Comparison

Athlete Made Easy vs HoopsProtocol

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

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About

Athlete Made Easy

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Athlete Made Easy is training built the way athletes train. Open the app and today's session is waiting: the exercises, the sets, the reps and the weight. Do it, log it, and the app plans your next one. IT SETS YOUR WEIGHTS FOR YOU Log what you lifted and how many reps you got. Next time, the app tells you what to do: more reps, more weight, or hold steady. Your warm-up sets are worked out from that day's weight. No spreadsheets, no guessing. LOG A SET IN ONE TAP Every exercise is a card with its sets. Tap Done and the set is logged, and your rest starts. On iOS 17.2 and later your workout also shows on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island: see your set, tap Done and watch your rest count down without opening the app. Add the widget to see today's workout and your team's next event at a glance. Timed holds and cardio count down on the Lock Screen too. ONE PROGRAM FOR THE ALL-AROUND ATHLETE Think general fitness, through the eyes of an athlete. The Athlete Made Easy program is a repeating cycle of jump days, sprint days, lower, upper and single-leg strength days, flexibility and easy cardio, and rest days that are actually easy. It's built to make you jump higher, get faster and get stronger. Repeat it as long as your numbers keep climbing. IT FITS YOUR GYM AND YOUR WEEK Pick your training days. Tell the app what your gym has and it swaps lifts to match. Miss a session and it moves to your next training day, so nothing gets skipped. YOUR JUMP KEEPS SCORE Your first jump day is your starting jump test. You test again after each deload, and any time six weeks have gone by since your last test. On any jump day you can log your best. How high you jump is the clearest sign you're getting more athletic, so you can see the work paying off. SEE IT WORKING Progress tracks what makes you athletic: your best jump, your strength for your size, your bounce, your speed and your body composition. See where you started and where you are now. AN AME COACH WHEN YOU WANT ONE AME 1-on-1 Coaching gives you your own AME coach: someone who knows you and answers you, by message and video. Ask questions, send videos of your sets and jumps, and get your program changed to fit you. It's billed on our website, never in the app. TRAIN AS A TEAM Team coaches run their team in the app for free: a join code, a team calendar, one program for the whole team and a team chat. Everyone trains on their own account, and a team coach's Team widget shows how many trained today. Parents can link their account to follow a kid's training, with a Kids widget of their own. NUTRITION WITHOUT THE HASSLE Search a food, scan a barcode, or take a photo of your meal or a Nutrition Facts label. Log a meal in seconds. See your calories and macros for the day. MADE BY AN ATHLETE Athlete Made Easy is built by a pro dunker whose best vertical is 47 inches. He trains on the same program you do. FREE FOR GOOD The app and every program are free, and so is everything a team coach does with a team. No ads. We never sell your data. WHO IT'S FOR High school and college athletes, whatever you play. Team coaches who want a more athletic team. Anyone who wants to train like an athlete instead of guessing at the gym. Your data stays yours. Delete your account and your personal details and videos are removed. Our Privacy Policy explains what's kept without your name on it. Powered by fatsecret nutrition API (www.fatsecret.com).

About

HoopsProtocol

This app helps basketball players improve their game by tracking shooting drills, providing landing and strength training, and offering recovery exercises. It focuses on injury prevention and skill development with structured practice routines.

Highlights
  • Form shooting tracker
  • Landing mechanics training
  • Strength and recovery exercises
  • Structured practice routines
  • Injury prevention drills
  • Session clip saving
Features
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Count your makes. HoopsProtocol keeps score of the one drill every player already does — form shooting, alone at a rim — and wraps it in the warm-up, landing and strength work that guards against basketball's worst injuries: the ACL, the rolled ankle, jumper's knee, gone on a rebound, a closeout, a cold first jump. Built with Cape Concierge PT, a Cape Cod physical-therapy practice. THE PRACTICE BOARD Home is a coach's half-court diagram: each section anchored to the spot where its work happens — Pregame at the center circle, Ball Work in the paint, The Weight Room, Bounce for landing, Postgame for recovery and The Scorer's Table for handouts. Over 60 drills across six sections, each with its cues written out — a structure a coach can run, not a video library to scroll. The shooting and ball-handling sections are filmed rep by rep. FORM SHOOTING THAT KEEPS SCORE Nine timed stations, Mikans to free throws, that run themselves — with two thumb-sized make and miss buttons, a shot chart drawn on the floor your session happened on, and a short history of past sessions. THE TAPE, COURTSIDE Start a session and its clips save to your phone, so a gym with dead Wi-Fi still plays every one; Settings can keep the full library. Sideline mode makes the buttons bigger and the screen brighter, and touch lock ignores a stray bump while the tape rolls. The practice clock runs by hand, on work-and-rest intervals, or by stations, and announces what's up next. Music plays under the drills, mirror flips a clip for the whole line, and AirPods, a clicker or Siri can run it. LANDING IS A SKILL The Bounce section teaches it directly — snap downs, drops to stick, single-leg landings — because the mechanics that keep a knee healthy are trainable, and almost nobody trains them. NO ACCOUNT, NO SIGN-UP SHEET No sign-in, no password, no roster. Install it and every section is already open, with free drills in each one — nothing to configure before a session that tipped off ten minutes ago. HOOPSPROTOCOL PRO Pro unlocks the rest of the library: the vertical plyometric block and the filmed shooting and ball-handling work. Choose a monthly or an annual plan, or buy it once and keep it — every way in opens the same drills. Both plans start with a week-long free trial for new subscribers, renew automatically at the price shown until canceled at least 24 hours before the period ends, and can be managed or canceled in your Apple Account settings or from the app's Settings; the one-time purchase never renews. Restore with the same Apple Account. What sits in the open tier is a coaching decision and may be adjusted as the program develops. Terms of Use: https://playprotocol.tatzel-labs.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://playprotocol.tatzel-labs.com/hoopsprotocol-privacy COURTSIDE CALCULATORS Sweat rate from a weigh-in and weigh-out, a single-leg hop screen with the left/right difference worked out, acute-to-chronic workload so a training spike shows before it costs you a player, and heat-index guidance for gyms with no AC. Screening tools for a coach, not a diagnosis; anything that hurts goes to a clinician. HANDOUTS FOR PARENTS AND PLAYERS Clean one-pagers you can text to a parent or print for the locker room. READABLE COURTSIDE, QUIET ABOUT YOU Type scales with your text size, VoiceOver reads every control, and it follows your light or dark setting. And there is nothing to track: no account, no advertising, no analytics, no tracking SDKs, no health records — the courtside calculators work out a number on your device and keep nothing. The one thing the app can send is the optional "ask CCPT to reach out" form in Settings — an email you type, sent only when you tap the button. Nothing is sold or shared with anyone else, ever. The program — the drills, the progression, the coaching — is built with Cape Concierge PT. The app is published and supported by Tatzel Labs LLC. Questions? Email support@tatzel-labs.com.

Screenshots

Athlete Made Easy4 screens
HoopsProtocol4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Athlete Made Easy at none against HoopsProtocol's 3. HoopsProtocol's advantage is update cadence (every 11 days vs every 2 months). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. HoopsProtocol sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Athlete Made Easy asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Athlete Made Easy ships an update every 2 months, HoopsProtocol every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Athlete Made Easy versus HoopsProtocol: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAthlete Made EasyHoopsProtocol
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 11 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Freemium
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS16.4 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size39 MB7 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperConnor BarthTatzel Labs LLC

In-app purchases

None

Athlete Made Easy

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

HoopsProtocol

Subscriptions2
  • Pro Monthly7 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • Pro Annual7 Days trial$59.991 Year
One-time1
  • HoopsProtocol Pro$149.99

Questions

Is Athlete Made Easy free?
Athlete Made Easy is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is HoopsProtocol free?
HoopsProtocol is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Athlete Made Easy or HoopsProtocol have ads?
Neither Athlete Made Easy nor HoopsProtocol shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Athlete Made Easy or HoopsProtocol?
Athlete Made Easy ships an update every 2 months, and HoopsProtocol every 11 days. Most recently, Athlete Made Easy was updated on October 31, 2026 and HoopsProtocol on November 6, 2026.

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