PickledBalls turns a pile of players into fair, balanced courts in seconds. Pick who's here, tap once, and start playing — no account, no setup, no clipboard.
Start a game in under 30 seconds
Choose your players, pick the sport, set courts and rounds, and go. Quick Game drops you straight into a ready-to-play schedule. Close the app mid-session and pick up exactly where you left off.
Courts that are actually balanced
A Whist-based optimizer tracks every partnership and court visit across rounds, so nobody gets stuck with the same partner twice and every court stays evenly loaded. Random pairing is free. Want courts matched to your group's levels? Organizer Pro adds skill-based scheduling — Seeded (strong with strong) and Balanced (snake-draft by each player's own DUPR/UTR-style rating).
Pair Rules — set once, honored everywhere
Mark any two players as Never Partners, Always Partners, or Never Same Court. The scheduler obeys every rule automatically, every round. No manual fiddling.
Run the whole thing from your phone
Expand any round to see the matchups. Swap players in this round or a future one with a tap. Jot per-round notes. Start the built-in timer with a one-minute warning. Enter scores as you go — or don't; lineups are always saved. Everything survives closing the app. Free runs up to 3 courts; Organizer Pro runs up to 24 at once.
Everyone sees their court — live, on their own phone
Playing instead of running the show? Set yourself as a Player and type your name once. The organizer's court assignments and scores show up live on your phone as the game unfolds. No more crowding around one screen between rounds. It all happens over the local network in the room: no account, no sign-up, nothing leaves your devices.
Look back at every game
Past games and results are kept on-device so you can see how the night went.
Pickleball, tennis, and ping pong — singles or doubles, your choice per game.
No AI in the free app. Your courts are built by fast, private, on-device math — no artificial intelligence, no cloud, nothing sent anywhere. (An optional plain-language AI assistant is planned only as a later paid upgrade — never part of the free app.)
No account, ever. Free runs games up to 3 courts. Organizer Pro — bigger sessions (up to 24 courts) and schedule-by-skill — is free right now.
Support
Questions, bugs, or feature requests for PickledBalls: email billdonner@gmail.com. It reaches the person who wrote the app.
Status and copy on this page come straight from App Store Connect (2026-08-06).