CourtsideView vs Serve Receive
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CourtsideView
This app simplifies following volleyball matches for families, scorekeepers, and coaches. It offers a clear scoreboard, real-time stat tracking, roster management, and live updates for remote viewers. Optionally broadcast live video during a match.
- Volleyball scoreboard
- Real-time stat tracking
- Roster management
- Live FanView link sharing
- Team Scout sessions
- Optional live video broadcast
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Volleyball match day, finally in one app. Score the match in seconds. Track every athlete, rotation, and rally. Share a live FanView link so family can follow from anywhere. BUILT FOR THE NEXT RALLY • Start a score-only match with no roster required • Run best-of-3 or best-of-5 scoring with sets, timeouts, serving team, and match history • Flip to a large scoreboard for scorer tables, benches, and busy gyms • Keep working in gyms with limited connectivity; sharing is always optional TRACK THE STORY BEHIND THE SCORE • Record kills, digs, blocks, aces, assists, errors, and serving rotations • See on-court positions and player context while the match is live • Review match reports, trends, top moments, and shareable athlete cards • Export match data when you need it FANVIEW FOR FAMILY ANYWHERE • Publish one stable FanView link for the game • Share live scores, match activity, and optional live video • Let fans follow without turning the group chat into a scoreboard • FanView links expire 15 minutes after the game concludes TEAM AND COACH TOOLS • Create player profiles, rosters, teams, and schedules • Import roster files to save setup time • Publish a permanent Team Hub for schedules, live links, and results • Scout opponents, save coaching notes, and review season analytics CourtsideView is built specifically for club, school, and tournament volleyball by volleyball families who understand match-day chaos. Scorekeeper is free to use without an account. Create an account to use FanView, athlete stats, rosters, and other account features. Coach Hub is available to Coach and Club Owner roles; access to a specific team or club depends on its permissions. Saved local work stays on your device. You can choose to create a verified private backup of supported match, player, roster, scouting, and settings data. Photos, logos, video, recordings, and sign-in tokens are excluded. Backups are separate saved copies, not automatic sync or restore. Optional FanView video and any recording require an explicit action.
Serve Receive
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Serve Receive helps volleyball coaches plan legal serve receive formations for all six rotations. One of its biggest benefits is helping you avoid illegal positioning: as you drag players, the app adjusts the formation to respect volleyball's overlap rules and shows any positioning problems immediately. Build your lineup with confidence, then share it with your team. BUILT FOR THE WAY COACHES WORK • Set up a 5-1, 4-2 or 6-2 system and see every rotation laid out on court • Drag players into place while the app keeps their relative positions within the overlap rules • Tap a player to see who they must stay in front of, behind, or beside • Red rings and guide lines show any players who are out of position SMART STARTING POINTS • Smart Setup starts from coached 5-1 receive formations with O1, O2 and the libero passing • Court Position starts every player in their standard rotation zone • The libero automatically takes the back-row middle's spot • Smart Arrange and Reset rework a single rotation without touching the others YOUR PASSERS, YOUR WAY • Choose who receives in each rotation, from zero to six passers • Players you've placed by hand stay put when you change passers • Clear warnings when a rotation has fewer than two passers YOUR TEAM ON THE COURT • Add player names, jersey numbers and photos for every player • Display your team logo as a court watermark with adjustable opacity • Keep separate named setups for varsity, JV or an alternate lineup • Duplicate a setup to try an idea without losing the original • Position Zone View shows each player's standard zone • Show or hide player names and position badges • Undo moves, passer changes and rearrangements SHARE WITH YOUR STAFF • Send a link to all six rotations. Coaches without the app can open it in a web browser • Export an image, or a PDF laid out for printing, including player photos and your team logo • Open links from other coaches as a preview, then save them as a new setup MADE FOR IPHONE AND IPAD • On iPhone, swipe through one rotation at a time • On iPad, see all six rotations at once • Use Siri: "Show rotation 4 in Serve Receive" or "Who is receiving in Serve Receive" • Light and dark appearance No account. No ads. Your setups stay on your device unless you share them.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: CourtsideView at Free against Serve Receive's $0.99. CourtsideView also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). Serve Receive's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 3 weeks). On rating, review sentiment, ratings volume and ads 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
CourtsideView is free to download; Serve Receive costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for CourtsideView against 5.0 for Serve Receive. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 2 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
CourtsideView ships an update every 3 weeks, Serve Receive every 5 days. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | CourtsideView | Serve Receive |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $0.99 |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 59 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ADAM LEE BRIDEGAN | TIMOTHY MICHAEL BERGERON |
Customer experience
CourtsideView
Serve Receive
In-app purchases
CourtsideView
No in-app purchases
Serve Receive
No in-app purchases
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