Comparison

SportsEngine Motion vs Time Drops Live!

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

Head to head
About

SportsEngine Motion

This sports team management app streamlines communication, attendance tracking, and payments for administrators, coaches, and families. It provides a centralized hub for organization updates, events, and member information, enhancing connectivity and efficiency.

Highlights
  • Team communication
  • Attendance tracking
  • Payment collection
  • Event management
  • Member information access
  • Video sharing
Features
Currently charting
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The SportsEngine Motion Mobile App gives business administrators, coaches/instructors, and families direct access to their entire organization from anywhere. It's the ideal sports team management app for easier communication, tracking attendance and skills, invoicing and collecting payments, and staying up-to-date with all important information and events at their organization. Administrators who have signed their business up for the SportsEngine Motion platform can use its companion mobile app for free, along with their coaches/instructors and families. Simply use your SportsEngine email and password to login. With SportsEngine Motion, parents can access their members’ information, attendance, billing, organization updates, events, videos, and more all from one location, keeping them better connected with their organization. Administrators will love having direct access to all of their organization data such as family and member contact information, messaging, billing and invoicing, news creation, volunteer job management, events, and much more. Coaches/Instructors can simplify their days with direct access to family contact information and medical notes, attendance tracking, video production and sharing, organization and member updates, and access to a social sharing toolkit to publish organization updates to Facebook, Instagram, and the organization website. SportsEngine Motion is a powerful sports team management app application that will keep your organization more connected, updated, and organized than ever before. Download the app today to get started! SPORTSENGINE TERMS OF USE: https://www.sportsengine.com/terms-of-use SPORTSENGINE PRIVACY POLICY: https://www.versantprivacy.com/privacy

About

Time Drops Live!

Get instant updates on live swim meet results directly on your screen. This application connects with the Time Drops timing system to provide real-time heat results.

Highlights
  • Instant heat result refreshes
  • Connects to Time Drops timing system
  • Live updates
  • Swim meet information
Features
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This app ties in with the Time Drops timing system. Heat results are refreshed into your screen instantly.

Screenshots

SportsEngine Motion4 screens
Time Drops Live!2 screens

Verdict

The call

SportsEngine Motion and Time Drops Live! both sit at 4.6 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Time Drops Live!'s written reviews are positive against 75% of SportsEngine Motion's. SportsEngine Motion's advantage is ratings volume (542 vs 20) and update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks). On price, rating, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Time Drops Live! holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SportsEngine Motion has 542 ratings behind it against 20, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 75% of SportsEngine Motion's written reviews are positive against 100% of Time Drops Live!'s.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SportsEngine Motion ships an update weekly, Time Drops Live! every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
SportsEngine Motion versus Time Drops Live!: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSportsEngine MotionTime Drops Live!
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (542 ratings)4.8 (20 ratings) — better
Positive reviews75.2% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings542 — better20
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
Best chart rank#185 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.6 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size226 MB38 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperSportsEngine, Inc.TIME DROPS LLC

Customer experience

SportsEngine Motion

All ratings542 ratings
Positive90.4%
Neutral1.8%
Negative7.7%
Written reviews125 reviews
Positive75.2%
Neutral4.8%
Negative20.0%

Time Drops Live!

All ratings19 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

SportsEngine Motion

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Login issues
  • Notifications not working
  • Data loading problems
  • Incompatibility with certain devices

Requested features

4 requests
  • Dark mode option
  • Better navigation and search
  • Ability to manage payments and subscriptions
  • Improved sync and offline functionality

Time Drops Live!

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

SportsEngine Motion

No in-app purchases

None

Time Drops Live!

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is SportsEngine Motion free?
SportsEngine Motion is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Time Drops Live! free?
Time Drops Live! is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, SportsEngine Motion or Time Drops Live!?
Time Drops Live! is rated higher. SportsEngine Motion averages 4.6 out of 5 from 542 ratings, while Time Drops Live! averages 4.8 from 20 ratings.
Do SportsEngine Motion or Time Drops Live! have ads?
Neither SportsEngine Motion nor Time Drops Live! shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SportsEngine Motion or Time Drops Live!?
SportsEngine Motion ships an update weekly, and Time Drops Live! every 3 weeks. Most recently, SportsEngine Motion was updated on November 3, 2026 and Time Drops Live! on November 3, 2026.

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