Comparison

HELIOS App vs Benchmark

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

Head to head
About

HELIOS App

This sports app analyzes hockey player performance using a connected sensor. It tracks skating metrics, provides insights for improvement, and offers gamified development features. Teams can monitor player progress and foster competition.

Highlights
  • Skating speed and agility tracking
  • Performance data analysis
  • Instant video highlights
  • Gamified development with points and rewards
  • Team and organization performance monitoring
  • Progress tracking and benchmarks
Features
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This app requires a HELIOS® Core performance sensor. When paired with a HELIOS® Core, the HELIOS® App provides performance data, analysis, instant video highlights and actionable insights that help hockey players and teams Get Better, Faster. Track Performance: Mount the HELIOS® Core performance sensor onto your existing shoulder pads and immediately track your key skating metrics including Skating Speed, Agility, Explosiveness, and Balance. The HELIOS® Core seamlessly blends in with your gear using our innovative Twist Mount clip or Strap Mount. Benchmarks and Insights: Track your evolution with constantly updated Rankings by Birth Year and Progress Over Time. The HELIOS® App highlights your strengths and weaknesses to help you Get Better, Faster. Performance data from every practice and game is aggregated in the cloud to provide a powerful data experience to hockey players, coaches, trainers across the Helios platform. Gamified Development: Earn points for every practice and game you play. Get rewarded when you do the work and earn extra points when you perform above your personal baseline. Compete with other players near and far on the HELIOS® platform. Teams/Orgs: When hockey teams or orgs integrate HELIOS® into player and team development, coaches can see the skating performance results for their entire team in real-time or post-session. Players gain access to additional team and org-based leaderboards to raise the bar on competition and performance.

About

Benchmark

This app helps athletes track their development, set goals, and stay organized. Coaches can create personalized plans covering strength, nutrition, and mentality. It connects all aspects of an athlete's growth in one place.

Highlights
  • Complete strength and conditioning workouts
  • Track weekly development targets
  • Set long-term goals and monitor progress
  • Chat with coaches
  • View schedule
  • Log development over time
Features
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The only complete player development app. Built for players who want to go as far as they can - Benchmark is where your development comes together. If your coach, team or organization uses Benchmark, this is where you'll find your workouts, goals, weekly targets, messages, schedule and everything else that supports your development. From long-term goals to daily habits, Benchmark helps you stay organized, accountable and focused on what matters most. EVERYTHING YOU NEED. ONE APP. With Benchmark, you can: • Complete strength and conditioning workouts • Track weekly development targets • Set long-term goals and monitor your progress • Chat with your coaches • View your schedule • Access team resources • Log your development over time • Keep everything connected in one place BUILT FOR HOW PLAYERS ACTUALLY GET BETTER Growth doesn't happen in the same way for every player. Your coach can build personalized development plans that bring together on-ice skills, strength training, recovery, nutrition, mentality and more. Benchmark keeps it all connected, helping you understand what you're working toward, what you need to focus on today, and how your work adds up over time. BUILT WITH THE PEOPLE WHO SET THE STANDARD Benchmark was built alongside National Champions, Stanley Cup Champions, Olympic Gold Medalists, elite coaches, player development specialists and sports scientists. Their experience has helped shape every part of Benchmark—from the way players set goals to how coaches plan, communicate and support development every day. BUILT FOR LIFE Great player development is about more than performance. Benchmark is built on proven principles of vision setting, goal setting, progress tracking and habit formation to help players develop the mindset, discipline and ownership that lead to success—on the ice, in the classroom and throughout life. Because the habits that build better athletes also build better people. BETTER EVERY DAY That's our promise to the players and coaches who trust Benchmark—and to the product we're building alongside them.

Screenshots

HELIOS App4 screens
Benchmark3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Benchmark at 5.0 against HELIOS App's 3.9. Benchmark also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks). HELIOS App's advantage is ratings volume (52 vs 2). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Benchmark holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: HELIOS App has 52 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

HELIOS App ships an update every 3 weeks, Benchmark weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
HELIOS App versus Benchmark: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHELIOS AppBenchmark
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.9 (52 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews40.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings52 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.515.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size119 MB97 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHelios Sports, Inc.Benchmark Goals

Customer experience

HELIOS App

All ratings52 ratings
Positive67.3%
Neutral7.7%
Negative25.0%
Written reviews15 reviews
Positive40.0%
Neutral6.7%
Negative53.3%

Benchmark

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

HELIOS App

No in-app purchases

None

Benchmark

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is HELIOS App free?
HELIOS App is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Benchmark free?
Benchmark is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, HELIOS App or Benchmark?
Benchmark is rated higher. HELIOS App averages 3.9 out of 5 from 52 ratings, while Benchmark averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do HELIOS App or Benchmark have ads?
Neither HELIOS App nor Benchmark shows ads.
Which is updated more often, HELIOS App or Benchmark?
HELIOS App ships an update every 3 weeks, and Benchmark weekly. Most recently, HELIOS App was updated on November 7, 2026 and Benchmark on October 31, 2026.

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