Spond vs UsynligO
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Spond
This app streamlines sports team and club organization. It simplifies scheduling, payment collection, and communication for coaches, admins, parents, and players. Save time on administrative tasks and focus more on the sport.
- Schedule training, matches, and events
- Automatic RSVP tracking
- Secure payment collection
- Group communication tools
- Manage multiple teams and roles
- Sync with personal calendar
- Player of the match voting
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Organize your team, sports club or group. Save time. Focus on what matters. The free app trusted by millions of coaches, club admins, parents and players worldwide. Spond is the app that makes sports happen. Whether you're running a sports club or organizing activities with your friends, Spond keeps everyone in sync. Stop chasing RSVPs, outdated contact info or late payments. What you can do: • Schedule training, matches and events • Set up recurring events for the whole season at once • Sync everything with your personal calendar • See who's coming with automatic RSVP tracking • Collect membership fees and event payments securely • Send reminders and keep track of who has paid • Manage multiple teams with sub-groups and set member roles • Import members from Excel or add via link, email or SMS • Export attendance lists and data to Excel • Set up your starting line-ups for matches • Keep track of match goals and vote player of the match • Communicate via group chats, posts and polls • Store photos and documents in custom folders and file structures • Manage children's accounts safely as a guardian with full visibility of communication with coaches Built for coaches, club admins, parents and players. Spond saves a coach an average of 2 hours per week on admin tasks. That's more time on the field, less time in spreadsheets and group message chats. Works for all sports and activities. Any group that needs to get organized will find their home in Spond. Download Spond and make sports happen.
UsynligO
This app allows users to select and print orienteering maps to navigate virtual control points. It tracks your location, provides hints, and allows you to publish your race times and results online. You can also create and share your own courses.
- Select and print orienteering maps
- Virtual control point navigation
- Location tracking and notifications
- In-app compass
- Hint system for directions
- Publish race times and results
- Create and share custom courses
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Select an orienteering map from the app and print it. Press start and navigate to the next control point using the printed map. There are no physical flags in the course, but the app tracks your locations and notifies you with a sound when you have found the next control point. The app includes a compass so you only need the printed map and your phone to run a race. If you get lost you can ask UsynligO for a "hint" with the direction and distance to the next post. You can also choose to publish your elapsed time to the UsynligO server and be included in the result list for the course you have run.The result list will include how many "hints" you have used, in addition to your time and split times. If you want to publish a new map so other users can run your course, you can go to www.usynligo.no and upload your maps. UsynligO basically lets you arrange orienteering practices and races without the hassle of putting physical flags in the forest. The courses can be available for as long as you determine. If you would like to use it in conjunction with physical flags, it also lets you print QR codes and use a QR code at each location for validation that a control has been found (for accurate timing). It is also possible to access courses from Livelox, which means you can rerun Livelox courses if you already have the map. The app supports both traditional orienteering and also Score Orienteering. In Score orienteering, the user can choose which order to visit the control points in, and the user collects points for every control point found.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Spond at 4.9 against UsynligO's 3.7. Spond also leads on ratings volume (3.7K vs 12) and chart position (#91 vs unranked). UsynligO's advantage is monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, review sentiment, update cadence 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Spond holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Spond has 3.7K ratings behind it against 12, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 61% of Spond's written reviews are positive against 67% of UsynligO's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Spond ships an update weekly, UsynligO every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Spond | UsynligO |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (3.7K ratings) — better | 3.7 (12 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 60.8% of reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3.7K — better | 12 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #91 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 118 MB | 152 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | SPOND AS | Trond Benum |
Customer experience
Spond
UsynligO
Bugs and requests
Spond
Reported bugs
5 issues- Events randomly disappearing
- Inability to create new events in some groups
- Calendar sync issues when crossing time zones
- Verification code not being received
- Crashes when opening messages
Requested features
5 requests- Add goal scorer and stats tracking features
- Improve recurring event creation and management
- Implement a more granular notification control system
- Develop an iPad-specific app
- Add a car pool feature to connect players in the same area
UsynligO
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Spond
No in-app purchases
UsynligO
No in-app purchases









