Comparison

Dangle Time vs HELIOS App

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Dangle Time

Enhance your hockey stickhandling skills with personalized drills and progress tracking. This app acts as your private coach, offering a variety of exercises to improve your dekes and moves. Track your practice time, compete with friends, and unlock new levels as you improve.

Highlights
  • Private stickhandling coach
  • Timed practice drills
  • DangleTime tracking
  • Leveling system
  • Shareable practice time
  • Customizable drill timers
Features
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You want better hands, sweet dekes, and ankle breaking moves. Practice makes perfect, but what are you going to practice? The same old stickhandling drills get boring and you can't afford a private stickhandling instructor. Well.... you can now! DangleTime is your private stickhandling coach on your phone. Anytime you want to work on your stickhandling just pull out your phone and get training. The app keeps track of your "DangleTime" which is the amount of time you spend practicing using the app. This time can be shared and compared with friends. Who can get the highest DangleTime? The higher your DangleTime the more you can level up, go from a Duster to an All-Star! The app comes with 3 free training packs. Each training pack contains 8 stickhandling drills. When you select a training pack a drill will play for 20 seconds with a 10 second break and then the next drill will play until all drills in that pack have played. These times can be adjusted in the settings menu. If you'd like more stickhandling drills you can purchase them and continue to challenge yourself and improve your stickhandling. All drills are demonstrated by Jeremy Rupke from How To Hockey with plans to add new drill packs from more hockey instructors. Show me your DangleTime with #DangleTime on Instagram and Twitter and follow me @howtohockey

About

HELIOS App

This sports app pairs with a specialized sensor to track and analyze hockey player performance. It provides insights into skating speed, agility, and explosiveness, offering gamified development and team-based leaderboards. Players can monitor their progress and compete with others.

Highlights
  • Track skating speed, agility, and explosiveness
  • Instant video highlights
  • Actionable performance insights
  • Rankings by birth year and progress over time
  • Gamified development with points and rewards
  • Team and organization leaderboards
Features
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This app requires a HELIOS® Core performance sensor. When paired with a HELIOS® Core, the HELIOS® App provides performance data, analysis, instant video highlights and actionable insights that help hockey players and teams Get Better, Faster. Track Performance: Mount the HELIOS® Core performance sensor onto your existing shoulder pads and immediately track your key skating metrics including Skating Speed, Agility, Explosiveness, and Balance. The HELIOS® Core seamlessly blends in with your gear using our innovative Twist Mount clip or Strap Mount. Benchmarks and Insights: Track your evolution with constantly updated Rankings by Birth Year and Progress Over Time. The HELIOS® App highlights your strengths and weaknesses to help you Get Better, Faster. Performance data from every practice and game is aggregated in the cloud to provide a powerful data experience to hockey players, coaches, trainers across the Helios platform. Gamified Development: Earn points for every practice and game you play. Get rewarded when you do the work and earn extra points when you perform above your personal baseline. Compete with other players near and far on the HELIOS® platform. Teams/Orgs: When hockey teams or orgs integrate HELIOS® into player and team development, coaches can see the skating performance results for their entire team in real-time or post-session. Players gain access to additional team and org-based leaderboards to raise the bar on competition and performance.

Screenshots

Dangle Time4 screens
HELIOS App4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Dangle Time at 92% against HELIOS App's 40%. Dangle Time also leads on rating (4.9 vs 3.9) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 15.5). HELIOS App's advantage is price (Free vs $0.99) and in-app purchases (none vs 5). On ratings volume, ads and device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

HELIOS App is free to download; Dangle Time costs $0.99 up front. Dangle Time sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. HELIOS App asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Dangle Time holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 3.9. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 130 and 50 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 92% of Dangle Time's written reviews are positive against 40% of HELIOS App's.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Dangle Time versus HELIOS App: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDangle TimeHELIOS App
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating4.9 (130 ratings) — better3.9 (50 ratings)
Positive reviews91.8% of reviews — better40.0% of reviews
Number of ratings130 — better50
Update frequency—Every 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS8.0 — better15.5
Further details — not scored
Size135 MB119 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJeremy RupkeHelios Sports, Inc.

Customer experience

Dangle Time

All ratings130 ratings
Positive98.5%
Neutral0.8%
Negative0.8%
Written reviews85 reviews
Positive91.8%
Neutral5.9%
Negative2.4%

HELIOS App

All ratings50 ratings
Positive70.0%
Neutral6.0%
Negative24.0%
Written reviews15 reviews
Positive40.0%
Neutral6.7%
Negative53.3%

Bugs and requests

Dangle Time

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • App stopped working on iPhone after iOS updates
  • Notification time locked at 7 AM (cannot be changed)
  • Incompatibility with newer operating system versions

Requested features

12 requests
  • Cross-device account login and data transfer
  • Multi-user profile support on same device
  • Audio/verbal announcements for drills
  • Sound notifications for drill start/end transitions
  • Customizable notification time settings
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  • Landscape video orientation support
  • Practice tracking with graphs and charts
  • Additional shooting and skating drills
  • Hockey-specific workout routines
  • Detailed form notes and common mistake troubleshooting
  • Repeat drill feature with variable playback speeds
  • More purchasable content packs

HELIOS App

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Dangle Time

One-time5
  • Toe Drags Pack$0.99
  • Challenges Pack$0.99
  • Broken Stick Pack$0.99
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  • Footwork Pack$0.99
  • 2 Pucks Pack$0.99
None

HELIOS App

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Dangle Time free?
Dangle Time costs $0.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is HELIOS App free?
HELIOS App is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Dangle Time or HELIOS App?
Dangle Time is rated higher. Dangle Time averages 4.9 out of 5 from 130 ratings, while HELIOS App averages 3.9 from 50 ratings.
Do Dangle Time or HELIOS App have ads?
Neither Dangle Time nor HELIOS App shows ads.

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