Comparison

Hershey Bears vs PANDA Stronger

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

Head to head
About

Hershey Bears

Access all the official information for the Hershey Bears, including schedules, real-time game stats, photos, and videos. Stay connected with your favorite players through bios and statistics, and never miss a moment with live game audio and notifications.

Highlights
  • Official Hershey Bears information
  • Game schedules
  • Real-time game statistics
  • Live game audio streaming
  • Player bios and statistics
  • Game notifications
Features
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Official App of the Hershey Bears! Your ultimate source for Hershey Bears information. View the Bears schedule, real time game information, game photos, videos and more. Plus, you can stay connected with the Bears! Stay up to date on your favorite players in our Team section, including player photos, bios and statistics! Best of all, you can LISTEN to all Hershey Bears games LIVE from ANYWHERE! You’ll never have to miss a game – no matter where you are! The Game Day view provides real time statistics for live games, and post game information including the three stars. Game notifications - get notified during games with goal and period updates as the game progresses! Control your desired notifications by enabling them in the settings for the app.

About

PANDA Stronger

This app helps manage sports teams, track athlete performance, and facilitate college recruitment. It offers tools for scheduling, workout design, data analysis, and creating an athletic resume.

Highlights
  • Team management with groups and calendars
  • Workout tracking and comparison
  • Athletic Competency Index (ACI)
  • College recruitment profile and coach outreach
  • Customizable workout design
  • RSVP and participation tracking
Features
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PANDA Stronger is a revolutionary team management, athletic development and college recruitment tool, powered by data analytics that lets you track, analyze and compare your workouts to other users. PANDA is the first app to combine all of these features into one comprehensive tool that helps streamline and enhance the athletic experience. And all the core features of PANDA are free. TEAM MANAGEMENT Team management is run through TeamingUP groups and Calendars. TeamingUP groups include a dashboard, member roster, team chat, notice boards, a master schedule, a comparison tool and push notifications. The Calendar organizes activities into fitness programs, practices, games and events. Group schedules have an RSVP feature so coaches can see who is attending. Coaches can also track each individual’s workout data and compare it to the rest of the team. This allows coaches to tailor their workout programs to maximize results. • TeamingUp groups and Calendars manage your team • Invitation and RSVP systems build groups and track participation • Schedule fitness programs, practices, games and events • Design custom workouts from hundreds of predefined exercises • Review athlete’s workout data and compare it to others • Team chat • Notice boards • Push notifications WORKOUT TRACKING Easily add games, workout programs, practices and events to the calendars you manage. Build custom workouts within the calendar or with our Quick Add Tool. Once scheduled, your home page alerts you daily of the tasks you need to perform. PANDA allows users to review, sort and compare their workout data to other users. Explore your overall athleticism with our Athletic Competency Index or ACI, based on 10 core exercises from speed, endurance, strength, agility and explosiveness. See your ACI plotted over time and see where you need to improve to become a better athlete. • Create fitness programs and track your results • Compare workout results with other users and sort results by key metrics. • View your Personal Records • See your ACI™ plotted over time to understand your total athleticism • Choose from hundreds of predefined exercises to quickly create workouts COLLEGE RECRUITING Your profile page serves as an athletic resume and is used to promote yourself. Share your bio, video highlights, workout data, ACI performance and more. Request and post recommendations to your profile. Email a College Coach with our tool that has more than 84K college coach emails. College coaches can use PANDA to virtually scout athletes and manage their sports teams. Coaches can search athletic metrics and use powerful filters to find athletes that may be off the traditional recruiting grid. PANDA will also be adding a compliance reporting tool that tracks communications with high school athletes. • Your Profile page serves as your athletic resume • Post highlight and workout videos • Request and receive recommendations • Email a College Coach • Folders to organize your emails • Find athletes meeting any metric with the Run a Comparison Tool • Powerful sorting filters OTHER BENEFITS PANDA has a strong social media component where athletes can follow one another and share their interests. PANDA is not just for competitive athletes, recreational athletes or just those looking for motivation, can still enjoy all the benefits of PANDA: manage your schedule, track your workouts and compete against friends. • Follow users and have them follow you back • Post your interests • Discounts from affiliate stores At PANDA we are changing the paradigm of team management, athletic development, data analytics and college recruitment by putting it all in one easy to use tool. Our goal is to make it much easier for coaches to manage their teams, while giving athletes a better way to manage their workouts and promote themselves throughout the recruiting process. If you’re an athlete, parent, coach or anyone working on getting in shape, we have something for you.

Screenshots

Hershey Bears4 screens
PANDA Stronger4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: PANDA Stronger at 86% against Hershey Bears's 26%. PANDA Stronger also leads on rating (4.6 vs 3.6) and ads (none vs shown). On price, ratings volume, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

PANDA Stronger holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 30 and 11 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 26% of Hershey Bears's written reviews are positive against 86% of PANDA Stronger's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Hershey Bears ships an update every 4 months, PANDA Stronger monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Hershey Bears versus PANDA Stronger: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHershey BearsPANDA Stronger
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.6 (30 ratings)4.6 (11 ratings) — better
Positive reviews26.3% of reviews85.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings30 — better11
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsMonthly — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supportedFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.013.0
Further details — not scored
Size50 MB49 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHershey Entertainment and Resorts CompanyParc Sports LLC

Customer experience

Hershey Bears

All ratings30 ratings
Positive63.3%
Neutral3.3%
Negative33.3%
Written reviews76 reviews
Positive26.3%
Neutral9.2%
Negative64.5%

PANDA Stronger

All ratings11 ratings
Positive90.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative9.1%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive85.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative14.3%

Bugs and requests

Hershey Bears

Reported bugs

60 issues
  • App does not work
  • App crashing
  • Push notifications not working
  • Audio stream issues
  • Incorrect score reporting
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  • App not optimized for iPhone X
  • White screen on launch
  • App not updated
  • Live radio not working
  • App doesn't update in a timely manner
  • Push notifications don't always come through
  • Updates aren't always live
  • Store leads to a blank page
  • App doesn't refresh
  • Radio feed does not work
  • App does not provide current scores
  • App does not provide score updates
  • Current game does not update
  • App stuck on old dates
  • No longer usable on iPhone 6+ iOS 10.0.02
  • Won't load after update
  • Radio feed almost never works
  • Layout of features is terrible
  • Unresponsive to user
  • Has to be manipulated to update
  • Extremely frustrating to use
  • Never has the right game or updates
  • Frozen app
  • Doesn't have up to date info
  • Games, Roster changes, standings etc. doesn't update
  • Audio keeps going off
  • Game day needs to update to current game
  • In app summaries are from a game ago
  • App crashing on iPod touch
  • Phone shows game not started, another shows 7 minutes left
  • Scores in schedule view are never correct
  • Live game audio doesn't work anymore
  • Scores don't update
  • Crashes frequently
  • Items don't load properly
  • Several pages seem to be non functional
  • Live game audio is pretty much gone
  • Radio part keeps dropping during the game
  • Radio part doesn't work at all
  • Live game audio went silent
  • Cannot restart live game audio
  • Cannot listen to live games
  • Game audio hasn't worked since update
  • Game score hasn't worked since update
  • Game audio keeps cutting out
  • App crashes when going to schedule
  • App crashes every time schedule link is clicked
  • Live stream not working
  • Cannot listen live since last update
  • Radio doesn't play
  • Cannot listen to the radio feed since last update
  • App doesn't respect vibrate setting
  • Scores were never updated
  • Roster doesn't work
  • Little problems with app functionality

Requested features

8 requests
  • Fix push notifications
  • Improve game update accuracy
  • Optimize for newer devices
  • Add ticket purchasing
  • Add score notifications
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  • Add Calder cup standings
  • Add multi-tasking while listening
  • Add iPad version

PANDA Stronger

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Hershey Bears

No in-app purchases

None

PANDA Stronger

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Hershey Bears free?
Hershey Bears is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is PANDA Stronger free?
PANDA Stronger is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Hershey Bears or PANDA Stronger?
PANDA Stronger is rated higher. Hershey Bears averages 3.6 out of 5 from 30 ratings, while PANDA Stronger averages 4.6 from 11 ratings.
Do Hershey Bears or PANDA Stronger have ads?
Hershey Bears shows ads; PANDA Stronger does not.
Which is updated more often, Hershey Bears or PANDA Stronger?
Hershey Bears ships an update every 4 months, and PANDA Stronger monthly. Most recently, Hershey Bears was updated on October 7, 2026 and PANDA Stronger on October 2, 2026.

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