Comparison

Livescore by SoccerDesk vs Pling!

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

Head to head
About

Livescore by SoccerDesk

Features
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We love Sports and we despise Ads. This is why we created SoccerDesk a live score app for football and other sports fans which has no ads! Yes your heard it! SoccerDesk is completely ads free! We are covering football, tennis, basketball, rugby (Rugby Union), ice hockey and cricket at the moment, but we are already working on new sports! MAIN FEATURES: ADS FREE: tired of using live score applications which display all sorts of annoying and intrusive ads? With SoccerDesk you can finally enjoy an ads free live score app. GLOBAL COVERAGE: SoccerDesk covers many football, basketball, rugby, ice hockey and cricket leagues and tennis tournaments around the world. We are expanding our coverage on a daily basis and we are already working on new sports. LIVE SCORE SPEED: SoccerDesk provides live football and other sports scores in near real time. On average we are as fast as other livescore applications and, at times, even faster. CUSTOMISATION: SoccerDesk is easy to navigate and it can be easily customised. You can pin your favourite leagues and competitions and follow your favourite teams or matches. You can pin as many football, basketball, rugby, ice hockey and cricket leagues and tennis tournaments as you like and order them according to your preferences in the Bookmarks section of the menu. NOTIFICATIONS: are you annoyed by other live score apps sending you unwanted marketing notifications, specially in the middle of the night? SoccerDesk is a livescore application which will only send you notifications for live matches you follow. No marketing notifications. MATCH UPDATES AND STATISTICS: follow your favourite team and match updates like goals, VAR disallowed goals, cards etc. COMMENTARY: do you want to get more information on how your favourite team is doing during the match - follow the live match commentary. THEMES: adjust the app's appearance to match your preferences. SoccerDesk supports light and dark mode and has one additional dark theme with higher contrast. During first launch the app will pick a theme based on your system settings, and in case you configured your device to switch to dark mode after sunset, SoccerDesk will replicate that, too. And of course you can always change your appearance preferences in the app settings. LANGUAGES: SoccerDesk provides football and other sports scores and news in multiple languages. For now we support English, Italian, Spanish and Czech, but we are already working on new languages like German, French and more. During the first launch the app will set its language based on the configuration of your system or default to English in case the language of your system is not yet supported by the app. You can always change your language preferences in the app settings. NEWS: stay up to date with what's going on in football and other sports directly in the app AND MORE: - Follow your favourite leagues and tournaments, teams and matches - Receive live score push notifications for all your favourite teams and matches - Follow live score updates for many leagues and tournaments around the world. We are expanding our coverage - Live league tables and tournament draws - Live match details with goals, cards, VAR, substitutions, etc. - Match Line up - Match statistics - Teams head to head - Fixtures and results - Top Scorers - Odds info - News - Very easy navigation - Light and dark themes and their selection based on system settings - Localisation - the app is available in English, Italian, Spanish and Czech with more languages coming soon About SoccerDesk: We are as tired as you being bombarded left and right by ads. This is why we decided to build SoccerDesk. Our focus is creating an ads free livescore application so that we can all enjoy following our favourite teams and matches without being constantly targeted by advertising campaigns. We started with covering football, tennis, basketball, Rugby Union, ice hockey and cricket but we are already working on other sports and more.

About

Pling!

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Experience the thrill of every goal with our one-of-a-kind football app! Our unique Goal Feed pays homage to the iconic "goal" flash, delivering real-time goal updates that will keep you on the edge of your seat. Stay in the loop with statistics, standings, player stats, match schedules and more for all major European leagues. Plus, never miss a moment of the action with our instant push notifications.

Screenshots

Livescore by SoccerDesk4 screens
Pling!4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Pling! at 13.0 against Livescore by SoccerDesk's 15.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference · 5 level
Livescore by SoccerDesk versus Pling!: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLivescore by SoccerDeskPling!
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB27 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSnapScore s.r.o.Ole Kristian Lillebo

In-app purchases

None

Livescore by SoccerDesk

No in-app purchases

None

Pling!

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Livescore by SoccerDesk free?
Livescore by SoccerDesk is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Pling! free?
Pling! is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Livescore by SoccerDesk or Pling! have ads?
Neither Livescore by SoccerDesk nor Pling! shows ads.

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