Hoop Group vs Tri
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Hoop Group
This app serves as a comprehensive guide for sporting events, providing real-time schedules, standings, and notifications for coaches, players, parents, and fans. It offers quick access to team information, venue directions, and essential event documents, ensuring everyone stays informed and connected.
- Quick team search
- Up-to-the-minute schedules
- Live standings and brackets
- Immediate game notifications
- Venue directions
- Team rosters and live results
- Event documents and messages
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The Hoop Group app is your all-encompassing guide for sporting events, meticulously crafted to cater to the needs of team and college coaches, media, players, parents, and fans. Designed to bring every essential aspect of the event to your fingertips, this platform ensures you stay connected and well-informed. Key Features: • Quick team search and user-friendly shortcuts. • Up-to-the-minute schedules to keep you on track. • Live standings and brackets for real-time updates. • Immediate game notifications so you never miss a beat. • Venue directions for easy navigation. • Access to team rosters and live results with box scores (when available), all at your fingertips. • Essential event documents, messages, and contact details for complete guidance. • Information on event sponsors for additional insights. With the app, every detail of the event is conveniently at your fingertips, ensuring an immersive and comprehensive experience for everyone involved.
Tri
This app provides comprehensive event information for sports teams, coaches, players, and fans. Access schedules, standings, brackets, rosters, live results, and venue directions. Stay updated with game notifications and event contacts.
- Team search
- View schedules
- View pool standings
- View brackets
- Receive game notifications
- Venue directions
- Live results and box scores
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The Tri-State Classic app will provide everything needed for team and college coaches, media, players, parents and fans throughout an event. - Team search - View schedules - View pool standings - View brackets - Receive game notifications - Venue directions - Team rosters (if offered) - Live results and box scores (if offered) - View documents - Messages - Event contact - Event sponsors
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Hoop Group at every 2 months against Tri's every 28 months. Hoop Group also leads on ratings volume (3.9K vs 49). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Hoop Group against 4.9 for Tri. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Hoop Group has 3.9K ratings behind it against 49, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Hoop Group ships an update every 2 months, Tri every 28 months. Both last shipped on November 2, 2026.
| Parameter | Hoop Group | Tri |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (3.9K ratings) | 4.9 (49 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3.9K — better | 49 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 28 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.4 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 44 MB | 131 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 3 Step Sports LLC | Exposure Events, LLC |
Customer experience
Hoop Group
Tri
In-app purchases
Hoop Group
No in-app purchases
Tri
No in-app purchases
