Apps That Track Head-to-Head Records in Padel

Rivals is our app — judge the comparison accordingly.

Quick Answer: Fewer than you would expect. In padel, a true win-loss ledger against a named person exists in Padellog, Padel Ranking, SliceWin and Rivals. A wave of general rivalry apps launched in 2026 — RVLRY, Rivald, RivalStats and Inscore — but none models doubles. Booking platforms keep no head-to-head record at all.

There is a number every regular group cares about more than any rating, and almost no app stores it: your record against one specific person.

Not your win rate. Not your level. The score of the private series that has been running since somebody's birthday two years ago, which one of you quotes correctly and the other one disputes. It is the only statistic in amateur padel with genuine emotional weight, and finding software that keeps it turns out to be surprisingly hard.

The 2026 rivalry-app wave

Something happened this year: a cluster of small apps launched with the head-to-head record as the whole product rather than a feature buried in a stats tab. All four below were checked on the US App Store in July 2026. All four are free to download. None of them is padel-specific.

Two things are worth saying plainly about that table. The first is that nobody has traction yet — three of the four have no ratings on the US store at all, and a rating count is the only distribution signal a store gives you. The second is that this is not a criticism. A brand-new app with fifty happy users looks exactly like this, and the reason so many appeared at once is that the problem is real and obvious to anyone who plays anything weekly.

Of the four, Inscore is the one a padel crew should look at first, because it is the only one that names padel and thinks in groups rather than in duels. Its listing describes creating a group, inviting people by QR code or link, and an optional "Score Approval" step where the opponent signs off on the result before it counts — which is the correct answer to the oldest problem in self-reported sport. It also lists achievements tied to real events: a five-game win streak, beating a higher-ranked player, winning a tournament without dropping a match. Its own explanation of why it exists is the most honest sentence in the category: "We built Inscore because we play tennis with friends twice a week, and there was no simple way to track who was actually winning over time."

RivalStats is the purest head-to-head product — it is built for two named people and a series, with a genuinely flexible format editor. Rivald covers the same ground with a social feed and a step-count leaderboard attached, and it has not been updated since two days after launch, which is worth knowing before you ask three friends to install something. RVLRY is the most fun idea of the four: leaderboards attached to places, so the pub table and the park court each keep their own crown.

The doubles problem nobody in that table has solved

Here is where padel breaks the general-purpose rivalry app. Padel is 2v2. So what, exactly, is your head-to-head record against Marco?

There are two defensible answers and they give different numbers:

• Player versus player. Every set where you were on one side and Marco was on the other, regardless of partners. This is the one people mean in conversation, and it is noisy: you may have lost six of eight while playing with the weakest partner in the group every time.
• Pair versus pair. You and Ana against Marco and Luis. Cleaner, more honest, and it fragments fast — four players make six possible pairs, and most pairings never meet often enough to mean anything.

A tracker built for singles rivalries silently gives you the first one and never mentions the second. A good padel tracker keeps both and says which is which. If you only ever look at one number, look at the player-versus-player record and remember it is partner-blind — that caveat is the whole reason a margin-aware rating exists alongside it, and head-to-head records versus ratings is where that argument gets settled properly.

The padel apps that already keep the ledger

Checked against each product's own site or store listing in July 2026.

Padellog carries head-to-head records as a headline feature alongside player and pair leaderboards, win rates and streaks, and its store listing calls it "the scoreboard for your padel crew". Its own FAQ states that "Padellog is free on iOS and Android. All core features — match logging, stats, leaderboards, and groups — cost nothing." As of 22 July 2026 the US App Store recorded no ratings for it.

Padel Ranking is the quiet veteran: on the App Store since February 2021, in five languages, free, and explicitly designed for the rotating-partner problem. Its listing promises points "based on the result, the score, and the strength of your opponents" and profile stats that tell you "who's your best partner, who's your toughest opponent". That is a nemesis feature by another name, and the fact that it is five years old and has three US ratings tells you something about how invisible this category has been.

SliceWin is club software rather than a crew app, but its free Community tier includes "Wins, losses, head-to-head records, and match history" with the stated goal of keeping "rivalries alive and progress visible". If your group already plays inside a club's SliceWin community, the record may exist without you installing anything.

Rivals — ours, and the disclosure at the top applies — keeps a head-to-head record for every pair of players in the crew automatically, because there is nothing to opt into: four people, one court, 2v2, and every set logged courtside feeds the boards, the belts and the records book. It is deliberately the narrowest product here. It does not book courts, run club leagues or organize tournaments, and its rating exists only inside your crew, so it will never tell you how you compare to a stranger. Free covers one crew of up to four players with nothing inside it metered and no ads.

And then the near-miss. Playtomic — which is where most players' padel data actually lives — does not keep a head-to-head ledger. Its help center's own description of the player profile lists your level and reliability, a level-progression graph, match results, win/loss statistics, preferences, clubs, and a section called "Players that I play most with" covering "both as partners or rivals". Who you play with most: yes. Who you beat most: no. And because private reservations default to a mode where results move your level, many groups set their weekly game to casual, at which point the platform correctly stops recording anything at all.

What makes a head-to-head feature stick

Most implementations of this are boring, and the reason is that a table of wins and losses is a fact, not a story. Three things turn it into something people open:

1. The streak, stated as a claim. "You have lost four in a row to Marco" outperforms "W2 L6" by a distance, because it is specific, current, and quotable in a group chat. Ship the sentence, not just the cell.
2. The revenge frame. A rivalry page is most valuable the week before the rematch, not after. Three straight losses should set up a redemption story rather than record a decline.
3. Automatic capture. Every honour-system tracker dies the same way: on week three somebody forgets. The record has to be a by-product of scoring the match, not a second chore afterwards — and one person logging should update everyone's numbers. Board Game Stats, which has been solving exactly this for a decade in a different hobby, shares a play file of the night with the other players rather than asking four phones to cooperate.

If your group is not ready to install anything, you can settle a specific argument in about thirty seconds with our head-to-head card maker: two names, the record, the streak, the biggest win, and a card you can drop straight into the chat. It keeps nothing afterwards, on purpose — it is a screenshot, not a system. The honest upgrade path from there is a notebook in the racket bag, and then something that remembers for you.

For the wider shelf, padel match trackers compared goes product by product on scope and free tiers, and the psychology of friendly rivalry explains why the number matters so disproportionately to the people in it. If the record itself is what you argue about rather than the score, settling a score dispute with data is the practical fix, and the full app map by job lives on the padel apps guide.

FAQ

Does Playtomic show a head-to-head record?

No. As of July 2026 the Playtomic profile shows your level, reliability, a level-progression graph, your match results, win/loss statistics and a list of the players you play with most — as partners or opponents — but not a win-loss ledger against a specific person. Groups who want that keep it in a separate tracker.

Which apps track head-to-head records for padel specifically?

Padellog, Padel Ranking and Rivals all keep player-level head-to-head records, and SliceWin includes head-to-head in its free Community tier for clubs and communities. Inscore is a general friend-group score tracker that names padel among its sports. All of them were free to download in July 2026.

Should a head-to-head record count who you played with?

Ideally both are kept. A player-versus-player record is what people mean in conversation but ignores who your partner was, which matters enormously in 2v2. A pair-versus-pair record is fairer and thins out fast, because most partner combinations in a small group never meet often enough to be meaningful.

Are the new 2026 rivalry apps worth installing?

They are worth a look if your competition is one-on-one — table tennis, chess, running bets — and less so for padel, because none of them models doubles properly. Three of the four had no US App Store ratings in July 2026, so treat them as promising rather than proven, and check the last-updated date before asking friends to sign up.

Can I keep a head-to-head record without an app?

Yes, and it works better than people expect: date, pairs, score, in a notebook that lives in the racket bag. The failure mode is human rather than technical — somebody forgets it, twice, and the series quietly stops existing. Any tool that captures the record as a side effect of scoring the match will outlast the notebook.