Spond vs RiverGhillie
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 Stop chasing RSVPs, outdated contact info or late payments.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.
RiverGhillie
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RiverGhillie is the complete digital journal for salmon and trout anglers on Scottish rivers. Track every catch with GPS precision, monitor live river conditions from SEPA, and get the weather data you need to plan the perfect trip — all in one beautifully designed app. KEY FEATURES • Catch Journal Log every fish with species, weight, length, location, photo, and release status. GPS coordinates are captured automatically from your photos. Each catch is enriched with live SEPA river level data from the nearest monitoring station, so you'll always know what the water was doing when you hooked that fish. Log hours fished and the no-touch days too — blanks are half the pattern. • Ghillie's Advice The ghillie reads today's live level, trend, rainfall, weather and moon phase to recommend a line, tip, fly size and three flies — grounded in your own catch history and the classic patterns of your river, with a warning when today's water looks like water you've blanked on before. • Interactive Catch Map See your entire season laid out on a map at the bottom of your journal. Every catch position is plotted, and you can tap any catch to fly straight to its location. Each catch card has a map icon — tap it to open a full-screen map where you can view, adjust, or drop a pin to set the exact location. No GPS from your photo? No problem — just drop a pin manually. • Live River Levels Real-time data from SEPA's network of ~775 monitoring stations across Scotland. Search any river, see current water heights, track trends (rising, falling, or steady), and view interactive charts spanning 1-day, 3-day, and 7-day windows. Set alerts to get notified when water levels rise on your favourite rivers. • River Flow Data Monitor discharge rates (m³/s) alongside water levels, with short-term (6h) and long-term (24h) trend indicators so you can time your trip perfectly. • Weather Forecast Detailed hourly and 7-day weather forecasts powered by Open-Meteo. Wind speed and direction, temperature, rainfall, humidity, pressure, and cloud cover — presented in a clear, XCWeather-style format. Add weather favourites for the locations you fish most. • Rain Radar Play back the last two hours of observed rain plus half an hour of forecast over your location or any river. • Weather History One tap backfills the actual air temperature, wind, conditions and 24-hour rainfall at each of your GPS-pinned catches. Every catch also shows the moon phase for its night. • Tide Stations Tide predictions near river mouths, offset for how long the tide takes to reach your river, with one-tap directions via Apple Maps. • River Detail Pages Dedicated pages for each river showing all monitoring stations, interactive level and flow charts, tide stations near the river mouth, weather conditions, and beats and pools contributed by the community. • Community Beats Map A shared, crowd-sourced map of beats and pools. Any angler can add a beat with coordinates and notes — instantly visible to all users. One-tap driving directions via Apple Maps or Google Maps. • Crew & Social Connect with fishing friends. Send and accept friend requests, see your crew's recent catches, and share your angling journey. • Catch Insights Visualise your season with detailed statistics — species breakdowns, catch trends, weight distributions, fish per hour, blank sessions, and SEPA level correlations. Spot patterns and improve your strategy. • Notifications Get alerted when river levels rise on your favourite waters, when friends log new catches, and when you have pending crew requests. Custom sonar ping notification sound. • Cloud Sync & Privacy Your catch log syncs securely to the cloud via Supabase, so your data is safe and accessible across devices. Favourites, weather locations and pinned stations sync too. Apple Sign In for secure, private authentication. RiverGhillie is built by anglers, for anglers. No ads, no clutter — just the tools you need to make the most of every trip to the river.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Spond at weekly against RiverGhillie's monthly. Spond also leads on chart position (#75 vs unranked). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Spond ships an update weekly, RiverGhillie monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Spond | RiverGhillie |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (3.8K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 60.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3.8K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Best chart rank | #75 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 118 MB | 35 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | SPOND AS | Michael Tait |
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
RiverGhillie
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Spond
No in-app purchases
RiverGhillie
No in-app purchases









