PlayMaker Pro vs play(r)book
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.
play(r)book
Enhance quarterback playbook understanding with virtual training on your phone. Transform your playbook into an engaging video game to teach, test, and analyze key plays and progressions.
- Virtual playbook training
- Teach, test, and analyze plays
- Improve quarterback comprehension
- Turn playbook into a video game
- Mobile player training
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Virtual training on your players phone! Supercharge your quarterback playbook comprehension. Teach, test & analyze keys, reads & progressions. Never worry about playbook engagement again. Easily turn your playbook into a video game. Privacy policy: https://portal.playrbook.com/playrbook_privacy_policy.pdf End-user license agreement: https://portal.playrbook.com/playrbook_eula.pdf
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: play(r)book at 100% against PlayMaker Pro's 32%. play(r)book also leads on rating (5.0 vs 2.7) and update cadence (every 9 days vs every 3 months). PlayMaker Pro's advantage is ratings volume (15 vs 5). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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 and play(r)book sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
play(r)book holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 15 and 5 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 32% of PlayMaker Pro's written reviews are positive against 100% of play(r)book's.
PlayMaker Pro ships an update every 3 months, play(r)book every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PlayMaker Pro | play(r)book |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.7 (15 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 31.8% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 15 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 211 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Bruce Williams | Whstle Corporation |
Customer experience
PlayMaker Pro
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In-app purchases
PlayMaker Pro
- Document Editing2 variants$49.99
play(r)book
- Premium Monthly$4.991 Month
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