PB Vision vs RIVL Pickleball
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.
RIVL Pickleball
Organize and manage pickleball events, from casual round robins to competitive leagues and tournaments. Track player ratings, achievements, and standings with live scoring and customizable settings.
- Organize round robins, leagues, and tournaments
- Track player ratings and achievements
- Live scoring and real-time standings
- Customizable league and event settings
- Player and roster management
- Public leaderboards and awards
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Pickleball, treated like a real sport. RIVL runs the events you already play and keeps the record that comes out of them. Round robins, leagues, tournaments and custom games. 4v4 MiLP and 3v3 included. PLAYER ACHIEVEMENTS Get rewarded for playing with newly defined achievements, badges and trophies. Your rating moves with every game you play. Public leaderboards award Player of the Week and Player of the Month awards. ROUND ROBINS IN MINUTES Pick your players and your courts. RIVL builds balanced rounds so partners and opponents rotate the way they should, then takes live scores as you play. No spreadsheets, no whiteboard, no rebuilding the bracket when someone shows up late or leaves early. LEAGUES BUILT FOR REAL SEASONS Set up a Ladder, 3v3 or Same Partners Doubles League. Customize your league settings in any way you want. Team leagues offer group play and playoffs. Email your league from within RIVL and trigger weekly schedule send-outs. TOURNAMENTS WITH ENDLESS DIVISIONS Run your custom formats. Seeding, pools, and brackets, from your phone or laptop. Players can log their scores live. Export results functionalities. KNOW WHERE YOU STAND Standings update every match. Match history, podium finishes, and the rivalries you build over a season all live on your profile. FOR PLAYERS - One profile and a platform-native rating across every format - Full match history, results, and podium finishes - Standings and results for every event you join - Find and join events near you FOR ORGANIZERS - Email your player pools from within RIVL - Round robins (7 formats) with balanced, auto generated rounds - Ladder League, 3v3 and SPDL - Tournaments with seeding, pools, and brackets - Player and roster management in one place - Live scoring on any phone at the court - Deeply customizable settings for leagues and round robin FOR CLUBS - One home for your venues, members, and events - Club standings and leaderboards - Roster management for players with or without an account Your league. Your game. Your rivalry. Questions or feedback: rivlpickleball@gmail.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: RIVL Pickleball at 100% against PB Vision's 61%. RIVL Pickleball also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 10) and ads (none vs shown). PB Vision's advantage is ratings volume (143 vs 5) and chart position (#156 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. RIVL Pickleball asks for nothing beyond the download.
RIVL Pickleball holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: PB Vision has 143 ratings behind it against 5, 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 RIVL Pickleball's.
PB Vision ships an update every 9 days, RIVL Pickleball fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PB Vision | RIVL Pickleball |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (143 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 60.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 143 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #156 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 172 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Pickleball Vision AI Inc. | Michael Hawkes-Hiltner |
Customer experience
PB Vision
RIVL Pickleball
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
- 1000 AI Coaching Credits$39.99
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- 300 Minutes$39.99
- 5000 AI Coaching Credits$99.99
- 1,200 Minutes$99.99
RIVL Pickleball
No in-app purchases
Questions
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