PaddlesUp! Coach vs DragonPace
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PaddlesUp! Coach
Manage your dragon boat club with this free app. Organize your roster, set up teams, and create optimized lineups. Advanced features for race management, attendance tracking, and competitor analysis are available via in-app purchase.
- Roster management with paddling info
- Team setup and management
- Drag-and-drop lineup editor
- Attendance tracking for festivals
- Race creation and results entry
- Competitor tracking and analysis
- Reporting on race schedules and performance
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PaddlesUp! Coach is a fun, easy, powerful, and free app for managing your dragon boat club. Enter your club’s roster. Set up your teams. Create lineups. All for free. PaddlesUp! Coach is ready to help you make the most of your crew with these great features: • ROSTER: Enter and manage your crew list (you can import from Contacts). Specify paddling info: gender, side preference, weight, and primary role. Provide contact info and the app will call or email with a tap. • TEAMS: Set up your teams, add as many as you need. • LINEUPS: Create your best lineups with an amazing lineup editor. Drag-and-drop paddlers with live side-to-side weight indicator. Optimize paddler placement with the side preference indicator, gender indicator, and gender count. All for free. Want more? Festivals include many advanced features to help you manage your weekend of racing: • ATTENDANCE: Add a team to a festival and the team members receive an invitation via email*. See responses right in the app eliminating the need to manage emails and manually track responses. Resend invitations. Manually set responses. Participants can update their response at any time. • RACES: Create races with intelligent time selection. Add multiple teams and/or competitors to any number of races. Specify lanes. Assign lineups. Enter results. • LINEUPS: The race lineup editor has all the features described above and includes many advanced features: Take out the guess work with live front-to-back balance. Paddler weight is displayed so you make better placement decisions. Know who’s coming with the attendance indicator. Email the lineup*. Save a lineup to Favorites. Assign a lineup by copying from an earlier race, copying from Favorites, or starting from scratch. • COMPETITORS: Track your competition. Add competitors to any race and compare results. • REPORTS: Who’s coming? Who hasn’t raced yet? What’s the race schedule? What’s our best time? Compare results by race, team, or time. All a tap away. PaddlesUp! Coach includes one pre-installed festival so you can experience all the festival features risk-free. Additional festivals are available via In-App Purchase. Here’s what some of our users have to say: “I have been using PaddlesUp! Coach since it was released. I have found it to be extremely helpful in managing and coaching my team. I cannot speak highly enough about it. If you are not using this app you are missing the Dragon Boat!” Rob Sutherland--Coach, Thunder Dragons of Tampa Bay “If you are a coach or manager of a dragon boat team or several dragon boat teams your life just got easier…” Shane Martin--Head Coach, Dragnum, Calgary Download PaddlesUp! Coach today. * email-related features require registration which is free and easy.
DragonPace
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DragonPace helps dragon boat crews, coaches and paddlers record each session on iPhone, with GPS data, training video, session history and crew lineups in one place. RECORD AND REVIEW • Record GPS routes, time, distance and speed. Review charts, splits and available cadence estimates. • Set a distance or stroke-count target and follow your progress. • Search and filter past sessions, add notes and compare training sessions. • Manage incomplete recording-save reminders: hide them, or stop recovery while keeping recorded data and existing originals. KEEP YOUR TRAINING VIDEO • Record original training video with a clearer layout in portrait or landscape. • Tap the lens buttons supported by your iPhone, drag the zoom dial or pinch the preview, before or during recording. • After recording, choose the training metrics to display, preview a short clip and export a separate video with your selected data. • Choose when to share a video or save it to Photos. Exports do not replace the original. PLAN YOUR CREW AND BACK UP RECORDS • Organise paddlers, roles, seats and lineups, with left/right weight balance. • Export training data as CSV and create training-data ZIP backups, including exports of selected sessions. • Training-data ZIP backups do not include videos. Share or save videos separately. • Use English or Traditional Chinese and choose from four colour themes. LOCAL FIRST, NO ACCOUNT Training data is stored on your iPhone by default. The app does not automatically upload it to the developer. You decide what to export, share or save to Photos. All features are free, with no in-app purchases, subscriptions or ads. AI Tracking Reference is optional and off by default. It estimates each person's upper-body movements on your iPhone; saved originals can be analysed with separate consent. Estimates may miss, misidentify or lose movements. They are not official stroke counts and never replace GPS, Motion or official records. Availability and results depend on the device, system and recording conditions.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: DragonPace at none against PaddlesUp! Coach's 1. DragonPace also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 months). PaddlesUp! Coach's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). On price, 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
Both are free to download. PaddlesUp! Coach sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. DragonPace asks for nothing beyond the download.
PaddlesUp! Coach ships an update every 2 months, DragonPace every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PaddlesUp! Coach | DragonPace |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 83.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 21 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Signature Software Ltd. | Po Lam Lui |
In-app purchases
PaddlesUp! Coach
- Single-Use Festival$1.99
DragonPace
No in-app purchases
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