Drop It vs Pickleball Groups
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Drop It
Improve your tennis and pickleball game with short, actionable drills designed by real coaches. Record your attempts and receive AI-powered feedback to refine your technique and progress effectively.
- Short-form drills
- Real coach-designed content
- Record your attempts
- AI-powered feedback
- Structured practice
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Master Every Shot. Short-form tennis & pickleball drills you can actually try. Drop It is built for players who want to improve — not just scroll. Discover focused drills from real coaches, record your attempt, and level up your game with AI-powered feedback and structured practice.
Pickleball Groups
This app helps pickleball groups organize and track their weekly games. It allows for easy scheduling, attendance tracking, automatic bracket generation, and live scorekeeping. All your crew's game history, rivalries, and standings are stored in one place.
- Schedule game sessions
- Track player attendance
- Auto-generate brackets
- Live scorekeeping
- Track rivalries and head-to-head records
- Maintain season-long standings
- Group game history
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Run your pickleball crew without the group text. Schedule games, collect RSVPs, build brackets, keep score, and keep a running record of who's actually winning. The Crew is for the group you already play with every week. It's not a court finder or a way to meet new players. It's home base for your regulars. SCHEDULE GAMES AND COLLECT RSVPS Set the date, format, and courts. Any member can create a session. Players tap in, out, or maybe, and the roster updates live. Reminders go out before every game, and sessions sync to your calendar. WAITLISTS THAT RUN THEMSELVES When a session fills, players join the waitlist. If someone drops, the next player is promoted and notified automatically. BRACKETS BUILT FROM WHO SHOWED UP Round robin or king of the court for multi-court open play. Singles or doubles, rotating or fixed partners. Check players in at the courts and The Crew builds the bracket from who's actually there. LIVE SCORING AND STANDINGS Enter scores from any phone. Standings update as each game is recorded, so there's no debate about who's up. CREW CHAT Every crew gets its own chat, so game talk stays out of your texts. GROUP TEXTS FORGET. THE CREW REMEMBERS. With Crew Plus, every match adds up: head-to-head records against everyone you play, partner stats, streaks, and season and all-time standings. That friend who swears they never lose? The numbers tell a different story. One organizer subscription covers the whole crew. WHAT'S FREE Scheduling, RSVPs, waitlists, brackets, live scoring, standings, and chat are free for every crew. Organize 1 crew with up to 20 players, and join as many crews as you like. Crew Plus adds unlimited crews, unlimited roster size, and full history. Players never pay. No ads. Private by default. We don't sell your data. No location or birthdate required. Built by a pickleball player, for the groups that show up every week. Made for dinks, drives, and dynasties.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Drop It at none against Pickleball Groups's 1. Drop It also leads on device support (4 vs 1). Pickleball Groups's advantage is ratings volume (33 vs 1) and update cadence (every 5 days vs every 2 weeks). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads 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. Pickleball Groups sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $29.00 per year. Drop It asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Drop It against 5.0 for Pickleball Groups. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pickleball Groups has 33 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Drop It ships an update every 2 weeks, Pickleball Groups every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Drop It | Pickleball Groups |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (33 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 33 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 162 MB | 37 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Pavan Krishnamurthy | Shoreline Foundry LLC |
Customer experience
Drop It
Pickleball Groups
In-app purchases
Drop It
No in-app purchases
Pickleball Groups
- Crew Plus$29.001 Year
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