Pitchero vs Play
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pitchero
Stay connected with your sports club. Get the latest results, league tables, and team news. Easily manage your availability, chat with teammates, and view match reports and photos.
- Follow teams and get results
- Customizable home screen
- Manage player availability
- Built-in team messaging
- View match reports and photos
- Switch between multiple clubs
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Pitchero Club brings your whole sports club together in one app. Whether you’re a club admin, coach, player, parent or supporter, you can manage your team, collect fees and stay connected with your club 24/7 from your phone. RUN YOUR TEAM FROM ANYWHERE. Create and edit fixtures and training sessions, check player availability, send reminders, select your team, publish line-ups and add results. COLLECT TEAM PAYMENTS. Request match fees, track paid and unpaid players, and make it easier for everyone to pay on time. MANAGE EVERY MATCHDAY. Add live scores and match events as the action happens, then publish final results and keep the whole club updated. KEEP EVERYONE CONNECTED. Share announcements, use in-app messaging and keep members informed about club news, events and training. FOLLOW EVERYTHING THAT MATTERS. View fixtures, results, league tables, news, photos and videos. Follow the teams that matter to you and receive the latest club updates. BUILT FOR THE WHOLE CLUB. Pitchero Club supports football, rugby, cricket, hockey, netball and other team sports. Join over 10,000 sports clubs using Pitchero.
Play
Follow live cricket scores from Play-Cricket.com with detailed scorecards, ball-by-ball commentary, and match statistics. Access upcoming and completed matches, add events to your calendar, and share updates on social media.
- Live score tracking
- Detailed scorecards
- Ball-by-ball commentary
- Match statistics
- Calendar integration
- Social media sharing
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Play-Cricket Live is the easy way to keep up-to-date with live scored matches on Play-Cricket.com. Using Play-Cricket Live, you can access detailed scores for In Progress games being scored or streamed through Play-Cricket Scorer (and PCS Pro), or any upcoming and completed matches that have been submitted to Play-Cricket.com. Features: - Search, modify and follow your preferred clubs or leagues in the Play-Cricket Live app. - View live scores and results in detail, with full innings scorecards including batting, bowling, fielding and fall of wicket information. - View Manhattan graphs, score worms and ball-by-ball commentary for live matches. - Add upcoming matches to your device’s calendar. - Share scores on social media platforms, including Facebook and Twitter. - View daily match dashboard for all your favourite teams and competitions - Consume live streams and highlights from matches of your favourite teams
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Play at none against Pitchero's shown. Play also leads on monetization model (free vs ad-supported) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). Pitchero's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 4 months) and review sentiment (43% vs 24%). On price, rating, ratings volume and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Play holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 66 and 27 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 43% of Pitchero's written reviews are positive against 24% of Play's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Pitchero ships an update weekly, Play every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pitchero | Play |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (66 ratings) | 4.6 (27 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 43.3% of reviews — better | 23.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 66 — better | 27 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 103 MB | 55 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Pitchero | England and Wales Cricket Board Ltd |
Customer experience
Pitchero
Play
Bugs and requests
Pitchero
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Play
Reported bugs
104 issues- Some matches don’t show up properly
- App keeps crashing
- App won’t refresh
- App defaults to a season from three years ago
- Needs delegating and reinstalling
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- Fickle whether it shows live scoring or streaming
- Refreshing and reopening sometimes works, not always
- Viewing player stats requires extra sign-in
- Not updated live
- Freezes within 9 overs
- Unable to view scorecards
- Information lost off the bottom of the screen on iPhone 13
- Score on summary screen never matches detail
- Frequent SSL errors
- Almost impossible to follow a match from start to finish
- Clitchy
- No live data
- App stops working most weeks
- App immediately refreshes fixtures updated via website
- Rarely works properly on a Saturday afternoon
- Keeps crashing on Saturdays
- Keeps freezing
- Irritating when refresh requires going back to tab
- Match Stream tab is always blank
- Issue with iPhone 15, unable to see detail score or set-up
- Fails to load pages
- Fails to show scores on summary page
- Temperamental, often can’t see scorecards
- Cannot see anything beyond dashboard on Saturday
- Rarely works
- Games don’t appear to be working
- Live score disappears halfway through an innings
- Doesn’t recognise registration/email/password
- App doesn’t function properly
- Slow and unreliable, especially on Saturday
- Cannot access scoreboards
- Dashboard is way behind detail
- Cannot log in
- Nightmare to navigate
- Login system requires frequent sign-in
- Ball by ball still not working
- Often goes offline when following a game
- Never lets me view live games
- Always crashing
- Scroll down to rules, link disappears behind footer banner
- Live not working
- Always slow to update scores
- Glitchy
- Doesn't display correct score half the time
- Multiple sign-ins for stats
- Cannot log in
- Network errors
- Doesn't update quickly
- Impossible to find match details
- Defaults to first game of season
- Not accessible using speech on iPhone
- Constantly no scorecard data
- Ball by ball says innings not started but summary gives current score
- Tricky to navigate
- Major redesign is a disaster
- Cannot find anything of use
- App stops working most weeks
- Fixtures not refreshing
- App fails to cope on Saturdays
- Keeps freezing
- Irritating when refresh requires going back to tab
- Match Stream tab is always blank
- Issue with iPhone 15, unable to see detail score or set-up
- Fails to load pages
- Fails to show scores on summary page
- Temperamental, often can’t see scorecards
- Cannot see anything beyond dashboard on Saturday
- Rarely works
- Games don’t appear to be working
- Live score disappears halfway through an innings
- Doesn’t recognise registration/email/password
- App doesn’t function properly
- Slow and unreliable, especially on Saturday
- Cannot access scoreboards
- Dashboard is way behind detail
- Cannot log in
- Nightmare to navigate
- Login system requires frequent sign-in
- Ball by ball still not working
- Often goes offline when following a game
- Never lets me view live games
- Always crashing
- Scroll down to rules, link disappears behind footer banner
- Live not working
- Always slow to update scores
- Glitchy
- Doesn't display correct score half the time
- Multiple sign-ins for stats
- Cannot log in
- Network errors
- Doesn't update quickly
- Impossible to find match details
- Defaults to first game of season
- Not accessible using speech on iPhone
- Constantly no scorecard data
- Ball by ball says innings not started but summary gives current score
- Tricky to navigate
- Major redesign is a disaster
- Cannot find anything of use
Requested features
23 requests- Live activity for chosen match on Watch, phone, and CarPlay
- Improvement in Play Cricket for grassroots cricket
- Option to select a favorite for the season
- Easier way to view leagues and personal statistics
- Make live scoring more accessible
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- Allow customisation to view matches in other leagues/age groups
- Better loading of ball-by-ball updates
- More ways to click on scorecards and teams
- Ability to link accounts or do more on the app instead of directing to website
- Make app more user-friendly
- Improve navigation and usability
- Make it easier to find information
- Allow viewing team sheets on the app
- Record junior matches live on the app
- Fix login system to remember users
- Improve stability and user-friendliness between app and web version
- Make it easier to change teams and update players
- Improve accessibility for speech on iPhone
- Make it easier to find individual matches
- Allow removal of favorites
- Make it easier to find specific matches
- Improve live score updates
- Make match suspension due to rain clearer
In-app purchases
Pitchero
No in-app purchases
Play
No in-app purchases
