DYSports vs PlaybookMax
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
DYSports
This sports app provides comprehensive event information for coaches, players, parents, and fans. Stay updated with schedules, live standings, game notifications, and team rosters. Access venue directions and essential event documents all in one place.
- Quick team search
- Up-to-the-minute schedules
- Live standings and brackets
- Immediate game notifications
- Venue directions
- Team rosters and live results
- Event documents and contact details
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The DYSports app is your all-encompassing guide for sporting events, meticulously crafted to cater to the needs of team and college coaches, media, players, parents, and fans. Designed to bring every essential aspect of the event to your fingertips, this platform ensures you stay connected and well-informed. Key Features: • Quick team search and user-friendly shortcuts. • Up-to-the-minute schedules to keep you on track. • Live standings and brackets for real-time updates. • Immediate game notifications so you never miss a beat. • Venue directions for easy navigation. • Access to team rosters and live results with box scores (when available), all at your fingertips. • Essential event documents, messages, and contact details for complete guidance. • Information on event sponsors for additional insights. With the app, every detail of the event is conveniently at your fingertips, ensuring an immersive and comprehensive experience for everyone involved.
PlaybookMax
This app helps football coaches manage their teams, plan practices, and communicate with players and families. It allows for play design, roster management, scheduling, and team chat, with an optional Pro version for AI coaching features.
- Design offensive and defensive plays
- Organize and share playbooks
- Manage roster and schedule events
- Run timed practice periods
- Team chat and communication
- Invite coaches, staff, and families
- AI play generation (Pro)
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PlaybookMax is the playbook, practice planner, and team hub for youth and high school football coaches — built for the sideline. DRAW AND CALL PLAYS • Design offensive and defensive plays with formations, routes, reads, keys, and branches • Organize your playbooks and share published plays with your team • Help players understand their assignments with position notes RUN THE TEAM • Manage your roster, positions, and depth • Create schedule events and collect attendance responses for each player • Run timed practice periods from your phone • Keep everyone connected with team chat, photos, plays, quizzes, and reactions • Report messages and block members from chat BRING THE FAMILIES IN • Invite coaches, staff, and families to your team • Families see their linked players' cards and the plays they're in • Share checklists and team quizzes in chat PARENT-MANAGED ACCESS Adults manage accounts and team activity. Children can view published plays and player profiles together with a parent or guardian using that adult’s account. Player profiles do not have separate child logins. GO PRO FOR AI COACHING PlaybookMax Pro adds AI play generation, Staff Analysis, position notes, Coach Chat, and custom chat rooms. Pro includes 1,000 shared team AI credits per month, with a 100-credit daily limit. Different AI actions may use different numbers of credits. AI usage is limited, not unlimited. ONE SUBSCRIPTION COVERS THE WHOLE TEAM A coach, staff member, or family member can upgrade the team to Pro. The team shares the benefits and AI allowance. Members who fund the team receive a supporter mark in chat. SUBSCRIPTION PlaybookMax Pro — $19.99 per month. Subscriptions are billed monthly to your Apple Account and renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel in your App Store account settings. Prices shown in USD; local pricing may vary. Terms of Use: https://playbookmax.com/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://playbookmax.com/privacy/ Built by coaches' families, for coaches. Questions: hello@playbookmax.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: DYSports at none against PlaybookMax's 1. DYSports also leads on ratings volume (280 vs 1) and device support (3 vs 1). PlaybookMax's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 months) and rating (5.0 vs 4.8). On price, ads and iOS requirement 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. PlaybookMax sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $19.99 per month. DYSports asks for nothing beyond the download.
PlaybookMax holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: DYSports has 280 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
DYSports ships an update every 2 months, PlaybookMax every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 12, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | DYSports | PlaybookMax |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (280 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 280 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 48 MB | 86 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | DYSports,LLC | Burletech |
Customer experience
DYSports
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In-app purchases
DYSports
No in-app purchases
PlaybookMax
- PlaybookMax Pro7 Days trial$19.991 Month
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