Free pickleball highlight generator.
Drop in game footage and Slice finds every rally by listening for the unmistakable pop of the paddle — then cuts away the time-outs, side switches and ball chasing. The same rally detector that powers match videos in the Slice app, running right here in your browser.
100% private. Your video never leaves this device — we couldn't watch it if we wanted to.
Drop your pickleball video here
or browse files — MP4 and MOV straight from your phone work great
Finding your rallies…
Reading the audio track…
Your highlights
Clips are cut losslessly in your browser (no re-encode), so cuts snap to the video's keyframes — expect starts to be off by up to a second. The Slice app cuts frame-exact, crops to 9:16 for sharing, and handles full-length matches.
Filming whole matches? Slice records your match, finds every rally automatically, lets you trim and share the best points — and keeps your scores, stats and rivalries on the record.
Get the app — it's freeHow the pickleball highlight maker works.
Drop in your video
Any game or drilling footage with sound — a phone on the fence behind the court is perfect. The file is read locally; nothing is uploaded.
It listens for the pop
A pickleball off a paddle face is a loud, clean pop that rises and dies within a fraction of a second — an audio fingerprint the detector picks out of six frequency bands while ignoring footsteps, kitchen-line chatter and the next court over.
Rallies become clips
Pops that trade back and forth in pickleball rhythm — serves, drives, and rapid dink exchanges — get grouped into rallies, padded a couple of seconds either side, and handed to you as clips you can play, save, or share.
How to film pickleball highlights that cut themselves.
Put the phone behind the court, a little above net height — a fence, a tripod, or a bag rack behind the baseline all work. The camera sees both teams and the mic hears every paddle contact from serve to put-away.
Keep the original audio. Detection works entirely from sound. The pop of a pickleball is famously loud — entire neighbourhoods can confirm — which makes it ideal material, but only if the audio track is actually there and not muted or replaced with music.
Rec-center noise is fine. The algorithm normalises against each recording's own noise floor, so echoing gyms, multiple courts, and background chatter are tolerated. What confuses it most is a very distant mic — get within a court's length of the action.
Open play is brutal on footage: games to 11, rotations, paddle stacking, and long waits between rallies. An hour of recording might hold twelve minutes of actual play — and one genuinely great firefight at the kitchen line that nobody can find afterwards.
Scrubbing for that one rally is how highlight footage dies on camera rolls. The detector pulls out every rally in seconds, on your device, and the fast dink exchanges are exactly what it's tuned for on this page — a quicker rhythm window than the tennis version.
It's the same v4 rally-detection algorithm that ships in the Slice app, where it runs on full-length recordings, cuts frame-exact clips, and posts your best rallies next to the score your opponents confirmed.
Pickleball highlight questions, answered.
Is my pickleball video uploaded to a server?
No. The analysis runs entirely in your browser using Web Audio — the video never leaves your device, nothing is stored, and there's no account or sign-up. Watch the network tab while it works: nothing goes out.
How does it detect the rallies?
From sound alone. Paddle pops are sharp, fast-decaying transients that stand out against the recording's own noise floor. The detector measures that contrast in six frequency bands, keeps only pops that are loud for your recording, checks the back-and-forth rhythm, and groups them into rallies.
Does it handle fast dink rallies?
Yes. Kitchen-line exchanges come faster than tennis rallies, so this page runs the detector with a rhythm window tuned for pickleball's cadence — rapid-fire volleys group into one rally instead of being dismissed as noise.
Which video formats work?
Anything your browser can decode: MP4 and MOV straight off a phone are ideal, WebM works, and an audio-only file works too if you just want the timestamps.
How long can the video be?
Up to roughly 30–45 minutes is comfortable (hard limit: one hour or 2 GB) in the browser. For a whole session of games, the Slice app runs the same detector natively on your phone, with no length limit.
Is it really free? What's the catch?
Free, no watermark, no sign-up, and your footage stays yours. We built it because it shows off what the Slice app does with match videos — if you like this, you'll like the app; that's the whole business model.
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