Padel Match Trackers: Padellog vs Ranked Padel vs Rivals

Rivals is our app — judge the comparison accordingly.

Quick Answer: Padellog is the broadest and free for core features. Padio runs friend leagues, free up to three. Ranked Padel had not launched in July 2026. Rivals is ours and the narrowest — one crew of four, 2v2, with a crew-only rating. All four beat a spreadsheet.

This is the least-reviewed shelf in padel software, which is odd, because it answers the only question a regular group genuinely argues about: who is best.

Four products, one obvious conflict of interest, and one rule for handling it: every claim about the other three comes from their own site or store listing, read in July 2026, and quoted where it matters. Where we could not verify something, it is not here.

What a match tracker is for

A tracker takes the thing your group already does — plays, argues, forgets — and makes it permanent. Log the score, and it produces leaderboards, head-to-head records, streaks and, usually, a rating.

The differences between products are not really about features. They are about two things: scope (does it know about your group, your club, or the whole world?) and ceremony (does anything ever happen, or is it just a table?). Keep those two questions in mind and the shelf sorts itself.

Padellog

What it is best at: breadth. Padellog is the closest thing this category has to a leader, and it goes wide on purpose.

Its site opens with "The padel app that settles it" and "Who's really the best in your group?", and it delivers player and pair leaderboards, head-to-head records, win rates, streaks, a match calendar, and breakdowns by teammate, opponent and court side — which is a genuinely thoughtful stat, since the left and right sides of a padel court are different jobs. On top of that it has a private group chat with in-chat match proposals, shareable stat cards, club and global rankings, and a club directory.

Its App Store listing describes it as "the scoreboard for your padel crew" and adds features that go beyond your group entirely: following Premier Padel tournament results, finding clubs and courts, and earning points in a global ranking.

Price. Its FAQ answers the question directly: "Yes. Padellog is free on iOS and Android. All core features — match logging, stats, leaderboards, and groups — cost nothing."

Where it stops. It is a young product: its App Store listing shows a first release in September 2025 and, in July 2026, no US ratings recorded yet. Nothing on its site claims offline operation, which matters inside a padel cage. And its scope cuts both ways — if you want a private group table and nothing else, you are also getting global rankings and a club directory you did not ask for.

Pick it if you want one app for both your group and the wider padel world, in English or Spanish, at no cost.

Padio

What it is best at: leagues among friends. Padio is Spanish-first — its own site is in Spanish — and it is built around a league object: create one for friends, clubmates or colleagues, set the points system, and watch the standings move in real time.

Log a match "in less than a minute" by entering the players and the sets, with registered players or guest players who do not have accounts yet. Stats cover matches played, wins, losses, win percentage, streaks and your evolution over time, plus who your best partner and toughest opponent are. There are league trophies and unlockable achievements, and it syncs between web and app.

Price, with a caveat. Its pricing page lists a free Standard plan with unlimited matches and up to three active leagues, general stats, a public profile and initial achievements. Premium is US$5.99 monthly, US$14.99 quarterly or US$34.99 yearly, and adds unlimited leagues, advanced stats and no ads.

The caveat: its Google Play listing, updated March 2026, describes the free tier as one active league. Two official pages, two numbers. Check in the app before you plan around it.

Where it stops. Several of the things a group wants are on its own "coming soon" list: a club map, open matches, tournaments, post-match feedback and a smartwatch app. And the interface language will matter to some readers.

Pick it if your group thinks in league tables and you are comfortable in Spanish.

Ranked Padel

What it is best at: describing an excellent product. Ranked Padel's plan is ambitious and well aimed — a padel rating estimated from your results, an ELO number, XP progression through six tiers from Bronze to Champion, group leagues with automatic standings, auto-detected rivalries when a competitive matchup emerges, partner-chemistry tracking, and a Pro tier with opponent scouting reports and a clutch-rate dashboard.

Where it stops. In July 2026 its site said: "Ranked Padel is launching very soon. Check back later this week to download the app", with iOS and Android listed as coming soon.

So there is nothing to review. We are not going to praise or criticize a product nobody can install, and neither should anyone else. Worth watching — the auto-detected rivalry idea in particular is the right instinct — but not yet a choice you can make.

Rivals

Ours, and the narrowest thing here on purpose. One crew. Four players. 2v2, one court, week after week.

Where the others cast wide — global rankings, club discovery, finding new players — Rivals does not. There is no global rating, no club directory, no stranger matchmaking. What it has instead:

• Courtside scoring that works with no signal. 15-30-40 with undo, golden point or advantage chosen at the start, and everything syncs when you are back in range. On iOS there is an Apple Watch scorer and a TV scoreboard mode.
• A rating that stays inside the crew. Margin-aware, honest about rotating pairs, and it shows its work: tap any change and see exactly why it moved. No global number to protect means no reason to duck a match.
• A memory engine. Boards for rating, points, best pair, most improved and attendance. Head-to-head records for every pair of players. Belts to take and defend. A records book. Seasons that end in a ceremony with a champion, a wooden spoon and a year in review.
• The boring parts that decide whether the night happens. One poll for where and when, spots the crew claims, a fee ledger for court money, calendar export, and a captain who runs the roster while everyone else just plays.
• 26 languages, and a spot stays open until its player claims it with an invite link.

Price. Free is one crew of up to four players — a full court — with nothing inside it metered: unlimited matches, live scoring, ratings, boards, belts, records and your year in review, kept forever, no ads. Crew Pro lifts the caps for a bigger roster or more than one crew, and adds history import, weekly digests, printable season volumes, advanced analytics and crest packs.

Where it stops, and this is the important part. It does not book courts. It does not run tournaments, americanos or brackets. It does not do club administration. It has no global rating, so it will not get you a match at a club where nobody knows you. If your group is twelve people who show up in different combinations, the free tier is not built for you.

The comparison

The honest close

All four of these beat a spreadsheet, and the spreadsheet is the real incumbent. If your group currently keeps score in a WhatsApp message that somebody edits, any of these is an upgrade, and the differences below matter far less than the decision to write things down at all. What none of them can do is count what nobody entered — stat-keeping that reveals leaks is honest about which numbers only exist if a human marks them.

Where they actually differ is scope and ceremony.

Scope is a trade, not a ranking. A global or club ranking gets you comparability and a reason to care outside your group — and it also gives you a number worth protecting, which is where sandbagging and ducked matches come from. A crew-only rating cannot compare you to a stranger and can never be farmed. Should your friend group track its own rating? works through that trade without a product attached, and you can see the underlying math in our padel Elo calculator — including the part everyone finds unfair at first, where beating the pair you were expected to beat earns almost nothing.

Ceremony is what decides whether anyone opens the app in week nine. A leaderboard is a table; a table is not an event. Belts that change hands, a records book, a season with an end date and a wooden spoon — those are the reasons a group keeps logging. This is the axis on which most trackers in this category quietly die, and it is where we have put most of our effort, so treat that opinion with the appropriate suspicion.

And the boring recommendation: if you play with a wide, rotating cast, take Padellog — it is free, broad and built for that. If your group is four people and a standing booking, we built the other thing. If you want a middle path in Spanish with league tables, Padio. And if you want none of it, keep score with our head-to-head card maker and a notebook — keeping score with friends covers the analog version, which works better than people expect.

FAQ

What is the best padel match tracker app?

For most groups, Padellog — it is free for core features and covers player and pair leaderboards, head-to-head records and streaks, plus club and global rankings. For a fixed crew of four playing 2v2 every week, Rivals is ours and is built for exactly that shape. For league tables among friends in Spanish, Padio.

Is there a free padel stats app?

Yes, several. Padellog states its core features cost nothing on iOS and Android. Padio's free plan includes unlimited matches. Rivals is free for one crew of up to four players with nothing inside it metered and no ads. In this category free tiers are usable rather than trial-shaped.

Which padel app tracks head-to-head records?

Padellog does it on its free tier, and Rivals keeps a head-to-head record for every pair of players in a crew. Padio puts head-to-head analysis in its Premium tier. Ranked Padel plans auto-detected rivalries but had not launched in July 2026.

Do padel trackers work offline at the club?

Only some say so. Of the four here, only Rivals states that it logs courtside with no signal and syncs later; none of the other three makes an offline claim on the pages we checked. Since padel cages are steel and glass, test this on your first night rather than assuming.

Can a match tracker replace Playtomic?

No — different jobs. Trackers do not hold court inventory or match you with strangers, and booking platforms do not keep your group's history: Playtomic's help center states that in casual matches "the level of the players will NEVER be changed, even if the result is entered". Most players end up running both, which is the subject of Playtomic alternatives.