Center for Officials Services vs RefBox'd
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Center for Officials Services
Manage your high school officiating schedule and communications in one place. View assignments, communicate with crews and staff, access insurance and state passes, and track payments and reports.
- View game assignments
- Push notifications for assignments
- Crew communication
- Staff communication
- Digital insurance card
- State passes and cards
- Payment management
- Schedule blocking
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The NFHS Center for Officials Services (COS), powered by DragonFly, is THE app for high school officials. The COS brings all things officiating into a single place so you can manage your schedule from anywhere with ease. Use the COS app to: • View your game assignments • Get push notifications for new assignments and changes to games • View and talk to your crew • Communicate with school staff • Access your digital NFHS insurance card • Access your state passes and cards • View and withdraw your payments • Block your schedule for your assigner • Share your distance limits with your assigner • Block officials and schools when you have a conflict of interest • Fill out ejection and incident reports • Keep a record of your past games • Apply for new credential cards and passes each year Coming soon to the COS app (and already available on the website): • Register with your state association • Register with your local associations and officiating groups • Pay your officiating dues To learn more about the NFHS Center for Officials Services, powered by DragonFly, and to log in to the website to access all of the platform features, visit dragonflymax.com/officials.
RefBox'd
This app helps sports officials log games, track experience, and build a personal officiating history. Users can view stats, connect with friends, and see their career journey unfold.
- Log officiated games
- Track game history and stats
- Connect with other officials
- Organize career experience
- View game details (teams, scores, venues)
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RefBox’d — Built for Officials Every game is part of your officiating journey. RefBox’d gives sports officials a simple way to log the games they work, track their experience, connect with friends, and see their officiating history come to life. LOG YOUR GAMES Keep a detailed record of the games you've officiated, including teams, scores, leagues, venues, partners, and more. BUILD YOUR GAME HISTORY No more trying to remember when or where you worked a game. RefBox’d keeps your officiating history organized in one place so you can easily look back on the games you've worked throughout your career. DISCOVER YOUR STATS Turn your game history into meaningful stats. See how many games you've worked, which teams you've officiated most, your most frequent partners, and more. CONNECT WITH FRIENDS Officiating is a community. Add friends on RefBox’d, see the games they're working, and keep up with each other's officiating journeys. Stay connected with the officials you meet along the way and see where the game takes them next. MADE FOR OFFICIALS RefBox’d was designed specifically for sports officials. Whether you're working your first games or have years of experience, RefBox’d gives you one place to track the moments, people, and games that make up your officiating career. Your games. Your stats. Your crew. Log it with RefBox’d.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: RefBox'd at 5.0 against Center for Officials Services's 1.8. RefBox'd also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs monthly). Center for Officials Services's advantage is ratings volume (79 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.1). 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.
RefBox'd holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Center for Officials Services has 79 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Center for Officials Services ships an update monthly, RefBox'd fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Center for Officials Services | RefBox'd |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.8 (79 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 2.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 79 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 34 MB | 45 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | DragonFly Athletics, LLC | Daniel Kandell |
Customer experience
Center for Officials Services
RefBox'd
In-app purchases
Center for Officials Services
No in-app purchases
RefBox'd
No in-app purchases
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