Comparison

PikSheet vs Pool Party Gaming

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

Head to head
About

PikSheet

Easily manage sports pools with friends, family, or colleagues. Create custom pools, collect picks, track standings, and view group selections all in one place. Supports various pool formats for season-long organization.

Highlights
  • Create custom sports pools
  • Invite friends and groups
  • Collect and track picks
  • View real-time standings
  • Supports multiple pool formats
  • Manage members and settings
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PikSheet is a sports pool manager built for friends, families, offices, and commissioners who want a cleaner way to run season-long pools. Create a pool, invite your group, collect picks, track standings, and see the field of picks each week from one app. Supported pool formats include: • Pick'em • High 5 • Best Bet • Confidence • Margin • Survivor • Touchdown Calls • Box pools Commissioners can manage members, entries, pool settings, spreads, box squares, results, and standings. Members can join pools, make picks, review rules, follow live standings, and see how the rest of the pool picked when picks are visible. PikSheet is designed for pool organization and scoring. PikSheet does not hold entry fees, accept bets, set prizes, or pay winnings. Whether you run one casual pool or manage several formats across a season, PikSheet keeps the whole thing organized.

About

Pool Party Gaming

Create and join community sports pools for friendly competition, real prizes, and bragging rights. This free platform hosts pools for friends, offices, and venues, offering custom branding and live leaderboards. Participate in season-long challenges and win prizes without any entry fees or subscriptions.

Highlights
  • Community sports pools
  • Real competition and prizes
  • Custom branded environments
  • Live leaderboards
  • Season-long NFL Pick'em
  • Request custom pools
Features
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Bring your people together through the world of sports and competition. Pool Party Gaming is your community sports pool platform — real competition, real prizes, real bragging rights, always free to play and free to win. WHERE YOUR COMMUNITY COMPETES We host sports pools for the places people already gather. Family and friend pools, office pools, and full-scale competitions inside bars, restaurants, country clubs, booster clubs, fraternities, and alumni groups — if your group has any interest in sports, we can build something to bring them together. Every pool gets its own branded environment, custom prizes, and live leaderboards. THE PITTSBURGH BAR BATTLE Season-long NFL Pick'em, venue vs. venue. Pick your side, make your picks every week, and help your bar take the crown. Weekly winners, season-long standings, and a championship belt that travels to whoever's on top. FREE TO PLAY. FREE TO WIN. No entry fees. No subscriptions. No wagering. Prizes are built in at every step: • Join a pool • Make your first full week of picks • Refer friends into the pool • Compete all season long WANT A POOL FOR YOUR GROUP? Request one right in the app and we build it for you — custom branding, custom prizes, custom format. You don't set anything up. Tell us what you want and we handle it. Don't Just Watch. Play! No purchase necessary to play or win. Must be 18+ and a U.S. resident. See in-app Official Rules for complete terms and eligibility.

Screenshots

PikSheet4 screens
Pool Party Gaming4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Pool Party Gaming at every 4 days against PikSheet's monthly. Pool Party Gaming also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 26.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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 PikSheet against 5.0 for Pool Party Gaming. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 6 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

PikSheet ships an update monthly, Pool Party Gaming every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
PikSheet versus Pool Party Gaming: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPikSheetPool Party Gaming
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings)5.0 (6 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings36 — better
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS26.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size14 MB47 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperPikSheet.com LLCPool Party, LLC

Customer experience

PikSheet

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Pool Party Gaming

All ratings6 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

PikSheet

No in-app purchases

None

Pool Party Gaming

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is PikSheet free?
PikSheet is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Pool Party Gaming free?
Pool Party Gaming is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, PikSheet or Pool Party Gaming?
PikSheet and Pool Party Gaming are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 3 and 6 ratings respectively.
Do PikSheet or Pool Party Gaming have ads?
Neither PikSheet nor Pool Party Gaming shows ads.
Which is updated more often, PikSheet or Pool Party Gaming?
PikSheet ships an update monthly, and Pool Party Gaming every 4 days. Most recently, PikSheet was updated on October 12, 2026 and Pool Party Gaming on October 9, 2026.

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