — now in 24 languages Game Maker automatically matches your device language, or pick from 24 languages including English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Arabic, Hindi, Bengali, Japanese, Korean, Chinese (Simplified & Traditional), Vietnamese, Indonesian, Thai, Turkish, and more. Download Game Maker and play more pickleball. By using Game Maker, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Privacy Policy: https://pickleball.com/privacy-policy Terms of Use: https://pickleball.com/terms-of-use
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: PB Vision at 4.7 against Game Maker's 3.5. PB Vision also leads on ratings volume (138 vs 12) and chart position (#185 vs unranked). Game Maker's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 13) and ads (none vs shown). 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 13 in-app purchases, starting at $19.99 per month. Game Maker asks for nothing beyond the download.
PB Vision holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: PB Vision has 138 ratings behind it against 12, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 61% of PB Vision's written reviews are positive against 50% of Game Maker's.
PB Vision ships an update every 2 weeks, Game Maker every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PB Vision | Game Maker |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (138 ratings) — better | 3.5 (12 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 60.7% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 138 — better | 12 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 8 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #185 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 171 MB | 154 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Pickleball Vision AI Inc. | Pickleball TopCo LLC |
Customer experience
PB Vision
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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
- 200 AI Coaching Credits$9.99
- 60 Minutes$9.99
- 1 Credit$9.99
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- 5 Credits$29.99
- 1000 AI Coaching Credits$39.99
- 300 Minutes$39.99
- 5000 AI Coaching Credits$99.99
- 1,200 Minutes$99.99
- 30 Credits$99.99
Game Maker
No in-app purchases
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