Comparison

SportScience vs Top Shelf Stats

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

Head to head
About

SportScience

This app provides powerful hockey analytics for teams and players. Generate over 200 individual statistics, track shots, turnovers, zone entries, face-offs, and time on ice. Easily prepare and share reports to help your team grow.

Highlights
  • Generate over 200 player, goalie, and team statistics
  • Track shots, goals, and save percentages
  • Monitor giveaways, takeaways, and zone entries
  • Analyze face-off proficiency and passing accuracy
  • Record time on ice and shift data
  • Prepare and share statistical reports
Features
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SportScience puts the power of hockey analytics in the palm of your hand. Quickly, easily and affordably generate powerful statistics and help your team grow all with a few simple taps on an iPad or iPhone. Generate player stats such as: •Games played, goals, assists, and points; •+/-, shots, shooting % and shot locations; •Giveaways, takeaways, zone entries and face off %; •Passing %, time on Ice, average time on ice and shifts; •And more. Generate Goalie stats such as: •Starts, relief appearances, goals against and goals against average; •Shots against, save %, adjusted save % and shutouts; •And more. Generate team stats such as: •Games played, goals for and goals against,; •Shots, shooting %, shot locations and passing %; •Giveaways, takeaways, zone entries and face off %; •And more. In all, over 200 individual statistics to review and analyze. Quickly and easily prepare reports to compare statistics across the season. Share statistics with your coaching staff and/or the parents of your players. Synchronize team information across as many devices as you want. Use the Shot Tracker to track number of shots, location of shots, location of goals, location of saves, plus minus and goalie statistics such as GAA, SV% and total playing time. Use the Turnover Tracker to capture giveaways and takeaways for players or your team as a whole in eight zones on the ice. Use the Zone Entries Tracker to capture zone exits--either by player or team-- from your defensive zone and entries into the offensive zone. Likewise, track your opponent's exits from their zone and entries into yours. Use the Face Off Tracker to track face off proficiency for players or your team as a whole. Use the Passes Tracker to track complete and incomplete passes--either by player or the team--across eight zones on the ice. Use the Time on Ice feature to capture shifts, time on ice and average time on ice. Use the Game Sheet feature to capture, in real time or post game, player statistics. All this for less than the cost of a cup of coffee at the rink!

About

Top Shelf Stats

Features
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Top Shelf Stats is a live statistics app for minor hockey coaches. Track your team's stats in real time during games — shots, goals, assists, penalties, faceoffs, hits, turnovers, zone entries, plus/minus, and ice time — to see objectively how your team and players are performing across the season. Review past game and season stats, manage schedules, player attendance, and game rosters. Works fully offline and syncs when connected.

Screenshots

SportScience4 screens
Top Shelf Stats4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Top Shelf Stats at none against SportScience's 4. SportScience's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.1). On price, 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

Both are free to download. SportScience sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Top Shelf Stats asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SportScience ships an update every 9 days, Top Shelf Stats fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
SportScience versus Top Shelf Stats: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSportScienceTop Shelf Stats
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 9 days — betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB27 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperJeff BerwickTop Shelf Stats

In-app purchases

4 purchases

SportScience

One-time4
  • SportScience Single Game$0.99
  • SportScience 10 Game Pack$9.99
  • SportScience 20 Game Pack$16.99
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  • SportScience Full Season$35.99
None

Top Shelf Stats

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is SportScience free?
SportScience is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Top Shelf Stats free?
Top Shelf Stats is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do SportScience or Top Shelf Stats have ads?
Neither SportScience nor Top Shelf Stats shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SportScience or Top Shelf Stats?
SportScience ships an update every 9 days, and Top Shelf Stats fortnightly. Most recently, SportScience was updated on November 3, 2026 and Top Shelf Stats on November 6, 2026.

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