Comparison

Officials Assistant vs RefBox'd

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

Head to head
About

Officials Assistant

Manage your sports officiating schedule, track game payments, and log expenses by sport. Generate compliance cards, email them to coaches, and get game count reports to ensure you meet requirements. Import assignments and back up your data to the cloud.

Highlights
  • Game scheduling and reminders
  • Payment tracking
  • Expense logging by sport
  • Compliance card generation
  • Game count reporting
  • iCal assignment import
  • Cloud backup and restore
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Officials and umpires can now track your schedule of games and get reminders, flag games as paid when your game check arrives, keep track of all expenses even by sport. Check out the pre-game topics for crew and coaches. Generate a compliance card with coaches signatures and email it to them while walking away from the pre-game meetings. Get a game count report at anytime during the season to make sure your on track to get your required games in. Import your game assignments from assigning website that exports your games by iCal file. Backup and restore your data to/from the cloud. The perfect assistant for officials and umpires through out the year.

About

RefBox'd

This app helps sports officials log games, track experience, and build a personal officiating history. Users can view stats, connect with friends, and see their career journey unfold.

Highlights
  • Log officiated games
  • Track game history and stats
  • Connect with other officials
  • Organize career experience
  • View game details (teams, scores, venues)
Features
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RefBox’d — Built for Officials Every game is part of your officiating journey. RefBox’d gives sports officials a simple way to log the games they work, track their experience, connect with friends, and see their officiating history come to life. LOG YOUR GAMES Keep a detailed record of the games you've officiated, including teams, scores, leagues, venues, partners, and more. BUILD YOUR GAME HISTORY No more trying to remember when or where you worked a game. RefBox’d keeps your officiating history organized in one place so you can easily look back on the games you've worked throughout your career. DISCOVER YOUR STATS Turn your game history into meaningful stats. See how many games you've worked, which teams you've officiated most, your most frequent partners, and more. CONNECT WITH FRIENDS Officiating is a community. Add friends on RefBox’d, see the games they're working, and keep up with each other's officiating journeys. Stay connected with the officials you meet along the way and see where the game takes them next. MADE FOR OFFICIALS RefBox’d was designed specifically for sports officials. Whether you're working your first games or have years of experience, RefBox’d gives you one place to track the moments, people, and games that make up your officiating career. Your games. Your stats. Your crew. Log it with RefBox’d.

Screenshots

Officials Assistant4 screens
RefBox'd4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: RefBox'd at Free against Officials Assistant's $3.99. RefBox'd also leads on rating (5.0 vs 2.0) and update cadence (fortnightly vs monthly). On ratings volume, ads, in-app purchases 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

RefBox'd is free to download; Officials Assistant costs $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

RefBox'd holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Officials Assistant ships an update monthly, RefBox'd fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 4 level
Officials Assistant versus RefBox'd: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOfficials AssistantRefBox'd
Price$3.99Free — better
Rating2.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyMonthlyFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.615.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB45 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPhilip ColeDaniel Kandell

Customer experience

Officials Assistant

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

RefBox'd

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Officials Assistant

No in-app purchases

None

RefBox'd

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Officials Assistant free?
Officials Assistant costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is RefBox'd free?
RefBox'd is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Officials Assistant or RefBox'd?
RefBox'd is rated higher. Officials Assistant averages 2.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while RefBox'd averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Officials Assistant or RefBox'd have ads?
Neither Officials Assistant nor RefBox'd shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Officials Assistant or RefBox'd?
Officials Assistant ships an update monthly, and RefBox'd fortnightly. Most recently, Officials Assistant was updated on October 19, 2026 and RefBox'd on October 9, 2026.

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