Play vs Eathlos Coach
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
Eathlos Coach
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Eathlos is a platform that connects athletes and coaches, allowing them to communicate and exchange valuable information. Meet our coaches! They are top athletes who want to share their knowledge, experience, and expertise with other players. That's why they create affordable online courses, offer one-on-one coaching, share their workouts on social media, and so much more.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Play at every 3 months against Eathlos Coach's every 13 months. Eathlos Coach's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.1). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Play ships an update every 3 months, Eathlos Coach every 13 months. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Play | Eathlos Coach |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (27 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 23.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 27 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months — better | Every 13 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 53 MB | 32 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | England and Wales Cricket Board Ltd | Naved Murtaza |
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
Eathlos Coach
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Play
No in-app purchases
Eathlos Coach
No in-app purchases
