Comparison

TheFans vs Directors Box.

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

Head to head
About

TheFans

Log every football ground you visit, record match details, and track your progress towards popular football challenges. Visualize your journey on an interactive map and import your existing data.

Highlights
  • Log visited grounds and matches
  • Generate match statistics
  • Track progress towards challenges
  • Interactive stadium map
  • CSV data import
  • Community-driven development
Features
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Every ground tells a story. TheFans helps you log every one of them. Whether you're chasing The 92, ticking off non-league gems, or simply building a record of every away day you've ever made, TheFans is the app built by football fans, for football fans. LOG EVERY GROUND YOU'VE VISITED Add the grounds you've been to, record the exact matches you attended, and build a complete history of your football journey — from your first game to your latest away day. RICH STATS FROM EVERY MATCH TheFans automatically generates in-depth statistics from your logged games. Goals, appearances, results, clubs visited — the kind of data no other football tracking app comes close to matching. TRACK YOUR PROGRESS TOWARD THE BIG CHALLENGES How far are you from completing The 92? How many of The 42 have you ticked off? TheFans tracks your progress toward the challenges that matter most to groundhoppers, giving you a clear picture of how far you've come — and how far there is still to go. YOUR FOOTBALL JOURNEY ON THE MAP See every ground you've visited plotted on an interactive stadium map. Discover new venues, plan future away days, and watch your map fill up as your groundhopping journey grows. BULK IMPORT YOUR HISTORY. Already keeping a spreadsheet? TheFans lets you import your entire match history via CSV — so you can bring years of away days into the app in minutes, not months. BUILT WITH FANS, FOR FANS Our community shapes the app. Got a suggestion? The team listens — and acts. TheFans is constantly evolving thanks to the supporters who use it every day. Ready to start logging? Download TheFans and begin your groundhopping journey today. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Directors Box.

Engage with your favorite football club through polls, petitions, and predictions to earn points. Compete in quizzes and trivia, bid on memorabilia, and join discussions with fellow fans and rivals.

Highlights
  • Earn points through engagement
  • Bid on football memorabilia
  • Participate in polls and petitions
  • Predict match outcomes
  • Weekly football quizzes
  • Daily trivia questions
  • Fan discussion boards
Features
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Directors Box is a completely free football app for supporters, the more that you engage, the more points you can earn. Points are an important part of the app, as affects your leader board position and the points can be used to bid on football memorabilia in the Directors Box auctions. All for free. You can take part in polls and petitions that matter to your football club. Predict the outcome of your team's matches, or the scores for fixtures and competitions being played. The more polls, petitions and predictions that you are participating in, the more points are earned. Chat on football matters whether this is related to the live polls or the current on-goings at the football club that you support, or watch videos and images all in one place for your team. Also don't forget to go on the banter board, dedicated to you and your biggest rivals. Each week we have the weekly football quiz, a real time quiz that rewards you with points for each question you get correct and with bonus points the higher position you finish. Which team has the football supporters with the best knowledge? Compete in quizzes against you main rivals, and see who comes out on top? There is also the daily football trivia question, what will your correct streak be? How many questions in a row will you get right, and earn more points the better you do. Don't forget to keep an extra close view on what your rivals are doing, are they happy or disappointed with their team and management? Our original football articles are a great read, written by football journalists especially for Directors Box, and listen to our weekly podcast, which offers great insight into the real world of football. For so long supporters have been kept in the dark, now, Directors’ Box will give supporters a voice for their club and football in general, where clubs need to take notice of what their supporters really want.

Screenshots

TheFans4 screens
Directors Box.4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Directors Box. at none against TheFans's 2. Directors Box. also leads on iOS requirement (12.4 vs 16.4). TheFans's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 weeks). On price, review sentiment, ads and monetization model 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. TheFans sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Directors Box. asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

TheFans ships an update every 4 days, Directors Box. every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and June 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
TheFans versus Directors Box.: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTheFansDirectors Box.
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews96.8% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS16.412.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size126 MB42 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperTHEFANS LTD.12 Yards Limited

Customer experience

TheFans

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews31 reviews
Positive96.8%
Neutral3.2%
Negative0.0%

Directors Box.

Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

TheFans

Subscriptions2
  • TheFans Supporter$1.991 Month
  • TheFans Supporter$14.991 Year
None

Directors Box.

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is TheFans free?
TheFans is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Directors Box. free?
Directors Box. is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do TheFans or Directors Box. have ads?
Neither TheFans nor Directors Box. shows ads.
Which is updated more often, TheFans or Directors Box.?
TheFans ships an update every 4 days, and Directors Box. every 2 weeks. Most recently, TheFans was updated on September 23, 2026 and Directors Box. on June 11, 2026.

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