Comparison

BADL vs Core KO

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

Head to head
About

BADL

This app provides comprehensive information for sporting events, including schedules, live standings, and game notifications. It offers easy access to team rosters, results, and essential event documents, keeping everyone informed and connected.

Highlights
  • Quick team search
  • Up-to-the-minute schedules
  • Live standings and brackets
  • Immediate game notifications
  • Venue directions
  • Team rosters and live results
  • Event documents and messages
Features
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The BADL app is your all-encompassing guide for sporting events, meticulously crafted to cater to the needs of team and college coaches, media, players, parents, and fans. Designed to bring every essential aspect of the event to your fingertips, this platform ensures you stay connected and well-informed. Key Features: • Quick team search and user-friendly shortcuts. • Up-to-the-minute schedules to keep you on track. • Live standings and brackets for real-time updates. • Immediate game notifications so you never miss a beat. • Venue directions for easy navigation. • Access to team rosters and live results with box scores (when available), all at your fingertips. • Essential event documents, messages, and contact details for complete guidance. • Information on event sponsors for additional insights. With the app, every detail of the event is conveniently at your fingertips, ensuring an immersive and comprehensive experience for everyone involved.

About

Core KO

This martial arts training app helps users build consistency and improve workouts with customizable timers for rounds, rest, and circuits. Log daily training streaks to stay on track and build discipline. Ideal for boxers and fitness enthusiasts looking to master fundamentals.

Highlights
  • Customizable round timers
  • Rest period timers
  • Circuit training timers
  • Daily training streak logging
  • Workout optimization
  • Discipline building
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Core KO is a streamlined martial arts training app focused on building consistency and improving your workouts. Optimize your training sessions with customizable timers for rounds, rest periods, and circuits. Work on shadowboxing, sparring, or the heavy bag with a timer designed to sharpen you. Stay on track and build discipline by logging your daily training streaks. Perfect for boxers, kickboxers, and fitness enthusiasts, Core KO helps you master the fundamentals and build habits that last.

Screenshots

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Core KO3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: BADL at none against Core KO's shown. BADL also leads on ratings volume (314 vs 6) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Core KO's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 26 months) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Core KO holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: BADL has 314 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

BADL ships an update every 26 months, Core KO every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
BADL versus Core KO: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBADLCore KO
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (314 ratings)5.0 (6 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings314 — better6
Update frequencyEvery 26 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterAd-supported
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.114.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size65 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperL and L Sports, IncEbenezer Zergabachew

Customer experience

BADL

All ratings314 ratings
Positive93.3%
Neutral1.9%
Negative4.8%

Core KO

All ratings6 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

BADL

No in-app purchases

None

Core KO

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is BADL free?
BADL is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Core KO free?
Core KO is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, BADL or Core KO?
Core KO is rated higher. BADL averages 4.7 out of 5 from 314 ratings, while Core KO averages 5.0 from 6 ratings.
Do BADL or Core KO have ads?
Core KO shows ads; BADL does not.
Which is updated more often, BADL or Core KO?
BADL ships an update every 26 months, and Core KO every 2 weeks. Most recently, BADL was updated on October 13, 2026 and Core KO on October 4, 2026.

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