Hoops Lab vs Thirty Second Timeout
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Hoops Lab
Streamline team management for coaches with tools for play design, communication, scheduling, and roster organization. Reduce administrative tasks to maximize practice time and ensure players are prepared.
- Play designer
- Message board
- Team schedule
- Roster management
- Practice preparation
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Hoops Lab helps coaches run a more productive team. One where you spend less time standing around and more time practicing. With our play designer, message board, team schedule, and roster management, coaches can offload many of the setup and administrative tasks to happen before practice so that their players come prepared and ready to play.
Thirty Second Timeout
This app provides comprehensive college basketball game data, advanced team statistics, and tools for coaches and players to create and share plays. It also includes recruiting information and open gym schedules.
- College basketball game data
- Advanced team statistics
- Play diagrammer with animation
- Shot charting for workouts and games
- Recruiting contact information
- Open gym schedules
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Thirty Second Timeout is the basketball app for coaches and players: every college game, team stats you can actually use, and the tools for your own season. Free, no ads. EVERY COLLEGE GAME • NJCAA (JUCO), NCAA DI, DII and DIII, NAIA and USCAA men's basketball in one app • Scores, schedules, standings, a game map and games near you • Follow any team in any league for one schedule, with alerts when final scores post TEAM STATS, IN PLAIN ENGLISH • Box scores for 793 college teams, built from every game's play-by-play • Per Game, Totals, Per 32, Per 100 possessions and Advanced • "How they win": shooting, ball security, offensive rebounding and free throws, with a check on each one a team is winning • Best five-man lineups, rated by how much they outscore opponents • Every advanced number explained in one sentence PLAY DIAGRAMMER • Draw plays on a real court: cuts, passes, screens, dribbles and handoffs • Animate multi-frame plays and share them as images, PDFs or video • Undo and redo, corners on cuts and dribbles, your logo on the court • Half-court, BLOB and zone templates to start fast SHOT CHART • Chart makes and misses in workouts and games • See hot and cold zones and percentage by spot RECRUITING • Coach contacts for 1,092 college programs • Filter to the schools that fit, then email coaches from your own inbox • Your athlete profile fills in every email OPEN GYM MAP • High school, prep and JUCO open gyms with dates, times and directions Free account with Apple, Google or email. Delete it anytime in the app. No ads. No tracking. Thirty Second Timeout gives basketball coaches and players a simple way to draw, organize, and share plays from anywhere. Build clear court diagrams using player markers, movement paths, cuts, passes, screens, dribbles, and the basketball. Create multiple frames to show how a play develops step by step, add notes, customize your court, and share finished plays with your team. Features include: • Create basketball plays on a customizable court • Position offensive and defensive players • Draw cuts, passes, screens, dribbles, and movement paths • Curve and adjust paths directly on the court • Organize plays across multiple frames • Add notes and action steps • View individual frames in full screen • Export and share plays as convenient images or PDFs • Chart shooting for workouts • Chart shooting for full games • Analyze and filter shot chart data Whether you are preparing for practice, explaining an in-game adjustment, or building your playbook, Thirty Second Timeout helps make every action easy to understand.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Thirty Second Timeout at 5.0 against Hoops Lab's 4.5. Hoops Lab's advantage is ratings volume (13 vs 1) and update cadence (weekly vs every 2 weeks). 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Thirty Second Timeout holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Hoops Lab has 13 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Hoops Lab ships an update weekly, Thirty Second Timeout every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Hoops Lab | Thirty Second Timeout |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (13 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 13 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 35 MB | 21 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Labrador Sports | Thomas Fabian |
Customer experience
Hoops Lab
Thirty Second Timeout
In-app purchases
Hoops Lab
No in-app purchases
Thirty Second Timeout
No in-app purchases
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