MakePlays vs Benchmark
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MakePlays
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Running a youth sports team shouldn't feel like a second job. MakePlays brings your schedule, your roster, and game day all into one simple app. Game day, leveled up Score the game live so everyone can follow along, and let our AI announcer call out the big plays. Goals, lineups, highlights, it feels like your own stadium announcer showed up to the rink or field. For the parents too No more digging through group texts to find out when the next game is. Parents get a home base for the schedule, weather alerts, and a quick look at who's playing and when. Any sport, your way Hockey, baseball, ringette, whatever your kid plays, MakePlays adjusts scoring and game day tools to fit. Stay connected as a team Chat, RSVPs, and announcements all live in the app so nothing gets lost. Juggling more than one team? Manage all your teams and sports from one account, each one kept neat and separate. Coach, team manager, or just a parent trying to keep track of it all, MakePlays keeps everyone on the same page, every game. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Benchmark
This app provides personalized on-ice, off-ice, and mentality training for elite hockey players. It offers guided goal-setting, data-backed recommendations, and tools to track progress and manage an athlete's life.
- Personalized training plans
- Guided goal-setting
- Injury risk reduction
- Performance tracking
- Integrated chat and calendar
- Player assessment
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The only complete player development app. Built for players who want to go as far as they can - Benchmark is where your development comes together. If your coach, team or organization uses Benchmark, this is where you'll find your workouts, goals, weekly targets, messages, schedule and everything else that supports your development. From long-term goals to daily habits, Benchmark helps you stay organized, accountable and focused on what matters most. EVERYTHING YOU NEED. ONE APP. With Benchmark, you can: • Complete strength and conditioning workouts • Track weekly development targets • Set long-term goals and monitor your progress • Chat with your coaches • View your schedule • Access team resources • Log your development over time • Keep everything connected in one place BUILT FOR HOW PLAYERS ACTUALLY GET BETTER Growth doesn't happen in the same way for every player. Your coach can build personalized development plans that bring together on-ice skills, strength training, recovery, nutrition, mentality and more. Benchmark keeps it all connected, helping you understand what you're working toward, what you need to focus on today, and how your work adds up over time. BUILT WITH THE PEOPLE WHO SET THE STANDARD Benchmark was built alongside National Champions, Stanley Cup Champions, Olympic Gold Medalists, elite coaches, player development specialists and sports scientists. Their experience has helped shape every part of Benchmark—from the way players set goals to how coaches plan, communicate and support development every day. BUILT FOR LIFE Great player development is about more than performance. Benchmark is built on proven principles of vision setting, goal setting, progress tracking and habit formation to help players develop the mindset, discipline and ownership that lead to success—on the ice, in the classroom and throughout life. Because the habits that build better athletes also build better people. BETTER EVERY DAY That's our promise to the players and coaches who trust Benchmark—and to the product we're building alongside them.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Benchmark at none against MakePlays's 3. Benchmark also leads on update cadence (weekly vs fortnightly). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. MakePlays sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Benchmark asks for nothing beyond the download.
MakePlays ships an update fortnightly, Benchmark weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MakePlays | Benchmark |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 52 MB | 97 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Make Plays Inc. | Benchmark Goals |
In-app purchases
MakePlays
- Season Pass1 Month trial$4.991 Month
- All-Season Pass1 Month trial$44.991 Year
- Franchise$99.99
Benchmark
No in-app purchases









