Early access · padel, every level · UK
There's a game on
near you.
A padel app for padel players of every level. Games near you, people to play with, and nights worth turning up to — whether you've played twice or twice a week. Play it in the app, and every game counts towards your level and your record.
Finding a game
Open it, and there's padel on.
One map, and five things to look for on it. Set how far you'll travel — one mile or fifty — and that's your padel.
Games near you, soonest first
On a map and in a list, with the time, the club and how far it is in miles. Narrow it to the ones that need one more, the ones on tonight, the women's nights, or the ones at your level.
People to play with
Search for players near you — their level, where that level came from, how many games they've played and whether they turn up. Then ask them, or invite them to yours.
The people you already know
Find out which of your contacts play, without handing over your address book: the numbers are turned into fingerprints on your phone before anything leaves it, and we keep none of them.
Or let the games find you
Tell the app the days and evenings you're free and it does the looking. When somebody nearby is a player short on a night you said you could play, you hear about it.
Turn up as a stranger, properly
A host can open their night to players nearby. You ask, they say yes — nobody walks into somebody else's four uninvited, and nobody is left wondering who you are.
Left side or right?
A padel pair needs one of each, and the app is the only one that asks. It's on your profile, so the person looking for a partner can see it before they ask.
The night
Americano on Tuesday, Mexicano on Thursday.
The formats UK clubs actually run, played properly — pairs drawn, scores in as you go, standings moving. Not somebody squinting at a phone note between rounds.
Everybody gets a fair go
Sit-outs rotate so the same person isn't always the one off court, and if the numbers don't divide the host hears about it before the first round rather than halfway through.
Scored the way padel is scored
In sets, with the super tiebreak, the retirement and the walkover where they belong — not one number pretending to be a result. Tap any word you don't know and it tells you what it means.
A game that never touched the app still counts
Played four at a club with nothing organised in here? Write down the sets afterwards, everybody who played says yes to them, and it goes into everyone's record.
And the same four can have a standing Tuesday
A crew is a real group everybody in it can see. Put a night in and it comes back every week on its own, and the people in it get asked without anybody having to send a message.
Meeting people
Sixteen and sixteen, and nobody's spreadsheet.
Singles padel nights are a real thing here and they're growing — sixteen and sixteen, mixed pairs, swapping partners every few games, then the bar. Every single one of them in this country is run on a spreadsheet and a ticketing page, because no padel app can hold the shape of that roster.
This one can.
A roster with two halves
The host names them — Men and Women, Reds and Blues, Club and Guests — and says how many each side takes. Players pick their half when they join.
Each side has its own queue, so somebody dropping out is replaced from their own side and the night stays even.
Three ways the two sides meet
Mixed pairs, one from each side. Side against side, a pair facing a pair. Or fixed pairs all night, scored side against side. All three are built.
It sits in the ordinary feed
A small heart beside the format, not a separate corner of the app nobody opens. Tap it and the page says what the night is in the host's own words.
We never look up who you are
The app doesn't read your profile to decide which half you belong in. It records the half you chose, for that one night, and nothing else. It's a padel app that can run these nights — not a dating app.
"Many players stop playing not because they dislike padel, but because they struggle to organise matches."A UK padel player, in the research this app was built on.
It all counts
Every game you play goes somewhere.
Your record, your level, and the table your Tuesday night is quietly building. Free, all of it — the graph and the history are the point of the thing, not the upsell.
Every number says where it came from
Nothing stops you picking 7.0 — it'll sit there saying "you said so", next to somebody else's "from 42 games". We'd rather show you who's guessing than pretend to police it.
It settles on who you've played, not just how many
Ninety games against the same three tells you less than twenty against fifteen, and the number knows. It'll tell you plainly: "from 18 recorded games against 8 different opponents… it's still settling."
Your club can set it, free
A coach or admin where you play can put a level on you, with their name on it, and you can take it off whenever you like. Elsewhere that's a £30 service.
Bring your Playtomic number and keep it
In the app's own words: "We don't replace it — we just don't make you pay for a number before you can find a game."
Your level never stops you playing
A host says what a night is for and you can see it before you ask — but nothing in the app refuses you a game over a number. Only a person can say no, and they have to do it themselves.
And you get told when you're getting better
"You beat a 4.0." "Ten games in." "Your level moved — you're a 3.8 now, up from 3.7." Small things, said once each, when they're true.
Every level, and we mean it
If you've played twice, you can turn up unrated and nothing in here treats that as a problem. If you're the best player at your club, your number is earned off real opponents rather than handed to you by a questionnaire.
It's one app for both, because a club is one club.
Even a Tuesday builds a table
A weekly night carries one across all of its nights — and if a crew wants to play another crew, that's a league, with seasons, divisions and a round robin.
| # | Pair | P | W | L | +/– | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Paul C. & Jimmy | 1 | 1 | 0 | +3 | 4 |
| 2 | Kim & Howard | 1 | 0 | 1 | –3 | 1 |
One point just for playing — and on a weekly night, each one is worth its size: win a night of twelve and it's twelve points, come last and it's one. Turning up scores.
The app
This is it, actually running.
Not a mockup. On a phone, today.
Your week
What you're playing, and who else is in.
Your number, with its receipts
"From 18 games against 8 different opponents… it's still settling."
And where it all adds up
A table that only moves when the result is settled.
The courts
Somebody opened all 719 of them.
634 in England, 33 in Scotland, 23 in Wales and 22 in Northern Ireland — not scraped and published, but checked one at a time against the club's own site before a player ever saw it.
It says what kind of place it is
Pay and play, or members only, where the club publishes it. How many courts, and how many are covered — which in this country decides your February.
Booking stays with the club
Every court links straight to wherever that club takes its bookings. We don't sit in the middle of it and we don't take a cut.
And players keep it honest
Tell us a court's opened, closed, changed, or that we've missed one. Nothing goes live on one person's word — it gets checked, the way all 719 were.
What we won't do
Some of this is what we leave out.
Written down so you can hold us to it, and so nobody talks us into it later.
NO money in the app
The host books the court and pays the club, exactly as you do today. Nothing to split in here, nobody liable for somebody else's share, no refund to chase through a chat bot.
NO other sports
Padel, and nothing else. The most repeated complaint about every app in this category is the other sports in the way.
NO anonymous numbers
There's no level anywhere in the app that doesn't say where it came from. Not on a profile, not on a game page, not in a search result.
NO wall at 24 hours
A drop-out on the day is the moment a four actually needs help. Nothing here stops a spot being opened, filled or handed on, however close to the game it is.
And if you're the one who books it
It gets a lot quieter.
- ✓Set the night once. It comes back every week on its own, in the club's own clock, so it doesn't slide an hour when the clocks change.
- ✓Everybody gets asked, five days out, once. Not the same message four times, and not by you.
- ✓Somebody drops and you know straight away — and one tap puts the spot in front of players nearby, if that's what you want.
- ✓Nobody joins without you saying yes, and you can see whether a stranger turns up before you agree.
Questions
The things people ask.
When can I actually use it?
Not yet, and we'd rather say that than say "soon". It's built and walked on a real phone most days, and the court data is live — but before anyone outside can sign in we need an SMS provider so a real mobile can receive a code, and our own privacy and terms pages. That's the work in front of us.
Leave your email and you'll get one message the day it opens. Not before, and nothing else.
How do I find a game?
Open it and there's a map with what's on near you — games, players, clubs, courts and leagues, out to however far you'll travel. Games are listed soonest first, and you can narrow to the ones that need one more, the ones on tonight, the women's nights, or the ones at your level.
Or tell the app which evenings you're free and let it do the looking. When somebody nearby is a player short on a night you said you could play, you hear about it.
Does it book the court?
No. Every court page links straight to wherever that club takes bookings, and the booking — and the money — stay between you and them.
Keeping money out of the app is a decision, not a gap. Almost every complaint people have about the apps they already use is about money moving through them.
What does it cost?
Nothing. Not to find a game, join one, run one, run a league, or see your own record and level. Court hire is whatever your club charges, paid to your club.
I've only just started. Is that a problem?
No, and this is the part we've thought about hardest. It's a padel app for players of every level, which means the beginner and the club's first team are on the same app on purpose. A host says what level a night is for and you can see it before you ask — but the app will never refuse you a game because of a number. If somebody doesn't want you in their four, they have to say so themselves.
You also don't need a level at all. Having none is a complete answer, and you stay findable without one.
Where does my level come from?
One of four places, and it always says which. You can pick one yourself — it shows as "you said so". You can type in your Playtomic number — "from Playtomic", and nobody checks it. A coach or admin at your club can set one, free. Or you play, and a number worked out from your real scores takes over.
Nobody has ever published a way to convert between the scales those numbers sit on, so we don't pretend to.
What's a "night where meeting people is the point"?
Singles padel nights — sixteen and sixteen, mixed pairs, swapping partners, then the bar — are real and growing here, and every one is currently run on a spreadsheet. The app holds that roster: the host names the two halves and says how many each takes, and players pick their half when they join.
It's a padel app that can run these nights, not a dating app. We never read your profile to decide which half you're in — we record the half you chose, for that one night.
Which courts are on it?
719 clubs and venues — 634 in England, 33 in Scotland, 23 in Wales, 22 in Northern Ireland. Every one checked by a person against the club's own site, or against local reporting where a club hasn't got one.
Members-only clubs are on there too. You may not be able to play at one today, but knowing it's down the road is the point. Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are still being worked through.
Do I have to give my phone number?
You sign in with it, so yes. It's never shown to other players — they see your name and your photo, and nothing that lets them contact you outside the app unless you give it to them.
If you let the app check your contacts for people you know, the numbers are turned into fingerprints on your phone before anything leaves it, and nothing is kept.
What if someone behaves badly?
Report a player, a game, a club or a message, and block anybody you don't want seeing you or reaching you. Reports go to a named human being, not a chat bot. It's 18+, and that's enforced.
Are there games near me yet?
Honestly: the courts are all there, the games are not. We're at the very beginning and we're not going to dress that up with a number of sign-ups.
Leave your email and tell us where you play. We'd rather have a handful of crews playing every week in one place than a thousand names spread across fifty.
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