The Cricket Draft vs Dabtonic
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
The Cricket Draft
Build your dream cricket squad for free and compete in live fantasy leagues. Test your knowledge of player stats and real-life performances to earn points and climb the leaderboards. Challenge friends and fans globally in various cricket competitions.
- Build a squad within a budget
- Earn points based on real-life player performance
- Manage squad with transfers
- Access player stats and live results
- Create and join public/private leagues
- Compete in various cricket competitions
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Get closer to the action this summer with the UK's leading Fantasy Cricket Game! Choose from our two game modes: FANTASY: Our season-long, free-to-play game mode. Build your team, enter leagues and manage your squad through each competition or DUELS: Our BRAND NEW daily fantasy sports game. Enter paid fantasy contests directly against your friends and other fans each gameweek to win big prizes! Create your account in just a few clicks and play in any of our live fantasy games, from English domestic cricket competitions and T20 franchise leagues to international tournaments and bilateral series around the world. How The Cricket Draft works: - BUILD YOUR SQUAD: Pick your squad of 15 players within your £100m budget. Choose from some of the biggest professional stars when designing your team - EARN FANTASY POINTS: Your selected players will earn you points based on their real-life performances in each gameweek - ALL THE DATA AT YOUR FINGERTIPS: Help inform your selection decisions with in depth player performance stats and get real time updates on the unfolding events with live fixtures and results - TAKE ON FRIENDS IN LEAGUES OR DUELS: Join and create public or private leagues in the Fantasy game mode or take on your friends directly in pools or head-to-heads in the Duels game mode. Do you have what it takes to come out on top? Join the Draft now Duels is restricted to users 18+ in the UK only. Please gamble responsibly and only enter low stakes contests you can afford. If you or someone you know has a gambling problem, please visit www.gambleaware.org
Dabtonic
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Mid-life padel, properly tracked. Dabtonic runs your weekly Americano padel league: fair fixtures, live scores and a league table that builds itself. Built for groups who actually want to know who's winning. MEMBERS ONLY You need the club password from your organiser to get past the first screen, and the league code to join your group. WHY DABTONIC Americano padel is brilliant because everyone plays with everyone. It's awful to track, because everyone plays with everyone. Dabtonic does the boring bit so you don't end up arguing in the WhatsApp group at 11pm. WHAT IT DOES • Fair fixtures on the day. Tap who turned up and Dabtonic draws the night. At 4, 5, 8, 9, 12, 13, 16, 17, 20, 21 and 24 players everyone partners everyone exactly once; other numbers get as close as the maths allows. Balanced by form then picks who plays whom, so games stay close. • Americano, Mexicano, or build the night game by game. Friendlies don't count towards the table. • Line-up changes, sorted. Swap a player, or redraw the rest of the night without touching the scores already in. • Share or print. A bold fixture image for the group chat, an A4 sheet for every court with boxes for the scores, or every game on one page. • Live scores. Tap a court, enter the score. Only admins score; everyone else follows live on their own phone. • One league, every phone. Members join with the league code. One phone scores at a time, and control can be handed to another phone mid-night. • A league table that runs itself, ranked on Points Won %: your share of the points on offer, so playing better beats turning up more. New players are Provisional until their third night. • Seasons. A 10-night league that crowns a champion, a Season recap to share, and the next season starts with the same roster. • Player pages. Form, best partners, toughest rivals, streaks, personal records and achievements. • Guests. Bring a mate: they count on the night, never in the league. • Widgets. The league table on your Home Screen and Lock Screen, and tonight's rounds on the Live Session widget. • Optional round timer, upcoming nights to your calendar, CSV export and a full backup. • For the organiser: an admin-only kitty tracker for who's paid and who bought the balls. • iPhone and iPad. Light or dark. No ads. No sign-up. PERFECT FOR • Weekly Americano groups of 4 to 24 players • Organisers tired of running fixtures from a notes app WHAT IT'S NOT This isn't a court booking app or a generic stats tracker. It's a league manager for Americano nights you run yourself, every week, with the same group. ABOUT THE FORMAT Americano padel rotates partners every round, and each game is played to a points target, often 16 or 24. Points build into a leaderboard for the night, and across the season the league table emerges. Dabtonic gets out of the way and lets the points do the talking.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Dabtonic at every 5 days against The Cricket Draft's monthly. The Cricket Draft's advantage is iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.6). 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
The Cricket Draft ships an update monthly, Dabtonic every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | The Cricket Draft | Dabtonic |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 82.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 66 MB | 29 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | The Cricket Draft Ltd. | Sally Dabbs |
Bugs and requests
The Cricket Draft
Reported bugs
3 issues- Login screen freezes
- Inability to save team selections
- Inconsistent scoring and points display
Requested features
3 requests- Dark mode option
- Improved player availability tracking
- Enhanced league and competition management
Dabtonic
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
The Cricket Draft
No in-app purchases
Dabtonic
No in-app purchases









