Comparison

ECNL vs Athlete Foundry

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

Head to head
About

ECNL

Access comprehensive league information for Elite Clubs National League. Search for clubs, teams, players, and National Events. View schedules and conference standings with a simple and fast interface.

Highlights
  • League information access
  • Club, team, and player search
  • National Events listing
  • Schedule accessibility
  • Conference standings
  • Simple navigation
Features
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Elite Clubs National League and Total Global Sports have created a custom mobile app that displays all league information. The app allows you to search clubs, teams, players and National Events. Schedules are easily assessable along with conference standings.The app design was created on simplifying your experience to navigate through your individual needs. Not only is the design simple and clean but its performance is fast and reliable. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Athlete Foundry

This platform empowers middle and high school student-athletes to achieve their collegiate dreams. It provides a unified roadmap integrating athletic and academic progress, with clear milestones and tracking tools for parents and coaches.

Highlights
  • Unified athletic and academic roadmap
  • Clear milestones and 12th-grade targets
  • NCAA/NAIA eligibility tracking
  • SAT/ACT target setting
  • College and coach data integration
  • Progress sharing with coaches
  • Student-athlete journal
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Student-athletes are something special: motivated, full of promise and potential. Striving to achieve greatness, pushing the boundaries and breaking barriers. And nobody wants them to reach their goal of competing at the collegiate level more than their parents. But the world is unfair. Not everyone starts at the same place, gets the same resources or has the same access. The road to success is full of inequities and blocked by obstacles requiring more than just the ability to maneuver. Good intentions are not good enough to reach these goals. Hope needs a plan. Athlete Foundry firmly believes achievement should be the result of hard work, not a privilege. Hustle, not who you know. Ability, not access. So we’ve tailored our technology to level the playing field for the underdog, to empower the undiscovered and to encourage the underestimated. We’ve developed an online platform that paves the way for driven middle school and high school athletes to achieve their dream of competing at the collegiate level. Starting with that end in mind, we integrate the athletic and academic qualities sought after by collegiate coaches into a unified roadmap with clear milestones to navigate the path. All organized into a powerful user-friendly platform that enables parents to track their athlete's data, measure progress toward metrics that coaches actually value, and share achievements with family, friends, and coaches. At Athlete Foundry we offer a total athletic and academic picture unique to each athlete, placing the parents in command to proactively navigate their journey. Keep getting up before dawn. Keep putting in the work. Keep doing your best. OVERVIEW Build options across the full spectrum, NCAA D-I, -II, -III, NAIA, and all JCs Take charge of your plan with clear athletic & academic targets of where you must be by 12th grade Use a first-of-its-kind dashboard (the new gold standard of “student-athlete profiles”) Allow collegiate coaches to “follow” your progress Share current semester progress publicly and all historical semester data with approved coaches. Customize many aspects across the platform Use a full-featured calendar to track your semester priorities, training, and anything else you want to track Privately chat with other peer student-athletes also on the platform Privately write a student-athlete journal Take charge of your comprehensive “athletic & academic” unified plan w/semester-by-semester steps Take charge of your athletic performance tracking, with milestones, goal setting, & 12th-grade targets Take charge of your academic performance tracking, with NCAA/ NAIA eligibility, & SAT/ ACT targets Take charge of your human development tracking, with awards, hobbies, nutrition, & sleep tracking Take charge of your college planning, w/college, coach, campus safety, graduation rates, athletic violations, and career data We are temporarily providing premium access (“Take Charge”) to all users across all devices at no charge, so all student athletes can take charge! We will notify each user when we resume monthly pricing for premium access, so you may retain premium access or downgrade to freemium (“Get On Track”).

Screenshots

ECNL4 screens
Athlete Foundry4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Athlete Foundry at none against ECNL's 1. Athlete Foundry also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6). ECNL's advantage is ratings volume (5.8K vs 4) and update cadence (every 4 weeks vs every 3 months). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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

Both are free to download. ECNL sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $3.99 per month. Athlete Foundry asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Athlete Foundry holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ECNL has 5.8K ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ECNL ships an update every 4 weeks, Athlete Foundry every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
ECNL versus Athlete Foundry: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterECNLAthlete Foundry
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (5.8K ratings)5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews9.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings5.8K — better4
Update frequencyEvery 4 weeks — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.0 — better15.2
Further details — not scored
Size260 MB123 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperTotal Global Sports Inc.Athlete Foundry LLC

Customer experience

ECNL

All ratings5,806 ratings
Positive89.3%
Neutral3.2%
Negative7.5%
Written reviews135 reviews
Positive9.6%
Neutral5.2%
Negative85.2%

Athlete Foundry

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

ECNL

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Login issues
  • Can't access certain features
  • Incomplete or outdated information
  • Compatibility problems with older devices

Requested features

3 requests
  • Add favorite team feature
  • Improve mobile optimization
  • Provide better technical support

Athlete Foundry

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

ECNL

Subscriptions1
  • Live Game Cast$3.991 Month
None

Athlete Foundry

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ECNL free?
ECNL is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Athlete Foundry free?
Athlete Foundry is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, ECNL or Athlete Foundry?
Athlete Foundry is rated higher. ECNL averages 4.6 out of 5 from 5.8K ratings, while Athlete Foundry averages 5.0 from 4 ratings.
Do ECNL or Athlete Foundry have ads?
Neither ECNL nor Athlete Foundry shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ECNL or Athlete Foundry?
ECNL ships an update every 4 weeks, and Athlete Foundry every 3 months. Most recently, ECNL was updated on October 19, 2026 and Athlete Foundry on October 14, 2026.

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