Comparison

Smatchy vs Pedalons

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

Head to head
About

Smatchy

Easily find local individuals who share your passion for sports. Connect with partners for activities like running, fitness, padel, or yoga, matching your skill level, pace, and schedule. Join a supportive community and make sports more accessible.

Highlights
  • Personalized sports profile creation
  • Matching by sport, level, and location
  • Chat with compatible users
  • Join or create sports events
  • Automatic matching system
  • Filter by activity and availability
Features
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Looking for someone to run with tomorrow morning, ride with this weekend, or get back into swimming without going alone? Smatchy connects you with people near you, at your level, for the activity you actually want to do. Like BlaBlaCar, but for sport: someone proposes, others join, and everyone knows who they are going with. THE SPORTS AVAILABLE Running, trail running, cycling, swimming, hiking, climbing, tennis, padel, stand-up paddle, badminton, table tennis, basketball, football, golf, trampoline and strength training. We add more every quarter, and members vote for what comes next. WHAT YOU CAN DO Create an activity and see who signs up. Join the ones happening near you, today, tomorrow or this weekend. Join groups in your town and meet the same people again. Chat before and after, with the activity or with the group. Find partners at your level, because level is set sport by sport. A PLACE PEOPLE COME TO FOR SPORT Smatchy is not a dating app and will not become one. Every profile is tied to real activities, every member can report another, and women's safety was a design constraint, not an afterthought. Paid activities go through a deposit, like a booking: the organiser knows the people who signed up will show up, and they know the activity will happen. ALREADY NOTICED Public Favourite at the Go Entrepreneurs 2024 show, and Top 100 Best Sport Business Projects in the Choiseul ranking. Download Smatchy, say what you play, and see what is happening around you this week.

About

Pedalons

Features
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Pédalons is the home of your cycling club or group: rides, routes, the agenda and team news, all in one place. RIDES • Every ride offers its pace groups: sign up for yours in one tap, and see who is riding with whom. • Start location and time, planned route, comments: everything you need to know before heading out. • The ride's weather in the week before it: at the start, then along the route at your group's pace — rain, temperature, and headwind or tailwind, point by point, right on the map. • Multi-day trips, stage by stage, with the weather for each stage. ROUTES • The club's route library, on the map or as a list, filtered by distance and elevation; Explore opens the map of every route of your teams. • An elevation profile coloured by gradient or by surface, and the climbs along the way. • The route's points on the map and the profile: regroups, food stops, water, cafés, summits, hazards… • Download as GPX or FIT, and send a route to your Hammerhead Karoo or Garmin bike computer — or have routes sent automatically, service by service. THE TEAM • Each team's dashboard: your next rides, the latest posts, new routes and ads. • The agenda of rides and trips, as a list or a calendar, which you can subscribe to from your own calendar app. • Club posts, to keep everyone in the loop. • Classified ads between members, without your e-mail address ever being shown. • Notifications for ride reminders, schedule changes and replies to your comments, set type by type. A Pédalons account is created with an e-mail address; sign-in works with a password, a one-time code or passkeys.

Screenshots

Smatchy4 screens
Pedalons4 screens

Verdict

The call

Smatchy and Pedalons are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Smatchy versus Pedalons: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSmatchyPedalons
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews95.7% of reviews—
Update frequencyWeeklyWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size109 MB41 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLBDC ORGANISATIONGABRIEL JEAN YVES ANNE LANDAIS

In-app purchases

None

Smatchy

No in-app purchases

None

Pedalons

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Smatchy free?
Smatchy is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Pedalons free?
Pedalons is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Smatchy or Pedalons have ads?
Neither Smatchy nor Pedalons shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Smatchy or Pedalons?
Smatchy ships an update weekly, and Pedalons weekly. Most recently, Smatchy was updated on October 30, 2026 and Pedalons on October 31, 2026.

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