FastScout vs Thirty Second Timeout
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
FastScout
This app allows coaches and players to access and interact with scouting reports, including statistics, images, and game strategy. It's designed for professional and collegiate basketball teams to prepare for upcoming games.
- Access scouting reports
- View statistics
- Analyze game strategy
- Watch game videos
- Interact with reports
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FastScout empowers NBA, WNBA, and NCAA coaches and players to interact with their scouting reports created on FastScout Web. Users can access statistics, images, game strategy, and videos to prepare for their games. FastScout is only available to licensed users.
Thirty Second Timeout
Create, animate, and share basketball plays with professional diagrams. This tool allows coaches and players to sketch plays on a court, showing player movements and sequences step-by-step. It also includes a shot chart for practice and game analysis.
- Draw and animate basketball plays
- Professional court diagrams
- Multi-frame play sequences
- Export plays as images/PDFs
- Practice and game shot charting
- Analyze shooting data
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• Draw, animate, and share basketball plays in seconds. Thirty Second Timeout is the playbook built for coaches and players who need clear, professional diagrams fast. • Sketch full plays on a real court with player markers, movement paths, cuts, passes, screens, and dribbles. Build multi-frame sequences to show exactly how a play develops, then export and share with your team instantly. • Explore shooting data with our practice and game shot chart Thirty Second Timeout gives basketball coaches and players a simple way to draw, organize, and share plays from anywhere. Build clear court diagrams using player markers, movement paths, cuts, passes, screens, dribbles, and the basketball. Create multiple frames to show how a play develops step by step, add notes, customize your court, and share finished plays with your team. Features include: • Create basketball plays on a customizable court • Position offensive and defensive players • Draw cuts, passes, screens, dribbles, and movement paths • Curve and adjust paths directly on the court • Organize plays across multiple frames • Add notes and action steps • View individual frames in full screen • Export and share plays as convenient images or PDFs • Chart shooting for workouts • Chart shooting for full games • Analyze and filter shot chart data Whether you are preparing for practice, explaining an in-game adjustment, or building your playbook, Thirty Second Timeout helps make every action easy to understand.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Thirty Second Timeout at 5.0 against FastScout's 4.1. FastScout's advantage is ratings volume (28 vs 1). 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.
Thirty Second Timeout holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: FastScout has 28 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
FastScout ships an update every 3 weeks, Thirty Second Timeout fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | FastScout | Thirty Second Timeout |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (28 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 28 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 76 MB | 21 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | FastModel Holdings, LLC | Thomas Fabian |
Customer experience
FastScout
Thirty Second Timeout
In-app purchases
FastScout
No in-app purchases
Thirty Second Timeout
No in-app purchases
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