Comparison

USTA Coaching vs CourtDates

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

Head to head
About

USTA Coaching

Connect with players, share practice plans, and provide feedback. Access USTA coaching curriculums with videos and create custom lesson plans. Reward players with skill badges and track their progress with assessments.

Highlights
  • Connect with players
  • Share practice activities and feedback
  • Access USTA coaching curriculums
  • Create custom lesson plans
  • Reward players with skill badges
  • Assess player progress
Features
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USTA Coaching: Tennis Teaching Resources provides this powerful app to directly connect tennis providers with content from the USTA’s leading experts from around the world. Through the app, coaches can: Connect with their players to send practice activities, skill badges, constructive feedback, and skill assessments. Access USTA coaching curriculums with videos Create custom lesson plans using the warm-ups, skills, games, and play-at-home activities provided by USTA Coaching and share them with other providers USTA Coaching: Tennis Teaching Resources serves as the USTA's education and training portal in providing access to leading education and tools for tennis professionals, coaches, parents, school providers and administrators, intended to help all providers deliver a first-class experience to players of all ages, levels, and abilities. Open the app and get started! Key Features include: Resources, Practice and Play Plans, Connections, Feedback & Practice Connect with your players off of the court by sharing practice activities, skill badges, constructive feedback, and skill assessments. Badges Reward your players with badges once they have demonstrated mastery of a skill or displayed positive character traits, based on tennis competencies at each ball level. Assessments and Leveling Up Provide clear direction on when your player is ready to move to the next ball color with assessments and level-up notifications. Curriculum Developed by the USTA and leading industry partners, the Net Generation curricula are designed to adapt to any coach’s needs. Access programs with instructional videos, and create your own custom lesson plans with warm-ups, skills, games, and play-at-home activities. Share Custom Lesson Plans Create custom lesson plans using the coaching or community curriculum and share them with other approved coaches. Get access to all these features and so much more. Download the Net Generation app today to get started! Like our App? Please leave a review.

About

CourtDates

Easily add your USTA tennis league schedules to your iPhone calendar. View all your teams on a single, color-coded calendar and share schedules with teammates. Automatically updates match times and locations.

Highlights
  • Sync USTA tennis league schedules
  • Add to iPhone calendar
  • Color-coded multi-team view
  • Share schedules with teammates
  • Automatic time zone adjustment
  • In-app export guide
Features
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Court Dates puts your USTA tennis league schedule on your iPhone's calendar. Export your team's Match Schedule from TennisLink, hand the file to Court Dates, and the whole season appears in your calendar — dates, times, courts, and who you're playing. No typing matches in one at a time. EVERY TEAM IN ONE PLACE Play on more than one team? See them all on a single month calendar, colour-coded, with a day-by-day agenda underneath. PICK YOUR OWN CALENDAR Add matches to any calendar you like, or make a new one just for that team. When the schedule changes, re-import and the events update in place instead of piling up duplicates. SHARE WITH YOUR TEAMMATES Send the whole schedule as a calendar file. Anyone can add it — no app required. AND THE TIMES ARE RIGHT Calendar files need to know what timezone you're in, and Court Dates works it out from your home facility, so match times are correct on your phone and on your teammates'. NOT SURE HOW TO EXPORT? A built-in guide walks through it. FREE AND PAID One team for one season is free. A single lifetime purchase unlocks unlimited seasons and unlimited teams. Forever. No subscriptions. Court Dates is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the United States Tennis Association. USTA and TennisLink are their trademarks, used here only to describe where your schedule comes from.

Screenshots

USTA Coaching4 screens
CourtDates4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: CourtDates at 5.0 against USTA Coaching's 2.4. CourtDates also leads on update cadence (every 4 weeks vs every 3 months). USTA Coaching's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ratings volume (45 vs 1). On price, ads 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. CourtDates sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. USTA Coaching asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

CourtDates holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: USTA Coaching has 45 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

USTA Coaching ships an update every 3 months, CourtDates every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
USTA Coaching versus CourtDates: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterUSTA CoachingCourtDates
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.4 (45 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews15.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings45 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 4 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS14.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size41 MB4 MB
Age rating+44+
DeveloperUSTARAMI MAGDY HANNA

Customer experience

USTA Coaching

All ratings45 ratings
Positive33.3%
Neutral4.4%
Negative62.2%
Written reviews20 reviews
Positive15.0%
Neutral5.0%
Negative80.0%

CourtDates

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

In-app purchases

None

USTA Coaching

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

CourtDates

One-time1
  • Unlimited Teams$4.99

Questions

Is USTA Coaching free?
USTA Coaching is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is CourtDates free?
CourtDates is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, USTA Coaching or CourtDates?
CourtDates is rated higher. USTA Coaching averages 2.4 out of 5 from 45 ratings, while CourtDates averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do USTA Coaching or CourtDates have ads?
Neither USTA Coaching nor CourtDates shows ads.
Which is updated more often, USTA Coaching or CourtDates?
USTA Coaching ships an update every 3 months, and CourtDates every 4 weeks. Most recently, USTA Coaching was updated on November 2, 2026 and CourtDates on October 31, 2026.

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