Name: PB Play
Price: 5.99 USD
Rating: 4.1 (61 reviews)

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PB Play

codeDependent Software Incorporated

Released: 2019-03-15

Version 1.8

Version 1.8

Released: 2019-03-15

+14

#30 in Top Paid Apps > Sports

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Description

Use Pickleball Play to generate randomized doubles matches for league or recreational play. No more arguments or uncomfortable moments when players have to choose partners and opponents. In just minutes, you can organize fair play for any number of players on any number of courts.

Features:

- Players always have a new partner, until all unique combinations have been exhausted

- Games will keep being added indefinitely

- Opponents are always changing

- Spares sit out evenly and in a fixed order

- Ability to add players who arrive late and to remove players who leave early, without messing up the spare rotation

- Any number of players

- Any number of courts

- Manage and save player lists for several leagues

How to use:

1) Input your league name, so you can use the same list of players in the future

2) Add the players

3) Select the number of courts

4) Tap on a game to view the details of who is playing

5) *Important! Tap the green pickleball to mark each completed game.

6) Tap on Adjust if you want to add or remove players as you go.

What's New in Version 1.8

Bug fix to correct too many duplicate matches

Seller

Name

codeDependent Software Incorporated

URL

https://codedependentsoftware.com/pickleball-play/

Information

Developer

codeDependent Software Incorporated

Version

1.8

Size

13 MB

Game Center

VPP Device Licensing

Yes

Rating

Rated: 4+

Compatibility

iOS 12.0 or later

Devices

iPhone 5s, iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, iPhone 6s, iPhone 6s Plus, iPhone SE, iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus, iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, iPhone X, iPhone XR, iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro, iPhone 11 Pro Max, iPhone SE (2nd generation), iPhone 12, iPhone 12 Pro, iPhone 12 Pro Max, iPhone 12 mini, iPhone 13, iPhone 13 Pro, iPhone 13 Pro Max, iPhone 13 mini, iPhone SE (3rd generation), iPhone 14, iPhone 14 Plus, iPhone 14 Pro, iPhone 14 Pro Max, iPhone 15, iPhone 15 Plus, iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 15 Pro Max, iPhone 16, iPhone 16 Plus, iPhone 16 Pro, iPhone 16 Pro Max, iPhone 16e, iPhone 17, iPhone 17 Pro, iPhone 17 Pro Max, iPhone Air, iPhone 17e, iPad (5th Generation) Wi-Fi, iPad (5th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad (6th generation) Wi-Fi, iPad (6th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro, iPad Pro (Cellular), iPad Pro (9.7-inch), iPad Pro (9.7-inch) (Cellular), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (2nd generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (2nd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro (10.5-inch), iPad Pro (10.5-inch) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro (11-inch), iPad Pro (11-inch) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 12.9-inch (3rd generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (3rd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Air, iPad Air (Cellular), iPad Air 2, iPad Air 2 (Cellular), iPad Air (3rd generation), iPad Air (3rd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad mini Retina, iPad mini Retina (Cellular), iPad mini 3, iPad mini 3 (Cellular), iPad mini 4, iPad mini 4 (Cellular), iPad mini (5th Generation), iPad mini (5th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad (7th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 11-inch (2nd generation), iPad Pro 11-inch (2nd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 12.9-inch (4th generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (4th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Air (4th Generation) (Wi-Fi), iPad Air (4th Generation) (Wi-Fi + Cellular), iPad (8th generation) Wi-Fi, iPad (8th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 11-inch (3rd generation), iPad Pro 11-inch (3rd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 12.9-inch (5th Generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (5th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad (9th Generation), iPad (9th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad mini (6th Generation), iPad mini (6th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Air (5th generation), iPad Air (5th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 11-inch (4th generation), iPad Pro 11-inch (4th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 12.9-inch (6th generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (6th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad (10th generation), iPad (10th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Air 11-inch (M2) Wi-Fi, iPad Air 13-inch (M2) Wi-Fi, iPad Air 13-inch (M2) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 11-inch (M4) Wi-Fi, iPad Pro 11-inch (M4) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 13-inch (M4) Wi-Fi, iPad Pro 13-inch (M4) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad mini (A17 Pro) Wi-Fi, iPad mini (A17 Pro) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad (A16) Wi-Fi, iPad (A16) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Air 11-inch (M3) Wi-Fi, iPad Air 11-inch (M3) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Air 13-inch (M3) Wi-Fi, iPad Air 13-inch (M3) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 11-inch (M5) Wi-Fi, iPad Pro 11-inch (M5) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 13-inch (M5) Wi-Fi, iPad Pro 13-inch (M5) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Air 11-inch (M4) Wi-Fi, iPad Air 11-inch (M4) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Air 13-inch (M4) Wi-Fi, iPad Air 13-inch (M4) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPod touch (6th Generation), iPod touch (7th generation)

Languages

English

App Store: Customer Ratings

Ratings & Reviews

4.1 of 5 (61 Ratings)

App Store: Customer Reviews

2026-03-12

Too limited for the price

Does a good job signing up players into teams. However Excel/Sheets can do that, too.

Doesn’t allow to track scores (Excel/Sheets do). Not sure what the real benefit/value of this App is, given that I even payed for it.

2025-09-09

Simplicity

the app is great help and unlike many its not what i call a “data grab “ . My wish is i could print out and post scheduled play courtside .

2025-03-15

Great for social play

Great app to quickly and fairly figure out who’s playing with who. I’d love the ability to edit names once they’ve been entered because if I misspelled one I have to start a whole new league list. And sometimes it’s nice to be able to delete a name if somebody drops out

2025-02-11

Print option would be nice

As it is we have 16 players and 4 courts, so after we use the app we need to type into a word document to bring to the courts

2025-02-03

No Scoring Option

This app doesn’t allow you to enter final scores for each match which is disappointing for an app you have to pay for.

2025-01-29

My Go To

I have looked at a few other apps, but I really feel PT checks all my boxes.

2025-01-09

Needs option to change court numbers

Love the app but I gave it four stars because it doesn’t allow us to change the court numbers. They’re only set to courts 1,2,3 and so on. When we play RR, we get random courts; 2,5,7,10, etc. depending on what court is available at the club. It can get confusing when host is calling out court assignments. I hope this can be changed. Please and thank you!

2025-01-05

Limited

If there is a way to designate the number of games, I can’t find it. You can only put players in. Then the app gives you a limited number of games.

2024-11-28

It’s okay

The app works pretty good. There is an issue when there are 8 players and 2 courts. It keeps the same 4 people together on one court the whole time.

When having 3 or more courts the font becomes really small.

2024-10-26

Terrible, used to be good

This used to be a good app, it no longer probably randomizes and you end up either playing on the bad side of the court every game or with or against the same people. They need to fix this or the app is worthless.

2024-10-23

Can not delete names

This is a lifesaver when dealing with fairness of multiple players. I just wish I could delete names from a list instead of just adding. Swiping does not delete the names. Or given an option.

2024-09-21

Almost perfect!

I love this app but wish there was a way to lock in some partners while still mixing others. Can this be a future function, pretty please?

2024-08-26

Great app

This a great app and a lifesaver, being able to add and remove players on the fly. Using names makes it much easier than remembering numbers and the headache when people leave. Is there a way to adjust the number of courts without having to restart the session?

2024-08-10

Had High Hopes

I don’t see the point of this App if you set up matchups but can’t even keep the scores of the matches. What am I missing? Will rate higher if I’m doing something wrong

2024-06-20

Perfect App but needs a few things

This is exactly what I was looking for except it needs a few minor features to be perfect. You need to be able print the games. And text to invite players.

2024-05-24

Need some work

Needs some work. It would be nice if you could adjust players names if spelled incorrect without having to start completely over. And it would be a nice option to chose the number of games for rotation. Example: 13 players, but choosing an 8 game rotation on 3 courts. Thanks for your consideration

2024-04-28

Mixed Doubles

I have not been able to manipulate the app to use for mixed doubles round robin play

2024-04-21

Rotation

This app works great except that it does not seem to mix up who you are playing against if you have more than 8. It also does not make everyone sit out in a two court 10 participant situation.

2024-04-16

You can’t put the score after each game

Useless :-(

2024-02-17

Great app but it runs out of games and does not randomize very well

It would be nice if the app would have unlimited games as advertised. When we play 2 hours with 9 people, it should not run out after only 6 games. There is plenty more games that could be arranged with different player and court match ups. Other than that, love the ease of use app!

2023-11-03

Love this app!

Could you make it printable? And shareable? It would be even more useful to be able to share images of each game. I’ve been using screen shots and cropping.

2023-09-10

Best RR Scheduler

This app is the BEST! Tried other apps but had players sitting out consecutive games, duplicated partners; PB players can be fussy! Seems to manage not playing same opponents quite well. Love it!!

2023-06-13

Very Helpful App

I have been using this app for a year now. It works fairly well, a few improvements would help. Sometimes, when removing people who leave early, the app spins and never resets. It would help to be able to copy a group and add them as a different group name. This would help as a baseline for groups that are relatively repetitive and it would help as a backup copy if a modification causes the present app to spin and crash.

2023-05-20

Locked up while using

I’ve used PB Play about 10 times and would have given it a 5 star review until today when it locked up while using it. I had a group of 13 that was playing doubles on 3 courts. After about 5 games I went in to remove a player and when I came back a spinning wheel would not go away. I ended up aborting the session.

2023-03-23

Ohkay at best

App would be amazing if it kept track of wins each person had for the league, then able to group them by wins and have the app random pick partners per group with similar win record.. all this does is randomize people. No tracking of who played how many games either besides having to court when they played/sat out .. Highly recommend update with this feature to see league records for each week they game.. example week 1 bob had 5 wins 1 loss

I wish you can also click into multiple leagues at once if I have a league of 24 ppl.. 4 courts...

6 ppl per court but want to have them play ppl close to their records randomly so rank 1-6 7-12 13-18 19-24 if I have 4 leagues named court 1 two three four if im on league "court 4" and click back to go to court 3 I LOSE ALL information on COURT 4 since it takes it as im DONE with court 4 and now looking at court 3 which is a diff league...

2022-04-20

Great app

This is a great app, simple to use. However, lacking mixed capability.

2021-11-18

Wonderful App

I love this app. We used it the 1st time yesterday—8 players, 2 courts. Question: how do you delete a player from your list of players?

2021-11-03

Outstanding!

We have a group of 125 guys and about half show up each session. Excel just wasn't cutting it and "shootout" style was repetitive.

THEN, we found PB Play and now they love they love it!! The randomness, never playing with the same four people and the ability to add or drop players easily DURING match play is wonderful.

It's worked so well other groups in our community are using it (ladies only, mixed, leagues) and it's been the same with them. Everyone loves it. Well, done. Makes our organizing easy and quick.

Sure, we'd love to have additional capabilities, but this is such a great tool, we'll happily wait for the next improvements and repurchase!!

2021-10-20

Love This APP!

I’ve been using this app for about 8 months now with several different groups. It definitely solves a few problems that often occur when playing in a group. Such as two strong players wanting to play together all of the time, no one wanting to partner with a weaker player (leading to hurt feelings). It’s also a time saver - less chat about who’s playing with who, means more play time - yay!

I have one question/ request… Is there a way to delete names from a given group’s roster? If not, would you consider adding that functionality? With so many drop-ins, my lists have gotten unnecessarily long, and deleting folks who came once or twice would be awesome!!

2021-10-15

This app is wonderful, is more coming?!

Hello,

Just wanted to say this app has made our Monday night round robin so much easier. I initially tried a google search for a round robin layout. Some results were ok but if I generated it again for next week it was the same round robin.

This app is great at mixing up the order in which you play with an against people week in and week out!

It’s 5 stars just for that, I’m wondering though, if more features can be added?

I’d love for the app to track our game results and then track them throughout the year. Currently we have 8 players, 7 round robin games and then all players are seeded 1-8. The eighth game is then a medal game with 1/2 playing 3/4 for gold and 5/6 playing 7/8 for bronze. So we have a weekly winner but we also track stats for the season round robin, W/L, Win %, points, points per game, medals won.

If this app could expand to do that on the fly it could make for some really fun league nights and season long improvements as players try to climb the ladder!

Thx for the app, really enjoying it!

2021-06-30

Easy round robins!

We used to struggle with rotating 24 people on 4 courts. Mass confusion. This app is amazing. Hope this developer comes out with more apps and more options like keeping track of winners or a ladder. Karen- USA pickleball ambassador

2021-05-06

PB Play

Bought this app but was disappointed to see that the functionality is very, very basic. All you can do is create a group of names, and choose how many courts you have. It then sets up rounds of play. There is no ability to ask for matchups by ability, gender, team etc, no way to save scores, no way to have people drop out or join a later round

2021-02-10

EB

The app has been a great addition to our pickle ball group. It makes pairing everyone so simple, even when someone comes late or leaves early. The developer’s response to a question was immediate.

2021-01-17

Awesome!

I love this app. It is simple to use and creates organized play in seconds.

This is a game changer for any pickleball community that struggles with organized play. Whenever I use this app with large groups I set a 12 minute timer so that all the games finish at the same time. That way there is no waiting around.

This is a must have for pickleball organizers. And perfect for small group play as well.

Thank you for making this app!!

2020-12-08

Great App

I play PB with a group of players which may change daily. We used to assign numbers and use a print out in order to execute a round robin of players. Believe me when I say, no one could remember their number! This makes round robin play so much easier. You can add or delete players as needed. You cannot add to the court number without starting over so I always leave it higher than we need in case another court is needed later. Well worth its low price.

2020-11-12

Simple and easy to use...

I just started running a open play group at my club and, after just 2x, have found this app GREAT for what I need it to do! I know it doesn’t have a print option but honestly, it wouldn’t benefit me as the best feature is where you can modify the rotation if someone leaves early or comes late. Glad I found this!! Highly recommend for social groups!

2020-11-06

Awesome app

Thank you so much for creating this very useful app!

2020-07-20

Doesn’t keep score

This is great for organizing players. But it would be more helpful if you could assign points and have it calculate winner based on total points after all rounds are played.

2020-02-14

Print?

Please add a print option for court assignments.

I saw another user asking too.

I can do it, if this helps others. I take a screen shot of each game and print the screen shot.

I would great if I could print from the app!

Please consider adding a print option.

I gave this a 5 star, but i think it’s a 4.5 because of lack of printing. I rounded up because I love pickleball and others that work to make an app that is this nice!

THANK YOU!

2020-01-11

PB Play

I play pickleball 5 to 6 times a week, Monday through Friday. We use PB Play to help us with our games. It is so easy to use and makes it so we don’t have to remember who has played and with whom. The spare players get rotated in so everyone gets a chance to play and to play with and against everyone else. Great App for pickleball. We could not run a smooth schedule of between 10 and 30 players on up to 4 courts without using PB Play.

2019-11-17

PB Play review

PB Play is much easier to use than our current doubles organizational app. It is intuitive to use, almost no learning time. The graphics are great, you can see who is playing on what court at a glance.

2019-11-09

Pickleball Play is winner.

This app is a 5.0. I have been managing league play using excel with 14 to 18 players, it sometimes can be a challenge.

Not with this app. I have been looking for something like this from the beginning of my Pickleball experience it’s like Christmas in November!

2019-11-05

Review of PB Play

I've never written a review of an app before, but PB Play is so handy I thought I'd break with tradition. We have a group of about 25 players who have a 2 hour, standing reservation at our Sports Center for two courts every Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings. We never know either who is going to show up and/or for how long. It is quite usual for people to show up and/or leave at any time during the two hours. Frequently, more than 8 players show up, so it is necessary for some of us to sit out. This app does a great job of adjusting on the fly to arriving and departing players, figuring out who should be playing and who should be sitting out a round. We no longer have to shuffle between sheets of paper trying to figure out pairings and spares. Great App! Definitely has helped us organize and better manage our court time. A number of our group's membes have now dowloaded the app, and I am sure a few more will as well.

2019-03-22

Fantastic Pickle App

Amazing and fantastic. Made all my plans much more easier now with this app. A definite must for all Pickleball enthusiasts

2019-03-15

Just what I was looking for

This app is perfect for recreational round robin play. It’s extremely easy to use and very intuitive. You can easily add or remove players and keep your group moving to the next game.

PB Play

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What's New in Version 1.8

Seller

Name

URL

Information

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App Store: Customer Ratings

Ratings & Reviews

Too limited for the price

Simplicity

Great for social play

Print option would be nice

No Scoring Option

My Go To

Needs option to change court numbers

Limited

It’s okay

Terrible, used to be good

Can not delete names

Almost perfect!

Great app

Had High Hopes

Perfect App but needs a few things

Need some work

Mixed Doubles

Rotation

You can’t put the score after each game

Great app but it runs out of games and does not randomize very well

Love this app!

Best RR Scheduler

Very Helpful App

Locked up while using

Ohkay at best

Great app

Wonderful App

Outstanding!

Love This APP!

This app is wonderful, is more coming?!

Easy round robins!

PB Play

EB

Awesome!

Great App

Simple and easy to use...

Awesome app

Doesn’t keep score

Print?

PB Play

PB Play review

Pickleball Play is winner.

Review of PB Play

Fantastic Pickle App

Just what I was looking for