MCGAW YMCA vs NextGame Player
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MCGAW YMCA
This fitness platform helps you start a healthier lifestyle by tracking activities, body metrics, and providing access to over 2000 exercises and demonstrations. It offers preset and customizable workouts, motivational badges, and syncs with Apple Health.
- Class schedules and opening hours
- Daily fitness activity tracking
- Weight and body metric tracking
- 2000+ exercises and activities
- 3D exercise demonstrations
- Preset and custom workouts
- Progress tracking
- Apple Health integration
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PLEASE NOTE: YOU NEED A MCGAW YMCA ACCOUNT TO ACCESS THIS APP. IF YOU'RE A MEMBER GET IT FOR FREE AT YOUR GYM! Begin your journey to a healthier lifestyle and let MCGAW YMCA help you along the way. Introducing MCGAW YMCA, most comprehensive fitness platform with: Check class schedules and opening hours Track your daily fitness activities Track your weight and other body metrics Over 2000+ exercises and activities Clear 3D exercise demonstrations Preset workouts and the option to create your own Over 150 badges to earn Select workouts online and synchronize them with your app to workout at home or in the gym while keeping track of your progress. From strength to weight lifting, this app acts as your own personal trainer guiding and giving you the motivation you need. You can sync this app with Apple Health App. If you enable this connection, any workout in the Health app with automatically be added to your Activity Calendar.
NextGame Player
Organize and track your pickup sports games with ease. Join sessions, make payments, receive game notifications, and monitor your lifetime stats. Ensures fair competition and balanced teams for a better playing experience.
- Quick game check-ins via QR code
- Secure in-app payments (Venmo)
- Real-time game notifications
- Lifetime player stats tracking
- Balanced team creation
- Supports multiple sports
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You came to play, not to sort it out. NextGame ends the captain-picks standoff and the lopsided blowouts before they start. Scan the QR code when you arrive, and you're instantly checked in and dropped onto an evenly-matched team—named however your group plays it, East and West, colors, court sides, whatever you call it, you'll know exactly where to go. Then it gets fun: NextGame keeps your whole record, in any sport you play. — Last-50 record and win percentage — Average plus-minus—your real impact on the game — Last-5 form, hot streak or cold — Tap any past game to break down the whole matchup: the final score, how you play alongside each teammate, and your head-to-head history against everyone on the other side Stay in the loop, too. Messages from your organizer land in your inbox—lineups, time changes, who's in tonight—and you can reply with a tap. Show up, get matched, play, and watch your numbers climb week after week. Built for adults who still take the game seriously and want the receipts to prove it. Always free. Your organizer runs the session; you just bring your game.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: NextGame Player at 5.0 against MCGAW YMCA's 3.2. NextGame Player also leads on update cadence (every 11 days vs every 4 months). MCGAW YMCA's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.6). On price, ratings volume, ads 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.
NextGame Player holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 7 respectively.
MCGAW YMCA ships an update every 4 months, NextGame Player every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MCGAW YMCA | NextGame Player |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.2 (6 ratings) | 5.0 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 6 | 7 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 11 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 154 MB | 65 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | McGaw YMCA | William Braman |
Customer experience
MCGAW YMCA
NextGame Player
In-app purchases
MCGAW YMCA
No in-app purchases
NextGame Player
No in-app purchases
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