PlayMaker Pro vs GoRout® Scout
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PlayMaker Pro
Create, display, and print playbooks for American Football, Canadian Football, or Basketball on your mobile device. Share playbooks via email or present them with animated visuals and embedded media. An in-app purchase unlocks full editing capabilities.
- Create and print playbooks
- Display play cards with animation
- Email playbooks to coaches/players
- Team presentations with projector
- Edit documents with in-app purchase
- Transfer documents via cloud/email
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PlayMaker Pro for iOS enables you to display and print PlayMaker Pro documents for American Football, Canadian Football or Basketball on an iPad or iPhone. PlayMaker Pro documents can be created using the desktop versions of PlayMaker Pro. Transfer documents to your device with Macintosh Finder, iTunes File Sharing, iCloud Drive or E-Mail. iPad users can purchase the ability to edit PlayMaker Pro documents from within this App. After purchasing Document Editing, you can create and edit PlayMaker Pro documents, pages, players, lines, boxes and text. Email playbooks to coaches or players. Show play cards in color with animation on your iPad. Give team presentations with your projector including animation, player notes, scribbles, attached images and attached video. Don't take a pile of paper to practice, take your iPad. PlayMaker Pro is used by thousands of football teams worldwide to produce playbooks, handouts and presentations at all levels from the Pros down to youth leagues. PlayMaker Pro has been produced by BW Software in Ann Arbor Michigan since 1990.
GoRout® Scout
Enhance on-field sports practice with real-time information access for coaches and players. This app helps maximize reps and elevate performance by delivering scout cards instantly to wearable devices.
- Real-time on-field communication
- Instant scout card delivery
- Wearable device integration
- Maximize practice reps
- Performance enhancement tools
- Coach-designed for coaches
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GoRout® simplifies on-field communication by providing real-time access to information for coaches and players through rugged wearable devices. Our mission is to help players and coaches achieve better, faster reps by maximizing their time, enhancing the quality of their reps, and elevating their performance. Created by coaches for coaches, GoRout® Scout allows you to digitally send scout cards to players on-field at practice, instantly. GoRout® allows you to maximize your time and 2x your reps in all phases of practice.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: GoRout® Scout at 100% against PlayMaker Pro's 32%. GoRout® Scout also leads on rating (5.0 vs 2.7) and in-app purchases (none vs 2). PlayMaker Pro's advantage is ratings volume (15 vs 2). On price, update cadence, 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. PlayMaker Pro sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. GoRout® Scout asks for nothing beyond the download.
GoRout® Scout holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: PlayMaker Pro has 15 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 32% of PlayMaker Pro's written reviews are positive against 100% of GoRout® Scout's.
PlayMaker Pro ships an update every 3 months, GoRout® Scout every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PlayMaker Pro | GoRout® Scout |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.7 (15 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 31.8% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 15 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 76 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Bruce Williams | Go Rout |
Customer experience
PlayMaker Pro
GoRout® Scout
In-app purchases
PlayMaker Pro
- Document Editing2 variants$49.99
GoRout® Scout
No in-app purchases
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