New England Revolution vs RootFor
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
New England Revolution
Stay connected with your favorite MLS club. Manage tickets, get breaking news, live scores, exclusive content, videos, and enter giveaways.
- Ticket management
- Breaking news
- Live match scores
- Exclusive content
- Giveaways
- Videos
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Welcome to the New England Revolution Official App. This is your one-stop shop to be connected to your favorite MLS club! Purchase and manage your tickets, plus get breaking news, live match scores, exclusive content & giveaways, videos, and much more.
RootFor
Organize youth sports schedules and family logistics in one place. Coordinate rides, avoid conflicts, and share game-day excitement with private family circles. Keep everyone informed and connected for every game.
- Private family circles
- Import and manage schedules
- Ride coordination board
- Conflict detection
- Morning game digests
- Game-day hype cards and cheers
- Private photo sharing
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Your kid's biggest fans don't all fit in the bleachers. Grandma is three states away. Dad is stuck at work. Their aunt never knows when the games are. RootFor brings everyone who loves your young athlete into one private place, so they always know you showed up for them. EVERYONE KNOWS WHEN THE GAME IS Add your team's calendar once and RootFor keeps the schedule up to date by itself. Games, practices, moved times and cancellations, for the whole family. On game day, everyone who wants it gets one friendly morning reminder. CHEER BEFORE THE GAME Leave a cheer, an emoji or a voice note your athlete can hear in the car on the way. Play all plays every voice note back to back, like a pregame playlist from the people who love them. WHO'S COMING Tap "I'm going" and your face shows up on the game. Your athlete sees who'll be there, by name. Nobody gets counted, and nobody gets called out for missing one. AFTER THE GAME Share the final, or just a note. Post a moment with up to six photos. Every photo lands in one place for the family, newest first. A FUNDRAISER WHEN THEY NEED ONE Camp, travel team, new cleats: start a simple fundraiser for your athlete. Family chips in through Venmo, outside the app. RootFor never touches the money, and only the giver and the person who started it see how much each gift was. BUILT AROUND THE KID • Nothing grades your athlete: no stats, streaks or rankings. • Teens (13+) can join with their own account when a parent invites them, and can hide a post about themselves. • Invite-only family circles. No public profiles, no strangers, no direct messages. • Photos stay private to your family. Never public, never sold, never used to train anything. Free for your whole family. No ads. RootFor. The whole family shows up.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: RootFor at 5.0 against New England Revolution's 3.8. RootFor also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 6 months). New England Revolution's advantage is ratings volume (13 vs 1). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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.
RootFor holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: New England Revolution has 13 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
New England Revolution ships an update every 6 months, RootFor every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | New England Revolution | RootFor |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (13 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 46.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 13 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 116 MB | 53 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | New England Revolution | Ronald Smith |
In-app purchases
New England Revolution
No in-app purchases
RootFor
No in-app purchases
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