Best padel tournament apps in 2026, compared

The padel tournament apps at a glance

Checked on 9 October 2026. App prices are from the US App Store; platform prices are as the provider's own pricing page showed them. "Not stated" means we found nothing on the tool's own pages, not that the feature is missing. "Organiser app" means only the organiser installs an app and the players follow a web link, "Personal use" means the terms allow only personal, non-commercial use, and "Via web link" means the tournament's web link can be opened on a TV. The test case is an ordinary club night: 16 players on four courts.

How we compared them

A padel tournament app has one job: get a group of players through a fair night without the organiser doing sums at the net. These are the things that decide it on the night:

• Cost for a real club night. Sixteen players on four courts. A free version that stops at one court or eight players doesn't cover it.
• Who needs an account or an app. Every download or sign-up at check-in costs minutes, and someone always has no battery.
• Formats. The social ones (Americano, Mexicano, Mixicano) and the fixed-pair ones (Team Americano, round robin, King of the Court, Monrad).
• The hall screen and the players' phones. A live table on the TV, a link for the players, and whether they can enter their own scores.
• What lasts after the night. Ratings or stats that follow a player from one night to the next.

None of the apps gets a score out of ten. Which one is best depends on which of these matters most to you, and the last section says which to pick for which kind of night.

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Free browser tools: nothing to install

PadelLoop

PadelLoop runs in any browser, with no account and nothing to install for the organiser or the players. Everything the tool does is free: all eight formats (Americano, Mexicano, Mixicano, Team Mexicano, Round robin, King/Queen of the Court, Monrad and Team Americano), up to 12 courts and no player cap. Paid Pro and Club plans are announced, but nothing in the tournament tool is locked behind them.

The live table runs on the organiser's phone and on a big-screen view for the hall's TV, and the players follow it from a share link on their own phones. That works in Americano, Mexicano, Mixicano, Team Mexicano, King/Queen of the Court and Team Americano. Round robin and Monrad keep the table on the organiser's screen for now. The interface is in English, Spanish, Norwegian, Danish and Swedish, and the planner works out courts, rounds and points before the night.

Where it is weaker: players can't enter their own scores, so the organiser types in every result. There are no player ratings or stats across nights, no app in the App Store, and no group stage or knockout bracket in the free tool yet. It is the pick if you want every format free on every court and nobody installing anything. It is not the pick if your players want a rating that grows over the season.

Rallyano

Rallyano, made by Waincore LLC, is the closest to PadelLoop: a free browser app with no account needed, no ads and, in its own words, no paywall on formats or players. It has 11 formats, among them Classic, Mixed, Team and Club Americano, Classic, Mixed and Team Mexicano, King of the Court and Beat the Box, and it is in 12 languages, Spanish and Norwegian included.

It goes further than PadelLoop on the players' side. Everyone follows one live link, players can enter their own scores (the organiser can switch that off), each player builds a career profile with that organiser, and the leagues use an Elo-style rating. It has a desktop layout for the club's TV and works offline at the court. The iOS and Android apps are announced but not out yet, and it has no Monrad and no knockout bracket.

PadelBracket

PadelBracket is a free web app by Danny de Visser, a developer in Rotterdam, with its source code public on GitHub. It needs no account, has no paywall and no ads, works offline once loaded, and installs on a phone like an app. It has eight padel formats: Americano, Mexicano, Mixicano, Team Americano, Team Mexicano, King of the Court, round robin, and a knockout with groups and a consolation bracket.

Americano and Mexicano take 4 to 32 players. A presentation mode puts the live table on a TV over HDMI or Chromecast, players submit their own scores for the organiser to approve, and an Elo rating per player builds up across sessions. The interface is in eight languages, Spanish included and Norwegian not.

Padelution

Padelution, from Padelution Oy in Finland, has a free Americano generator on the web and an iOS app. Its formats are Americano, Team Americano, Mexicano, Team Mexicano, Mixicano, Beat the Box, Up and Down, and Team Up and Down, and the web Americano takes 4 to 24 players. You sign in to save tournaments and see your history, and the site runs leagues with an Elo-based player rating.

Two things to know before a club uses it: its terms limit the service to personal, non-commercial use, and we found no big-screen view. The interface is in English and Finnish.

Phone apps: strong on ratings, paid for more courts

Americano Padel

Americano Padel, by Perkodar AB in Sweden, has more than 100,000 installs on Google Play and a 4.8 rating from over 5,000 reviews there. It needs no login or account, and its App Store listing is plain about the price: free to use on one court, with a premium purchase for multiple courts. In the US App Store that is $4.99 a month, $19.99 a year or $159 once.

It covers the Americano and Mexicano families in depth, with 12 variants including Team, Mix and Club Americano, Super Mexicano, Mixicano and Beat the Box, for up to 32 players. Each tournament gets a web link the players can follow or you can open on the hall's TV, and since version 3.0 (2 October 2026) players can enter results from their own phones. It has no King of the Court, round robin or Monrad, and no Norwegian.

Padel Fast

Padel Fast, by GAVA Group AB in Sweden, runs on the web, iOS and Android, and it is the broadest of the paid apps. It has 13 formats, including Americano, Mexicano and Mixicano, Team Americano and Team Mexicano, King of the Court, Beat the Box, round robin, knockout, ladder and league. Every tournament has a big-screen view for the TV, players enter scores from their own phones, and a 0 to 10 rating follows each player across tournaments, leagues and clubs. It is in 23 languages.

The catch is the price. The organiser needs an account, and the App Store listing says a premium subscription is required to organise tournaments. In the US App Store a day pass for one event is $3.99 and lasts six hours, Pro Plus is $9.99 a month and Pro Manager $14.99 a month. Players only need the link.

PadelMix

PadelMix, by RSApps Nordics OÜ, is an iOS and Android app that needs no account. Its formats page lists Americano and Mexicano with their mixed and team versions, Beat the Box, King of the Hill and a knockout, and recent updates added a Swiss system and Club Americano. A share link lets anyone follow the tournament, and since late September 2026 its leagues give every player an Elo ranking that updates after each tournament. It is in 17 languages.

It is a free download with Premium sold in the app, from $2.99 up to $89.99 for lifetime access in the US App Store, but neither the listing nor the website says what the free version includes. Try it with your real player and court count before the night. We found no big-screen view.

Club and federation platforms

Playtomic Manager

If your club books courts through Playtomic, its club software, Playtomic Manager, now runs King of the Court, Americano and Mexicano. The club creates the tournament, players join and pay in the Playtomic app, and the organiser records each match result as it finishes.

Its own help page names two limits. Players don't yet see live matchups or leaderboards in the Playtomic app; they get them as tournament chat messages. And the compensation points for players who sit out a round can't currently be turned off. Tournaments don't affect players' Playtomic levels. Manager is software for the club, not for a group of friends booking two courts, with plans from €59 a month (Standard, excluding VAT, as the pricing page showed in Europe) and two weeks free to try.

RankedIn

RankedIn, from Rankedin AS in Norway, is tournament and league software that the Swedish and Danish padel federations use for their competitions. An organiser can run a tournament free on the basic plan, which shows ads. A premium plan per tournament, €14.90 for up to 24 players, €29.90 for up to 48 and €59.90 for any size, removes the ads and adds email to participants, live scoring and scoreboards.

It supports Americano (its own page says 4 to 16 players) next to classic draws, seeding and Monrad for regular tournaments, and an Americano can count towards a club skill rating. Players need a RankedIn account to join tournaments, though for an Americano the organiser can add placeholder players. We found no Mexicano. It is the right tool when results should count in a federation or club ranking, and heavier than the others for a social night.

Five more we checked

• Padelboard by MATCHi: the player app is free but needs a MATCHi account. The venue version, Padelboard Arena, costs €5 per court a month and adds the big screen. Four formats, and the app was last updated in January 2025.
• Padel Americano: Tournaments (Kodeon, Inc.): an iOS app for Americano, Mexicano and Mixicano with Premium sold in the app. No Android version.
• Padel Americano Generator (americanopadel.app, Tradein IT LTD): the browser generator is free up to 8 players. Pro, $5.99 a month in the App Store, lifts the cap and adds a presentation mode for big screens.
• PadelMake: free on the web for 4 to 24 players on up to 6 courts, for personal use. The iOS app needs a subscription for more than one court.
• Padel Puffin: a web generator for Americano, Mexicano and Team Americano, with no account and banner ads.

Which padel tournament app should you pick?

• A free club night with no sign-ups: PadelLoop, Rallyano or PadelBracket. Pick PadelLoop for Monrad, a round robin played in real padel match formats, or the planner. Pick Rallyano or PadelBracket if players should enter their own scores and build a rating.
• Ratings that last all season: Padel Fast if the club will pay for it, Rallyano or PadelBracket if it won't.
• Friends on one court: Americano Padel, free on one court.
• A club on Playtomic that sells tournament places: Playtomic Manager, as long as matchups in the chat are enough for now.
• Results that count in a federation or club ranking: RankedIn.
• A live table on the hall's TV: PadelLoop, Rallyano, PadelBracket and Padel Fast all have a TV view, and Americano Padel's link works on a TV too.

What "free" means in a padel tournament app

Nearly every app here says free, and the word covers very different things. On 9 October 2026 these were the limits on the free versions:

• One court: Americano Padel's free version and the PadelMake iOS app.
• Eight players: the free browser generator from americanopadel.app.
• A day pass: Padel Fast has no free organiser plan, and the cheapest way to run one event is a six-hour pass.
• Personal use only: the terms of Padelution and of the PadelMake website.
• Ads: RankedIn's free tournament pages and Padel Puffin.

A club night of 16 players on four courts runs into the first two at once. Before you pick, set up your real night in the app, with the real player count and the real courts, and see whether it asks for money before the last round. If you want to try PadelLoop that way, set up a tournament: it takes the names, the courts and the format, and nothing else.