Play vs OverCrest
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
OverCrest
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OverCrest is designed for regularity and road rally competitors who need clear timing, fast setup, and dependable tools while moving. What started as a basic timer has evolved into a complete rally workflow that combines live control timing, setup and planning, arrival handling, distance management, Apple Watch support, and GPX recording and replay in one app. The aim is simple: keep critical information visible, reduce taps during an event, and make common actions fast and predictable. At the center of OverCrest is the main timing screen, built around the timer, compass, and distance meter. The timer is structured for quick reading under pressure, showing the active control name and due time, a prominent main time line, countdown/lateness behavior, and make-up guidance. As due time approaches, the display helps you monitor precisely; once due time passes, it transitions clearly to lateness tracking so you can see exactly where you stand. OTL behavior is included to make timing pressure obvious when a control goes beyond its configured limit. The Setup area has been expanded so you can build and manage complete control lists quickly. Add as many timers as needed, edit control names, set due times, configure OTL, and enter make-up allowance per control. Each control row shows key timing details for quick review before you start. Setup now supports Time Allowed entry in both minutes and seconds for finer precision. For card-based events, Adj Times lets you apply a global offset across all controls in one move, with add and subtract options. OverCrest now includes advanced progress feedback for both time and distance, giving clearer pacing visibility throughout each leg. The compass remains a simple directional aid, but now also supports workflow speed: one press opens the arrival time window for the active control, and accepting an arrival automatically records that time and advances to the next timer/control. Distance handling has also been improved. The distance meter shows live travel and supports quick corrections from the main screen. Master Trip can be pressed to enter reverse, and a three-second press-and-hold resets both trips together. Apple Watch support extends this convenience with remote control actions and synced timer context when handling the phone is less practical. To speed event preparation, OverCrest supports OCR time-card import from camera or photo library. You can scan, preview extracted controls before applying, and continue with multi-card scans when required. Imported timing can still be edited afterwards. Beyond live timing, OverCrest includes route recording, replay, and GPX export. Replay settings support flexible viewing and unit preferences, and GPX speed recording can be disabled when you want cleaner route-only logs. In-progress recording persistence and recovery improve reliability when sessions are interrupted. Rally management has also grown: create, save, load, overwrite, rename, and delete rallies, with stronger persistence and safeguards to reduce accidental edits. Overall, this release is a major step forward from the earlier basic version, covering the full rally cycle from setup and import through live timing, arrivals, distance, recording, replay, and export.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Play at none against OverCrest's 2. Play also leads on update cadence (every 3 months vs every 7 months) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.6). 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. OverCrest sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Play asks for nothing beyond the download.
Play ships an update every 3 months, OverCrest every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Play | OverCrest |
|---|---|---|
| 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 7 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 53 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | England and Wales Cricket Board Ltd | Mark Browell |
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
OverCrest
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Play
No in-app purchases
OverCrest
- Monthly Subscription$2.991 Month
- Premium Yearly Plan$9.991 Year









