Trace Teams vs PlayMetrics
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Trace Teams
This app streamlines soccer game video management for teams and parents. It allows for controlling camera equipment, updating rosters, and managing game uploads. Parents can capture additional footage to create personalized player highlights.
- Control TraceCam equipment
- Update team rosters
- Start and stop game recordings
- Manage game uploads
- Record multi-angle player footage
- Automatic player highlight generation
- Create and share video playlists
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Trace is the all-in-one soccer game video system. The Trace Teams iOS app is used by your team’s Trace equipment manager to control the TraceCam, update team rosters, start and stop games, and manage game uploads. Parents use the Trace Teams iOS app to capture even more angles and closeups of their player. Just select “Record MultiCam” and hit record. Your iPhone video will be saved to your camera roll and stitched to TraceCam footage to deliver epic highlights. Looking for your game footage? No app needed. It will be emailed or texted to you after each game. Recording games and editing film can be complicated, time-consuming, and expensive. Trace captures your game footage and delivers each player's highlights directly to their inboxes after each game. Players, parents, and coaches can create playlists to rewatch games and plays, easily share highlights, and keep track of progress throughout the season
PlayMetrics
This app streamlines youth sports club operations by unifying financial, operational, coaching, and communication tools. It eliminates manual data management and provides a central hub for directors, coaches, admins, and families to enhance efficiency and remove uncertainty.
- Player registration and payment processing
- Club-wide communication and alerts
- Coach and player profiles
- Custom form builder and evaluations
- Field scheduling and management
- Practice planning and drills library
- Website builder
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Transform your business with PlayMetrics, the single source of truth for everyone in your club. One service. One log-in. Everything you need. Trusted by the most forward-thinking youth sports clubs, PlayMetrics empowers directors, coaches, admins, and player families to become shockingly efficient with unified financial, operational, coaching, and communication tools. Modernize your operations in ways that weren’t possible before. No more wrestling with messy spreadsheets, impossible-to-find data, and unreliable games of telephone. Always know where everything is, what everyone is working on, and what to do next. Remove uncertainty from your business forever. The PlayMetrics Club Operating System includes: Player registration and payment processing Club-wide communications with automated alerts Coach and player profiles with complete history Custom form builder, form tracking, and player evaluations Field scheduling and management Team assignments and roster updates Curriculum builder and season periodization In-house recreational league support Practice planning, drills library, and drill illustrator User dashboards summarizing crucial data Cloud storage and file sharing Website builder and customization Real-time attendance tracking Health questionnaires Game schedules and scores Learn more at www.playmetrics.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Trace Teams at 4.8 against PlayMetrics's 4.1. Trace Teams also leads on monetization model (free vs freemium) and update cadence (weekly vs monthly). On price, review sentiment, 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.
Trace Teams holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4.4K and 1.2K respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 24% of Trace Teams's written reviews are positive against 17% of PlayMetrics's.
Trace Teams ships an update weekly, PlayMetrics monthly. Both last shipped on October 29, 2026.
| Parameter | Trace Teams | PlayMetrics |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (4.4K ratings) — better | 4.1 (1.2K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 24.5% of reviews — better | 17.2% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4.4K — better | 1.2K |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Best chart rank | #139 | #56 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 166 MB | 17 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | AlpineReplay, Inc. | ReverbNation |
Customer experience
Trace Teams
PlayMetrics
User reviews
Trace Teams
From 4.4K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Easy to use app
- 👍 Great for player highlights
- 👍 Good customer service
- 👍 Personalization of moments
- 👍 Step-by-step setup guidance
Room to improve
- 🐛 App redirects to browser
- 🐛 App is difficult to navigate
- 🐛 Video quality is subpar
- 🐛 AI player tracking is inaccurate
- 🐛 Long upload times
PlayMetrics
From 1.2K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Easy to use
- 🚀 Helpful for managing teams
- 🚀 Useful for communication
- 🚀 Convenient for parents
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent crashes and freezes
- 🐛 Unreliable login and connection issues
- 🐛 Buggy notifications and message sync
- 👎 Poor user interface and navigation
- 👎 Slow performance and loading times
Bugs and requests
Trace Teams
Reported bugs
78 issues- Mistakes player for different player
- Too many glitches
- Slow to download
- Cannot save to photos
- Cannot post to social media
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- Cannot share with non-account holders
- Difficult to go back and forward
- Plays are cut off
- Camera slow to keep up
- Teammate mistaken for user
- Slow performance
- Doesn't produce good highlights
- Cameras not working
- Preview inoperable
- Video quality not improving
- Player focus and zoom inaccurate
- Software updates cause games to not record
- Customer service doesn't care
- Charged after cancellation
- Tech support is AI bot
- Videos never record/process correctly
- AI doesn't work
- App redirects to browser
- Camera battery issues
- No way to add camera or start new game
- Cannot make own clips
- Downloads require own link
- Constantly manually fix AI errors
- No TV app
- Camera doesn't catch key moments
- Sharing difficult (requires subscription)
- Account issues
- Recordings not accessible
- Shift between players wonky
- Pro-account download limitations
- App is unusable after update
- New analytics are horrible
- Video playback only clips
- Cannot watch teammates
- Casting doesn't work
- Cannot connect camera
- No option to start new game
- App is dysfunctional
- Cannot set up camera or create game
- New program is messed up
- Only highlights available
- Software changes make app a nightmare
- Doesn't work with video viewer
- Downloading games is a heavier subscription
- Have to pay to watch own highlights
- Need to join family to watch highlights
- Recent updates are horrible
- Membership required to watch game
- Not uploading correctly
- Cannot watch games for children on manager account
- Redirects to website
- Website never stays logged in
- Two-factor login process every time
- Cannot adjust roster in app
- Impossible to set up camera
- AI misses tags players
- Upload time is extremely long
- GPS didn't work indoors
- New AI is terrible
- Misidentifies players
- Editing feature is worse
- App is useless
- Not iPad compatible
- Cannot download on iPad
- Device not supported for iPad
- Annoying email code to sign in
- Tracers do not work indoors
- Cannot record game in entirety
- Roster settings error
- App keeps adding player to empty slot
- Highlights aren't displayed in app
- App is constantly loading and blank
- Cannot do anything on the app
Requested features
17 requests- Watch games in app
- Save to phone photos
- Post to social media
- Share with non-account holders
- Easier to go back/forward in plays
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- Play like a video
- Allow saving own clips
- Default volume on
- Player focus as an option, not default
- Cast to TV
- Bring back Smartcast
- Option to stay logged in
- Allow adding all players to system
- Record footage without tracers
- Stitch two cameras without AI analysis
- View game results on app
- iPad compatibility
PlayMetrics
Reported bugs
5 issues- Constant log-outs and need to re-login
- Inability to delete or edit sent messages
- Notifications not clearing even after reading messages
- Crashes when opening links or notifications
- Inconsistent syncing of data across devices
Requested features
6 requests- Improve chat/messaging functionality
- Add ability to see player availability
- Enhance calendar and scheduling features
- Improve notification reliability and customization
- Provide better user interface and navigation
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- Increase font size and accessibility options
In-app purchases
Trace Teams
No in-app purchases
PlayMetrics
No in-app purchases
