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REVIEW
Padmi turns a padel match into a stat sheet — when you can find a club that runs it.
Real-time hit tracking, heat maps, ball speed, and a PAD Card that follows you between matches. The catch is that someone has to install the cameras first.
BY THE APP COMRADE DESK · MAY 11, 2026 · 3 MIN READ
Padel is having its global moment, and the apps trying to ride it mostly do one of two things: book a court, or rank you against strangers. Padmi does neither. It sits at the post-match table, asks who actually played well, and produces a stat sheet to settle it.
The trick is that the analysis doesn’t happen on your phone. Padmi is the friendly front end of a camera-and-analytics setup that lives at partner clubs. You tell it which club, which court, what time — and if the club is wired for it, you get back a player card with hit counts, heat maps, and ball speed. If the club isn’t, you get nothing. That’s the whole shape of the bet.
The app is the easy half. The hard half is a court somewhere near you with the camera rig installed.
FEATURES
Padmi is a companion to a camera-and-analytics rig installed at partner padel clubs. You don't reserve a court in the app — you book the court the normal way, then tell Padmi which Padmi-equipped club you'll be playing at, which court, what time, and how long the match runs. The system records, the app analyses, and the output lands in your account.
The output is the part that does the work. Each match produces a PAD Card — a per-player profile that tracks individual hit types (smash, volley, and the rest) with error counts, ball speed, metres run, a heat map of where you stood on court, and a zone map of where shots landed. The free tier surfaces this at the end of the match; the PRO version streams it live.
After the match Padmi pulls clip highlights, which you can save, download, or push to social. The Versus view sits two players' PAD Cards side by side so the post-match argument has receipts.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
The instinct to make padel measurable is the right one. Padel has exploded as a social sport precisely because the skill ceiling is friendly, and a hit-level breakdown of who actually carried the match is the kind of thing every Sunday foursome ends up arguing about anyway. Padmi just gives them numbers.
The unbundling of court booking from match analysis is also smart. Padmi doesn't try to be your club's reservation system — it sits on top of whatever booking flow the club already runs and only asks you to declare that you want this particular match recorded. That keeps the install painless and the surface area small.
ROOM TO IMPROVE
The whole thing only works if your club has the rig. The app does nothing useful at a court Padmi hasn't equipped, and there's no way to tell from the App Store listing how many clubs that is or where they are. If you're in a Padmi city you're set; if you're not, you've installed an app that can't see your match.
The free tier also leans on a PRO upgrade that the App Store listing doesn't price. Real-time stats and presumably the better cut of highlights live behind it, and the description sells the PAD Card hard without making clear which fields appear on which tier. Padel players are used to paying for court time, not subscriptions, so the value pitch needs to be visible before you've already played a match.
CONCLUSION
Install Padmi if you already know your club is a Padmi club and you want a record of your matches beyond the scoreline. Skip it if you don't — there's no demo mode, no sample PAD Card, and nothing the app can do for you until a partner court is recording. Worth watching as the network of equipped clubs grows.