PlayersWay vs Set_Maker
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PlayersWay
This app provides young athletes with tools to improve performance, recovery, and injury resilience. It offers movement assessments, personalized corrective exercises, and musculoskeletal health reports based on expert-developed systems.
- Movement assessment
- Individualized corrective exercises
- Musculoskeletal health report
- Injury risk identification
- Performance improvement insights
- Recovery and resiliency training
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WHAT IS THE PLAYERS WAY? The Players Way app is a youth athletic development platform designed to offer young athletes the ability to discover valuable insights to improve performance, recovery, movement, and resiliency to injury. The Players Way team has worked with Functional Movement Systems (FMS). FMS is the worlds leading movement expert who has developed systems for the US military, NFL, NHL, NBA, NHL, MSL, EPL, and more. WHAT DO YOU GET? Perform the Movement assessment: The self-movement assessment provides valuable information about how you move, ultimately reveals imbalances and symmetry deficiencies, and is used as a screening tool to identify your risk of injury. Individualized Corrective Exercises: Instantly receive a personalized exercise program designed to improve all areas of weakness. By improving fundamental movement patterns and eliminating asymmetries, you begin to set a solid foundation upon which you can improve performance. Improving fundamental movement patterns is the cornerstone of the best training programs for baseball. Musculoskeletal Health Report: The best way to ensure you avoid injuries and become as durable as possible is to identify potential problems before they occur. The Musculoskeletal report does this, it places you in a category giving you valuable insight into where you should focus not only your training but other health-related areas such as nutrition, sleep, and stress. SUBSCRIBERS AUTOMATIC-RENEWAL FEATURE -1-month subscription grants access to the movement assessment= and exercises. - When opting for a subscription, you pay the fixed price for your country, which is displayed in the app. - Payment will be charged to your iTunes Account upon confirmation of purchase. - Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renewal is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. - Your Account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current subscription period. - You can manage your subscriptions and turn off auto-renewal by going to your Account Settings after purchase. - When canceling a subscription, your subscription will stay active until the end of the current period. Auto-renewal will be disabled, but the current subscription will not be refunded. ADDITIONAL IN-APP PURCHASE -One-time fee of $4.99 grants you access to the Musculoseketal Health Report. Read full Terms of Service & Privacy Policy: https://www.functionalmovement.com/privacy https://www.functionalmovement.com/terms Terms of Use (EULA) https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Set_Maker
Easily generate personalized swim workouts based on your desired distance, stroke, and difficulty level. This app provides a unique training plan tailored to your needs with just a few taps.
- Create custom swim workouts
- Set distance, stroke, and difficulty
- Personalized training plans
- User-friendly interface
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Create swim workouts at the press of a button. Setup to create a unique workout for you with options such as distance, stroke, and level of difficulty.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Set_Maker at 100% against PlayersWay's 0%. Set_Maker also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.7) and in-app purchases (none vs 2). PlayersWay's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 10 months) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.6). On price, ratings volume, ads 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
Both are free to download. PlayersWay sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Set_Maker asks for nothing beyond the download.
Set_Maker holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 2 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of PlayersWay's written reviews are positive against 100% of Set_Maker's.
PlayersWay ships an update monthly, Set_Maker every 10 months. The most recent releases landed on September 10, 2026 and June 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PlayersWay | Set_Maker |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 10 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 123 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Functional Movement Systems, Inc | TecDesigns LLC |
Customer experience
PlayersWay
Set_Maker
In-app purchases
PlayersWay
- PlayersWay Subscription7 Days trial$1.991 Month
- MSK Unlock$4.99
Set_Maker
No in-app purchases








