Junior Giants vs Next Level Sports
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Junior Giants
This app provides access to league-specific practice schedules, coaching videos, and educational content focused on health and character development. It offers fun enrichment activities and mental health resources for young athletes.
- League-specific Digital Dugout
- At Home Practice schedules
- Coaching Corner Videos
- Interactive Reading Scorecard
- Healthy Habits Bingo Card
- Character Development content
- Mindfulness resources
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Junior Giants App Features: · Access to your league-specific Digital Dugout · Junior Giants at Home Practice schedules & links · San Francisco Giants Coaching Corner Videos · All Star Activities, including an interactive Round the Bases Reading Scorecard and Healthy Habits Bingo Card · Education, Health Strike Out Bullying and Character Development content and activities · Fun enrichment, such as arts and crafts, music and more · Mindfulness and mental health resources
Next Level Sports
This communication app connects players, parents, and coaches within a youth sports organization. It facilitates team management, event scheduling, score updates, and real-time notifications for registered participants.
- Team communication
- Event scheduling and updates
- Score tracking
- Roster management
- RSVP and check-in
- Real-time notifications
- League standings
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Next Level Sports is a premier youth sports organization serving youth participants from K-8th grade in the sports of flag football, basketball, and volleyball! Our Next Level App is a free communication app for players, parents and coaches. You must be registered for one of our programs in order to use the app. Sign in to the app with the same email login that was used when you registered for our program through our website nextlevelsports.com. Our app helps our site directors and student coaches manage their teams, communications, and events. The app automatically syncs programs, schedules, rosters, and scores, so that the information is always available at your fingertips. Our site directors and student coaches use the Next Level app to: > Communicate important program and team messages > Schedule, modify, and cancel events, instantly notifying participants > Track RSVPs and check-in participants as they arrive > Enter game scores > View roster and player information Players and parents can use the Next Level app to: > View team schedules for all family members > RSVP for games, practices, and more, as well as view the location and directions > Get real-time notifications on program and team messages > View automatically updated league standings and scores > Quickly reference team rosters and look up staff and parent contact information Next Level Sports is headquartered in San Mateo, California, with operations in 20 states, including Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Montana, Nevada, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and Washington. We bring the best youth experience to all. Learn more at nextlevelsports.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Next Level Sports at 3.6 against Junior Giants's 1.1. Next Level Sports also leads on review sentiment (33% vs 9%) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 3 months). Junior Giants's advantage is monetization model (free vs ad-supported) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.1). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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.
Next Level Sports holds the better App Store score, 3.6 against 1.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 55 and 20 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 9% of Junior Giants's written reviews are positive against 33% of Next Level Sports's.
Junior Giants ships an update every 3 months, Next Level Sports every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Junior Giants | Next Level Sports |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.1 (55 ratings) | 3.6 (20 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 8.7% of reviews | 33.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 55 — better | 20 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 58 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | New Start Mobile, LLC | Next Level Sports |
Customer experience
Junior Giants
Next Level Sports
In-app purchases
Junior Giants
No in-app purchases
Next Level Sports
No in-app purchases
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