MatchRef vs Tally Sports
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MatchRef
This app provides a cloud-based solution for managing and appointing sporting officials. It allows referees and umpires to access their schedules, contact colleagues, and manage their availability on the go.
- Automated official appointment
- Notification of upcoming appointments
- List of upcoming and historic appointments
- Contact details of officiating colleagues
- Management of unavailability
- Association news and updates
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MatchRef are excited to release the first version of our smartphone app. We would like to thank the administrators and officials that gave is amazing support and suggestions through the development. There's more features to come. If you have anything you think your be included get in contact. MatchRef is a fully cloud based solution for the appointment of sporting officials. It is configurable to any sport. It provides fully automated management and appointment of all your sporting association officials. The MatchRef App allows referees and umpires to take MatchRef with them wherever they go - Work, Home, and out at the sporting field. If you’re an existing MatchRef user, you will be able to login with your standard MatchRef login. If you interested in using MatchRef for your association get in touch on our website to via social networks @matchref. Features: + Notification of upcoming appointments. + List of upcoming appointments. + Contact details of people officiating with you. + Call people officiating with you directly from the details page. + List of historic appointments. + Management of unavailability. + News from the association with updates on important information.
Tally Sports
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Tally keeps the tally for a sports team, and now for the whole competition. Every club already has one. Who owes what for turning up late. Who got the three votes on Saturday. Who's top of the Golden Boot. It usually lives in someone's phone, a group chat, or a page behind the bar, and it goes missing about halfway through the season. Tally is that same tally, kept properly. YOUR WEEK, ON ONE SCREEN Home shows what's on this week, last week's results, and a weekly wrap of your team and your comp: the scores, the top scorers, the Golden Boot and where you sit on the ladder. FINES Build your own list (late to training, wrong kit, own goal) and set what each one costs. Issue them in a couple of taps, mark them paid, and watch the one leaderboard nobody wants to top. Finals can carry a multiplier. Cards can fine themselves. MOTM POINTS Open voting after a game, everyone picks their three, and nothing shows until it closes. Season totals add themselves up. You choose whether each round's result appears straight away or stays sealed until presentation night. GAME DAY Results, scorers, cards and your own stats. Build a lineup by dragging players onto a pitch, publish it, and share it to the group chat. Training sits in the same place, with the same roll. WHO'S IN AND WHO TURNED UP Polls go out for every round and every session on their own, so nobody has to remember. In, out or maybe, with a deadline. Mark the roll in one pass. Players can put in an excuse and an admin rules on it, and fines for no-shows can take care of themselves. A JUDICIARY, IF YOU WANT ONE Think a fine is unfair? Contest it, and an admin rules on it. Lose, and it doubles. Not your club's style? Switch the whole thing off. COMPETITIONS Run a whole league in Tally: divisions, the draw, the ladder, results, the Golden Boot and stats for every team. Upload the draw from a spreadsheet, enter results once and they land on both teams, and let referees score a game live from the sideline. Every game gets a form guide and a preview: ladder positions, last five, top scorers and past meetings. EXPLORE AND FOLLOW Find teams, comps and grounds. Follow them for their results and wraps on your Home, without joining. PLAYER PROFILES Every player gets a card: games, goals, MOTM points, best game and season by season. Keep yours public or private. JOINING IS ONE SCAN Captains show a QR code or send a link. Players scan it, pick their team, tap their name, and they're in, with everything already recorded against that name. NOTIFICATIONS When voting opens, when a result lands, when you've been fined, when a poll needs an answer. Every kind can be turned off, by the team or by you. Use only what your team wants: fines, MOTM Points, availability and the judiciary can each be switched off. Your team decides whether it's public. Fines, polls, the roll and everyone's votes always stay inside the team. No advertising, and you can delete your account from inside the app at any time. Built for a phone, because that's where a player checks it after a game. Works in any browser too, for anyone who'd rather not install anything.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: MatchRef at 11.0 against Tally Sports's 15.0. On price, update cadence, 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.
MatchRef ships an update monthly, Tally Sports every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MatchRef | Tally Sports |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | 42.9% of reviews | — |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 38 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | MatchRef | Sean Woolnough |
In-app purchases
MatchRef
No in-app purchases
Tally Sports
No in-app purchases









