Comparison

PB Vision vs PickleCraft

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

PickleCraft

This platform helps pickleball players improve their game with structured training plans, AI-powered drills, and progress tracking. Coaches can build reusable drill libraries, assign sessions, and monitor student progress. Clubs can standardize training across their staff and members.

Highlights
  • AI-built practice sessions
  • Drill library filtered by DUPR level
  • Automatic session logging
  • Reusable drill library for coaches
  • Student activity tracking
  • Video recording and review
Features
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PickleCraft is the training platform built for pickleball players and the coaches who teach them. Whether you're working on your own game or building a coaching business, PickleCraft turns scattered lessons and random practice into a structured plan you can actually follow. FOR PLAYERS Stop guessing what to work on. Browse a drill library filtered to your DUPR level, build your own practice sessions, or describe what you want to improve and let AI build a session for you. Every session you complete is logged automatically, so you always know what you've worked on and what's next. Connect with a coach for personalized assignments, or train entirely on your own — PickleCraft works either way. - Drills filtered by DUPR level and skill focus - AI-built practice sessions tailored to your game - Automatic session logging and progress history - Save drills and sessions to playlists you can reuse - Connect with a coach for assigned training plans - Record and review lesson video FOR COACHES Your best coaching shouldn't disappear the moment a lesson ends. Build a drill library once, and it compounds — every student you teach can train from it, indefinitely. Assign structured sessions to individual students or entire classes, track what each player has actually practiced, and extend your coaching between sessions instead of starting over every time. - Build and organize a reusable drill library - Assign sessions and classes to students, filtered by DUPR level - Track student activity and progress at a glance - Manage rosters, groups, and classes in one place - Record and share lesson video with students - Earn referral revenue when students you refer subscribe FOR CLUBS Onboard your coaching staff and membership onto a shared platform with a private drill library and standardized curriculum across every coach. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

PB Vision4 screens
PickleCraft4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: PickleCraft at 100% against PB Vision's 61%. PickleCraft also leads on ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). PB Vision's advantage is ratings volume (138 vs 2) and chart position (#158 vs unranked). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and device support 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 and PickleCraft sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $24.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

PickleCraft holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: PB Vision has 138 ratings behind it against 2, 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 100% of PickleCraft's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

PB Vision ships an update every 2 weeks, PickleCraft fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
PB Vision versus PickleCraft: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPB VisionPickleCraft
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (138 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews60.7% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings138 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterFortnightly
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
Best chart rank#158 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS16.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size171 MB29 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPickleball Vision AI Inc.PickleCraft LLC

Customer experience

PB Vision

All ratings138 ratings
Positive89.9%
Neutral5.8%
Negative4.3%
Written reviews28 reviews
Positive60.7%
Neutral21.4%
Negative17.9%

PickleCraft

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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
4 purchases

PickleCraft

Subscriptions4
  • Student Monthly$24.991 Month
  • Coaching Monthly plan$59.991 Month
  • Student Annual$129.001 Year
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  • Coach Annual$499.001 Year

Questions

Is PB Vision free?
PB Vision is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is PickleCraft free?
PickleCraft is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, PB Vision or PickleCraft?
PickleCraft is rated higher. PB Vision averages 4.7 out of 5 from 138 ratings, while PickleCraft averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do PB Vision or PickleCraft have ads?
PB Vision shows ads; PickleCraft does not.
Which is updated more often, PB Vision or PickleCraft?
PB Vision ships an update every 2 weeks, and PickleCraft fortnightly. Most recently, PB Vision was updated on October 19, 2026 and PickleCraft on October 14, 2026.

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