Comparison

Team Shake vs Balance It

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Team Shake

Effortlessly create random or balanced teams for any group activity. Easily import names, save lists, and share your generated teams via email or social media. Ideal for games, sports, or school projects.

Highlights
  • Create random or balanced teams
  • Balance teams by skill or gender
  • Import users from files
  • Share teams via email or Facebook
  • Save and load friend lists
  • Full iPad support
Features
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Team Shake provides a technological and environmentally friendly way to choose teams for board games, sporting events, tournaments, school projects or anytime groups are required. The newest release brings many new features including full iPad support, balancing teams based on skill or gender, importing users from a file, enabling video output, and sharing teams via facebook or email. Team Shake is the premier iOS App for creating teams. Instead of a hat and scraps of paper, the user enters his friends' names in his iPhone and gives it a shake. The screen will then display a random set of color-coded teams. These teams can immediately be used for game play or shared via facebook or email. The quick and easy selection of random (or balanced) teams eliminates fighting over who will be on which team. Innovative use of the iPhone shake gesture gives users the satisfying feeling of shaking a virtual hat without the trouble of carrying around an actual hat. Conventional buttons can also be used for those who would rather not shake their expensive hardware about.

 The app is designed with ease of use and simplicity in mind. Names can easily be entered with the onscreen keyboard, chosen from the user's contacts, or imported from a file. The email and facebook functions document the members of each individual team as well as preserving the team number and color assigned by the app. For repeated use of Team Shake, lists of friends can be easily saved and loaded later. The current list is also automatically saved so that if you exit the app, or even reboot the device, changes will not be lost. For teachers and others with large lists of people, Team Shake supports the ability to import teams from text or csv files. If you have any problems, feature requests, or comments please send an email to support@rhine-o.com. Features: * Create 1 to 64 random teams * Create completely random or balanced teams * Full iPad support * Eliminates fighting over choosing teams * Share / Save teams via email or Facebook * Teams can be chosen by the number of teams or by the size of teams. * Save lists of friends for later games * Import lists from email or spreadsheet * Export lists and options for use on another device * Satisfying feeling of shaking a “virtual” hat to create teams * Animated shaking hat * Entry of names via onscreen keyboard * Entry of names via iPhone contacts * Temporarily disable people who are absent * Set groups of people to always be on the same team * Set groups of people to always be on different teams * Set user strength to make more even teams (now supports fully balanced teams) * 5 users strengths level * Pick a single random person from the list of players * User strength indicator on the main screen (can be disabled in options) * Number of active players and total players is now displayed on the main screen * Video Out Support * Option to Sort Teams by Name * Option to balance male / female team members * "Equal Ability" option to create teams where all players have the same strength * Option to create separate male and female teams * Configurable Team Colors * Configurable Team Names * Print Support * Export Teams in CSV or XLS Format * Team Shake now supports simultaneously assigning players to multiple subteams and / or oppose teams at the same time. * Subteams / Oppose teams can now have customized names to make selection easier * Subteams / Oppose teams can now be enabled or disabled globally so that teams can be made quickly without subteams / oppose teams. In particular, Balance Teams Strengths will work when separate Male / Female teams are created. Yappler-Tags: Teams, Groups, Random, Hat, Entertainment, Games, Utilities

About

Balance It

This app transforms physical education by gamifying balance skill development. It offers individual, partner, and group challenges, progress tracking, and a routine maker. Interactive games and curriculum-aligned resources enhance engagement for students and educators.

Highlights
  • Individual, partner, and group balance challenges
  • XP tracking and achievement milestones
  • Custom routine creation tool
  • Interactive balance games
  • Curriculum-aligned lesson plans
  • Printable teaching resources
Features
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Balance It is the balance-skills platform for PE: 67 hand-drawn balance challenges, games, a routine maker and curriculum-aligned lesson plans, now with live class sessions that connect every student device to the teacher. BALANCE IT IS NOW A PLATFORM (PHASE 1) One teacher account, one Class Pack and live sessions that work in the app and on the web: - Teachers run live sessions from the app or from balanceit.app: start a class, show a six-character code, and students join on their own devices. No student accounts. - One Class Pack (30 or 100 student seats) unlocks everything for the teacher and for every joined student, in the app and on the web. - The same account works everywhere. Buy on the App Store or at balanceit.app; your classes, sessions and pack stay in sync. FREE FOR EVERYONE - Individual and Pairs balance challenges - XP, levels and progress tracking - Students join any live class free with their teacher's code, with every pose and game unlocked while the class runs THE CLASS PACK (ONE-TIME PURCHASE) - All 67 balances: Individual, Pairs, Small Groups, Medium Groups, Extra Large and Other Activities - Balance Flip, Balance Timer and Balance Battle games - Routine Maker: build and perform custom balance sequences - Teacher Tools: curriculum-aligned lesson plans, printable balance cards and a routine assessment sheet - Live class sessions with 30 or 100 concurrent student seats - Web dashboard for teachers at balanceit.app/app Already bought the Teacher Pack? Everything stays unlocked and you are grandfathered a 30-seat Class Pack. HOW A CLASS SESSION WORKS 1. The teacher taps Run a class and starts a session. 2. The code appears full screen (mirror it to a projector if you like). 3. Students open Balance It, tap I'm a student and enter the code. 4. Every pose and game unlocks on their devices until the teacher ends the session. CURRICULUM Mapped to PE curricula in Australia, the UK, USA, New Zealand, Canada and the IB. See the full mapping at https://www.balanceit.app/curriculum-mapping Built for PE teachers, coaches and classroom teachers who want balance activities that are engaging, measurable and easy to run.

Screenshots

Team Shake4 screens
Balance It4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Balance It at Free against Team Shake's $1.99. Team Shake's advantage is rating (4.9 vs 4.0) and in-app purchases (none vs 3). On 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Balance It is free to download; Team Shake costs $1.99 up front. Balance It sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Team Shake asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Team Shake holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Team Shake has 1.6K ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 86% of Team Shake's written reviews are positive against 57% of Balance It's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Team Shake ships an update every 5 weeks, Balance It every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard9 real differences · 1 level
Team Shake versus Balance It: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTeam ShakeBalance It
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating4.9 (1.6K ratings) — better4.0 (5 ratings)
Positive reviews85.6% of reviews — better57.1% of reviews
Number of ratings1.6K — better5
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeks — betterEvery 5 months
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.4 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB59 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRhine-o Enterprises LLCConnectedPE Pty ltd

Customer experience

Team Shake

All ratings1,565 ratings
Positive97.6%
Neutral1.4%
Negative1.0%
Written reviews132 reviews
Positive85.6%
Neutral3.8%
Negative10.6%

Balance It

All ratings5 ratings
Positive80.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative20.0%
Written reviews14 reviews
Positive57.1%
Neutral0.0%
Negative42.9%

Bugs and requests

Team Shake

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Shake feature not working consistently
  • Issues with exporting or printing team lists
  • Incompatibility with certain devices or operating systems

Requested features

5 requests
  • Ability to save and reuse class lists across devices
  • Option to randomize the order of students within teams
  • More flexibility in team size and number of teams
  • Improved visual design and readability
  • Integration with other classroom management tools

Balance It

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Team Shake

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Balance It

One-time3
  • Teacher Pack$12.99
  • Class Pack - 30 seats$29.00
  • Class Pack - 100 seats$49.00

Questions

Is Team Shake free?
Team Shake costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Balance It free?
Balance It is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Team Shake or Balance It?
Team Shake is rated higher. Team Shake averages 4.9 out of 5 from 1.6K ratings, while Balance It averages 4.0 from 5 ratings.
Do Team Shake or Balance It have ads?
Balance It shows ads; Team Shake does not.
Which is updated more often, Team Shake or Balance It?
Team Shake ships an update every 5 weeks, and Balance It every 5 months. Most recently, Team Shake was updated on October 18, 2026 and Balance It on September 22, 2026.

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