Game Maker vs PickleOne
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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
PickleOne
Connect with the pickleball community, discover clubs, and find tournaments. Track your DUPR rating automatically and follow match schedules and live scores.
- Connect with pickleball clubs
- Find and join tournaments
- Automatic DUPR rating updates
- Follow match schedules
- View live scores
- Review match results
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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.
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Verdict
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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
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.
Game Maker ships an update every 8 days, PickleOne weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Game Maker | PickleOne |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.5 (12 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 12 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 154 MB | 30 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Pickleball TopCo LLC | PickleOne |
Customer experience
Game Maker
PickleOne
In-app purchases
Game Maker
No in-app purchases
PickleOne
No in-app purchases









