Comparison

MaxStats vs Cosidera

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

Head to head
About

MaxStats

This app provides comprehensive basketball statistics tracking for high school games. It offers real-time editing, a built-in rules engine, and seamless integration with a national database for easy setup and stat import/export. Visualize game data with an interactive court and scoreboard.

Highlights
  • Interactive court and scoreboard
  • MaxPreps stat categories tracking
  • Real-time stat editing
  • Built-in NFHS basketball rules engine
  • Roster and lineup management
  • Export stats to MaxPreps.com
  • In-game and postgame reports
Features
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MaxStats - Basketball, powered by MaxPreps is a stat keeping for the iPad for high school statisticians, coaches and fans. The app is directly connected to the MaxPreps database so pregame setups and postgame score/stat imports are quick and easy. Free MaxPreps Membership is required. The app works for boys and girls Varsity/JV/Freshman basketball. Key features: • Interactive basketball court and scoreboard for visual game reference. • Keeps track of all of the MaxPreps.com stat categories, including timeouts and fouls – for both your team and your opponent! Real-time editing allows you to quickly make corrections to your stats without missing any game action. • The application features built-in NFHS basketball rules engine to make data entry faster. • Rosters can be modified at start time to reflect jersey changes as well as setting the starting lineup. Substitutions are made during the game with a single touch. • Demo game included on the schedule to practice using the application before game night. • Export stats directly to MaxPreps.com. The team administrator can preview the results prior to posting them on the team page. Results from multiple scorekeepers at the same game are available for comparison. Additional features: • In-game and Postgame player reports, team summary reports, and shot charts. • Individual and player combination impact reports. • Camera interface to take a picture during the game and attach it to any game event. • Add post game photos or video clips to any event for any game in the library.

About

Cosidera

This app provides coaches with real-time sports data, statistics, and analytics tools for practices and games. It simplifies tracking for all levels of coaching, from professionals to youth volunteers, helping players improve and teams win more.

Highlights
  • Real-time sports data and analytics
  • Customizable player and team stats
  • Track individual events like practices and games
  • Create custom positions and observations
  • Formula-based stat creation
  • Export data to Excel
  • Offline functionality
Features
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Cosidera is an app for ALL coaches made by coaches. Cosidera brings professional sports data, stats and analytic tools to your practice field and game sideline. Powerful for professionals coaches to gain an advantage, yet easy enough for volunteer youth coaches and parents to simplify tracking. It replaces your stopwatch, race timer, scorekeeper books, stats books and coaches' notepads. Cosidera provides coaches with accurate, unbiased, real time, relevant, actionable intelligence. It empowers your sideline to identify aspects requiring attention and highlights areas to capitalize on. Cosidera helps players get better and coaches win more games. Good for any and all coachable sports. Football, Basketball, Volleyball, Soccer, Baseball, Ice Hockey, Lacrosse, Tennis, Cricket, Track and Field, Cross Country, Rugby, Boxing, Gymnastics, Field Hockey, Badminton, Table Tennis, and Golf. Use in practice, drills, scrimmages, games and championships to effortlessly keep track of all YOUR players data right from your phone or tablet for an ENTIRE season. Compare your players with each other and themselves by tracking progress over time. One time purchase i.e. no subscription required. Does NOT require Internet connection to run. Cosidera Features & Benefits Quick on boarding. Tracking observations is quick to input with taps and swipes. Effortlessly tracks players on/off field time and position. Customize your own positions, observations and stats that are important to you. Create stats and analytics to show performance ratios, weighted scores, time dependent metrics, schema and or play call efficiency. View in real time totals and averages of observations, stats, time & analytics by player, position, on the field, off the field and, for everyone. Seamlessly view observations and stats without having to exit observation tracking. Keep the game clock synced with auto start and stop observations. Dive deeper into the complete history with filters, sorting and rollup of the numbers. View data in Pivot Table format. Export data to an Excel file. Get started quickly with on the fly creation of players, positions and observations or import them from Excel file. Track Individual Events Practices Scrimmages Games Tournaments Create Custom Positions with Slots. Create Custom Observations based on Persistent Values: Schemas, Play Calls, Sets Incremental Definable Counters Stopwatch Single Observation Stopwatch for Multiple Racers with Laps Input-able Values Track Opponents Trigger Game Clock Start Stop Actions Create Custom Formula Based Stats/Analytics using Observations as Counts Observations as Sums Observations as MIN, MAX, LAST Where Persistent Observations is Equal Cumulative Playtime Current Playtime Weighting Other Stats With +, -, X and / Order of Operations Expressed as Percent Create Custom Stat Grouping for Quick Viewing Filter and Sort by Game, Events, Player, Opponent, Position, Observation, Persistent Observation and get Counts, Averages and Sums.

Screenshots

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Cosidera at 100% against MaxStats's 52%. Cosidera also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and device support (3 vs 1). MaxStats's advantage is price (Free vs $19.99) and ratings volume (957 vs 1). On update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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

MaxStats is free to download; Cosidera costs $19.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Cosidera holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: MaxStats has 957 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 52% of MaxStats's written reviews are positive against 100% of Cosidera's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

MaxStats ships an update every 3 months, Cosidera every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on November 13, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
MaxStats versus Cosidera: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMaxStatsCosidera
PriceFree — better$19.99
Rating4.7 (957 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews52.2% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings957 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 months — betterEvery 4 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS9.0 — better11.0
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB68 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMaxPreps Inc.Sideline Developers LLC

Customer experience

MaxStats

All ratings888 ratings
Positive93.2%
Neutral2.8%
Negative3.9%
Written reviews23 reviews
Positive52.2%
Neutral8.7%
Negative39.1%

Cosidera

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

MaxStats

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Clock malfunctioning after a few games
  • Automatically adding turnovers when entering offensive fouls
  • Doesn't work on MacBook

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add custom stat buttons
  • Landscape mode option
  • Reset team fouls each quarter
  • Real-time stat sharing

Cosidera

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

MaxStats

No in-app purchases

None

Cosidera

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is MaxStats free?
MaxStats is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Cosidera free?
Cosidera costs $19.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, MaxStats or Cosidera?
Cosidera is rated higher. MaxStats averages 4.7 out of 5 from 957 ratings, while Cosidera averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do MaxStats or Cosidera have ads?
Neither MaxStats nor Cosidera shows ads.
Which is updated more often, MaxStats or Cosidera?
MaxStats ships an update every 3 months, and Cosidera every 4 months. Most recently, MaxStats was updated on November 13, 2026 and Cosidera on November 3, 2026.

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