Get4th vs PlayTime Scheduler

PlayTime Scheduler is free, beloved, and huge — 550,000+ players posting open sessions on regional boards. For "who's playing at the park Saturday?" across a whole town, it works. The job it wasn't built for is a private group where the same 10–16 people play every week and the organizer is tired of chasing. Compared August 2026 from PlayTime's public site.

	Get4th	Them
Players need an account?	No — a phone number is enough	Yes, registration required
How players hear about games	A text from your group's number	Push/email alerts once they've registered and set preferences
Private recurring group	The core use case — invites, standby, backfill	Sessions are community boards; anyone matching can join
Open community sessions	Public games exist, near-term board	The category leader — free, regional, massive
Auto-backfill on dropout	Yes, automatic text to next standby	No automatic backfill
Round robin tools	Built in, partner-rotation charts included	Free round robin generation
Price	30 days + 5 courts free; from $15/mo (30 games — from 50¢/game). Players never pay.	Free

Choose PlayTime Scheduler if…

you want a free town-wide board where anyone can post and join open play.

Choose Get4th if…

your group is fixed, weekly, and private — and you want it to fill itself without every player registering anywhere or checking alerts.

Sudbury Thursday Crew (508) 555-0139

Thursday 6pm, Featherland Park. 8 spots. Reply YES to take one.

YES

You're in. 5 spots left.

— Thursday, 6:04am —

so sorry, kid's sick, I have to drop

No problem. Marina was next on standby — she's texted.

🥒 COURT FULL · 8 of 8 · nobody was chased

Questions

PlayTime is free — why pay for Get4th?

You're paying for the chase to disappear: dedicated number, ordered standby, automatic backfill, reminders, and zero player onboarding. From 50¢ a game — about 6¢ per player per hour.

Can my players use both?

Sure — many players find new partners on PlayTime and play their weekly game through a Get4th group.

Does Get4th do open public games?

Yes — organizers can mark a game public and nearby players who opted in get a text. It's deliberately near-term and real, not a browse-all board.

Try it on your real group

30 days and 5 full courts free. No card, and your players never install anything.

$15/month covers 30 court reservations. That's 50¢ a game — about 6¢ per player, per hour.

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Competitor details checked August 2026 on their public sites. Spot an error? support@get4th.com — we fix comparisons fast.