ECB Player Development vs Homeground
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ECB Player Development
An exclusive, invitation-only platform for player development within England's Player Development and Performance Programmes. It serves as a private resource for athletes and coaches.
- Invitation-only access
- Player development resources
- England Performance Programmes
- Private resource for athletes
- Coach support
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Private, invitation only, resource for player development in the England Player Development and England Performance Programmes
Homeground
This AI-powered sports app analyzes cricket training videos to provide real-time metrics, personalized recommendations, and expert feedback. It offers detailed analytics for batsmen, bowlers, wicketkeepers, and fielders, along with a library of skill, fitness, and mindset drills.
- AI-powered video analysis
- Real-time metrics and feedback
- Personalized recommendations
- Analytics for all player roles
- Drill library for skill, fitness, mindset
- Digital skill profile creation
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HomeGround is an AI based app that helps aspiring cricketers and coaches get access to professional level training right on the smartphone for as little as $3 per month without a need for wearables or sensors. All you need is a smartphone and a tripod to start capturing your cricket training sessions wherever you play, at cricket nets or even in your backyard. All you have to do is upload a pre-recoded training video or capture a live training session and our AI does the rest. In 3-easy steps analyse your training sessions to get real-time metrics, personalised recommendations and expert feedback. We've got everyone covered, HomeGround provides real-time analytics for batsman, bowlers, wicket-keepers and fielders. What HomeGround can help you with now - - Our computer vision and smart AI coaching helps bowlers get a professional looking cricket pitch map with ball line, ball length and ball speed for every training session. Going forward we are building modules to help bowlers with detailed analysis on their run-up, stride lengths and bowling action Our vision for the future of HomeGround - - We are building modules that helps batsman understand their choice of shot for a particular delivery and get recommendations from cricket coaches on their shot efficiency. - Similarly, a wicketkeeper will have access to fundamental stance analysis and recommendations from coaches around the world. In addition to the analytics, the users get access to a premium library of cricket drill videos, these videos will be categorised in to Skill(Technique), Fitness and Mindset drills. These are essential to a cricketers overall game improvement. Once the analysis is done, a user will be redirected to one of these cricket drills automatically. We want to help our users build a digital skill profile that can be shared with talent scouts for talent identification and with coaches for feedback. Try out HomeGround for free and see how we can help you level up your game.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Homeground at 100% against ECB Player Development's 0%. Homeground also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 12 months) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 14.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
ECB Player Development ships an update every 12 months, Homeground monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 29, 2026 and July 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ECB Player Development | Homeground |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 6 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 12 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 73 MB | 150 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Dartfish | Hypertune Technologies Private Limited |
Customer experience
ECB Player Development
Homeground
In-app purchases
ECB Player Development
No in-app purchases
Homeground
No in-app purchases
Questions
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