Playbook Five vs QB Reads
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Playbook Five
Enhance football intelligence with virtual reality reps from various positions. Create and organize custom plays for your team, manage user access, and track team activity.
- Virtual reality reps
- Improve football intelligence
- Custom play creation
- Team Playbook Accounts
- User access management
- Activity tracking
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Take reps from multiple positions, improve your Football Intelligence . Put your own plays on Playbook Five with a Team Playbook Account. Team Playbook Accounts include: - Custom plays - Customized Pre-Snap Key Indicators - Unlimited user access by your team members and coaches - Create installs to keep your plays organized - Manage user access with your team's unique access code - Activity Tracker Learn more at: www.playbookfive.com Supports iOS 8.0 and higher.
QB Reads
Enhance quarterback skills with immersive simulations. Practice reading defenses, improving reaction time, and making split-second decisions. Supports both standard phone use and VR headset integration for a more realistic training experience.
- Quarterback training simulations
- Mental decision-making practice
- Reaction time improvement
- Reading defensive fronts and coverages
- VR Mode integration
- Variety of training courses
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Take your QB training to the next level! QB Reads offers simulations for quarterbacks to practice mental decision-making and improve reaction time. A selection of training courses allows you to practice reading a variety of defensive fronts, coverages, blitzes, and more. Simulations can run on a stand-alone phone or in VR Mode when your device is inserted into a VR headset.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: QB Reads at 83% against Playbook Five's 50%. QB Reads also leads on rating (3.9 vs 3.6). Playbook Five's advantage is update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 25 months). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
QB Reads holds the better App Store score, 3.9 against 3.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 14 and 17 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Playbook Five's written reviews are positive against 83% of QB Reads's.
Playbook Five ships an update every 5 weeks, QB Reads every 25 months. The most recent releases landed on September 19, 2026 and September 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Playbook Five | QB Reads |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.6 (14 ratings) | 3.9 (17 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 83.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 14 | 17 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks — better | Every 25 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 85 MB | 31 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Playbook Five Inc | Entrepreneur International LLC |
Customer experience
Playbook Five
QB Reads
In-app purchases
Playbook Five
No in-app purchases
QB Reads
No in-app purchases
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