Serving It Up! vs NextGame Player
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Serving It Up!
Easily track scores for tennis and pickleball matches. Save completed workouts and court locations to enhance your game. View your match history and opponent statistics to see how you stack up.
- Track tennis and pickleball scores
- Save match workouts
- Store court locations
- View match history
- Track opponent statistics
- Roster management
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Serving It Up! is a one stop shop for tracking both tennis and pickleball matches. Simply keep score of matches while playing to keep a fun, fair account against your opponents. Workouts run actively during matches to save after completion. All matches are saved and backed up for viewing at any time. Opponents and how you stack up against them are viewable as your roster of challengers grows! Along with exercises, court locations are also stored for enhancing your tennis and pickleball experience. Have fun, workout, and enjoy being on the court!
NextGame Player
Organize and track your pickup sports games with ease. Join sessions, make payments, receive game notifications, and monitor your lifetime stats. Ensures fair competition and balanced teams for a better playing experience.
- Quick game check-ins via QR code
- Secure in-app payments (Venmo)
- Real-time game notifications
- Lifetime player stats tracking
- Balanced team creation
- Supports multiple sports
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You came to play, not to sort it out. NextGame ends the captain-picks standoff and the lopsided blowouts before they start. Scan the QR code when you arrive, and you're instantly checked in and dropped onto an evenly-matched team—named however your group plays it, East and West, colors, court sides, whatever you call it, you'll know exactly where to go. Then it gets fun: NextGame keeps your whole record, in any sport you play. — Last-50 record and win percentage — Average plus-minus—your real impact on the game — Last-5 form, hot streak or cold — Tap any past game to break down the whole matchup: the final score, how you play alongside each teammate, and your head-to-head history against everyone on the other side Stay in the loop, too. Messages from your organizer land in your inbox—lineups, time changes, who's in tonight—and you can reply with a tap. Show up, get matched, play, and watch your numbers climb week after week. Built for adults who still take the game seriously and want the receipts to prove it. Always free. Your organizer runs the session; you just bring your game.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: NextGame Player at every 11 days against Serving It Up!'s every 11 months. NextGame Player also leads on ratings volume (7 vs 1). Serving It Up!'s advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.6). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Serving It Up! against 5.0 for NextGame Player. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: NextGame Player has 7 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Serving It Up! ships an update every 11 months, NextGame Player every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Serving It Up! | NextGame Player |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (7 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 7 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 11 months | Every 11 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 65 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Matthew Harrington | William Braman |
Customer experience
Serving It Up!
NextGame Player
In-app purchases
Serving It Up!
No in-app purchases
NextGame Player
No in-app purchases









