Leave a Review BenchApp
This app isn’t bad or exceptionally good.
What can be done on the app is pretty good for a team that needs to get organized…
I hate the chatter feature though… I can’t for the life of me understand why nearly 60-75% of my messages get deleted either during the middle of writing or after it’s sent..
It’s has happened for over a year.. either the app developers don’t care or they don’t know..
it’s also frustrating because this app also has very little updates. It doesn’t seem like this will get fixed anytime soon…Show lesscampbell591
solid overall, has improved over the years
Good app, some slow loading inefficiencies but does the job. Although, Please make a dark mode setting. It’s 2023. Time to add that in…Jakeferd Johnson
Let’s
Let’s input your whole 15 game schedule manually then when you click to change event time it doesn’t ask to save just delete all your work. No longer will pay for this for such a basic time waster…Bit user
Surprised to see 3.4 start - I cannot live w/o this app
I’m an Adult hockey captain.
A high school hockey coach.
And a adult hockey player.
I cannot live w/o this App. There are certain apps that come along in your lifetime that make work fun, easy and repeatable. But not many. BenchApp is literally one of the few apps I look forward to opening and using. Why? It makes my work so easy. Everything in one place. I trust it.
I’m using it to manage / captain / play on eight hockey teams. There a’int no way you can do this with BCC emails and Excel/Google Sheets. Just doesn’t scale.Show lessG4Monster
So many less organizing headaches!
Team captains, pay for the pro version. It will change your life. I run two softball teams, a pretty regular weeknight team and a beer league weekend work team with a huge roster. Having automated reminders in various forms going out to players to check in/out for games takes the stress off having to send the weekly email, and being the bad guy when you have to text/email a player for the 3rd time. Giving the players the chance to respond via text also makes it so easy for them! The ability to send out a quick broadcast email or text for last minute stuff (rainouts, field changes, etc) saves you from having to search to make sure you have the right current group text chain in your phone. The chatter feature keeps that chatter in the app, and I’ve found my teams get more excited to use it as the season goes on. Oh, and being able to keep track of who still owes team fees? Awesome. The developers are hands on as well. Is the app perfect yet? No, but they are very open to ideas and suggestions and are tweaking all the time. I can’t say enough about the app.Show lessTom O'Gara
Slow and Unresponsive at Times
I like the idea of Bench App, but it can be slow and unresponsive at times (especially with chat). Managing multiple teams is a little clunky and they constantly nag you to pay for the subscription, even when the team Captain holds a paid subscription.
I’m not certain there is a better app put currently, but this one has plenty of room for improvement on the technical side.Show lessFullair
Developer Response
Hi there. We’re constantly working to speed up the app and make it much more responsive. We have some updates coming soon that’ll make it feel like a whole new app in terms of speed and responsiveness! Our little team of three is working around the clock to improve it. It’s coming!Diamond in the Rough
Please fix Home page load times. Why does it need to buffer every time you go back to this page? Can timeout and cause issues when looking up game details with intermittent service (i.e. when you’re in a locker room). Can it just show last pulled info rather than pulling data every time you go to it?
Please show “Home” and “Away” details on Home screen cards and on Schedule screen cards. There should be no reason to go to “Game Preview” to see what color shirt your team is wearing.Show lessFlyingFeesh
Developer Response
Hi there. The home screen and schedule screen are exactly what’s coming in the not too distant future. It’s real and it’s spectacular!Goalie goals ?
You can’t add stats for a goalie scoring a goal ? Can you guys update that?karolpols
Beer league mastery, leave TeamSnap for the kids
Been using Bench App as long as I can remember (2014 onwards?), running multiple beer league ice hockey teams year round, some going on 15-20+ seasons. It has made every aspect of beer league hockey (management) incredibly efficient. We’ve utilized the Pro version all this time and enjoy the day the single Y or N “check in/out” text notifications, payment processing, drink list functionality, and countless other features. I can only recall one brief server issue in all these years; the app has performed flawlessly going on 8+ years for hundreds of players.
Once or twice our group had a suggestion that ended up with BA’s lead developer… Jon got back to us promptly and took care of whatever it was we needed which was impressive. Little tweaks like the ability to remove someone from the drink rotation (permanently, that doesn’t imbibe), bada bing bada boom. Seems Jon & Co have thought of everything. Long live BenchApp!Show lessrastermann
Developer Response
Thank you so much for your review! We have some even better stuff coming out very soon!Lots of help managing my team
I play on two hockey teams that use BenchApp and I love it. I’m the manager for one of the teams and I love how it tracks attendance and helps work organizing lines.trentrolf
