JumpForward vs Beyond Pulse (For Players)
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
JumpForward
This app connects coaches, student-athletes, and administrators within collegiate athletic departments. It provides a unified platform for athletic department operations.
- Connects coaches, athletes, and administrators
- Unified athletics platform
- Supports collegiate athletic departments
- Free for subscribers
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JumpForward connects and powers coaches, student-athletes and administrators for collegiate athletic departments. The JumpForward Unified Athletics application is free to JumpForward subscribers.
Beyond Pulse (For Players)
This app connects youth athletes with their coaches, providing data on heart rate, active participation, distance, and speed. The insights gained aim to enhance training, improve player health, and boost performance. It is exclusively for registered players within the Beyond Pulse system.
- Heart Rate Monitoring
- Active Participation Tracking
- Distance and Speed Metrics
- Improved Training Insights
- Enhanced Player Health
- Player-Coach Connection
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The Beyond Pulse (For Players) app is the first of its kind that connects youth players to their coaches. Our technology empowers players with data that shows Heart Rate, Active Participation, Distance and Speed, resulting in better training, improved player health and performance. This app is not a publicly available solution and is specific only to registered Beyond Pulse players. For more information, please visit www.beyondpulse.com.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Beyond Pulse (For Players) at 3.4 against JumpForward's 2.0. JumpForward's advantage is review sentiment (18% vs 0%) and update cadence (monthly vs every 2 months). 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.
Beyond Pulse (For Players) holds the better App Store score, 3.4 against 2.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 30 and 27 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 18% of JumpForward's written reviews are positive against 0% of Beyond Pulse (For Players)'s, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
JumpForward ships an update monthly, Beyond Pulse (For Players) every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | JumpForward | Beyond Pulse (For Players) |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.0 (30 ratings) | 3.4 (27 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 18.2% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 30 — better | 27 |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 57 MB | 43 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Active Network, LLC | Beyond Pulse, Inc. |
Customer experience
JumpForward
Beyond Pulse (For Players)
In-app purchases
JumpForward
No in-app purchases
Beyond Pulse (For Players)
No in-app purchases
Questions
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