Penalty Box Calculator vs Patchword
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Penalty Box Calculator
This app simplifies calculating player penalty end times for referees and coaches. It offers a fast, gesture-based interface to quickly determine when a player can return to the game based on penalty duration and current clock time.
- Gesture-based player penalty calculation
- Custom penalty and period lengths
- Automatic period rollover
- 3D Touch home screen action
- Theme customization
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Fast and smooth gesture-based player penalty end time calculation. For referees and coaches alike calculating when your player is out of the penalty box is a common issue. Penalty Box Calculator tries to remedy this by allowing quick calculation of penalty end times based on the period size and length of penalty. You just have to enter the current clock time and Penalty Box does all the work with normal and running configurations just a slide away. Features: • All possible custom penalty and period lengths • Fast and smooth gesture based design • 3D touch home screen action • Themes • Automatic period roll over
Patchword
Compare files and directories to identify additions, removals, or modifications. It allows for matching files with slightly different names and applying or exporting patches and edit scripts non-destructively.
- Compare files and text
- Compare directories
- Identify added, removed, modified files
- Match files by alphabetical order or custom map
- Export and apply patches
- Create non-destructive edit scripts
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Select two files or paste two texts and compare them. Select two directories and compare them to see which files have been added, removed or modified, and selectively reset modified files to match the original ones. If files have slightly different names, you can match them by alphabetical order or a custom name map, and selectively rename them afterwards so that the names are equal. Export patches from two compared text files, or apply saved patches to an existing file. Create edit scripts that are applied non-destructively to a text file and export the resulting text.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Penalty Box Calculator at Free against Patchword's $5.99. Penalty Box Calculator also leads on ratings volume (7 vs 2) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 17.0). Patchword's advantage is rating (3.5 vs 2.9) and update cadence (every 3 months vs every 35 months). On ads, in-app purchases 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
Penalty Box Calculator is free to download; Patchword costs $5.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Patchword holds the better App Store score, 3.5 against 2.9. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 2 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 25% of Penalty Box Calculator's written reviews are positive against 50% of Patchword's.
Penalty Box Calculator ships an update every 35 months, Patchword every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Penalty Box Calculator | Patchword |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $5.99 |
| Rating | 2.9 (7 ratings) | 3.5 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 25.0% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 35 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Aaron Kovacs | Nicolas Kick |
Customer experience
Penalty Box Calculator
Patchword
In-app purchases
Penalty Box Calculator
No in-app purchases
Patchword
No in-app purchases
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