TeamSideline vs Crossbar Mobile
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
TeamSideline
Manage your sports team efficiently with this app. Organize events, track rosters and attendance, view important team information, and communicate with your team or staff. Coaches can also create new team sites and integrate schedules.
- Event management
- Roster and attendance tracking
- Team announcements and links
- Team and staff communication
- Create new team sites
- Schedule integration
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Team Management. Simplified. TeamSideline is your all-in-one app for managing and staying connected with your team. The TeamSideline app gives you seamless access to your teams, with team information automatically populated from your organization, including full roster and game schedules. Coaches can also create their own team in the App and link to any existing schedule to populate the full schedule. For each team, you can manage events, view and update your roster, track attendance, chat with team members and stay on top of team activity. You can also access announcements, links, and downloadable resources. Now with Apple Watch support, you can view upcoming events, schedules, and team communications right from your wrist for even faster access. Stay tuned! We regularly release new features and improvements based on your feedback.
Crossbar Mobile
Organize youth sports activities with a unified family calendar, team communication tools, and easy access to rosters and staff information. Stay connected with coaches and parents for seamless event management.
- Family calendar for all events
- Team staff contact information
- In-app team chat
- Team roster access
- Event and practice scheduling
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Crossbar helps keep your life organized when it comes to youth sports. Download the Crossbar mobile application for quicker access to your Crossbar-powered family calendar, teams and team chat. Family Calendar - All your team’s games, practices and events in one view. Team Staff - Easily access information to communicate with your coaches and team managers. Team Chat - Want to schedule a team lunch while on an out of town trip? Just use the chat feature. Team Rosters - Get easy access to your team’s roster and their parent contact information. *Login required. Your organization must use Crossbar to take advantage of this app.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: TeamSideline at weekly against Crossbar Mobile's every 6 weeks. Crossbar Mobile's advantage is ratings volume (32K vs 412) and review sentiment (59% vs 41%). On price, rating, 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for TeamSideline against 4.9 for Crossbar Mobile. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Crossbar Mobile has 32K ratings behind it against 412, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 41% of TeamSideline's written reviews are positive against 59% of Crossbar Mobile's.
TeamSideline ships an update weekly, Crossbar Mobile every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | TeamSideline | Crossbar Mobile |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (412 ratings) | 4.9 (32K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 40.6% of reviews | 58.8% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 412 | 32K — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Best chart rank | #97 — better | #123 |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 34 MB | 70 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Completely IT | Crossbar |
Customer experience
TeamSideline
Crossbar Mobile
User reviews
TeamSideline
From 412 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 📅 Calendar sync
- 🗣️ Easy team communication
- 🧭 Integrated background checks
- 🗓️ Helpful league management tools
- 👍 User-friendly app
Room to improve
- 🐛 Buggy app with frequent crashes
- 🔔 Unreliable notifications
- 🕰️ Slow loading times
- 🤔 Confusing navigation and UI
- 📨 Messaging issues (e.g. no real-time updates, character limits)
Crossbar Mobile
From 32K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Easy to use app for sports team management
- 👍 Simple and effective
- 👍 Organized schedules
- 👍 Clear and pleasing design
- 👍 Helpful communication and roster management
Room to improve
- 🐛 Notifications not working properly
- 🐛 Glitches and freezes
- 🐛 Sync issues with calendar
- 🐛 Inconsistent performance
- 🐛 Translation issues
Bugs and requests
TeamSideline
Reported bugs
6 issues- Login issues
- Chat function not working
- Attendance feature not working as expected
- Roster information not updating automatically
- Notifications not clearing
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- Duplicate notifications
Requested features
10 requests- Ability to mark messages as read/unread
- Separate inboxes for different teams
- Color-coded calendar view
- Unread message indicator on app icon
- Ability to export calendar to personal calendars
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- Shortcut to attendance options on event pages
- Ability to upload files/photos in chat
- Option to set calendar start day of the week
- Remove cancelled events from calendar
- Ability to request to join a team
Crossbar Mobile
Reported bugs
6 issues- Notifications not working or disappearing
- Inability to update dates from mobile app
- Chat messages not posting or disappearing
- Inability to edit chat messages
- Sync issues with calendar
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- Freezing and crashing
Requested features
12 requests- Add ability to mark players as 'maybe' for events
- Add players-only and parents-only chat options
- Add option to view just games or just practices
- Add ability to see game scores
- Add ability to enter reasons for missing events
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- Add saved group email function
- Add attendance tracking functionality
- Add ability to schedule recurring events
- Add video sharing feature
- Add 'select all' option for group messaging
- Add ability to print calendar
- Add team and individual player statistics
In-app purchases
TeamSideline
No in-app purchases
Crossbar Mobile
No in-app purchases
Questions
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