Comparison

Volleyball Rotations vs Serve Receive

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

Head to head
About

Volleyball Rotations

This app helps users visualize and learn volleyball formations and transitions for both offense and defense. It supports various standard formations and allows for custom setups, team management, and sharing of rotation sheets.

Highlights
  • Visualize volleyball formations
  • Learn offense and defense transitions
  • Supports standard and custom rotations
  • Manage multiple rosters and teams
  • Print custom rotation sheets
  • Share rotations with players
Features
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Volleyball Rotations is the visual rotation planner for volleyball coaches and players. Build your system, teach it to your team, and now take live stats right on the court. A subscription or one-time purchase is required to build and manage rotations, with a free trial available. Player Access offers read-only viewing of a coach's shared rotations. BUILD YOUR ROTATIONS • Create up to 6 rotations from proven templates: 4-2, 5-1, 6-2, 6-3, 6-6, or fully custom • Customize every formation: serve receive, attack, serve/stack, and defense • Drag players exactly where you want them on the court • Choose who serves each rotation, including bench servers, with libero and serving rules kept legal automatically RUN YOUR ROSTER • Roster with names, jersey numbers, positions, and colors • On-court lineup editor: tap a player to change their name, position, or color • Auto-fill later rotations from the current one, or shift the whole lineup with one tap • Real line-up sheet, laid out like the official paper one, ready for the scorer's table • Clean black and white printouts of all rotations with your notes TAKE STATS LIVE • Tap a player to log kills, tips, blocks, digs, passes, aces, assists, and errors • Live scoreboard updates automatically as you record points • The court follows the rally, switching formations as the serve changes hands • Hitting and serving percentages for every player: Kill%, kill efficiency, Ace% • Group sets into matches, review any saved session, and resume right where you left off • Every set ends with a plain-English game summary ready to share with the team SHARE WITH YOUR TEAM • Your unique Rotations Key shares your whole setup by QR code, text, or email • Players follow along in read-only Player Access Mode • Import another coach's rotations in seconds • Cloud backup and sync: sign in with your email and your rotations follow you to any device MAKE IT YOURS • Theme picker with live preview, including a fully custom court color theme • Pin your favorite actions to the top bar • Score tracker and automatic substitution counter Terms of Use: https://volleyballrotations.app/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://volleyballrotations.app/privacy/

About

Serve Receive

This app helps volleyball coaches plan legal serve receive formations for all six rotations. It automatically adjusts formations to respect overlap rules and immediately shows positioning problems. Build lineups with confidence and share them with your team.

Highlights
  • Plan serve receive formations for all rotations
  • Automatic overlap rule enforcement
  • Drag-and-drop player positioning
  • Visualize positioning problems
  • Add player names, numbers, and photos
  • Share formations via link or export
Features
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Serve Receive helps volleyball coaches plan legal serve receive formations for all six rotations. One of its biggest benefits is helping you avoid illegal positioning: as you drag players, the app adjusts the formation to respect volleyball's overlap rules and shows any positioning problems immediately. Build your lineup with confidence, then share it with your team. BUILT FOR THE WAY COACHES WORK • Set up a 5-1, 4-2 or 6-2 system and see every rotation laid out on court • Drag players into place while the app keeps their relative positions within the overlap rules • Tap a player to see who they must stay in front of, behind, or beside • Red rings and guide lines show any players who are out of position SMART STARTING POINTS • Smart Setup starts from coached 5-1 receive formations with O1, O2 and the libero passing • Court Position starts every player in their standard rotation zone • The libero automatically takes the back-row middle's spot • Smart Arrange and Reset rework a single rotation without touching the others YOUR PASSERS, YOUR WAY • Choose who receives in each rotation, from zero to six passers • Players you've placed by hand stay put when you change passers • Clear warnings when a rotation has fewer than two passers YOUR TEAM ON THE COURT • Add player names, jersey numbers and photos for every player • Display your team logo as a court watermark with adjustable opacity • Keep separate named setups for varsity, JV or an alternate lineup • Duplicate a setup to try an idea without losing the original • Position Zone View shows each player's standard zone • Show or hide player names and position badges • Undo moves, passer changes and rearrangements SHARE WITH YOUR STAFF • Send a link to all six rotations. Coaches without the app can open it in a web browser • Export an image, or a PDF laid out for printing, including player photos and your team logo • Open links from other coaches as a preview, then save them as a new setup MADE FOR IPHONE AND IPAD • On iPhone, swipe through one rotation at a time • On iPad, see all six rotations at once • Use Siri: "Show rotation 4 in Serve Receive" or "Who is receiving in Serve Receive" • Light and dark appearance No account. No ads. Your setups stay on your device unless you share them.

Screenshots

Volleyball Rotations4 screens
Serve Receive4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Volleyball Rotations at Free against Serve Receive's $0.99. Volleyball Rotations also leads on ratings volume (227 vs 2) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). Serve Receive's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). On update cadence, ads and device support 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

Volleyball Rotations is free to download; Serve Receive costs $0.99 up front. Volleyball Rotations sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. Serve Receive asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Serve Receive holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Volleyball Rotations has 227 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 78% of Volleyball Rotations's written reviews are positive against 100% of Serve Receive's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Volleyball Rotations ships an update every 3 days, Serve Receive every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Volleyball Rotations versus Serve Receive: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVolleyball RotationsServe Receive
PriceFree — better$0.99
Rating4.7 (227 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews77.8% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings227 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 5 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size49 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRefactor MediaTIMOTHY MICHAEL BERGERON

Customer experience

Volleyball Rotations

All ratings218 ratings
Positive92.2%
Neutral4.1%
Negative3.7%
Written reviews36 reviews
Positive77.8%
Neutral11.1%
Negative11.1%

Serve Receive

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Volleyball Rotations

Reported bugs

8 issues
  • Glitch when replacing middle with libero
  • Hitter 1 and hitter 2 get switched
  • Sub count incorrect when MBs sub for Lib
  • Black screen on rooster page after payment
  • App does not save rotations for more than a few hours
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  • App freezes when changing player colors
  • Cannot make changes to lineups or players
  • Screen size larger than iPad screen after iOS update

Requested features

19 requests
  • Bring back anime characters
  • Include player pictures in rotation view
  • Mini score tracker with plus/minus
  • Account to save rotations
  • More personalization/customization
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  • Download pages for player review
  • More options without Liberos
  • Deletion of all created rotations
  • Ability to save volleyball location
  • Auto-rotate players with a button
  • Print rotation schedule for tournaments
  • Enlarge coat size on iPad
  • Transfer data between devices
  • Greater way to set plays for serve receive transitions
  • Import/export data
  • Share with players for review mode
  • Save rotations for later retrieval
  • Rename rotations
  • More in-depth tutorial

Serve Receive

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Volleyball Rotations

Subscriptions2
  • Coach Monthly7 Days trial$6.991 Month
  • Coach Yearly7 Days trial$69.991 Year
One-time2
  • Player Access$9.99
  • Lifetime Coach Access$149.99
None

Serve Receive

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Volleyball Rotations free?
Volleyball Rotations is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Serve Receive free?
Serve Receive costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Volleyball Rotations or Serve Receive?
Serve Receive is rated higher. Volleyball Rotations averages 4.7 out of 5 from 227 ratings, while Serve Receive averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Volleyball Rotations or Serve Receive have ads?
Neither Volleyball Rotations nor Serve Receive shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Volleyball Rotations or Serve Receive?
Volleyball Rotations ships an update every 3 days, and Serve Receive every 5 days. Most recently, Volleyball Rotations was updated on November 11, 2026 and Serve Receive on October 31, 2026.

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