Sports & community app
PickupPals — find, join and host local pickup games from one map
A pickup-sports app that puts every local game on one map — spot a game near you, join in a tap, or post your own and let players come to you. Web, iOS and Android.
Visit pickuppalsapp.com
PickupPals answers a simple problem: you want a game today, but finding one means scattered group chats and word of mouth. It puts every local pickup game — basketball, football, soccer, tennis and more — on a single map, so you can spot a game near you and join in a tap, or post your own and let players come to you. We built it for Canadian cities as native iOS and Android apps with a matching web presence.
The problem
Pickup sport is huge but invisible. Games are organised across a dozen different WhatsApp and Facebook groups, on gym noticeboards and by text, so a new player in a city has no way to find a game tonight, and an organiser short two players has no way to reach anyone beyond their own contacts. There was no single place that showed what was on, where, and how to join — and nothing that made posting a game and filling the last spots take seconds rather than a round of messages.
What we built
We built PickupPals as a location-first app: every game is a pin on a map, filtered by sport and time, so the core action — find a game near me right now — is one screen. Joining is a single tap, and hosting is a short form that puts your game in front of every nearby player. It spans the sports people actually play locally — basketball, football, soccer, tennis, baseball, hockey, golf, volleyball, badminton — and ships as native iOS and Android apps from one codebase, with a website that explains it and drives installs. The design leans on a clean dark interface and a fast map, so the app feels closer to a game finder than a social network, and the whole flow from opening the app to being in a game is kept as short as possible.
What changed
PickupPals turns a scattered, chat-based ritual into one map: a player opens the app, sees what is on nearby, joins with a tap, or posts a game and fills it. It is live on the App Store and Google Play, with pickuppalsapp.com as its home on the web, covering the full range of local sports from one platform.
Inside the build
Questions about this project
The things people ask when they are weighing up something similar for themselves.
It puts every local pickup game on one map. You spot a game near you and join in a tap, or post your own game and let nearby players come to you — no scattered group chats.
The sports people actually play locally — basketball, football, soccer, tennis, baseball, hockey, golf, volleyball and badminton — all in one app.
PickupPals is a native app on the App Store and Google Play, with pickuppalsapp.com as its home on the web.
Posting a game is a short form — pick the sport, the place and the time — and it appears on the map for nearby players to find and join, so you can fill the last spots in minutes.
PickupPals is built for local play, mapping the games happening around you. The more players active in a city, the more games appear on the map — so it grows with the community using it.
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