Bravara vs True Tryouts
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bravara
This app helps coaches evaluate players to build stronger teams and assists league coordinators in organizing balanced seasons. It provides an intuitive platform for efficient team management and season organization.
- Player evaluation tools
- Team drafting assistance
- Balanced team organization
- Season management
- Intuitive platform
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Bravara is the app coaches use to run their team's season. Chat, schedule, player development and game day are in one place, for any sport. TEAM CHAT An announcements channel that only coaches post in, so the important message doesn't get buried. Replies go in threads. Parents choose what notifies them, like mentions only. CALENDAR AND RSVPS See the season in a month view. Open any game or practice to RSVP, get directions, or record video. Coaches see who's coming. TASKS AND SIGN-UPS Send families the things you need from them, like snack sign-ups, jersey sizes and photo orders, and see what's done. PLAYER DEVELOPMENT Assign drills with video that players do at home. Softball IQ and Basketball IQ teach players where to be on a 3D field or court. SCORE AND STREAM (BASEBALL AND SOFTBALL) Score games pitch by pitch, by tap or by voice. Families follow the live game view, and you get a box score and stats when it ends. Stream the game from a phone. BASKETBALL PLAYS Draw a play with your finger, watch it run step by step, and share it with your team. TRYOUTS AND DRAFTS Rate players at evaluations and build teams from the results. Evaluation, draft, and season tools require access through a participating Bravara league. The league purchases its Bravara plan separately; there is no purchase option for that plan in this app. Softball IQ and Basketball IQ team training are optional. Unlocking all plays, weekly lessons, and the team leaderboard requires a separate in-app subscription. A sample play is available without a subscription. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Bravara Terms of Service: https://bravara.com/terms
True Tryouts
This app streamlines sports tryout management for coaches and organizations. It allows for event creation, player registration, and real-time performance evaluation. Athletes can easily find and register for local tryouts.
- Event creation with age groups and locations
- Player registration and payment processing
- Real-time athlete evaluation with metrics
- Automated score reporting via email
- Searchable event database for athletes
- Unlimited evaluator invitations
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The True Tryouts app is the most efficient grade tool app in the nation. Created by a coach for coaches. The True Tryouts app assists coaches and organizations operate the entire process by creating events with multiple age groups, field location, date, time, and the ability to post the event flyer. The Coach sets the player price, with a minimum of $5.00. The coach can charge more than $5.00 and they will get the entire amount, minus $5.00, once the event concludes. Any player price above $50.00, the coach/org will get 90% of the player funds. Athletes register a new account with the capability of adding multiple family members on one dashboard. The athlete can search nearby events by filtering the state, sport, and age group. The athlete simply registers for the event with one click on the "Register" button and then payment is taken. Before the event start date, the coach can see exactly how many players will attend the tryout for each age group, therefore knowing how many evaluators to assist them. An unlimited number of evaluator coaches can be invited to assist in the evaluation process. All evaluators grading numbers will be averaged among all grading the event. Evaluators have 6 metrics to grade the athletes. Hitting, Pitching, Infield, Outfield, Catching, and Running. Each metric has a 1-10 slide bar scale for different aspects of the position. There are velocity metrics for hitting and pitching. There are time metrics for catcher throws and running. At the conclusion of the event, the coach can see on their event dashboard the overall score of each athlete along with the capability to download a detailed spreadsheet of every metric graded. When the coach concludes the event manually on their dashboard, every participant will automatically get a detailed email of their individual score from each metric along with a cumulative score comparison of every player in that event's age group.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: True Tryouts at none against Bravara's 2. True Tryouts also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.1). Bravara's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 5 months) and ratings volume (124 vs 6). On price, ads, monetization model 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
Both are free to download. Bravara sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $19.99 per month. True Tryouts asks for nothing beyond the download.
True Tryouts holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bravara has 124 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Bravara ships an update every 2 weeks, True Tryouts every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and September 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bravara | True Tryouts |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (124 ratings) | 5.0 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 124 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 104 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Brian Jenkins | Jason Livernois |
Customer experience
Bravara
True Tryouts
In-app purchases
Bravara
- Softball IQ – Monthly7 Days trial$19.991 Month
- Softball IQ – Yearly7 Days trial$149.991 Year
True Tryouts
No in-app purchases
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