Active Experience vs Sideout
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Active Experience
Follow live event progress, view real-time leaderboards, and get participant alerts. Discover event landmarks, share photos, and stay updated on races like marathons and triathlons. Integrates with HealthKit for heart rate and workout data.
- Real-time leaderboards
- Participant GPS tracking
- Course map with landmarks
- Progress alerts and updates
- Event photo sharing
- HealthKit integration
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One app for all of your events. Track participants on an events course map, view real-time leaderboards, receive participant progress alerts and important updates from events. • View & share results and rankings. • Find event landmarks with the course map. • Track participants via GPS. • Accept or decline tracking notifications. • Receive push notifications for followed participants. • Take and share event photos with all other spectators and participants using the app. • Easily follow and stay up-to-date with Marathons, 5Ks, 10Ks and Triathlons near you. In the Watch app, Apple’s HealthKit is used to collect heart rate and exercise data, and at the end of a run, the workout is saved to Healthkit. Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.
Sideout
Easily score beach volleyball games, track player statistics, and manage tournaments. Organize pickup games or competitive leagues with features for scheduling, live scoring, and bracket management. Analyze your performance and build your crew with detailed game logs and photos.
- Tournament management
- Live game scoring
- Player statistics tracking
- Customizable game formats
- Team building
- Game result sharing
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Sideout is the easiest way to score beach volleyball games, track your stats, and run tournaments. Built for pickup players and competitive crews alike, Sideout keeps your games organized and your rivalries alive. RUN TOURNAMENTS Round-robin pools with automatic scheduling, live scoring across multiple courts, and single-elimination brackets. Share results instantly. SCORE GAMES Pick your format (2s, 3s, 4s, or custom), build your teams, and tap to score. Run It Back to replay the same matchup. KNOW YOUR NUMBERS All-time record, win rate, best streak, and stats by format. Find your best partner and your biggest nemesis. BUILD YOUR CREW Invite your regulars, log every game, and upload photos from your sessions.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Sideout at 100% against Active Experience's 6%. Sideout also leads on rating (5.0 vs 1.5). Active Experience's advantage is ratings volume (150 vs 3) and device support (4 vs 2). 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.
Sideout holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Active Experience has 150 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 6% of Active Experience's written reviews are positive against 100% of Sideout's.
Active Experience ships an update every 6 weeks, Sideout every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Active Experience | Sideout |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.5 (150 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 6.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 150 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 41 MB | 56 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Active Network, LLC | Justin Pinder |
Customer experience
Active Experience
Sideout
Bugs and requests
Active Experience
Reported bugs
3 issues- Cannot enter date of birth to create account
- Tracking stops working mid-race
- Inconsistent and inaccurate runner locations
Requested features
3 requests- Improve runner tracking accuracy and reliability
- Provide course maps and mile markers
- Allow easy spectator tracking without complex setup
Sideout
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Active Experience
No in-app purchases
Sideout
No in-app purchases
Questions
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