PlayMaker Pro vs Clipboard Nation
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.
Clipboard Nation
This app provides a collaborative online workspace for sports coaches and teams. It modernizes team planning, communication, and execution to help teams win. Users can create custom workspaces for their teams.
- Collaborative workspaces
- Team planning tools
- Communication features
- Modernized team execution
- Online community for coaches
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The Premier Online Community for coaches. Create your own collaborative workspace for your sports teams. Modernize way for sports teams to plan, communicate, execute and win! https://www.clipboardnation.com/about/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Clipboard Nation at 3.7 against PlayMaker Pro's 2.7. Clipboard Nation also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 3 months) and review sentiment (50% vs 32%). PlayMaker Pro's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (15 vs 3). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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 and Clipboard Nation sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $5.00 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Clipboard Nation holds the better App Store score, 3.7 against 2.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: PlayMaker Pro has 15 ratings behind it against 3, 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 50% of Clipboard Nation's.
PlayMaker Pro ships an update every 3 months, Clipboard Nation every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PlayMaker Pro | Clipboard Nation |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.7 (15 ratings) | 3.7 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 31.8% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 15 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 18.7 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Bruce Williams | Clipboard Nation |
Customer experience
PlayMaker Pro
Clipboard Nation
In-app purchases
PlayMaker Pro
- Document Editing2 variants$49.99
Clipboard Nation
- Pro User Monthly$5.001 Month
- All Pro User Monthly$10.001 Month
- Pro User Yearly$55.001 Year
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- All Pro Yearly$109.991 Year
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