Statbook vs Ultimate Scoreboard
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Statbook
This app allows users to enter and manage player, game, and statistics information for various sports directly from their mobile device. It supports creating team files, adding players, and updating game details, with templates for popular sports.
- Enter player statistics
- Create team files
- Manage game information
- Import/export data
- Sports templates (baseball, basketball, football, soccer, volleyball)
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Statbook for iOS is a simple app for users of the Statbook Mac OS and Windows applications and allows you to enter in player, game, and statistics information from your favorite mobile device. Features include the ability to create team files, add players, create and update game information, and enter player statistics from an iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad. You can export iPhone compatible files from your Mac or Windows desktop application for import into the iOS app. This information includes all player data as well as any custom statistics you have created. Templates are also available for baseball/softball, basketball, football, soccer and volleyball from within the app. In addition, extensive reporting features are available from the desktop Statbook app, which is now available on the Mac App Store.
Ultimate Scoreboard
This app provides a highly customizable scoreboard for tracking any game. It offers advanced features like penalty tracking, shot clocks, and customizable team setups. Results can be shared easily, and the app supports external screen mirroring and network connectivity for multiple devices.
- Customizable game layouts
- Team setup with logos and colors
- Penalty and shot clock management
- External screen mirroring (HDMI/AirPlay)
- Network connectivity for multiple devices
- Sound effects for game events
- Social media and email sharing
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Versatile and highly customizable scoreboard that lets you track any game and share standings and results with friends and family! Can also be used as a "real" scoreboard by connecting to an external screen by HDMI or AirPlay mirroring, or use up to 7 other iDevices as external screens by connecting them over the network. Features: - Choose between 6 different layouts when presented on an external screen. - Adjustable length- and number of periods. - Set up teams with optional logos and colors. - Penalties - shows up to three concurrent penalties per team, supports unlimited concurrent penalties. Penalties can be edited and removed. - Shot clock. - Timeouts. - Intermissions. - All clocks can be adjusted, even while still running. Long tap to enter edit mode. - Change clock direction. - Get a notification when the period or game ends if the app is running in the background (you need to accept push notifications for this to work). - Sound effects: select from a rich set of sound effects for events such as scoring, match clock start/stop, period end, game won, penalty or timeout expiration etc. - Customize the colors and fonts of clocks, scores and teams individually. - Select your own background for an even more personal touch. - Share results on social media, Email, messages etc. - Use the companion Apple Watch app to control the scoreboard from your wrist, maybe even as one of the participants? - Show a big scoreboard by connecting a TV by cable or AirPlay mirroring and select from a number of different layouts. - Connect up to 7 iPads or iPhones over the network and use them as external screens. Each connected scoreboard can use it's own separate layout and styling. - Supports most sports including Soccer, Ice hockey, Basketball, Tennis, Padel, Handball, Floorball, Lacrosse and many more. - Connect external buttons (Flic) to control the scoreboard as one of the participants or a referee. Wear the button on your wrist or on your cloths, stick it to the side of your table tennis table... you get the idea. - Use shortcuts through the Shortcuts app to trigger scores, control the game clock and more. Instructions: Tap the score with one finger for one point, two fingers for two points and three fingers for three points. You can also swipe up or right to increase the score by one or swipe left or down to remove the last added point(s). Tap on the game clock (or any other clock for that matter) to start/pause it. Tap on the period to change to the next period, long press to edit. To give either team a penalty or a timeout, tap the whistle icon in the top left. Tap on the team names to go to the team editor, where you can create new teams with customized logos and colors and select teams for the current game. Adjust the length and number of periods, the length of penalties and so on from the settings menu. Tap the trashcan icon to reset the current game. Use the share icon to share results with MMS/Facebook/Twitter/Email etc or save it to your photo album as a dear memory of that big win. Watch app: - swipe left and right to switch between screens. - on the score screen, tap each team button to add a point and swipe down on the button to undo the latest point. - on the game time screen, tap the time to start/stop the game clock. - on the last screen you have the option to reset the current game.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Ultimate Scoreboard at 4.7 against Statbook's 1.0. Ultimate Scoreboard also leads on review sentiment (73% vs 33%) and ratings volume (377 vs 1). Statbook's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 18.0). On price, ads and device support 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. Ultimate Scoreboard sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Statbook asks for nothing beyond the download.
Ultimate Scoreboard holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Ultimate Scoreboard has 377 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 33% of Statbook's written reviews are positive against 73% of Ultimate Scoreboard's.
Statbook ships an update every 4 months, Ultimate Scoreboard every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 7, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Statbook | Ultimate Scoreboard |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (1 ratings) | 4.7 (377 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews | 72.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 377 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 124 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Pachyderm Software | AgiDev AB |
Customer experience
Statbook
Ultimate Scoreboard
Bugs and requests
Statbook
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Ultimate Scoreboard
Reported bugs
14 issues- App crashes and loses data
- Clock keeps disappearing
- App is not working for some users
- Cannot load images once in a while
- App kept bugs badly
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- Cannot reverse points after accidental click
- Shot clock will not pause or reset when pausing
- Changing times on one clock changes others
- App crashes when resetting score on iOS 14.6
- New update has screwed up the app
- App crashes and shows a white screen after new update
- App only works with Wi-Fi after update
- Cannot rotate the scoreboard
- Bugs on iPad mini
Requested features
21 requests- Add a countdown clock option
- Allow changing font and appearance
- Add a feature for seconds and milliseconds after 1 minute
- Implement a shot clock
- Allow choosing custom images
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- Add color options for the scoreboard
- Add tournament mode
- Allow penalty clocks to stop independently of the game clock
- Add a whistle sound for timer start/stop
- Play a choice of sounds when score increases
- Add team records
- Allow live games
- Add specialized sports spreadsheets for stats
- Ability to save and archive multiple games
- Timer configuration with minutes and seconds
- Fix bug with clock resetting to zeroes in countdown mode when new game is selected
- Add a 30-second penalty timer option
- Ability to reset period counter
- Add a 270 camera feature
- Add timeouts (3-10)
- Add yard marker team names and logos
In-app purchases
Statbook
No in-app purchases
Ultimate Scoreboard
- Stadium monthly7 Days trial$4.991 Month
- Stadium yearly7 Days trial$49.991 Year
Questions
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