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PicklePal

100% free · No sign-up · Works on your phone

The free pickleballround robin, pool play & tournament generator

Type in the names. Say how many courts. PicklePal builds the rotation, tracks every score and sorts out who actually won — open play, pool play with a playoff, or a full DUPR-balanced bracket. No account, no email, no paywall.

Generate a round robin — freeSee all three formats
  • Nothing to download
  • 4 to 100+ players
  • Up to 16 courts
A pickleball court with four players and a live score, showing partners rotating between roundsCOURT 3 · ROUND 411—9LIVEEveryone playsequal games, fair sit-outs

Three ways to play

Pick the format your night actually needs

Every format is free and works the same way: names in, courts set, scores tapped court-side. Choose by how your session ends.

Open play & league night

Round Robin Generator

Rotating partners, fixed teams or singles. PicklePal spreads games evenly, avoids repeat partners and opponents, and keeps sit-outs fair.

  • Rotating-partner mixer with repeat avoidance
  • Equal games played and fair sit-outs
  • Optional DUPR balancing for closer games
Build a round robin
Club night with a finish

Pool Play + Playoff

Split the field into pools, play them out, then cross into a playoff. The #1s from each pool team up against the #4s — and skinny singles settles a dead-level tie.

  • Rotating partners with an individual table, or fixed pairs
  • Top 2, 4 or 8 per pool advance
  • Skinny singles tiebreaks and a final ranking sheet
Set up pool play
Club championship

Tournament Bracket Maker

Enter names and DUPR ratings. PicklePal pairs partners, balances the pools, runs the group stage, then seeds a single-elimination bracket.

  • Auto partner pairing, balanced or similar
  • Snake-seeded pools of even strength
  • Seeded bracket with byes and a champion screen
Draw a bracket

From a list of names to a running event in about a minute

  1. 1

    Type in the names

    Paste a list or add players one at a time. Ratings are optional — leave them blank for casual play.

  2. 2

    Say how many courts

    Use your real court numbers. They show up on every match card, every screen and every printout.

  3. 3

    Play and tap scores

    Big −/+ buttons court-side. Standings, tiebreakers and the bracket all recompute as you go.

Built for the court, not the desk

Runs off the phone in your pocket

Score entry is a big −/+ control, not a fiddly keyboard field. Tap targets are thumb-sized, text stays readable in bright sun, and the page never zooms itself when you tap a box.

  • Thumb-reachable tab bar on phones
  • 44px minimum tap targets everywhere
  • Big-screen Courts view for a TV or tablet
  • Round timer so rounds actually turn over
PicklePal on a phone, showing a match card with large plus and minus score buttonsFriday NightLIVECOURT 1Jamie & Rosa11Sam & Priya7COURT 2Alex & Mia9Tom & Lena6SetupPlayTable

The boring parts, handled

Fair rotations, not random ones

The mixer balances games played, sit-outs, repeat partners and repeat opponents — so nobody sits twice while someone else plays every round.

Two kinds of share link

A view-only live link anyone can watch from their phone, and a scorekeeper link that lets a trusted helper enter scores from another court.

Survives bad court wifi

Scores save to your device instantly and sync to the cloud in the background. Lose signal mid-round and nothing is lost.

DUPR-balanced play

Turn on ratings and PicklePal pairs strong with weak and matches teams of near-equal strength, so games land close instead of lopsided.

Print and export

CSV for the schedule, standings and final rankings, a clean print sheet for the clipboard, or copy the whole rotation as plain text.

Free, and yours

No account, no email, no credit card, no trial that expires. Every format and every feature, at no cost, forever.

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Free forever — every format, every feature
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Accounts, emails or passwords required
3 taps
From a list of names to a printed schedule

Questions people actually ask

Is PicklePal really free?
Yes. Every format and every feature on this page is free, with no sign-up, no account and no paywall. There is no premium tier holding the bracket hostage.
Do I have to create an account?
No. Open the page, type in your players and start playing. Your events save straight to your browser and sync in the background so they are still there next week.
What is the difference between round robin, pool play and a tournament?
A round robin rotates everyone through games on your courts and ranks them in one table — best for open play and league night. Pool play splits the field into pools and then crosses the top finishers into a playoff. The tournament mode adds DUPR-seeded pools and a full single-elimination bracket for a club championship.
How many players and courts does it handle?
Anything from 4 players on one court to a club-sized field across sixteen courts. Give the courts your real numbers and the schedule uses them.
Does it need DUPR ratings?
Only if you want balanced teams, balanced pools or closer games. Leave the ratings blank for casual open play and everything still works.
What is skinny singles and when does PicklePal use it?
Skinny singles is a one-on-one game played on half the court. In a rotating-partner pool the table ranks individuals, so two players can finish genuinely level. PicklePal spots that, tells you exactly who has to play off and for which position, and you just tap the winner.
Can other people follow along or help keep score?
Yes. Turn on the live link and anyone can watch scores, standings and the bracket update on their own phone without being able to change anything. A separate scorekeeper link lets someone you trust enter scores from another court.
Will my schedule still be there tomorrow?
Yes. Events save on your device and sync to the cloud in the background, so they are waiting when you come back. Nothing is visible to anyone else unless you turn on a share link.

Your next pickleball night, sorted in a minute

Free to use, nothing to sign up for. Open it on the court and go.

Start a round robinStart pool play