Team Butter vs CheerPlanner
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Team Butter
This app simplifies fundraising by allowing teams to sell premium popcorn online. It handles sales, distribution, and allows participants to earn 50% of the revenue, eliminating the need for in-person sales.
- Virtual fundraising management
- Sell premium handcrafted popcorn
- Earn 50% of sales revenue
- App handles distribution
- Share fundraiser with network
- Team collaboration
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With Team Butter, fundraising is as easy as click and can be done from anywhere, anytime. Sell premium handcrafted popcorn and let our app do the work while your team earns the money - 50% of sales, to be exact. No more door-to-door sales or distributing the popcorn on your own (we do that for you). It's simple, fun, fast, and profitable, the way fundraising should be. The Team Butter app allows you to create & manage your fundraiser, share your fundraiser with your team and network and sell premium handcrafted popcorn...all while keeping 50% of the sales.
CheerPlanner
Organize all aspects of competitive cheerleading season, from travel and expenses to schedules and packing lists. Track multiple athletes, manage payments, and sync with family members for a seamless experience.
- Unlimited athlete profiles
- Competition tracking with reminders
- Expense and payment management
- Travel and accommodation booking
- Unified schedule and calendar view
- Customizable packing lists
- Household sharing and real-time sync
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CheerPlanner is the all-in-one organizer for cheer families, coaches, team reps, and staff. Keep expenses, competitions, travel, practices, calendars, forms, rosters, packing lists, and team communication organized in one place. FOR FAMILIES • Money made clear — Track expenses and payments for each athlete. Payments automatically apply to the oldest balance first, and the Home screen keeps balances and upcoming amounts easy to see. • Competitions & travel — Keep venues, addresses, event dates, hotels, flights, rental cars, and travel details together. Tap any address for directions. • Performance times — Track meet times, performance times, arenas, and Teams to Watch for each competition day. • Packing lists — Create reusable packing-list templates and check items off by athlete. • One connected calendar — See competitions, performance times, hotels, flights, practices, deadlines, and travel reminders. View Month, Week, Day, or List, filter by event type, and add events to your phone calendar. • Smart calendar sync — Import all events, including repeating series; see what’s already been added, sync new and changed events without duplicates, or undo an accidental import. • Automatic sync — Optionally sync the Team Hub to your personal calendar every morning. • Travel reminders — Hotel free-cancellation deadlines appear on your calendar, with optional reminders 1–2 days before the deadline. • Text reminders — Opt in to SMS reminders for important deadlines and travel dates. • Family Sharing — Invite a co-parent and control what each person can see. • Seasons — Keep each season organized automatically by date and roll teams forward from year to year. • Weather & Community Reviews — Check event forecasts and family-shared ratings for gyms, hotels, and restaurants. FOR COACHES, TEAM REPS & STAFF TEAM HUB • One team join code — Share one code with your team. New members appear in a New Members queue with limited access until you assign a role. • Team roles — Assign Parent, Coach, Staff, or Athlete roles. • New-member alerts — Get notified when someone joins with your team code, and see your actual team name in join confirmations. • Merge duplicate members — Link a new login to an existing roster profile instead of entering the member again. • Roster management — Manage members, sizes, paperwork, and payments with shared grids and checklists. • Team Forms — Create meal, size, consent, and other forms. Share a no-login link, track responses live, and export CSV. • Sign-up sheets, custom roster exports, and team music. • Team calendar — Share practices, competitions, meetings, travel, and other events with the team. TEAM CHAT • Real-time chat — Share text, photos, videos, music, emoji reactions, and @mentions. • Named channels — Organize conversations for Coaches, Fundraising, and other groups. • Download shared photos, videos, and songs. • Scheduled posts — Queue announcements to automatically post later. • Forms & sign-ups in chat — Post forms and sign-up sheets as tappable cards. PARENTGUARD — SAFE CHAT FOR MINORS Minor athletes can chat only after parent/guardian approval. Chat is off by default, limited to supervised group conversations, fully visible to the guardian, and revocable anytime. SAFETY & MODERATION Community Guidelines, profanity filtering, report/block tools, automatic hiding of repeatedly reported content, and admin alerts help keep team communication appropriate and safe. HELP & SUPPORT Get help in CheerPlanner with our FAQ, Setup Guide, and Assistant Coach resources. Free to use with generous limits. Optional Premium is $4.99/month or $39.99/year with a 7-day free trial, increased household limits, and full Team Hub access.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: CheerPlanner at 100% against Team Butter's 0%. CheerPlanner also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.4) and update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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.
CheerPlanner holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 4 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Team Butter's written reviews are positive against 100% of CheerPlanner's.
Team Butter ships an update every 3 weeks, CheerPlanner weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 9, 2026 and September 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Team Butter | CheerPlanner |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (5 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 48 MB | 47 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Team Butter | Michelle Desuse |
Customer experience
Team Butter
CheerPlanner
In-app purchases
Team Butter
No in-app purchases
CheerPlanner
No in-app purchases





