Comparison

Play Designer vs CHMPN

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

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About

Play Designer

This app helps basketball coaches create, share, and explain plays, practices, and drills. It features a customizable digital whiteboard, video recording, and shot charting tools to enhance team communication and training.

Highlights
  • Record and share play and drill videos
  • Create and manage custom practices
  • Access and build a drill library
  • Professional-grade shot charting
  • Customizable digital whiteboard with court dimensions
  • Team roster and lineup management
  • AirPlay support for team presentations
Features
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The modern basketball coach’s playbook: design plays, plan practice, organize drills, and teach your team clearly. Elite Hoops gives basketball coaches one place to design plays, build practices, organize drills, and teach more clearly. Used by over 18,000 coaches and trainers, from Division 1 to AAU to youth hoops. The star of Elite Hoops is our play designer that's approachable, affordable and advanced. Build polished, detailed plays frame by frame, show player movement with precision, organize everything with tags, smart tags call out screens and actions, and present concepts in a way players can actually follow. And when you need to draw something up fast, the Digital Whiteboard that coaches have used to share over 10,000 plays is right here too. But Elite Hoops is more than just a play tool. It brings together the full coaching workflow across plays, practices, and drills. Build practices from your device, create your own drill library, track with shot charts, record breakdown videos, and share everything with players and staff. Or, create a practice in a pinch with our AI practice builder, which uses your drills and learns from your team's practice to customize them. Preparing for practice, installing a set, or adjusting in-game, Elite Hoops helps you coach with more detail and less friction. New: the Play Bank. Hundreds of animated plays with notes on every step, ready to add to your playbook in one tap. -- Elite Hoops Features -- · Play Designer: ⤍ Build animated plays frame by frame with detailed movement and timing and create playbooks. ⤍ Organize plays with tags so your playbook stays easy to search and manage. ⤍ Show real lineups, spacing, actions, and concepts with far more clarity. · Play Bank: ⤍ Hundreds of animated plays: Horns, Flex, presses, inbounds sets, and more, with notes on every step. ⤍ Add any play to your playbook in one tap, then edit it like your own. · Digital Whiteboard: ⤍ Quickly draw up one-off plays, counters, out-of-bounds actions, and defensive concepts. ⤍ Share images fast when you need to teach on the fly. · Practice Planner: ⤍ Create and run practices from your device. ⤍ Print or share your practice plans as a .pdf. · Drill Library: ⤍ Use our 200+ drills or build your own personalized drill library. ⤍ Keep your best drills organized and ready for every session. · Share Links: ⤍ Create a share link for any play, practice, or drill, and turn it off anytime. ⤍ Send coaching material to players and staff without exporting a file. · Video Export: ⤍ Record and export breakdown videos of your plays, drills, and concepts to share anywhere. · Shot Charts: ⤍ Track makes and misses during games, scrimmages, or training. ⤍ Review trends with a fast, coach-friendly shot chart tool. · Customizable Court: ⤍ NBA, FIBA, WNBA, NCAA, EuroLeague, and High School court dimensions. ⤍ Your own court color, hardwood styles, and boundary line colors. · Team Plans: ⤍ Invite unlimited coaches, players, and parents by email, link, or code. ⤍ Coaches edit the plays, practices, and drills; players and parents view them. · Team Tools: ⤍ Add as many teams as you coach, with rosters, jersey numbers, and team colors. · Coaching Tools: ⤍ Add an opposing team to demonstrate actions and counters. ⤍ Show zone and press defenses with Zone Overlays. ⤍ Sub players on the court. · Built for Apple devices: ⤍ Full Apple Pencil support. ⤍ AirPlay to a TV and show the whole team. -- LEGAL -- · View our terms of service here: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ · View our privacy policy here: https://www.elitehoopsapp.com/privacy Subscriptions will be charged to your credit card through your iTunes account. Your subscription will automatically renew unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage your subscriptions in Account Settings after purchase.

About

CHMPN

Features
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CHMPN is a basketball stat-tracking app, made for basketball player and coaches. The app allows teams to effectively track in game stats and store them till the end of the game. The stats are then ranked among the players in that league. League Stat leaders are updated after every game, keeping the competition flowing. Players can view other player stats and teams, and compare amongst themselves. CHMPST is a scorekeeper on your phone. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Play Designer4 screens
CHMPN3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Play Designer at every 5 days against CHMPN's monthly. Play Designer also leads on chart position (#157 vs unranked). CHMPN's advantage is iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.5). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Play Designer sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $7.00 per 7 days and CHMPN sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Play Designer ships an update every 5 days, CHMPN monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 8 level
Play Designer versus CHMPN: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPlay DesignerCHMPN
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (792 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews91.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings792 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
Best chart rank#157 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Vision Pro — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.516.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size196 MB35 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDay Well Spent LLCNaomi Tesfaye

Bugs and requests

Play Designer

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Recording issues with no sound and inability to close/discard videos
  • Crashes and freezes on some devices

Requested features

3 requests
  • Ability to design and animate plays
  • More advanced player movement and positioning features
  • Free recording and playback functionality

CHMPN

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Play Designer

Subscriptions10
  • Weekly Tournament Pass$7.007 Days
  • Unlimited access$9.991 Month
  • Elite Hoops Pro Monthly3 Days trial$12.991 Month
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  • Elite Hoops Pro$12.991 Month
  • Elite Hoops Pro Quarterly3 Days trial$24.993 Months
  • Elite Hoops Pro$24.993 Months
  • Season Pass7 Days trial$25.003 Months
  • Unlimited access3 Days trial$39.991 Year
  • Elite Hoops Pro7 Days trial$45.001 Year
  • Elite Hoops Pro$59.991 Year
3 purchases

CHMPN

One-time3
  • League for maximum 4 teams$6.99
  • League for maximum 9 teams$12.99
  • League for maximum 9+ teams$17.99

Questions

Is Play Designer free?
Play Designer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is CHMPN free?
CHMPN is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Play Designer or CHMPN have ads?
Neither Play Designer nor CHMPN shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Play Designer or CHMPN?
Play Designer ships an update every 5 days, and CHMPN monthly. Most recently, Play Designer was updated on November 3, 2026 and CHMPN on October 28, 2026.

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