Comparison

iHoop Nation vs Hardwoods

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

Head to head
About

iHoop Nation

This app provides comprehensive event information for sports teams, colleges, media, players, parents, and fans. It offers real-time schedules, live standings, game notifications, venue directions, and access to rosters and results.

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 iHoop Nation 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

Hardwoods

Track your child's basketball performance, from game stats to shooting drills. Manage official scorebooks, analyze season trends, and share progress with family. Designed for parents at the scorer's table or in the stands.

Highlights
  • Track individual player stats
  • Run and chart shooting drills
  • Official scorebook functionality
  • Exportable box scores
  • Season trend analysis
  • Simple scorebook mode
Features
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Hardwoods started as a scorebook. It turned into a way to watch your kid get better. IN THE STANDS Track just your kid. Pick the stats you care about, tap them as they happen, and watch the season take shape game by game. When the buzzer sounds, her stat card goes to the grandparents in one tap. Missed a game? Another parent can send it to your phone, and it lands in her profile like you tracked it yourself. Or track the whole team. Team Stats puts every player on your roster on one screen — pick a player, tap what she did, done. No opponent, no official book, and when the game ends there's a box score to text the coach. Any player with a profile on your phone gets her line saved there too. IN THE DRIVEWAY Run shooting drills and chart every shot. Nine drills built in, from form shooting and the Mikan drill to three-point circuits — or pick Open Gym and tap the court wherever she shoots. One tap per shot, then a shot chart showing exactly where the ball is going in. Set a target, and watch the percentages climb across the season. AT THE SCORER'S TABLE Run the official book when it's your turn. Rosters, per-player stats, fouls and foul-outs, periods and overtime, timeouts, technicals, and a complete box score you can export as a PDF or share as an image. Or use Simple Scorebook when you just need the score — two teams, no roster, no setup. ACROSS THE SEASON Every archived game with win-loss records, scoring trends, and player season averages. Every practice session with per-zone shooting percentages. The whole arc, in one place. Every drill explains itself on screen, so you don't need to know the drills to run them. Undo is everywhere, and an in-progress game or session survives your phone dying. No accounts. No ads. No subscriptions. Every stat stays on your phone unless you choose to send it. WHY HARDWOODS EXISTS They kept asking for volunteers to run the scorebook at my daughter's club basketball games, and one day the volunteer was me — with no idea what I was doing. After a few games of paper and scribbles, I figured there had to be a better way. So I built one. Then it grew. Now, most nights, I sit in the stands and track my daughter — or the whole team, when the coach wants the numbers. And in the driveway, we run drills and watch her percentages climb. That's Hardwoods: built at real games, for the parent in the bleachers and the one at the scorer's table.

Screenshots

iHoop Nation2 screens
Hardwoods4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Hardwoods at 100% against iHoop Nation's 50%. Hardwoods also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 41 months) and rating (5.0 vs 4.8). iHoop Nation's advantage is price (Free vs $1.99) and ratings volume (396 vs 2). On ads, 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

iHoop Nation is free to download; Hardwoods costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Hardwoods holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: iHoop Nation has 396 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of iHoop Nation's written reviews are positive against 100% of Hardwoods's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

iHoop Nation ships an update every 41 months, Hardwoods every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
iHoop Nation versus Hardwoods: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameteriHoop NationHardwoods
PriceFree — better$1.99
Rating4.8 (396 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings396 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 41 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size65 MB34 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperiHoop Nation LLCCharles Cooper

Customer experience

iHoop Nation

All ratings396 ratings
Positive96.0%
Neutral2.3%
Negative1.8%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

Hardwoods

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

iHoop Nation

No in-app purchases

None

Hardwoods

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is iHoop Nation free?
iHoop Nation is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Hardwoods free?
Hardwoods costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, iHoop Nation or Hardwoods?
Hardwoods is rated higher. iHoop Nation averages 4.8 out of 5 from 396 ratings, while Hardwoods averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do iHoop Nation or Hardwoods have ads?
Neither iHoop Nation nor Hardwoods shows ads.
Which is updated more often, iHoop Nation or Hardwoods?
iHoop Nation ships an update every 41 months, and Hardwoods every 2 weeks. Most recently, iHoop Nation was updated on October 29, 2026 and Hardwoods on October 23, 2026.

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