Comparison

Blast Athletics vs Athletic.APP

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

Head to head
About

Blast Athletics

This app serves as a comprehensive sports network connecting athletes, teams, schools, and fans. It allows athletes to build detailed showcases with highlights and stats, while teams can easily create websites and apps for communication and management. It also facilitates school-wide sports networks and offers fundraising and crowdsourced coverage options.

Highlights
  • Athlete Showcases with highlights and stats
  • Team website and app creation
  • School sports network aggregation
  • Fundraising tools
  • Crowdsourced photo and video coverage
  • Push notifications and calendar management
Features
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Blast is a sports network, much like a social network, that connects Athlete Showcases, Team Apps/Websites, School Sports Networks, Fundraising & Crowdsourced Coverage. Everything on Blast is searchable, making it easy to find and follow Athletes, Teams, Clubs Coaches and Schools. ATHLETE SHOWCASES: Every athlete needs one place where they can send coaches, recruiters and scouts that accurately showcases their development over time. On Blast, athletes can use the highlight videos, photos and stats that any team member posts to their team app/website to build their Showcase. This keeps the highlights in game context, allowing for a deeper online analysis of an athlete. Athletes can add their own highlights and video tape their measurables (height, weight, 40 yard dash…), enabling accurate analysis nationwide. All for Free. Parents of a Youth Athlete? Build your young superstar’s Showcase through your account, getting it ready for them to turn 13! TEAM APPS & WEBSITES Any user can instantly create an amazing team website, that automatically creates an App and a desktop website. Blast Team Websites have every feature necessary to manage and promote your team. This includes: - Text, email and push notification announcements - Master Calendar - Set Availability - Unlimited Photos & Videos - Stats - Email Reminders - Much more... You do not need to be tech savvy to create and run your team on Blast Athletics, just sign up and start. No consultation or sales pitch needed because it’s free. SCHOOL SPORTS NETWORKS Blast Athletics automatically builds a sports network for every active school, compiling the information and content that each team posts. There is no school admin required since each team controls their own content. Just by team’s using Blast, School Networks have live updating scoreboards, master schedules, weekly Top 10s and more. FUNDRAISING Refer to our website, BlastAthletics.com. Blast is the easiest fundraiser and your sponsors will love it! Don’t forget to check us out online. CROWDSOURCED COVERAGE Unlike traditional team websites, all approved team members can post photos, videos, scores and stats. This means that your team can have real time coverage by just using a cell phone. When the game is over, the athletes now have access to the videos your team shot, enabling them to build their Showcase to share with recruiters, scouts and coaches. Plus, if your team used our fundraiser, your sponsors will get a weekly update including all the coverage posted the previous week. Every game there are parents and fans with their phones out. Instead of posting to Facebook or IG, post to Blast and create value for your athletes and sponsors.

About

Athletic.APP

This app connects track and field and cross country teams, athletes, parents, and fans through a communication and management network. It also facilitates participation in virtual meets with tools for result submission, including video and GPS tracking.

Highlights
  • Team communication network
  • Virtual meet participation
  • Result submission with video/GPS
  • Customized team pages/profiles
  • Private group conversations
  • Athlete/team following
Features
Currently charting
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The AthleticAPP syncs with your Athletic.net account to create a communications, management and engagement network for Track & Field and Cross Country teams, athletes, parents and fans. Additionally, it provides the platform for competing in Athletic.net virtual meets, including features for finding virtual meets and submitting results with video, photos, and GPS run recording tools. Coaches: - Create specific private conversation groups for your various athlete types. Talk to sprinters, jumpers, throwers, distance runners, or any sub-group of athletes you deem necessary - Post videos, news, events, photos, and results to your customized team page - Featuring push notifications so that athletes see your messages - Invite athletes on your roster to connect with your team using the app and create their own accounts - Secure and private; you decide who receives your content Athletes: - Post videos, news, events, photos, workouts and results to your customized profile - Enter into and submit your results for virtual meets and challenges - Start private conversations with your teammates and coaches to discuss results, upcoming races, technique, and workouts - Follow your favorite athletes, teammates and teams Parents and fans can also use the app to follow their favorite team's and athlete's news and updates, and can communicate with coaches regarding upcoming team events. Athletic+ https://www.athletic.net/features/athletes Terms of Service: https://www.athletic.net/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://www.athletic.net/privacy/

Screenshots

Blast Athletics4 screens
Athletic.APP4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Blast Athletics at none against Athletic.APP's 3. Blast Athletics also leads on review sentiment (41% vs 29%). Athletic.APP's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 7 months) and rating (3.7 vs 3.4). On price, ads, monetization model 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

Both are free to download. Athletic.APP sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Blast Athletics asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Athletic.APP holds the better App Store score, 3.7 against 3.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 57 and 279 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 41% of Blast Athletics's written reviews are positive against 29% of Athletic.APP's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Blast Athletics ships an update every 7 months, Athletic.APP fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
Blast Athletics versus Athletic.APP: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBlast AthleticsAthletic.APP
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.4 (57 ratings)3.7 (279 ratings) — better
Positive reviews41.1% of reviews — better29.2% of reviews
Number of ratings57279 — better
Update frequencyEvery 7 monthsFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank—#113 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB43 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperBlast Athletics, LLCDeker Net LLC

Customer experience

Blast Athletics

All ratings56 ratings
Positive62.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative37.5%
Written reviews56 reviews
Positive41.1%
Neutral0.0%
Negative58.9%

Athletic.APP

All ratings278 ratings
Positive65.8%
Neutral6.5%
Negative27.7%
Written reviews65 reviews
Positive29.2%
Neutral10.8%
Negative60.0%

Bugs and requests

Blast Athletics

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Athletic.APP

Reported bugs

17 issues
  • Cannot log in, stuck in a loop
  • App constantly signs users out
  • Screen freezes
  • App does not allow upgrades
  • App stays on loading/start screen
Show 12 more
  • App won't open
  • Login issues after updates
  • Automatically logs out after login
  • App doesn't load or display content
  • Account reset or linked incorrectly (Facebook login)
  • Birthdate selectors are hidden behind the notch on iPhone 13
  • App won't record runs or parts of runs
  • App gets stuck saving runs
  • Logged into another user's account via Apple login
  • Updates from events take too long to post
  • Virtual meet video posts showing wrong videos
  • App gives someone else's profile when logging in

Requested features

12 requests
  • Include national and state rankings in the app
  • Allow viewing rankings on the app
  • Add live streaming and results support
  • Enable push notifications for team posts and comments
  • Allow viewing other users' times on the feed
Show 7 more
  • Make app functionality match the website
  • Add dark mode option
  • Support Apple Watch notifications for meets
  • Allow coaches to register athletes for meets
  • Display meet details on the team page
  • Show more data on the app like the website
  • Allow users to see other people's times on their feed

In-app purchases

None

Blast Athletics

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Athletic.APP

Subscriptions3
  • Athletic+ Monthly$9.991 Month
  • AthleticTV Yearly$49.991 Year
  • Athletic+ Yearly$95.001 Year

Questions

Is Blast Athletics free?
Blast Athletics is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Athletic.APP free?
Athletic.APP is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Blast Athletics or Athletic.APP?
Athletic.APP is rated higher. Blast Athletics averages 3.4 out of 5 from 57 ratings, while Athletic.APP averages 3.7 from 279 ratings.
Do Blast Athletics or Athletic.APP have ads?
Neither Blast Athletics nor Athletic.APP shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Blast Athletics or Athletic.APP?
Blast Athletics ships an update every 7 months, and Athletic.APP fortnightly. Most recently, Blast Athletics was updated on November 2, 2026 and Athletic.APP on November 7, 2026.

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