NetballConnect vs Play AFL
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
NetballConnect
Follow live netball games with real-time scores, game times, and court locations. Receive updates on draws, ladders, and important news from organizers. Seamlessly integrates with sports platforms for score and attendance tracking.
- Real-time game scores
- Live game time and court location
- Draw and ladder updates
- Notifications and news from organizers
- Integration with sport administration platforms
- Automated game timer
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The best Live Scoring App for Netball. Spectators can now access real-time game scores, time, court location, draw and ladder updates instantly as well as receive notification and news from competition organisers. The App seamlessly integrates with existing sport administration platforms to capture and update game scores, player attendance, player borrowing and Umpire attendance. It provides the ability to automate the game timer across multiple games (or keep it separate for individual games) and it can integrate with existing PA systems for game timekeeping.
Play AFL
This app provides comprehensive information for community Australian Football leagues. Track fixtures, ladders, results, and player statistics for games running on PlayHQ. Easily favorite your preferred players, teams, and leagues for quick access to the action.
- Fixtures and schedules
- League ladders
- Game results
- Player statistics
- Favorite players and teams
- League and club information
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Introducing the official mobile App for everyone involved in AFL Community Football. Play AFL is a free iOS App built for community football fans, housing fixtures, ladders, results, and statistics for leagues operating on PlayHQ. With Play AFL, community football fans can favourite players, teams, clubs, grades and leagues, giving fans quick and easy access to the players and games they care about most. Play AFL's user-friendly interface is designed with the community football fan in mind, no matter where they are, so that they can stay connected to games and players anywhere, anytime. Download the Play AFL iOS App today.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Play AFL at 65% against NetballConnect's 19%. Play AFL also leads on rating (4.2 vs 3.5) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 6 weeks). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Play AFL holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Play AFL has 13 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 19% of NetballConnect's written reviews are positive against 65% of Play AFL's.
NetballConnect ships an update every 6 weeks, Play AFL fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | NetballConnect | Play AFL |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.5 (2 ratings) | 4.2 (13 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 18.9% of reviews | 65.1% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 13 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 102 MB | 90 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | World Sport Action Pty Limited | PlayHQ |
Customer experience
NetballConnect
Play AFL
Bugs and requests
NetballConnect
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Play AFL
Reported bugs
22 issues- Can’t save in stages
- Game dates incorrect
- Can’t log in
- Email doesn’t stick
- App frozen
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- Player profiles messed up
- Player movements reverted
- Login impossible
- Teams inactive that are active
- Search function doesn't work
- Players default to public
- Timer incorrect
- Match times incorrect
- Custom avatars messed up
- Missing junior stats
- No option to add stats
- Can't find clubs
- Stuck on loading screen
- Game day screen hard to swipe
- Weather widget not priority
- Game details page changed
- Update nobody asked for
Requested features
6 requests- Link a child to two accounts
- Add schedule for ground on that day
- Search up a ground and see all games
- Nickname for saved teams
- Add fixtures calendars
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- Add 'add to calendar' feature for fixtures
In-app purchases
NetballConnect
No in-app purchases
Play AFL
No in-app purchases
