Padel App Privacy: Who Sees Your Level?
Rivals is our app — judge the comparison accordingly.
Quick Answer: On booking platforms, your level and match history are public by design — Playtomic says a private profile can no longer join public matches, and MATCHi shows your level to other players and venue admins. Crew trackers keep results inside the group. Watch scorers keep them on your own device.
Nobody reads privacy policies, and for most apps that is a rational decision. Padel is the exception, for one specific reason: the thing being published is a number that describes how good you are, next to a list of every match you have lost.
That is a genuinely different consent question from "may we have your email address". This piece answers it per app class, from each product's own pages, read in July 2026. No scare stories — where an app behaves well, it says so here.
Four classes, four visibility models
| App class | What is visible, and to whom | Can you turn it off? |
|---|---|---|
| Booking platforms | Level, level history, match results, win-loss, clubs, who you play with — to other players | Yes, and it costs you the core feature |
| Crew trackers | Results and standings inside your group; some also publish club or global rankings | Usually by staying out of the public rankings |
| Watch scorers | Usually nothing — the match stays on your phone and watch | Nothing to turn off |
| Organizing apps | Your name, attendance and payment status — to the group and its admins | No; that is the product |
Booking platforms: public by design, and honest about it
This is the class where the stakes are real, because a public level is not a side effect — it is the mechanism.
Playtomic. Its help center's own description of the player profile lists your level per sport, a reliability percentage, a level-progression graph, all your match results from both private bookings and public matches, win-loss statistics, your playing preferences, the clubs you have played at recently, and a section called "Players that I play most with" covering "both as partners or rivals". You can make the profile private in Settings → Privacy — and the same article states the cost plainly: "by doing so, you will no longer be able to sign up for public Playtomic matches." Private reservations still work, and you can share one by link.
The detail most players do not know is what a paying stranger can see. Playtomic's Premium plan lists "Full Level Graphs" as a benefit: "complete level progression charts for yourself and other players (if their profiles are public)", where "each graph shows match type (private or public), date, results with links to the original match, and level changes." So on a public profile, a subscriber can read your level history match by match, including which of those matches were private bookings. That is not a leak; it is a documented feature. It is also the single best argument for deciding deliberately whether your profile is public.
MATCHi. Levels are self-assessed rather than computed, which changes the exposure but does not remove it. Its help center on levels answers the question directly under the heading "Who can see your level?": "Your levels are visible on your public profile to other players, and to admins at venues where you're a customer." Players are findable by name — its Player Search needs three letters and also suggests "recommended players".
MATCHi's one-way door is worth knowing before you tap it. Joining a venue Community requires a public profile: if yours is private you will be asked to make it public, and "you can't switch back to private while you're a member of any community." Leaving a community is a single tap in its settings — but for as long as you are in one, that privacy switch is stuck open.
Neither of these is a criticism. A marketplace that matches strangers by level cannot work with hidden levels, which is why the two jobs cannot live in one app. If you want to know roughly where you stand before anyone else does, our padel level test gives you a self-assessment in about two minutes and tells nobody, and how the Playtomic level is calculated explains what the public number is actually measuring.
Crew trackers: private to the group, with one thing to check
Trackers are structurally more private — the audience is people who were on court — but they are not all group-only.
Padellog publishes a readable policy. Its User Content section covers profile information (display name, username, photo), "match and activity data, such as the matches, scores, and comments you record", and messages including direct messages, group conversations and match proposals. It states that this content "is used solely to operate the Application's features", that "the Service Provider does not sell your User Content and does not use it for advertising or tracking across other companies' apps or websites", and — the obvious thing people still forget — that "because chat and groups are social features, content you send is visible to the other participants in a conversation". You can delete your own messages, report content, block users, and request account deletion by email. It names Google Analytics for Firebase and Firebase Crashlytics as third-party services, and collects approximate rather than precise location.
The item to check in this class is whether the tracker also publishes rankings outside your group. Padellog's store listing includes club and global rankings alongside private group leaderboards. Padio's free tier includes a public profile, and its site invites you to share results, statistics and achievements to Instagram and WhatsApp. Neither is hiding anything — but "private group leaderboard" and "global ranking" are two different consent decisions inside one app, and most products in this category do both. Padel match trackers compared notes the scope of each.
Watch scorers: the most private software in padel
The wrist shelf barely collects anything, and several apps say so:
- PadelPro: "No account required. No ads. No tracking. Your match data stays on your device and syncs only between your own iPhone and Apple Watch."
- Racketly: "Privacy-First: Your match data is yours alone. Racketly prioritizes your privacy and doesn't collect unnecessary information."
- PadelMix, on the web side: "Your data is private and secure and stored on your device", with no account required.
- padel-bracket.com, whose Dutch-language site promises no ads, no personal data sold, and "no App Store, no account, no password".
One useful caveat, and it is the reason the checklist below exists. PadelPro's description says "No tracking", while the App Privacy card on its own App Store page declares data used to track you: purchases and identifiers, listed as purchase history, user ID and device ID. Both statements are published by the same developer. The likely reading is that the match data really does stay on the device and the tracking declaration covers the purchase and analytics plumbing — which is a normal, minor thing. The lesson is not that anyone lied. It is that the marketing line and the privacy card are two different documents, and only one of them is a declaration to Apple.
The seven-point check before you install
Two minutes, before you hand an app your results:
- Is there a public profile, and what is on it? Level, history, win-loss, the clubs you visit.
- What does going private cost? If it disables the feature you installed the app for, that is a real trade, not a setting.
- Who else can read your history? Other players, paying subscribers, venue admins. Ask about all three.
- Read the App Privacy card, not the description. On the App Store page, under App Privacy — it is a declaration, not copy.
- Do results leave the group? Club rankings and global leaderboards are separate from a private group board.
- Is chat part of it? Anything you send is visible to everyone in the conversation, forever, including the person you are talking about.
- How do you delete the account? In-app is good. "Email us" is legal and slower. Find out before, not after.
Where we stand, including the uncomfortable parts
Disclosure standing, and no absolutist claims — we run analytics, and pretending otherwise would fail our own checklist.
Rivals is crew-scoped: there is no public profile and no global feed, and your standings are visible to your crew and only your crew. There is no global rating, which is a privacy consequence as much as a design one — nothing about your play is published anywhere for a stranger to read, and equally, nothing about your play can help you get a match at a strange club. We do not sell data, run ads, or track you across other companies' apps.
What we do carry, spelled out rather than buried: this website loads Google Analytics 4 on every page, and the app ships Firebase Crashlytics, Firebase Analytics and Firebase Cloud Messaging plus RevenueCat for Crew Pro purchases — the payment itself goes to Apple or Google and we never see card details. In app-store terms, the data linked to your account is contact info, identifiers, purchases and the content you enter. All of that is written out in full on our privacy page, which is the document our own seven-point check would send you to.
Rivals also does not book courts, run club leagues or organize tournaments. Free is one crew of up to four players with nothing inside it metered and no ads. For everything else on the shelf, the padel apps guide sorts the category by job, and should your friend group track its own rating is the argument for keeping the number small on purpose.
FAQ
Can other people see my Playtomic level?
Yes, if your profile is public — and its help center states that making it private means you can no longer sign up for public matches. Playtomic's Premium tier explicitly lets subscribers view complete level-progression graphs for other players with public profiles, showing each match's type, date, result and level change.
How do I make my Playtomic profile private?
In the app, open the Profile tab, tap the three lines at the top right, then Settings → Privacy, and switch on "Private account". You keep private reservations and can still share a booking by link; you lose the ability to sign up for public matches.
Who can see my level on MATCHi?
Its help center says levels are "visible on your public profile to other players, and to admins at venues where you're a customer". Levels are self-assessed and set per sport. Note that joining a venue Community requires a public profile, and MATCHi states you cannot switch back to private while you are a member of any community.
Do padel trackers publish my results publicly?
Some do, alongside the private group board. Padellog's listing includes club and global rankings; Padio's free tier includes a public profile and share-outs to social apps. Padellog's policy states it does not sell your content or use it for cross-app advertising. The thing to check in any tracker is whether a group leaderboard and a public ranking are both switched on.
Which padel apps collect the least data?
The watch scorers, as a class. Several state that match data stays on your device — PadelPro says no account is required and data syncs only between your own iPhone and watch; Racketly says your match data is yours alone. Web tools such as padel-bracket.com and PadelMix run with no account at all. Always confirm against the App Privacy card on the store page rather than the description.