HockeyShift vs Rink Rats
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
HockeyShift
This app provides hockey organizations with a comprehensive suite of tools to manage team information. Track schedules, view scoreboards and standings, manage rosters, and monitor leaderboards. Requires league integration for team data.
- Team schedules
- Scoreboards
- Standings
- Rosters
- Leaderboards
- Special teams tracking
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HockeyShift is the next generation of tools for Hockey organizations. Stay up to date with everything related to your team, including - Schedules - Scoreboards - Standings - Special Teams - Rosters - Leader Boards - and more to come! To add your team to this app it requires your team plays in a league that uses HockeyShift for it's stats software. If you experience any problems or have any great features you'd like to see added to HockeyShift, please contact us directly at support@hockeyshift.com.
Rink Rats
This app connects hockey players for pickup games, leagues, and tournaments. Features include easy game joining, roster viewing, intelligent team assignment, and friend messaging. Customize your profile and connect with the hockey community.
- Join pickup games easily
- Viewable rosters
- Intelligent team assignment
- Waitlist notifications
- Friend invites and messaging
- Customizable player profiles
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Rink Rats The ultimate app for hockey players! The focus of this version is dedicated to Pickup game play, here are some key features you can expect: - Easily join Pickup games from Rinks and Ice contractors within the Rink Rats Network - Goalies incentive allowing free play at Rink or Contractors discrestion - Viewable roster - complete view of who has signed up for Pickup - Team auto assign base on the intelligent skill algorithm with notifications to allow for a more even game play - When the Pickup roster is full join the waitlist and recieve a notification if an open spot becomes available - Find, invite and message friends, group chat also available - Private and public Pickup options - Customize your profile Rink Rats brings the hockey community together with the rinks. Access to sign up for Pickup, Leagues, Tournaments, player profile creation, review League and Tournament stats, add friends, message friends, skills assessments, find rinks, rink info and more…
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Rink Rats at 86% against HockeyShift's 24%. Rink Rats also leads on rating (4.0 vs 2.8) and update cadence (every 4 weeks vs every 7 months). HockeyShift's advantage is ratings volume (58 vs 13) and device support (3 vs 1). 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.
Rink Rats holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 2.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 58 and 13 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 24% of HockeyShift's written reviews are positive against 86% of Rink Rats's.
HockeyShift ships an update every 7 months, Rink Rats every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | HockeyShift | Rink Rats |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.8 (58 ratings) | 4.0 (13 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 24.4% of reviews | 85.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 58 — better | 13 |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 4 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 180 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | DigitalShift Interactive Inc. | Stickup LLC |
Customer experience
HockeyShift
Rink Rats
Bugs and requests
HockeyShift
Reported bugs
13 issues- Back button is unusable/non-existent
- App doesn't work with modern iPhones
- Saved teams disappear
- App deletes teams every time
- Top menu buttons are hard to push
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- Numbers are cut off in roster
- App only works on Wi-Fi
- Constant loading issues, teams don't load
- App crashes
- Cannot add team or login
- Back arrow is too high on new iPhones
- Major bugs were squashed (recent update)
- Update bricked the app (recent update)
Requested features
9 requests- Add refresh button
- Sync schedule to iCal calendar
- Team chat feature
- Dark mode option
- Message/group message function
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- Reformat roster for longer names
- Fix alignment of titles/columns in Standing page
- Allow deleting old teams
- Option to add multiple teams under one club easily
Rink Rats
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
HockeyShift
No in-app purchases
Rink Rats
No in-app purchases
