Comparison

Penalty Box Timer vs Soccer Manager Pro

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

Head to head
About

Penalty Box Timer

This sports app helps manage penalties during games. It tracks player time in the penalty box and keeps score, acting as a digital scoreboard and power play tool for officials and coaches.

Highlights
  • Penalty box tracking
  • Game score tracking
  • Power play timer
  • Digital scoreboard
  • Sports management tool
Features
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First Penalty Box Timer app on the store! Send players to the sin bin and track the game score and timer all in this brand new sports app.

About

Soccer Manager Pro

Features
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Soccer Manager Pro is the sideline tool for youth and rec coaches who want fair playing time and stress‑free substitutions — without spreadsheets or guesswork. Supports team sizes up to 9 v 9. Built for the touchline: big taps, a clock you can’t leave running by accident, and live time meters on every player so you can see at a glance who needs to come on or off. FAIR PLAYING TIME • Live meters on every card — total minutes, current on‑field stint, and bench rest time. • The stint indicator flashes when a player hits your sub interval, so nobody gets forgotten on the field. • Field Log grid shows each player’s minutes by position — plus goals — for the whole game. FAST SUBSTITUTIONS • Tap a player, tap a spot to move them; whoever they displace waits on the bench to be reassigned. • Tap a bench player then a position to sub in. Swap two players with a long‑press, a two‑finger swap, or a drag. • Stage several changes, preview the move arrows, and commit them all at once. SUB HISTORY • Every change is logged with the game time. Flash back through your substitutions to see who came on for whom. QUICK LINEUPS • Save your starting lineup (or favorite blocks) and recall them in one tap. SCORE & GOALS • Double‑tap a team’s score to add, triple‑tap to remove — goals stay linked to the player who scored. IN‑GAME ALERTS • Sub, hydration, and half‑time alerts pulse the clock and buzz your phone and watch. • Set hydration breaks to any time (defaults to quarter and three‑quarter time). • Exclude the goalie from alerts, or silence vibrations, right from Timer Options. • Correct a missed pause/resume by setting the clock — player stint times shift with it. APPLE WATCH • Mirror the game on your wrist: clock, score, field players, and the same alerts. • Adjust the score, run staged subs, and start/pause the game right from the watch. MULTIPLE GAMES & FORMATIONS • Four independent game slots, each with its own roster, formation, and timer. • Build custom formations with named positions and color bands, then apply them mid‑game. SHARE • Live Share mirrors your game to an iPad tactical board and other iPhones on the same network in real time. • Send a full saved game — roster, formation, timer, quick lineups, and sub history — to another coach as an encrypted file. Share it by AirDrop, Mail, or Messages; the recipient saves the file, opens it, and confirms the import. END OF GAME • Long‑press pause to end the game — stats freeze as FINAL for review, and you can still adjust the score. No account required. No ads. Your data stays on your device. LICENSED APPLICATION END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT (EULA) https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Penalty Box Timer3 screens
Soccer Manager Pro4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Penalty Box Timer at 15.0 against Soccer Manager Pro's 18.4. 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Penalty Box Timer versus Soccer Manager Pro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPenalty Box TimerSoccer Manager Pro
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequency—Every 8 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS15.0 — better18.4
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB12 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperApplorium LtdChris Fessler

In-app purchases

None

Penalty Box Timer

No in-app purchases

None

Soccer Manager Pro

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Penalty Box Timer free?
Penalty Box Timer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Soccer Manager Pro free?
Soccer Manager Pro is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Penalty Box Timer or Soccer Manager Pro have ads?
Neither Penalty Box Timer nor Soccer Manager Pro shows ads.

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