Comparison

Game Maker vs PickleOne

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

Head to head
About

Game Maker

Organize pickleball games, find nearby courts, and connect with players. Create custom game formats, manage groups, and communicate with other players.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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

About

PickleOne

Connect with the pickleball community, discover clubs, and find tournaments. Track your DUPR rating automatically and follow match schedules and live scores.

Highlights
  • Connect with pickleball clubs
  • Find and join tournaments
  • Automatic DUPR rating updates
  • Follow match schedules
  • View live scores
  • Review match results
Features
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PickleOne is an app for the Pickleball community that helps players connect with clubs and tournaments in a simple and friendly way. Users can sign up, find, and join Pickleball clubs directly in the app to play, practice, and compete together. PickleOne is the first Pickleball app in Vietnam to connect directly with DUPR. DUPR (Dynamic Universal Pickleball Rating) is an international Pickleball rating system that measures player skill based on match results. With this connection, player and team ratings are updated automatically after each match, making it easy to track progress and performance. The app also allows users to follow tournaments, match schedules, and live scores, and review match results and personal performance through a simple and clear interface.

Screenshots

Game Maker4 screens
PickleOne4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: PickleOne at 100% against Game Maker's 50%. PickleOne also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.5). Game Maker's advantage is ratings volume (12 vs 1). On price, update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

PickleOne holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Game Maker has 12 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Game Maker's written reviews are positive against 100% of PickleOne's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Game Maker ships an update every 8 days, PickleOne weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Game Maker versus PickleOne: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGame MakerPickleOne
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.5 (12 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings12 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 8 daysWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.115.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size154 MB30 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPickleball TopCo LLCPickleOne

Customer experience

Game Maker

All ratings12 ratings
Positive58.3%
Neutral8.3%
Negative33.3%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral16.7%
Negative33.3%

PickleOne

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Game Maker

No in-app purchases

None

PickleOne

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Game Maker free?
Game Maker is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is PickleOne free?
PickleOne is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Game Maker or PickleOne?
PickleOne is rated higher. Game Maker averages 3.5 out of 5 from 12 ratings, while PickleOne averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Game Maker or PickleOne have ads?
Neither Game Maker nor PickleOne shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Game Maker or PickleOne?
Game Maker ships an update every 8 days, and PickleOne weekly. Most recently, Game Maker was updated on October 11, 2026 and PickleOne on October 14, 2026.

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