Comparison

PB Vision vs Dink in a Box

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • AI-driven game analysis
  • Actionable skill ratings
  • Identify strengths and weaknesses
  • Accelerated game improvement
  • Detailed player insights
Features
Currently charting
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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.

About

Dink in a Box

Features
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Dink in a Box is the session-management toolkit for pickleball, padel, and tennis hosts. If you run open play at a club, organize a weekly Americano, wrangle a 4-team MLP night, or just set up a quick doubles match, DIAB replaces the clipboard, the whiteboard, and the "who's up next?" chaos with one phone propped on a bench. Pick a format, set your courts, add your players, and the app handles the rest — who plays, who sits, who plays with (and against) whom, and what the score does to everyone's rating. SIX WAYS TO PLAY PICKLEBALL SMART Open Play — continuous rotation across multiple courts that balances partners, opponents, and bench time automatically. No more "I've sat out twice in a row." Americano RR — rotating partners, individual scoring, a leaderboard that sorts itself. King of the Court — winners climb, losers drop. Simple, ruthless, beloved. MLP Tourney — a full 4-team, 24-game rally-scoring tournament with team standings and a final. Singles Mingle — singles rotation with host-curated matchups. Ye Olde Pickleball — claim the Throne in a medieval ladder where courts are castles and the Pit is very real. NOW PLAYING: PADEL & TENNIS Run a full padel or tennis match from the 4-Player Session — real tennis scoring (0 · 15 · 30 · 40, deuce, advantage, games, sets, best-of-3). Tap a ball to choose who serves first; the app tracks the serving rotation, sides, and changeovers for you. Score it from your Apple Watch — hand off the match and keep the set-by-set scoreboard right on your wrist. Play on the surface you like — clay, grass, and hard-court themes included. BUILT FOR THE PERSON RUNNING THE SHOW Player check-in with one-tap "everyone's here." Add registered players in a tap — type a player code or scan their QR. Round timers, game timers, and big readable courts designed for a phone on a bench. Voice scoring — speak the score, keep your hands free. Apple Watch scoring for single-court pickleball, padel, and tennis. Court themes to match your venue (or your mood). Closed the app mid-session? Rejoin exactly where you left off — rounds, scores, and matchups intact. Session results export when it's over. RATINGS THAT TAKE CARE OF THEMSELVES Players who create a free profile get a player code their host can add to any roster. Recorded games feed the DiNKR Dynamic Rating (DDR) — a 2.0–8.0 rating that updates from real results, accounting for opponent strength, score margins, and upsets. Self-rate to start; after your first recorded game, your rating earns itself. Casual players never need an account — unregistered players join any session by name, no strings attached. Dink in a Box is built by DiNKR for the hosts who make game day happen. Box up the chaos. Let them play.

Screenshots

PB Vision4 screens
Dink in a Box4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Dink in a Box at none against PB Vision's 13. Dink in a Box also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 3 days vs every 9 days). PB Vision's advantage is chart position (#188 vs unranked). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. PB Vision sells 13 in-app purchases, starting at $19.99 per month. Dink in a Box asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

PB Vision ships an update every 9 days, Dink in a Box every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
PB Vision versus Dink in a Box: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPB VisionDink in a Box
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (142 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews60.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings142 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 9 daysEvery 3 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
Best chart rank#188 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS16.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size172 MB62 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPickleball Vision AI Inc.DINK Productions LLC

In-app purchases

13 purchases

PB Vision

Subscriptions4
  • Starter$19.991 Month
  • Premium$49.991 Month
  • Starter$99.991 Year
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  • Premium$399.001 Year
One-time9
  • 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
None

Dink in a Box

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is PB Vision free?
PB Vision is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Dink in a Box free?
Dink in a Box is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do PB Vision or Dink in a Box have ads?
PB Vision shows ads; Dink in a Box does not.
Which is updated more often, PB Vision or Dink in a Box?
PB Vision ships an update every 9 days, and Dink in a Box every 3 days. Most recently, PB Vision was updated on October 30, 2026 and Dink in a Box on October 28, 2026.

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