Comparison

Play Designer vs 1StatTracker

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

1StatTracker

Features
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StatTracker provides everything you need for managing your basketball team. Track stats, manage your roster, view player availability, message your team, share scheduled games, practices and team activities and more. Coaches, upgrade to Pro to build practice plans, establish rotations and substitutions, award and share custom player of the game cards, view player availability stats, and manage more than two teams at once. Terms of Use (EULA): https://1stattracker.com/#terms Privacy Policy: https://1stattracker.com/#privacy

Screenshots

Play Designer4 screens
1StatTracker4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Play Designer at none against 1StatTracker's shown. Play Designer also leads on chart position (#174 vs unranked) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Play Designer sells 17 in-app purchases, starting at $7.00 per 7 days and 1StatTracker sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard3 real differences · 8 level
Play Designer versus 1StatTracker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPlay Designer1StatTracker
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (784 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews91.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings784 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 days—
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
Best chart rank#174 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Vision Pro — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.518.2 — better
Further details — not scored
Size196 MB60 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDay Well Spent LLCUnrivaled Results, LLC

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

1StatTracker

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

17 purchases

Play Designer

Subscriptions16
  • Weekly Tournament Pass$7.007 Days
  • Tournament Pass$7.997 Days
  • Unlimited access$9.991 Month
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  • Elite Hoops Pro$10.007 Days
  • Elite Hoops Pro Monthly3 Days trial$12.991 Month
  • Elite Hoops Pro$12.991 Month
  • Elite Hoops Pro Monthly$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 Pro3 Days trial$49.991 Year
  • Elite Hoops Pro$59.991 Year
  • Elite Hoops Pro7 Days trial$59.991 Year
  • Elite Hoops Pro7 Days trial$65.001 Year
One-time1
  • Unlimited access$149.99
2 purchases

1StatTracker

Subscriptions2
  • 1StatTracker Pro$4.991 Month
  • 1StatTracker Pro$39.991 Year

Questions

Is Play Designer free?
Play Designer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is 1StatTracker free?
1StatTracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Play Designer or 1StatTracker have ads?
1StatTracker shows ads; Play Designer does not.

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