We read the spec sheets,
so you can just play.
Buying a padel racket should not take a weekend of research
Every brand has its own words for the same thing. One calls it a hybrid, another a teardrop. Balance is "medium" on one site and a number in millimetres on the next. Shops copy the brand text and add a discount that may or may not be real.
padell.io puts all of it in one place, with the same yardstick for every brand. You see what a racket is, how it plays on paper, what reviewers concluded and what it costs today. And where the facts run out, the page says so.
Ruud CarisFounder, Bright Idiots BV
From brand site to your screen, every night
- 01Brand sites
Specs come from the brands themselves: weight, balance, shape, core, face. 4,140 spec values so far, each with the page it came from.
- 02Checked, not guessed
A value only goes live when it appears on the source page. Missing is shown as missing, never filled in with a likely number.
- 03Independent reviews
12 review sites are read for their verdict. We summarise in our own words and link to the full review.
- 04Prices every night
16 shops are checked every night. 5,361 price points so far. The longer we follow a racket, the better you can tell a real deal from a normal price.
Four things we never do
No brand or shop can pay for a higher score, a better place in a list or a nicer sentence.
If a brand does not publish it, we show "not published". A guess dressed up as a fact helps nobody.
Customer ratings on shop sites are not independent. We only use reviewers who publish their own verdict.
For every brand we say where the specs come from, and every review links to the full article.
Shops may pay a small commission. You pay the same price.
When you click through to a shop and buy something, padell.io may earn a commission of a few percent. The price for you does not change.
That commission never touches the score, the order of a list or which rackets we recommend. The score is worked out before we know which shops pay, and rackets without any shop link are scored the same way.