Comparison

Hoopfest vs PlaybookMax

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

Head to head
About

Hoopfest

Navigate the world's largest 3-on-3 basketball tournament with ease. Track your favorite teams, scout the competition, and stay updated on schedules and court locations. Never miss a moment of the action with this essential event companion.

Highlights
  • Follow favorite teams
  • Scout team details
  • Event and activity scheduling
  • Alerts for updates
  • GPS event mapping
  • Court locating
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The largest 3-on-3 basketball tournament in the world needs an app that is equally impressive. This is it! The Hoopfest App gives you the mad skills needed to navigate the best basketball weekend on earth with style and grace. •Search and follow your favorite teams as they battle their way through the brackets. •Scout the competition with searchable team details. •Keep ahead of the game with event and activity scheduling and alerts. •Stay in-bounds with GPS event mapping and court locating features. Stacked with talent, the Hoopfest App is the clutch player no team wants to be without!

About

PlaybookMax

This app helps football coaches manage their teams, plan practices, and communicate with players and families. It allows for play design, roster management, scheduling, and team chat, with an optional Pro version for AI coaching features.

Highlights
  • Design offensive and defensive plays
  • Organize and share playbooks
  • Manage roster and schedule events
  • Run timed practice periods
  • Team chat and communication
  • Invite coaches, staff, and families
  • AI play generation (Pro)
Features
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PlaybookMax is the playbook, practice planner, and team hub for youth and high school football coaches — built for the sideline. DRAW AND CALL PLAYS • Design offensive and defensive plays with formations, routes, reads, keys, and branches • Organize your playbooks and share published plays with your team • Help players understand their assignments with position notes RUN THE TEAM • Manage your roster, positions, and depth • Create schedule events and collect attendance responses for each player • Run timed practice periods from your phone • Keep everyone connected with team chat, photos, plays, quizzes, and reactions • Report messages and block members from chat BRING THE FAMILIES IN • Invite coaches, staff, and families to your team • Families see their linked players' cards and the plays they're in • Share checklists and team quizzes in chat PARENT-MANAGED ACCESS Adults manage accounts and team activity. Children can view published plays and player profiles together with a parent or guardian using that adult’s account. Player profiles do not have separate child logins. GO PRO FOR AI COACHING PlaybookMax Pro adds AI play generation, Staff Analysis, position notes, Coach Chat, and custom chat rooms. Pro includes 1,000 shared team AI credits per month, with a 100-credit daily limit. Different AI actions may use different numbers of credits. AI usage is limited, not unlimited. ONE SUBSCRIPTION COVERS THE WHOLE TEAM A coach, staff member, or family member can upgrade the team to Pro. The team shares the benefits and AI allowance. Members who fund the team receive a supporter mark in chat. SUBSCRIPTION PlaybookMax Pro — $19.99 per month. Subscriptions are billed monthly to your Apple Account and renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel in your App Store account settings. Prices shown in USD; local pricing may vary. Terms of Use: https://playbookmax.com/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://playbookmax.com/privacy/ Built by coaches' families, for coaches. Questions: hello@playbookmax.com

Screenshots

Hoopfest4 screens
PlaybookMax4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: PlaybookMax at 5.0 against Hoopfest's 3.9. Hoopfest's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ratings volume (29 vs 1). On price, update cadence, 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. PlaybookMax sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $19.99 per month. Hoopfest asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

PlaybookMax holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Hoopfest has 29 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Hoopfest ships an update every 4 days, PlaybookMax every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Hoopfest versus PlaybookMax: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHoopfestPlaybookMax
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.9 (29 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings29 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 4 daysEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size41 MB86 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSpokane Hoopfest AssociationBurletech

Customer experience

Hoopfest

All ratings29 ratings
Positive69.0%
Neutral6.9%
Negative24.1%
Written reviews12 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral16.7%
Negative33.3%

PlaybookMax

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Hoopfest

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

PlaybookMax

Subscriptions1
  • PlaybookMax Pro7 Days trial$19.991 Month

Questions

Is Hoopfest free?
Hoopfest is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is PlaybookMax free?
PlaybookMax is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Hoopfest or PlaybookMax?
PlaybookMax is rated higher. Hoopfest averages 3.9 out of 5 from 29 ratings, while PlaybookMax averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Hoopfest or PlaybookMax have ads?
Neither Hoopfest nor PlaybookMax shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Hoopfest or PlaybookMax?
Hoopfest ships an update every 4 days, and PlaybookMax every 3 days. Most recently, Hoopfest was updated on October 13, 2026 and PlaybookMax on October 14, 2026.

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