PB Vision is an AI analysis service for pickleball: you upload a video of a game and it returns shot-by-shot data — drives, drops, dinks, lobs, Ernes, ATPs and errors — plus shot quality, speed, depth and placement, court movement and positioning, a skill rating broken into serve, return, offense, defense, consistency and agility, and automatic highlights. Code PRH adds 240 bonus minutes on an annual subscription or 48 on monthly.
The Verdict
Upload a game from your phone, get shot-by-shot stats back
The gap between knowing you lost and knowing why you lost is the whole problem with rec play. PB Vision closes it by reading the footage you were already capable of shooting.
Worth it if you play enough to have patterns worth finding, and if someone is willing to prop a phone up. It answers questions a partner cannot: which third shot you actually miss, which side of the court you leak points from, whether your speedups are landing. It is not a coach and it will not fix your technique — it tells you where to point a lesson. Use code PRH at pb.vision for the bonus minutes.
PRH What it actually tells you
The useful output is not the overall rating, it is the split. A rating that separates serve, return, offense, defense, consistency and agility turns "I played badly" into something you can act on, because those six rarely move together. Most rec players find one of them is dragging the rest, and it is usually not the one they assumed.
Shot Explorer is the feature to use first
Filtering to one shot type is what makes the footage worth having. Watch every third shot drop from a session back to back and the pattern shows up in a couple of minutes — too flat, too short, always the same side. That is a specific thing to take to a lesson or a drilling session, which is more than a scoreline gives you.
Get the recording right or skip the upload
This is the part that decides whether the subscription pays for itself. The whole court needs to be in frame, the camera needs to be still, and a fixed position behind the baseline is worth more than a better phone. A drifting handheld shot burns minutes and returns analysis of a court the model can only half see.
How code PRH works here
PRH is a referral code rather than a percentage off, so it does not cut the subscription price — it adds analysis minutes. Subscribe annually with the code and 240 bonus minutes land on the account; monthly gets 48. Both sides get them, which is our stake in it, and we would rather say so than pretend this one is a discount.
On-court use
The workflow is short: record the whole court, upload, wait for processing, then read the breakdown. Shot Explorer is the part worth your time — you can jump straight to every drive or every reset instead of scrubbing an hour of footage looking for the rally you half-remember. The trap is the recording, not the app. Frame the entire court or the analysis has nothing to work with, and a phone on a tripod behind the baseline beats a friend holding it. A camera that drifts or clips the kitchen is where a session gets wasted.
Specs
| Pricing | From $20/mo · code PRH |
| Type | AI video analysis (web and mobile app) |
| Analyzes | Shot type, quality, speed, depth, placement, 3D trajectory |
| Ratings | Overall skill rating plus serve, return, offense, defense, consistency, agility |
| Movement | Court coverage, positioning, kitchen-line transitions, partner dynamics |
| Recording | Phone video — the full court must be in frame |
| Billing | Subscription; processing draws on minutes that roll over while active |
| Code PRH | 240 bonus minutes on annual, 48 on monthly — for you and for us |
Key features
- Shot Explorer — jump to every shot of one type
- Automatic highlight reels
- Trends across sessions
- Skill rating by category
- PRH referral bonus at pb.vision
Who it's for
Players at 3.5 and up who play regularly, anyone taking lessons who wants to spend them on the right thing, and clubs or coaches who want something more concrete than a memory of last Tuesday. Skip it if you play casually a few times a month, or if nobody in your group will ever set a phone up — the data is only as good as the footage, and no footage means nothing to analyse.
Bottom line
Worth it if you play enough to have patterns worth finding, and if someone is willing to prop a phone up. It answers questions a partner cannot: which third shot you actually miss, which side of the court you leak points from, whether your speedups are landing. It is not a coach and it will not fix your technique — it tells you where to point a lesson. Use code PRH at pb.vision for the bonus minutes.
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