The free pickleball app — open play, ladders & court fees
Built for pickleball group organizers, club coordinators and ladder captains. Take sign-ups for open play, know how many courts to hold, message the group and split court fees — in one free app.
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The switch
The Tuesday group chat, and what replaces it
Running pickleball on a group chat
- Forty messages, and you still count the yeses by hand
- Two people who said yes last week assume they're on the list this week
- You reserve four courts and eleven people show up
- You front the court fee and spend the week collecting it back in pieces
- The one important message about the court change scrolls away by Monday
Running it on TeamCheck
- One recurring session, a live count that updates as people tap
- Going, not going or unsure — a real answer from every player
- You hold the right number of courts because you can see the number
- Court fee split across whoever actually played, paid in the app
- Announcements stay pinned at the top until the session is over
Features
Everything your pickleball group needs
Open-play sign-ups
Set the recurring session once. Players tap in, and you watch the count climb all week instead of scrolling for it.
Hold the right courts
Four to a court and a waitlist forming. Knowing you have sixteen and not twenty-four is the whole difference on booking day.
Group chat & announcements
Courts resurfaced, session moved indoors, ladder results posted — pinned where people will actually see it.
Split court fees
Per-session court hire or annual dues, paid online via Venmo, PayPal, Revolut and more — with a paid list instead of a mental one.
Groups by level
Keep the 3.0 social session, the 4.0 ladder and the beginner clinic as separate groups so nobody gets the wrong invite.
Attendance stats
Who plays every week, who's fallen off. Handy when you're deciding how many courts to book next season.
Compare
Pickleball admin, four ways
Most groups end up running two or three of these at once. The point of the last column is that it's one.
| Capability | Group chat | Spreadsheet | Paid team apps | TeamCheck |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cost for a 30-player group | Free | Free | Per player, per month | Free |
| Live count of who's playing | No | Partly | Yes | Yes |
| Everyone answers individually | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Court fees collected in-app | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Chases the people who haven't paid | You do | You do | Yes | Yes |
| Announcements that stay visible | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Separate groups by skill level | Partly | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Time to set up | Minutes | An evening | A setup call | Under a minute |
How it works
Up and running in three steps
No setup calls, no spreadsheets, no credit card.
Create your team
Name it, add a logo, done — it takes seconds.
Invite your people
Share one team code with players, parents or friends.
Run everything
Schedule sessions, track attendance, chat and collect fees.
FAQ
Pickleball FAQs
Yes. Sign-ups, scheduling, group chat, announcements and fee collection are all in the free plan, and there's no per-player charge — a group of forty costs exactly what a group of six does. An optional Pro plan adds monthly analytics and automatic payment reminders, but nothing in the list above is behind it.
The session shows a live count from the moment you post it. Players tap going, not going or unsure, and you see the total on your phone — so you can book four courts on Sunday knowing sixteen are in, rather than guessing from a thread and either turning people away or paying for empty courts.
Yes. Add the court hire as a one-off charge on the session and it splits across the players who confirmed. They pay through the app via Venmo, PayPal, Revolut, Swish or MobilePay, or mark that they handed you cash. You get a paid/unpaid list per session instead of fronting the money and remembering who owes you.
Yes. Make them separate groups under one club — open play on Tuesday, the 4.0 ladder on Thursday, a beginner clinic on Saturday. Each has its own schedule, chat and register, and players only get notified about the ones they're in.
Mostly the pricing model. Paid team apps typically charge per player per month, which gets expensive fast for a drop-in group where the roster is fifty names and the turnout is sixteen. TeamCheck charges nothing for the core, so it costs the same whether ten people or a hundred are on the list.
No. TeamCheck handles the organizing side — who's playing, who's paid, who's been told what — and tracks attendance statistics rather than results. Ratings and match scores stay wherever you keep them now.
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