Comparison

SubPlan vs Pickleball Scorekeeper

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

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About

SubPlan

This app helps youth soccer coaches manage player minutes and rotations. Plan lineups before games or make live substitutions from the sideline, ensuring fair playing time for all. It also allows coaches to collaborate on team management.

Highlights
  • Plan rotations before kickoff
  • Live substitution management
  • Track player minutes played
  • Share team management with assistant coaches
  • Customizable playing time rules
  • Exportable PDF lineup reports
Features
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You coach. SubPlan tracks the minutes. It helps youth soccer coaches manage every player's playing time, whether you plan the game ahead or sub live from the sideline. Plan every rotation before kickoff and print a coach-ready PDF for the bench, or run the game live and let SubPlan keep the clock, tell you when to sub, and track the minutes each player actually plays. No spreadsheets, messy notes, or last-minute guessing. NEW: COACH TOGETHER - Share a team with your assistant coaches and plan lineups together - Pick coaches from your contacts and choose who can edit and who can only view - Everyone sees the same roster, events, lineups and live games, synced with iCloud - Your player rankings stay private: each coach keeps their own - Your SubPlan Pro covers every coach on the teams you share SUB LIVE - Choose per game: Plan Before Game or Sub Live - A game clock with halves and pause that keeps time even when your phone is locked - Sub Time alerts with sound and a Lock Screen notification - Sub suggestions based on real minutes played, which you can edit, swap, cancel, or add to before you make them - Playing-time rules: Equal Time, or a minimum number of minutes for everyone, with an option to keep your goalie in goal - Mark players as not here yet, injured, or left early, and the bench fills in - A Sub Log of every change with its game time - On iPad, a two-column view with the clock, field, bench rest times, next sub preview, and a minutes board PLAN YOUR LINEUP - Create teams and rosters with player numbers and preferred positions - Set up games, scrimmages, and practices with opponent, location, home/away, and rotation timing - Choose formations for 5v5, 7v7, 9v9, and 11v11, or adjust the layout to fit your team - Mark players as available, injured, or missing - Drag and drop players into position on the field, or switch to table view FAST SUBSTITUTION TOOLS - Smart Fill builds a balanced rotation for you - Bench In brings bench players into the next rotation - Keep Goalie subs the field while your keeper stays in goal - Sub by line: defense, midfield, forwards, or outside players - Copy, paste, random, and starters shortcuts - Private player rankings, seen only by you, help the tools choose when you have more players than spots TRACK PLAYING TIME - See every player's minutes across the full event - Live games record the minutes each player actually played, and the report and season stats use them - Spot who's been subbed in or moved at a glance PRINT AND SHARE - Export PDF lineup reports with a field view for each rotation, a minutes table, and color-coded changes - Print blank lineup sheets to fill in by hand - Share full team reports or roster-only reports BUILT FOR THE SIDELINE - Designed for iPhone and iPad, with a roomier workspace on iPad - Your teams and plans sync across your devices with iCloud - Available in English, Spanish, French and German FREE AND PRO The free version includes one team, one event (planned or live), all lineup planning tools, minutes review, and up to five event PDF exports. SubPlan Pro unlocks unlimited teams, unlimited events, unlimited event PDF exports, sharing teams with other coaches, and Season Summary, which shows playing time across your whole schedule, broken out by games, scrimmages, and practices. SubPlan Pro is available as a monthly or yearly auto-renewing subscription. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel your subscription in your App Store account settings. Plan smarter subs before kickoff, and make them on time during the game. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.oakbrightlabs.com/apps/subplan/privacy

About

Pickleball Scorekeeper

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Pickleball Scorekeeper is a simple, no-fuss scorekeeping app for a single pickleball match at a time - built for courtside use, not cloud accounts. FEATURES • Singles or doubles, sideout scoring • Correct serve rotation and side tracking handled automatically, so you never lose track of who serves next • A court view mode showing player positions at a glance • A simple history of your completed matches, saved right on your phone NO ACCOUNT, NO SIGN-UP Open the app and start keeping score. There's no login, no account creation, and no user profile of any kind. YOUR DATA STAYS ON YOUR DEVICE Pickleball Scorekeeper has no backend and makes no network calls. Match data is stored locally on your phone only - nothing is uploaded, synced, or shared with anyone, including us. Whether you're playing a casual match at the park or refereeing for a local club night, Pickleball Scorekeeper gets out of your way and lets you focus on the game.

Screenshots

SubPlan4 screens
Pickleball Scorekeeper4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Pickleball Scorekeeper at none against SubPlan's 2. Pickleball Scorekeeper also leads on iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.0). SubPlan's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs fortnightly). On price, ads and device support 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. SubPlan sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Pickleball Scorekeeper asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SubPlan ships an update every 2 days, Pickleball Scorekeeper fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
SubPlan versus Pickleball Scorekeeper: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSubPlanPickleball Scorekeeper
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (7 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings7 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 days — betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size9 MB44 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperChristopher WalterTharindu Gunawardhana

In-app purchases

2 purchases

SubPlan

Subscriptions2
  • SubPlan Pro Monthly$1.991 Month
  • SubPlan Pro Yearly$17.991 Year
None

Pickleball Scorekeeper

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is SubPlan free?
SubPlan is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Pickleball Scorekeeper free?
Pickleball Scorekeeper is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do SubPlan or Pickleball Scorekeeper have ads?
Neither SubPlan nor Pickleball Scorekeeper shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SubPlan or Pickleball Scorekeeper?
SubPlan ships an update every 2 days, and Pickleball Scorekeeper fortnightly. Most recently, SubPlan was updated on October 31, 2026 and Pickleball Scorekeeper on October 29, 2026.

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