Dink Drop Pro vs Game Maker
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Dink Drop Pro
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A tool APP as controller for Dink Drop Pro pickle ball machine. It sends orders to machine to serve balls. Use it, you can select fixed, horizontal random and dink modes to improve your pickle ball techniques.
Game Maker
Organize pickleball games, find nearby courts, and connect with players. Create custom game formats, manage groups, and communicate with other players.
- Find nearby games and courts
- Connect with players by DUPR, age, gender
- Create private groups and chat
- Organize games with custom formats
- Scramble, Round Robin, King of the Court modes
- DUPR rating sessions
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Game Maker is made for pickleball — the one app you open before, during, and after every session. Find courts and players near you, set up games in seconds, run brackets, track your DUPR rating, and stay connected with the people you play with. Whether you're organizing your regular doubles group or chasing your next rating bump, Game Maker keeps your whole pickleball life in one place. Meet Pickles AI Just ask. Say "set up a private game Saturday morning at 9am with my advanced players group" and Pickles AI — with voice dictation — turns it into a real, confirmable game inside the app. Organizing play has never been this fast. Your games, on your Calendar Every game you create syncs straight to your iPhone's Calendar, including recurring sessions — so your schedule lives where you already look. Find your game • Discover nearby courts and players on the map • Filter by distance to find games that fit • Host or join games and manage invites Play & compete • Build round-robin and tournament brackets • Record match scores • Head-to-head history and leaderboards Track your progress • Connect your DUPR rating • See 90-day performance trends and match insights • Follow your improvement over time Stay connected • Add friends and create groups • Message the players you play with • Game Maker player indicators so you know who's on the app Play anywhere — now in 24 languages Game Maker automatically matches your device language, or pick from 24 languages including English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Arabic, Hindi, Bengali, Japanese, Korean, Chinese (Simplified & Traditional), Vietnamese, Indonesian, Thai, Turkish, and more. Download Game Maker and play more pickleball. By using Game Maker, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Privacy Policy: https://pickleball.com/privacy-policy Terms of Use: https://pickleball.com/terms-of-use
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Game Maker at every 8 days against Dink Drop Pro's every 14 months. On price, ads, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Dink Drop Pro ships an update every 14 months, Game Maker every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Dink Drop Pro | Game Maker |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 3.5 (12 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 12 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 14 months | Every 8 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 154 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Victory Sports Technologies, Llc | Pickleball TopCo LLC |
In-app purchases
Dink Drop Pro
No in-app purchases
Game Maker
No in-app purchases
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