Comparison

Longoboard vs Pulse

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

Head to head
About

Longoboard

Features
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Easily plan and organize training sessions with Longoboard’s intuitive interface, empowering coaches to deliver effective and engaging sessions. * Simplified Training Session Planning: Plan your tactics, turn them into drills, and organize your sessions in one tool. * Dynamic Tactical Diagrams: Create, customise and easily share tactical diagrams, allowing coaches to illustrate and explain complex game plans to their teams. * Seamless Team Collaboration: Easily share tactical plans with your team using Longoboard built-in export options. Whether through a native file, image, video, or PDF, ensure every player and coach can access clear, visual instructions, enhancing strategic understanding and alignment. * Versatile Sports Support: From football to basketball, hockey to soccer, Longoboard adapts to a wide range of sports, providing coaches with versatile tools to plan tactics specific to their sport.

About

Pulse

This app allows coaches to easily plan soccer drills, build training sessions, and set team lineups. It offers offline functionality and a straightforward interface for creating and sharing tactical plans.

Highlights
  • Draw custom soccer drills
  • Organize drills into sessions
  • Set team formations and lineups
  • Offline functionality
  • Export drills, sessions, and lineups
  • Customizable pitch and player markers
Features
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Pulse is a training tool for coaches who do everything themselves. Draw a drill straight onto a pitch. Save it. Build it into a session. Set your lineup for the weekend. That's the whole app — two jobs, done properly, with nothing else in the way. Everything works offline and lives on your phone. There is no account to create, no email to hand over, and no internet connection required. Open the app and you are one tap from drawing. PLAN A DRILL Sketch on a full pitch, a half, a third, or a blank canvas. Place players, cones, goals and balls. Draw passes, shots, runs and dribbles. Mark out zones. Everything can be moved, rotated, resized and recoloured until the drill reads the way you see it in your head. Save a drill and it joins your library, ready to reuse next week. BUILD A SESSION Pull saved drills into a session and put them in order. Give each block a type — warm-up, technical, possession, pressing, whatever it is — and write the coaching points you want to hit. Set a duration and Pulse totals the session for you. SET A LINEUP Pick your squad size — 7v7, 9v9 or 11v11 — then a formation, then arrange your players on the pitch. Change the formation and the names come with them. Add substitutes. Choose how the lineup looks: plain white pitch or mown stripes, circle markers or jerseys, blank markers or numbers or positions, and your own team and keeper colours. SHARE IT Export a drill or a lineup as an image, or a full session as a PDF, and send it straight from the share sheet. AirDrop it to an assistant, drop it in the team chat, or text it to a parent. Nothing is uploaded anywhere — the file is made on your phone and goes wherever you send it. BUILT FOR ONE COACH Pulse is for the person running a team on their own: club, high school, or competitive youth. It does not try to be a club management platform. There are no rosters to maintain, no dashboards, no notifications chasing you to come back. Just a clipboard that draws.

Screenshots

Longoboard4 screens
Pulse4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Pulse at none against Longoboard's 2. Longoboard's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.4). On price, ads 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. Longoboard sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.95 per month. Pulse asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Longoboard versus Pulse: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLongoboardPulse
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size73 MB49 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFluendo VAS S.LSANTIAGO FELIZZOLA BALLESTEROS

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Longoboard

Subscriptions2
  • Longoboard premium monthly14 Days trial$1.951 Month
  • Longoboard premium yearly14 Days trial$17.951 Year
None

Pulse

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Longoboard free?
Longoboard is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Pulse free?
Pulse is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Longoboard or Pulse have ads?
Neither Longoboard nor Pulse shows ads.

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