NextPlay Highlights vs IKU Survivor
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
NextPlay Highlights
Easily create highlight reels of your child's sports achievements from existing videos. AI helps identify key plays, allowing you to curate moments for sharing with family, teammates, and coaches. Supports various sports and offers options for individual athletes or entire teams.
- Create highlight reels from phone videos
- AI-assisted play detection
- Organize by athlete and sport
- Generate season recaps or recruiting videos
- Share via MP4 or viewing link
- Manage team rosters and game film
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Make a highlight reel of your child's best sports moments from the videos already on your phone. NextPlay Highlights helps parents turn sideline clips, tournament footage and game film into videos to share with family, teammates and coaches. Start with the footage you have, review the plays AI finds, and choose the moments that tell your athlete's story. FOR SPORTS PARENTS - Combine phone clips from a game or across the season. - Keep highlights organized by athlete, including siblings who play different sports. - Make a season recap, a short social highlight or a recruiting video. - Download an MP4 to Photos or share a viewing link in a family group chat. - Use the same account on iPhone, iPad and the website. Sign in with Apple is available on the app and web. FROM CAMERA ROLL TO HIGHLIGHT REEL 1. Upload phone clips or game footage. 2. Review the detected plays and choose what to include. 3. Create a Highlight, Recruiting Highlight or Hype version. 4. Save the video or share it yourself through your preferred app. FOR YOUTH TEAMS AND ORGANIZATIONS Coaches and club organizers can manage athlete profiles and team rosters, review full-game film, and prepare clips to share with families. Game Tape keeps every detected play in order; Coach Film lets you remove plays from the cut. Choose a plan for the number of athlete profiles and teams you manage. FILMING YOUR ATHLETE For individual highlights, keep your athlete and the action in frame. With wide team footage, review the plays and remove those that are not your child's. NextPlay does not automatically identify your child in every play or contact recruiters for you. Full-game analysis takes over an hour; allow time for uploading and preparing the video too. SPORTS Soccer, football, basketball, baseball, softball, volleyball, lacrosse, flag football, hockey, wrestling, swimming, track and field, and more. SUBSCRIPTIONS The app is free to download. Adding film requires a paid plan. NextPlay offers auto-renewable monthly Athlete, Family, Team and Team Pro subscriptions. Current prices are shown in the app before purchase. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. Manage or cancel purchases made through Apple in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://nextplayhighlights.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://nextplayhighlights.com/privacy Support: https://nextplayhighlights.com/contact
IKU Survivor
Compete weekly by selecting one football club to survive a matchday. Lose a life with a draw or loss, and be eliminated at zero. Create private leagues with friends and receive reminders for your picks.
- Weekly club selection
- Counted lives system
- Last one standing wins
- Create private leagues
- Friend invitations
- Matchday reminders
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IKU Survivor One team each matchday. Counted lives. Last one standing wins. No line-ups, no auctions. Each week you pick one club and put it on the line. Win: you stay in. Draw or loss: you burn a life. At zero lives you are out. Used kits stay burned until the pool resets. Create a league with friends, invite with a link, watch deadlines and results. An alert eight hours before the first match if you still have not picked. Free: one league, no ads. Pro (€3.99/year in Italy; other currencies use the store price) unlocks extra leagues and the tools around the pick: calendar, members, a tip. Game rules stay the same for everyone. This is not betting and there is no cash prize. Skill game, 16+. Made by Alvicore S.r.l. Privacy: https://survivor.alvicore.com/privacy.html Terms: https://survivor.alvicore.com/termini.html Support: https://alvicore.com/contatta
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: NextPlay Highlights at 3 against IKU Survivor's 1. On price, rating, review sentiment and update cadence 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. NextPlay Highlights sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and IKU Survivor sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $3.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for NextPlay Highlights against 5.0 for IKU Survivor. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
NextPlay Highlights ships an update every 6 days, IKU Survivor every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | NextPlay Highlights | IKU Survivor |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 48 MB | 47 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Neil Brown | ALVICORE SRL |
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In-app purchases
NextPlay Highlights
- FlagPlay Add-On$9.991 Month
- Athlete$14.991 Month
- Family$24.991 Month
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- Athlete (Yearly)$99.001 Year
- Family (Yearly)$179.001 Year
- Team Pro$249.001 Month
- Athlete Season Pass$40.99
- Family Season Pass$67.99
- Team Season Pass$399.99
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- Team Pro Season Pass$669.99
IKU Survivor
- Survivor Pro$3.991 Year
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