Play Count vs ACR OLAS
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Play Count
Easily track player participation for youth football teams. Select players on the bench before each play, and the app automatically updates play counts for those on the field, ensuring fair play and rule compliance.
- Track plays for up to 30 players
- Quickly select players on the bench
- Automatic play count updates
- Ensures fair play and rule compliance
- Simple and fast interface
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Track the number of plays each player on your youth football team participates in quickly and easily. Enter the numbers of up to 30 players and before each play, just select the ones that are on the bench. Press New Play and those on the field have their play counts automatically increased. A fast and easy tool to make sure your youth team is in compliance with the rules and everyone gets to play.
ACR OLAS
This application transforms your smartphone into a man overboard alarm system. It detects a lost connection to a paired beacon and alerts you with an audible alarm and GPS coordinates for quick recovery. It also provides navigation back to the incident location.
- Man Overboard Alarm System
- Virtual tether detection
- GPS location recording
- Visual signals and bearing data
- Stores incident data for rescue services
- Solo Mode with text alerts
- Navigation back to point of loss
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The ACR OLAS App turns your smartphone or tablet into a Man Overboard Alarm system that aids fast recovery to rescue your crew, kids, pets who have gone overboard. When the Free app is paired with either the ACR OLAS TAG or the ACR OLAS FLOAT-ON beacons, the OLAS mobile application technology detects a break in its ‘virtual tether’ to the ACR OLAS Tag and/or Float-On within 8 seconds of a transmitter going missing. The mobile phone(s) then sounds an alarm and records the latitude and longitude of the incident using the phone or tablets GPS. ACR OLAS then aids the crew with the MOB recovery by clearly directing them to the GPS location where the MOB occurred with clear visual signals and bearing data. ACR OLAS stores all location data and time of incident required by the rescue services. Other ACR OLAS APP Features: • Protect everyone onboard your boat including Crew, Family, Kids, and Pets • ACR OLAS App creates a virtual tether to the Tag or Float-On creating a wireless MOB System • No cell service required (except for Solo mode) • Connect multiple OLAS transmitters to 1 phone or tablet • Connect 1 OLAS transmitter to multiple phones / tablets • Solo Mode (Text Message Alerts to Emergency Contacts with GPS coordinates) • App Navigation: Back to point of loss • Automatic VHF script for MOB alert
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: ACR OLAS at Free against Play Count's $1.99. ACR OLAS also leads on update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 11 months). Play Count's advantage is rating (2.7 vs 1.9) and review sentiment (50% vs 11%). On ratings volume, ads, 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
ACR OLAS is free to download; Play Count costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Play Count holds the better App Store score, 2.7 against 1.9. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 8 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Play Count's written reviews are positive against 11% of ACR OLAS's.
Play Count ships an update every 11 months, ACR OLAS every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Play Count | ACR OLAS |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 2.7 (3 ratings) — better | 1.9 (8 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better | 11.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 8 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 11 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 6.0 — better | 11.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 47 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Erik A. Dewey | Ultimate Sports Engineering |
Customer experience
Play Count
ACR OLAS
In-app purchases
Play Count
No in-app purchases
ACR OLAS
No in-app purchases
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