Trace Teams vs NorCal
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
NorCal
This app connects the Northern California soccer community by providing live scores, lineups, and livestreaming for games. Fans can engage with teams through comments and media uploads, while clubs can communicate with followers and explore new revenue streams.
- Live scores and updates
- Lineup information
- Livestreaming capabilities
- Video and image uploads
- Team and club pages
- Notifications for game starts and goals
- Integrated communication for clubs
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The NorCal App brings the Northern California soccer community closer together while enhancing the fan and participant experience by enabling lineups, live scores, livestreaming, highlights and fan engagement features for soccer games at all levels. With the NorCal App, families, friends and fans can support their favorite team and share their passion live in the community by commenting and uploading videos or images boosting the interest and engagement. In the NorCal App, you follow the teams you are interested in and get full control of game schedules, lineups, match reporting, livestreams and notifications when the match starts or goal-by-goal if you want. NorCal gives you the same experience as a professional league no matter the level or league of your favorite team. The dedicated team and club pages automatically gather all content related to you, and the integrated communication function lets teams and clubs quickly reach all their followers with information. NorCal also enables new revenue streams for clubs and teams through integrated partner functions.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Trace Teams at 4.8 against NorCal's 2.5. Trace Teams also leads on ratings volume (4.4K vs 18) and chart position (#111 vs unranked). NorCal's advantage is review sentiment (33% vs 24%). 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.
Trace Teams holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 2.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Trace Teams has 4.4K ratings behind it against 18, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 24% of Trace Teams's written reviews are positive against 33% of NorCal's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Trace Teams ships an update weekly, NorCal every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Trace Teams | NorCal |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (4.4K ratings) — better | 2.5 (18 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 23.7% of reviews | 33.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 4.4K — better | 18 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Best chart rank | #111 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod, Apple TV — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 166 MB | 88 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | AlpineReplay, Inc. | NorCal Premier Soccer |
Customer experience
Trace Teams
NorCal
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
NorCal
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Trace Teams
No in-app purchases
NorCal
No in-app purchases
