Comparison

HELIOS App vs LagKing

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

LagKing

This app enhances golf putting practice by using a physical gate to measure ball speed and project putt distance. It offers multiple game modes and multiplayer features to improve speed control and accuracy on the green.

Highlights
  • Measures ball speed for accurate feedback
  • Projects full putt rollout
  • Nine practice modes
  • Multiplayer challenges and leaderboards
  • Wireless gate pairing
  • Supports putts up to 60 feet
Features
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Putting practice made fun. LagKing is the companion app for the LagKing putting gate. Put the gate down on carpet, a putting mat, or a practice green, roll a putt through it, and the app tells you how far that ball would have finished. STOP THREE-PUTTING Three-putts come from speed, not line. The trouble is that most practice spaces are too short to teach you speed, because the ball stops before it tells you anything. LagKing reads the putt you actually hit and projects the full rollout, so you can work on 50 foot lag putts without a 50 foot green. NINE WAYS TO PRACTICE Target. Pick a distance, or let the app pick one, and dial it in. Distance Challenge. Work a spread of distances and watch your speed control tighten. Simulated 9. Play nine holes of lag putting with a real scorecard. Putting Ladder. Climb through distances one rung at a time. Start Line. Find out whether you are pushing or pulling the ball. Poker. Earn cards by putting close and build the best hand. Line Four. Connect four by landing putts exactly where you want them. Turf War. Claim ground with every putt. King of the Hill. Take the crown and try to keep it. PLAY WITH OTHER PEOPLE Hand the phone around for a match on a single gate, or send a challenge to a friend and watch their putts play back against yours. Leaderboards, personal bests, and every session you have ever putted, kept. PRECISE WHERE IT MATTERS The gate measures ball speed to roughly 0.1 percent. Speed is the number that decides whether a lag putt finishes tight or leaves you a four footer, so it is the number worth getting right. READY IN SECONDS The gate pairs with your phone or tablet wirelessly. Put it down, putt through it, done. Modes run out to 60 feet. NO SUBSCRIPTION The full phone and tablet app comes with your gate. The LagKing putting gate is required, and is available for purchase at lagking.com.

Screenshots

HELIOS App4 screens
LagKing4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: LagKing at 100% against HELIOS App's 40%. LagKing also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.9) and update cadence (every 4 days vs every 3 weeks). HELIOS App's advantage is ratings volume (52 vs 5). 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

LagKing 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 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 40% of HELIOS App's written reviews are positive against 100% of LagKing's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

HELIOS App ships an update every 3 weeks, LagKing every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
HELIOS App versus LagKing: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHELIOS AppLagKing
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.9 (52 ratings)5.0 (5 ratings) — better
Positive reviews40.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings52 — better5
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV — better
Requires iOS15.515.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size119 MB98 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperHelios Sports, Inc.LagKing LLC

Customer experience

HELIOS App

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

LagKing

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

HELIOS App

No in-app purchases

None

LagKing

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is HELIOS App free?
HELIOS App is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is LagKing free?
LagKing is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, HELIOS App or LagKing?
LagKing is rated higher. HELIOS App averages 3.9 out of 5 from 52 ratings, while LagKing averages 5.0 from 5 ratings.
Do HELIOS App or LagKing have ads?
Neither HELIOS App nor LagKing shows ads.
Which is updated more often, HELIOS App or LagKing?
HELIOS App ships an update every 3 weeks, and LagKing every 4 days. Most recently, HELIOS App was updated on November 3, 2026 and LagKing on October 31, 2026.

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