Comparison

LockWars vs StatSide Sports

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

Head to head
About

LockWars

Form squads with friends to strategize and make sports picks together. Earn cash bonuses and tokens by collaborating on lineups for NFL, NBA, and MLB contests. Compete in real-time as the action unfolds, celebrating wins and reacting to losses as a team.

Highlights
  • Squad-based sports picks
  • Shared betting slips
  • Real-time collaboration
  • Cash bonus rewards
  • Token rewards for promo items
  • NFL, NBA, MLB sports
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LockWars is a squad-based sports picks app where friends can combine picks into a shared slip and win cash as a squad. Collaborate and strategize in real time while forming your squad lineup. Once the games go live, stay connected as the action unfolds—sweat every play, react to heartbreaks, and celebrate hits together. HOW LOCKWARS WORKS 1. Invite your friends to a shared lobby 2. Strategize in the lobby chat 3. Each member contributes one pick to the lineup 4. Choose your own individual entry and scoring format 5. Submit the lineup together as a squad 6. Earn cash bonuses and tokens from each contest CASH BONUSES Each player individually chooses how their squad lineup is scored, which determines the cash bonus they can earn: • Blitz – Higher difficulty where every pick must be correct to earn a larger cash bonus • Bunker – Lower difficulty that allows limited misses to still earn a cash bonus TOKEN REWARDS Tokens earned from contests can be redeemed in the Token Shop for promo rewards such as: • Bonus Boosts • Free Lineups SPORTS AVAILABLE • NFL Football • NBA Basketball • MLB Baseball Additional sports coming soon. WHERE YOU CAN PLAY LockWars is currently available to users physically located in: • Texas • California Availability is subject to location verification and applicable laws. DISCLAIMERS & RESPONSIBLE GAMING LockWars offers skill-based daily fantasy sports contests only. Participants must be at least 18 years old or the age of legal majority in their jurisdiction. Geographic availability and eligibility restrictions apply. LockWars is not a gambling or sportsbook app. Fantasy contests involve risk and are not appropriate for everyone. No guarantee against loss is offered. Past results are not indicative of future outcomes. Void where prohibited by law. Restrictions apply. If you or someone you know has a gaming-related problem, help is available. Responsible gaming resources can be accessed at www.ncpgambling.org or by calling 1-800-426-2537. For full rules and terms, visit https://www.lockwars.com/legal/terms.pdf

About

StatSide Sports

Get real-time scores and game updates for football, basketball, and hockey. Follow your favorite teams, view detailed stats, and access league standings all in one place. Designed for game day, it offers a clean, ad-free experience with customizable widgets and Siri integration.

Highlights
  • Real-time scores and game updates
  • Follow favorite teams and leagues
  • Detailed game and team statistics
  • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets
  • Siri integration for game info
  • League standings and team pages
  • Search for teams, players, and games
Features
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StatSide is football, basketball and hockey, college and pro, at a glance. One screen answers "what's happening right now" — no ads, no interstitials, nothing between you and the scores. BUILT FOR GAME DAY, ALL YEAR • Your teams first: follow any team in any of the four leagues and their games lead the page, together • One day at a time, every league stacked — college football broken down the way you think about it, by conference, and pro football, basketball and hockey each in a section of their own • Live games get a pulsing dot, heavier type on the score, and possession where the sport has it • One tap filters to live games, or to the tight ones: close late, or the underdog ahead YOUR TEAMS, EVERYWHERE • A Home Screen and Lock Screen widget with your teams' live score or next game, from every league you follow • Reminders 30 minutes before your teams play • Ask Siri "What's my next game?" — or share a score straight from any game • Long-press any game to follow a team or share the score LEAGUES, TABLES AND TEAMS • The college football Top 25 polls, with movement arrows • Every college conference, and every pro conference and division — each table in its own league's terms • Game pages: line score, box score, scoring plays, team stats, leaders, win probability, the head-to-head series, and the plays themselves — drives for football, periods for basketball and hockey • Team pages: the record, season stats and leaders, the full season, bye weeks, the roster, the home ground, and the trophies the team has won • Player pages: this season's numbers, every game, and the career, reached from a roster, a search, a box score or a game's leaders • Optional betting lines: the spread and over/under before kickoff, off unless you turn them on • Search any team, conference, game or player — across every league, from a field that sits under your thumb • Browse past seasons back to 2014 DESIGNED QUIET Black, white, and team logos in full color, light or dark or matching your phone. No banner ads, no autoplay video, no account, no tracking. StatSide collects no data — your followed teams live on your phone and nowhere else. Free. Fast. Four leagues, done right. StatSide is an independent app and is not affiliated with or endorsed by any league, conference, team or school.

Screenshots

LockWars4 screens
StatSide Sports4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: StatSide Sports at weekly against LockWars's fortnightly. StatSide Sports also leads on ratings volume (6 vs 2). LockWars's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for LockWars against 5.0 for StatSide Sports. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 6 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

LockWars ships an update fortnightly, StatSide Sports weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
LockWars versus StatSide Sports: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLockWarsStatSide Sports
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (6 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings26 — better
Update frequencyFortnightlyWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size57 MB10 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperLockWars LLCAndrew Weir

Customer experience

LockWars

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

StatSide Sports

All ratings6 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

LockWars

No in-app purchases

None

StatSide Sports

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is LockWars free?
LockWars is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is StatSide Sports free?
StatSide Sports is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, LockWars or StatSide Sports?
LockWars and StatSide Sports are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 6 ratings respectively.
Do LockWars or StatSide Sports have ads?
Neither LockWars nor StatSide Sports shows ads.
Which is updated more often, LockWars or StatSide Sports?
LockWars ships an update fortnightly, and StatSide Sports weekly. Most recently, LockWars was updated on October 30, 2026 and StatSide Sports on November 10, 2026.

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