Trace Teams vs ALBION Connect
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 recording and highlight generation. It allows for multi-angle capture and automatically stitches player highlights for easy sharing and progress tracking throughout the season.
- Record multi-angle game footage
- Automatic player highlight generation
- Stitch iPhone video with TraceCam footage
- Create playlists of games and plays
- Share highlights easily
- Track player progress
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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
ALBION Connect
This app facilitates seamless communication and collaboration for sports club families, managers, staff, and administrators. It offers features like player account management, scheduling, messaging, and access to club resources, keeping everyone informed about club activities.
- Player Account Management
- Game and Practice Scheduling
- Messaging
- Club Communication
- ALBION Library
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ALBION Connect mobile app, powered by Byga, supports ALBION families, team manager's, team staff, and administrators to collaborate, communicate and stay in the know with all things ALBION. Player Account Management, Game and Practice Scheduling, Messaging, Club Communication, ALBION Library and more. All active players within the ALBION Network have access to ALBION Connect.
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Verdict
Trace Teams and ALBION Connect both sit at 4.8 stars, but that hides the real split: 64% of ALBION Connect's written reviews are positive against 24% of Trace Teams's. Trace Teams's advantage is update cadence (every 6 days vs every 3 weeks) and chart position (#196 vs unranked). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Trace Teams against 4.8 for ALBION Connect. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4.5K and 6.1K respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 24% of Trace Teams's written reviews are positive against 64% of ALBION Connect's.
Trace Teams ships an update every 6 days, ALBION Connect every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Trace Teams | ALBION Connect |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (4.5K ratings) — better | 4.8 (6.1K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 24.2% of reviews | 64.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 4.5K | 6.1K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Best chart rank | #196 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 166 MB | 161 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | AlpineReplay, Inc. | Byga, Inc. |
Customer experience
Trace Teams
ALBION Connect
User reviews
Trace Teams
From 4.5K 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
ALBION Connect
From 6.1K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Industry-leading app
- 👍 Fantastic and improving rapidly
- 👍 Wonderful with cool features
- 👍 Good team
Room to improve
- 🐛 Limited compared to web version
- 🐛 Can't RSVP 'maybe' to events
- 🐛 Doesn't show game details
- 🐛 Hard to find messages and events
- 🐛 App won't load
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
ALBION Connect
Reported bugs
2 issues- Login screen freezes
- Incompatible with older devices
Requested features
3 requests- Replica of web version on iPad
- Like button for comments
- Ability to work with profiles and share calendars
In-app purchases
Trace Teams
No in-app purchases
ALBION Connect
No in-app purchases
Questions
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