Comparison

Best Coast Pairings vs SquadPT

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

Head to head
About

Best Coast Pairings

This app enhances gaming event participation by providing mobile access to registration, check-in, profile updates, and score reporting. It offers a subscription for global event data, including pairings, placings, and army/deck lists.

Highlights
  • Event registration and check-in
  • Player profile management
  • Army/deck list uploads
  • Table assignment lookup
  • Remote score reporting
  • Global event data access
Features
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The companion app to the Best Coast Pairings website, delivering on our mission making gaming events more informative and easier for everyone. When an Event Organizer is using Best Coast Pairings, our App provides a mobile focused experience. Free access to everything from registration through final scores while participating in an event. Locate and Register for Events Remotely Check-in Update Player Profile Upload Army/ Deck Lists Find Table Assignments Remotely Record Round Scores Review game records, Scores, and Placings For users who want to see details of every event globally, we offer a subscription ( Monthly/Bi-Annual/Yearly). Subscribers gain access to every pairing and list available globally for all game systems. Every round, every Pairing, Placing, along with Lists or Decks users have submitted. Subscription Terms: – Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period – Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, and identify the cost of the renewal – Subscriptions may be managed and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to your Account Settings after purchase Privacy Policy: https://www.bestcoastpairings.com/privacy Terms of Service: https://www.bestcoastpairings.com/eula

About

SquadPT

Plan weekly physical training schedules for platoons and small teams. Features include daily grids for location, uniform, and workout details, event publishing across squads, and printable briefs. Soldiers can record personal after-action reviews and test results.

Highlights
  • Weekly PT planning grid per squad
  • Unit-wide event publishing
  • Printable, one-tap briefs
  • Reusable day templates
  • Individual after-action reviews
  • Army Fitness Test result tracking
  • Role-based access control
Features
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SquadPT is the weekly PT planning board for platoons and small teams. Squad leaders plan their own week, unit-wide events land on every squad's calendar automatically, and the commander's brief prints clean in one tap. PLAN BY SQUAD • A Monday–Friday grid per squad: location, uniform, instructors, equipment, warm-up, workout, cool-down, and notes — plus a training focus for every day. • Read-only by default: flip Edit to make changes, and every save is stamped with its author. • Edits sync live to every signed-in device. PUBLISH ONCE • Events and DONSAs — AFT, company, battalion, brigade, morale — are entered once and appear on the matching days of every squad's plan. • The month calendar shows the whole unit's picture at a glance. BRIEF CLEAN • One tap turns the live plan into a ready to print brief with the unit and week header on every page. • Print it, save it as a PDF, or send it through the iOS share sheet. TEMPLATES • Save any day as a reusable template ("Ruck 6 MI", "Deck of Cards") and apply it in two taps. • Each squad keeps its own library. AFTER-ACTION, PER SOLDIER • Every soldier writes their own improves and sustains on the session they just did — under their own name, not into a shared field. • Squad leaders and above read their squad's. Nobody can edit somebody else's words, and it never appears on the printed brief. TEST RESULTS, KEPT NARROW • Record Army Fitness Test results and waist-to-height measurements for your soldiers, and see at a glance which event the squad needs to train. • Raw entries only. Point values, totals and the ratio are worked out when they are displayed and never stored, so a corrected scoring table re-scores history instead of contradicting it. • Who can see a soldier's results is enforced in the database, not in the app: that soldier, their own squad leader, and their platoon leadership. Not other squads, not company command, and not us — the operator's support view is deliberately unable to display them. • SquadPT is not a system of record. DA Form 705-AFT and your unit's ABCP screening record remain authoritative. ROLES THAT MATCH THE FORMATION • Members read; squad leaders own their squad's plan; the platoon sergeant and leadership edit everything; admins manage the roster, squads, and the join code. • A squad leader can grant a member edit access for a single month — and revoke it anytime. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • Access is by team join code: created server-side, stored only as a hash, shown once, rotatable at any time. • Accounts are a username and password. No email address, no phone number — nothing to phish. • Every team's data is isolated by database-enforced access control. No ads, no analytics, no tracking. • Delete your account any time from inside the app (Profile → Delete account). A sole owner deletes the team with it; an owner with members hands off ownership first. SquadPT is a commercial planning tool for unclassified training administration. It is not a government system and not a system of record. Accounts carry a rank and last name and nothing else; beyond that, the app holds only what your unit chooses to put in it — plan content, after-action comments, and, if you use them, fitness test results and waist-to-height measurements — each visible only to the soldier and their own chain of command. New teams: request access at squadpt.com — your team's join code is delivered once a request is approved.

Screenshots

Best Coast Pairings4 screens
SquadPT4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: SquadPT at 5.0 against Best Coast Pairings's 3.0. SquadPT also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 3) and update cadence (weekly vs every 2 months). Best Coast Pairings's advantage is ratings volume (6 vs 1). 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. Best Coast Pairings sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. SquadPT asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

SquadPT holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Best Coast Pairings has 6 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Best Coast Pairings ships an update every 2 months, SquadPT weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Best Coast Pairings versus SquadPT: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBest Coast PairingsSquadPT
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (6 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews16.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings6 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.115.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size36 MB7 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperBest Coast Pairings LLCSoloNova LLC

Customer experience

Best Coast Pairings

All ratings6 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews125 reviews
Positive16.8%
Neutral3.2%
Negative80.0%

SquadPT

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Best Coast Pairings

Reported bugs

6 issues
  • Login screen freezes
  • Incompatible with older devices
  • Subscription not activating
  • Events not displaying properly
  • Roster not loading
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  • Constant crashes and errors

Requested features

4 requests
  • Dark mode option
  • Advanced analytics dashboard
  • Better event search functionality
  • Improved list viewing experience

SquadPT

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Best Coast Pairings

Subscriptions3
  • Player App Subscription$4.991 Month
  • Player App Subscription$27.996 Months
  • Player App Subscription$49.991 Year
None

SquadPT

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Best Coast Pairings free?
Best Coast Pairings is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is SquadPT free?
SquadPT is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Best Coast Pairings or SquadPT?
SquadPT is rated higher. Best Coast Pairings averages 3.0 out of 5 from 6 ratings, while SquadPT averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Best Coast Pairings or SquadPT have ads?
Neither Best Coast Pairings nor SquadPT shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Best Coast Pairings or SquadPT?
Best Coast Pairings ships an update every 2 months, and SquadPT weekly. Most recently, Best Coast Pairings was updated on November 2, 2026 and SquadPT on October 31, 2026.

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