Stack Officials vs Pulse
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Stack Officials
This app streamlines game day management for sports assignors and officials. It allows for easy schedule adjustments, real-time communication, and on-the-go assignment acceptance. Officials can manage availability, receive notifications, and submit game reports directly from their mobile device.
- Manage schedules and assignments
- Real-time game crew communication
- Update game statuses
- Manage official availability
- Receive and accept game assignments
- Submit game reports
- In-app notifications
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The essential game-day companion for assignors and officials—manage schedules, assignments, and game day with ease! For Assignors: - Quickly adjust assignments and update game statuses - View event positions and official availability - Communicate with game crews in real time - Get instant directions to game locations For Officials: - Manage your availability and share your schedule - Receive and accept game assignments on the go - Filter self-assignment games by venue for a customized experience - Stay updated with in-app notifications for assignments and reports - Verify your crew and submit game reports from your mobile device - Get notified about payment profile updates to ensure smooth payouts to your bank account Download now and take control of your officiating experience with Stack Officials!
Pulse
This app allows coaches to easily plan soccer drills, build training sessions, and set team lineups. It offers offline functionality and a straightforward interface for creating and sharing tactical plans.
- Draw custom soccer drills
- Organize drills into sessions
- Set team formations and lineups
- Offline functionality
- Export drills, sessions, and lineups
- Customizable pitch and player markers
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Pulse is a training tool for coaches who do everything themselves. Draw a drill straight onto a pitch. Save it. Build it into a session. Set your lineup for the weekend. That's the whole app — two jobs, done properly, with nothing else in the way. Everything works offline and lives on your phone. There is no account to create, no email to hand over, and no internet connection required. Open the app and you are one tap from drawing. PLAN A DRILL Sketch on a full pitch, a half, a third, or a blank canvas. Place players, cones, goals and balls. Draw passes, shots, runs and dribbles. Mark out zones. Everything can be moved, rotated, resized and recoloured until the drill reads the way you see it in your head. Save a drill and it joins your library, ready to reuse next week. BUILD A SESSION Pull saved drills into a session and put them in order. Give each block a type — warm-up, technical, possession, pressing, whatever it is — and write the coaching points you want to hit. Set a duration and Pulse totals the session for you. SET A LINEUP Pick your squad size — 7v7, 9v9 or 11v11 — then a formation, then arrange your players on the pitch. Change the formation and the names come with them. Add substitutes. Choose how the lineup looks: plain white pitch or mown stripes, circle markers or jerseys, blank markers or numbers or positions, and your own team and keeper colours. SHARE IT Export a drill or a lineup as an image, or a full session as a PDF, and send it straight from the share sheet. AirDrop it to an assistant, drop it in the team chat, or text it to a parent. Nothing is uploaded anywhere — the file is made on your phone and goes wherever you send it. BUILT FOR ONE COACH Pulse is for the person running a team on their own: club, high school, or competitive youth. It does not try to be a club management platform. There are no rosters to maintain, no dashboards, no notifications chasing you to come back. Just a clipboard that draws.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Pulse at 5.0 against Stack Officials's 2.1. Stack Officials's advantage is ratings volume (14 vs 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.
Pulse holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Stack Officials has 14 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | Stack Officials | Pulse |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.1 (14 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 9.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 14 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 20 MB | 49 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Stack Sports | SANTIAGO FELIZZOLA BALLESTEROS |
Customer experience
Stack Officials
Pulse
In-app purchases
Stack Officials
No in-app purchases
Pulse
No in-app purchases









