Play vs ClubBuzz
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Play
Follow live cricket scores from Play-Cricket.com with detailed scorecards, ball-by-ball commentary, and match statistics. Access upcoming and completed matches, add events to your calendar, and share updates on social media.
- Live score tracking
- Detailed scorecards
- Ball-by-ball commentary
- Match statistics
- Calendar integration
- Social media sharing
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Play-Cricket Live is the easy way to keep up-to-date with live scored matches on Play-Cricket.com. Using Play-Cricket Live, you can access detailed scores for In Progress games being scored or streamed through Play-Cricket Scorer (and PCS Pro), or any upcoming and completed matches that have been submitted to Play-Cricket.com. Features: - Search, modify and follow your preferred clubs or leagues in the Play-Cricket Live app. - View live scores and results in detail, with full innings scorecards including batting, bowling, fielding and fall of wicket information. - View Manhattan graphs, score worms and ball-by-ball commentary for live matches. - Add upcoming matches to your device’s calendar. - Share scores on social media platforms, including Facebook and Twitter. - View daily match dashboard for all your favourite teams and competitions - Consume live streams and highlights from matches of your favourite teams
ClubBuzz
Manage and interact with your sports club seamlessly. Organize events, communicate with members, track player availability, and handle payments. Offers customizable features for managers, players, and members.
- Customizable home screen
- Club management tools
- Member profile management
- In-app chat communication
- Push notifications
- Payment processing
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Take control of your club with ClubBuzz. Whether you're a manager, captain, player or club member, the ClubBuzz iOS app is the best place to interact with and manage your club. Make your Home section completely unique to you with our customisable home screen. Giving you quick access to important app features, viewing club news and showing you upcoming events at your club. The Club section allows you to manage your club, giving you full desktop class features right within your ClubBuzz app. Whether you need to edit members, matches, training sessions, charge fees or send our club wide communications. You can do it within the club section. Exclusive to ClubBuzz on iOS is the ability to send out push notifications! My Player lets you to manage your member profile. Respond to match selections, pay your subscription fees using Apple Pay or ClubBuzz Pay, update your information and list your game availability. Chat is the absolute best way to keep you and your club in the loop. Whether you need to tell your team about a change of venue, or discuss what's happening with training this week, chat is the best place to do this. Never miss an update with ClubBuzz. App Terms of Service (EULA) can be found here: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: ClubBuzz at 100% against Play's 24%. ClubBuzz also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 4 months). Play's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 8) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.6). 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
Both are free to download. ClubBuzz sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $8.99 per month. Play asks for nothing beyond the download.
Play ships an update every 4 months, ClubBuzz fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and June 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Play | ClubBuzz |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (27 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 23.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 27 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 55 MB | 56 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | England and Wales Cricket Board Ltd | ClubBuzz Ltd |
Customer experience
Play
ClubBuzz
Bugs and requests
Play
Reported bugs
104 issues- Some matches don’t show up properly
- App keeps crashing
- App won’t refresh
- App defaults to a season from three years ago
- Needs delegating and reinstalling
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- Fickle whether it shows live scoring or streaming
- Refreshing and reopening sometimes works, not always
- Viewing player stats requires extra sign-in
- Not updated live
- Freezes within 9 overs
- Unable to view scorecards
- Information lost off the bottom of the screen on iPhone 13
- Score on summary screen never matches detail
- Frequent SSL errors
- Almost impossible to follow a match from start to finish
- Clitchy
- No live data
- App stops working most weeks
- App immediately refreshes fixtures updated via website
- Rarely works properly on a Saturday afternoon
- Keeps crashing on Saturdays
- Keeps freezing
- Irritating when refresh requires going back to tab
- Match Stream tab is always blank
- Issue with iPhone 15, unable to see detail score or set-up
- Fails to load pages
- Fails to show scores on summary page
- Temperamental, often can’t see scorecards
- Cannot see anything beyond dashboard on Saturday
- Rarely works
- Games don’t appear to be working
- Live score disappears halfway through an innings
- Doesn’t recognise registration/email/password
- App doesn’t function properly
- Slow and unreliable, especially on Saturday
- Cannot access scoreboards
- Dashboard is way behind detail
- Cannot log in
- Nightmare to navigate
- Login system requires frequent sign-in
- Ball by ball still not working
- Often goes offline when following a game
- Never lets me view live games
- Always crashing
- Scroll down to rules, link disappears behind footer banner
- Live not working
- Always slow to update scores
- Glitchy
- Doesn't display correct score half the time
- Multiple sign-ins for stats
- Cannot log in
- Network errors
- Doesn't update quickly
- Impossible to find match details
- Defaults to first game of season
- Not accessible using speech on iPhone
- Constantly no scorecard data
- Ball by ball says innings not started but summary gives current score
- Tricky to navigate
- Major redesign is a disaster
- Cannot find anything of use
- App stops working most weeks
- Fixtures not refreshing
- App fails to cope on Saturdays
- Keeps freezing
- Irritating when refresh requires going back to tab
- Match Stream tab is always blank
- Issue with iPhone 15, unable to see detail score or set-up
- Fails to load pages
- Fails to show scores on summary page
- Temperamental, often can’t see scorecards
- Cannot see anything beyond dashboard on Saturday
- Rarely works
- Games don’t appear to be working
- Live score disappears halfway through an innings
- Doesn’t recognise registration/email/password
- App doesn’t function properly
- Slow and unreliable, especially on Saturday
- Cannot access scoreboards
- Dashboard is way behind detail
- Cannot log in
- Nightmare to navigate
- Login system requires frequent sign-in
- Ball by ball still not working
- Often goes offline when following a game
- Never lets me view live games
- Always crashing
- Scroll down to rules, link disappears behind footer banner
- Live not working
- Always slow to update scores
- Glitchy
- Doesn't display correct score half the time
- Multiple sign-ins for stats
- Cannot log in
- Network errors
- Doesn't update quickly
- Impossible to find match details
- Defaults to first game of season
- Not accessible using speech on iPhone
- Constantly no scorecard data
- Ball by ball says innings not started but summary gives current score
- Tricky to navigate
- Major redesign is a disaster
- Cannot find anything of use
Requested features
23 requests- Live activity for chosen match on Watch, phone, and CarPlay
- Improvement in Play Cricket for grassroots cricket
- Option to select a favorite for the season
- Easier way to view leagues and personal statistics
- Make live scoring more accessible
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- Allow customisation to view matches in other leagues/age groups
- Better loading of ball-by-ball updates
- More ways to click on scorecards and teams
- Ability to link accounts or do more on the app instead of directing to website
- Make app more user-friendly
- Improve navigation and usability
- Make it easier to find information
- Allow viewing team sheets on the app
- Record junior matches live on the app
- Fix login system to remember users
- Improve stability and user-friendliness between app and web version
- Make it easier to change teams and update players
- Improve accessibility for speech on iPhone
- Make it easier to find individual matches
- Allow removal of favorites
- Make it easier to find specific matches
- Improve live score updates
- Make match suspension due to rain clearer
ClubBuzz
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Play
No in-app purchases
ClubBuzz
- Essential (No website)1 Month trial$8.991 Month
- Standard (No website)1 Month trial$13.991 Month
- Essential1 Month trial$13.991 Month
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- Standard1 Month trial$25.991 Month
- Essential (No website)1 Month trial$103.991 Year
- Standard (No website)1 Month trial$164.991 Year
- Essential1 Month trial$164.991 Year
- Standard1 Month trial$299.991 Year
