Comparison

Tactics Board vs PointTaker

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

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About

Tactics Board

Design soccer tactics, plan lineups, and coach your team with advanced drawing tools and realistic training equipment. Create, animate, and share strategies easily with coaches, players, and fans. Organize and sync your plays across devices.

Highlights
  • Advanced drawing tools for lines and shapes
  • Realistic training equipment for drills
  • Configurable player icons, numbers, and roles
  • Static board and animation creation modes
  • Save tactics in folders and sync across devices
  • Share strategies with your team
Features
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Tactics Board – Soccer is the tactics board for coaches: draw your plays, animate them frame by frame and share them with your team. Plan drills, lineups and set pieces on your phone, on your tablet or on your computer. Draw every movement Freehand, straight and curved lines, solid, dashed or wavy, with or without arrows. Rectangles, circles and zones to highlight space. Color and thickness for every drawing, and text notes right on the pitch. Equipment for drills Ball, goals, mini goals, cones, markers, rings, poles, dummies, flags, ladders and hurdles, plus yellow and red cards. Full pitch, half pitch and more field types. Players, formations and squads Players with numbers, names and roles. Apply a formation to either team in one tap. Keep your squads and use them on every board. Animate the play Add a frame for each moment and move the players: the app fills in the movement in between. Play it back to show the team how the move develops. Ready-made plays A library of drills and plays to start from: warm-up and technique, possession, build-up play, attacking, defending, transitions, set pieces, goalkeepers, small-sided games and formation matchups. Open one, adapt it to your team and save it as your own. Share it with your team Images of the board for the team chat. Videos of the animated play. PDF drill sheets with equipment and notes, to print or send to your staff. Your club logo on every export. Also on your computer The same board in your browser at tacticboardsoccer.com, with mouse and keyboard: prepare the session at your desk, coach on the pitch. Premium Free to start. Premium unlocks unlimited saved boards, formations and squads, all ready-made plays, PDF drill sheets, your logo on exports and sync between phone, tablet and computer. Privacy Policy: https://censasoft.web.app/tactic-soccer/privacy.html EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

PointTaker

Features
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Point Taker turns your iPhone into a courtside umpire's scoreboard — and puts the same scoreboard on your Apple Watch. Prop the phone on the sideline, tap the side that won the rally, and keep your eyes on the shuttle. Serve rotation, service courts, deuce and game points all take care of themselves. ONE TAP PER RALLY Each side gets a giant, full-height panel. Tap it to award the rally. The score animates up and serve passes to the winner automatically, exactly as rally scoring requires. There is nothing else to learn and nothing else to press. THE OFFICIAL RULES, BUILT IN • First to 21 points takes the game • Must win by 2 — deuce keeps running past 21 • Hard cap at 30 — first to 30 wins outright • A winner alert offers Next Game or Undo, and the winner of the last game serves first in the next one SINGLES AND DOUBLES Flip between modes with one toggle. Singles shows a single serve indicator per side. Doubles labels P1 and P2 and tracks service-court rotation properly — even scores serve from the right court, odd from the left, and partners swap courts when the serving side keeps winning. Get it wrong in your head and the whole game drifts; the app just gets it right. UNDO THAT ACTUALLY UNDOES Undo rolls the last rally back completely — score, serve, service-court positions, and the game credit if that tap ended a game. Reset clears the board back to 0–0. BUILT TO BE READ FROM THE COURT Huge monospaced digits, a high-contrast yellow-and-black scoreboard, and a layout that adapts: portrait stacks the teams top and bottom, landscape sets them side by side. The near-end side mirrors its player labels so the board reads the way you're standing. The screen stays awake while a match is in progress, because a scoreboard is glanced at, not tapped. APPLE WATCH COMPANION The full scoreboard on your wrist for quick, unobtrusive updates between rallies. The watch keeps the score in front of you for the length of the match instead of dropping back to the clock face, and logs the session as a badminton workout in Health when you're done. Always On displays keep the score visible with the wrist down. PICKS UP WHERE YOU LEFT OFF The match is saved after every rally. If the phone locks on the sideline, gets reclaimed by iOS, or force-quits, you come back to the same score — with undo history intact. Matches go stale after four hours: long enough for a club night with breaks, short enough that tomorrow morning starts you at a clean 0–0. SOUND AND FEEL A short haptic and a synthesized musical sting mark game point and game won, so the moment registers even if nobody's looking at the phone. Cues mix with your music rather than interrupting it. NO ACCOUNT, NO INTERNET, NO TRACKING Point Taker never asks you to sign in, never goes online, and collects nothing. Your match lives on your device and nowhere else. Built for players who'd rather watch the rally than count it.

Screenshots

Tactics Board4 screens
PointTaker4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: PointTaker at none against Tactics Board's 9. Tactics Board's advantage is iOS requirement (15.6 vs 26.5). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Tactics Board sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. PointTaker asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Tactics Board versus PointTaker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTactics BoardPointTaker
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (39 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings39 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
Requires iOS15.6 — better26.5
Further details — not scored
Size58 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperANDREAROSARIO CENSABELLAMehedi Khan

In-app purchases

9 purchases

Tactics Board

Subscriptions6
  • Premium Pack - Monthly3 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • Premium Pack PPP Monthly7 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Premium Monthly7 Days trial$9.991 Month
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  • Premium Pack - Annual3 Days trial$19.991 Year
  • Premium Pack - PPP - Annual7 Days trial$29.991 Year
  • Premium Annual7 Days trial$39.991 Year
One-time3
  • Premium Pack - Lifetime$39.99
  • Premium Pack - PPP - Lifetime$89.99
  • Premium Lifetime$99.99
None

PointTaker

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Tactics Board free?
Tactics Board is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is PointTaker free?
PointTaker is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Tactics Board or PointTaker have ads?
Neither Tactics Board nor PointTaker shows ads.

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