SportsEngine
SportsEngine is a widely used app for managing youth sports, praised for its organizational features and communication tools, but recent updates have introduced significant bugs, performance issues, and an increase in intrusive ads, leading to a decline in user satisfaction.
SportsEngine is a sports management app designed to streamline schedules, communication, and team updates for youth sports. While many users appreciate its core functionality for organization, recent reviews highlight numerous technical issues, including freezing, crashing, and login problems, alongside complaints about an influx of full-screen advertisements.
What users like
What users complain about
- Frequent app freezing, crashing, and login issues, especially after recent updatesR15R16R17R22
- Intrusive full-screen ads and push notification ads are a major annoyanceR5R8R29R42
- Chat feature is buggy, clunky, and lacks modern functionality like seeing who liked messages or proper notification managementR49R53R54R74
- Poor user interface, difficult navigation, and slow performanceR4R6R12R13
- Issues with schedule accuracy, especially when syncing to external calendarsR68R71R123R307
- Lack of advanced stats tracking for coaches and playersR3R25R88R259
- Customer support is unhelpful, often directing users back to their leagueR18R41
- Rated 18+, preventing younger children from using the app to check schedulesR54R56R103
Latest update · v7.4.12
What the developer says changed (the verdict above weighs this against what reviewers report):
What’s New: We’ve added biometric login, making it faster and easier to securely access the app using your device’s supported biometric authentication. This update also includes bug fixes, crash fixes, and stability improvements to make the app more reliable.
Recurring themes
Who it's for
SportsEngine is for parents, coaches, and players involved in youth sports who need a centralized platform for schedules, team communication, and updates R10R48. It is particularly useful for those managing multiple teams . However, users who prioritize a bug-free, ad-free experience, or those who struggle with complex interfaces, should consider alternatives R4R5R12.
Evidence note: The recent reviews skew heavily negative (61.9% negative), which contrasts sharply with the lifetime rating of 4.8. This suggests a significant decline in user satisfaction due to recent changes or updates. The developer's release notes claim bug and crash fixes, but many recent reviews directly contradict this, reporting continued or new stability issues. Evidence for some cons, like the 18+ rating, is present but less frequent than performance issues or ads.
Frequently asked
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What reviewers actually said
Built only from these 120 real reviews (foreign ones translated). Superscripts jump to the quote here. Apple has no per-review links, so [ref] opens that app's reviews on the App Store.
- [R10] Team App.: SportsEngine is a solid app overall for managing youth sports schedules, communication, and team updates. The calendar sync and roster features make it easy to stay organized during busy tournament weekends and practices. The app works well for coaches and parents needing quick access to game times, locations, and team chats. Registration and tournament communication are also streamlin
- [R48] Amazing!: This is an amazing app for sports because you can see practices and games and helps you with schedule for practices and games and it shows what time and location ,amazing for the players and their parents!
- [R136] The Engine Room: Great team management app. Helps my hockey team keep a track of who is going to be there and gives an all in one solution to communication with parents and coaching staff/ all logistics involved. I look forward to future updates and more integrations that will help facilitate team communications and engagement.
- [R9] Clear communication: The app is very user friendly. All the game information is in one location
- [R11] Sports engine: Sports engine is the beat app and it is very organized and it is a very trustable app.
- [R62] Friendly to Use: Super easy and friendly use. Especially for busy parents with multiple kids
- [R69] How good sports engine is: Sports engine is the best app for sports, it’s so easy to add to the calendar and easy to use, definitely five stars
- [R124] AMAZING: It’s a great app for your sports team. My personal favorite part is the RSVP Feature in the app makes coaches practice plans better so that they know who’s coming to the game and that way they can make the lineup!!!!!
- [R15] Freezes with newest update - Fixed!: Update - developers have solved the issue. App was flawless until I updated my IPhone (IOS 26.4) with the latest SE update. After updating, it froze whenever I tried to see the schedule. I turned my phone off to reboot without success. I deleted the app and reloaded, but now it locks up whenever i try to login. This is frustratingly unfortunate because we are
- [R16] Frozen: For the past week or so, the app freezes every time I try to use it. I’ve deleted and reinstalled it multiple times, but it has stopped working.
- [R17] App is locking up: App is locking up, can’t see schedule, can’t navigate through the app, tried deleting the app, App locks up during the login process, just able to put login name in then the page locks up
- [R22] Freezes: Each time I try to sign it the app freezes
- [R5] New full screen ads!: Loading the app now displays full screen ads. You have to watch it or wait for the skip button. Very annoying. Please implement an option to purchase the app with no ads! I would gladly pay for a clean user experience. Take my $10!!
- [R8] Push Ads Now?: I have to use this app for my son’s soccer team, and it has been fine. Now there are ads taking over the screen when I log in and even a push notification ad for a movie. Terrible customer experience.
- [R29] Remove Ads: Remove the ads!! They get in the way
- [R42] Sports Engine SUCKS.: Terrible app. Not easy to archive old teams. Always deceptive ads and added charges for stuff no one wants. Selling our data should be enough!!
- [R49] Chat: I used to get notifications when someone entered something into the chat and then ever since there’s been an update I stopped getting notifications even though they are all enabled.
- [R53] Frustrating: The chat feature is insanely frustrating. Why do I have to close the app, reopen the app and navigate to the chat tab EVERY time a new message is posted? The state management is broken, has been broken for several versions and hasn’t been fixed.
- [R54] Bugs: There are so many bugs to this app. The team chats are constantly messed up. My biggest gripe is that it's rated 18+ which means kids can't use the app to check their team times and locations.
- [R74] Nice app: Great app. Very helpful but chat doesn’t do a great job showing the date but it sure has the time!!
- [R4] SucksEngine: Great if you like an app from 2013 that hasn’t been updated since. The user interface is awful, but the slowness on the backend is what really annoys me. Don’t get me started on the “dibs” and managing volunteer hours.
- [R6] Where to watch!: I’m trying to watch a team and can’t meander through this site as it isn’t helpful at all!!!
- [R12] I’m too old app too complicated for a grandma: Very hard to find my team. It’s frustrating
- [R13] searching sucks. overly complex app.: this app is like the wild west of teams. search algorithm reminds me of early 2000s. gmail would be easier to use
- [R68] Schedule deleted in middle of season.: Updated the app and my schedule got deleted in the middle of the season, but I’m still logged in and can’t find it. -two more hands For 4 thumbs down
- [R71] Sync to Google calendar is not correct: I’m not sure what the issue is but the sync feature glitches on some events. I will see the event on Saturday in the SE calendar but in my synced Google calendar it shows up on Sunday. Super frustrating.
- [R123] Getting a little bit better: You guys keep adding features which is nice, but you failed to fix the schedule export feature where you can add it to Apple Google or buy a link URL it is an excellent feature, but the implementation of it is very poor The updating time of it’s terrible and now there is even errors in it where if I schedule something all day on like a Sunday for some reason, it puts i
- [R307] Good app but buggy: The app overall is very comprehensive but it doesn’t get a higher rating from me because it is very buggy in some key features. For example, sometimes you save a response and or a piece of information and it reverts back to the previous value. Due to this there has been numerous times that game times have been mixed up in my team. Also, I have already logged in but I click on
- [R3] Can’t scroll on stats: I use this pretty often since I play in a few leagues, but I was checking this entire week, I guess after the update? and now I cannot scroll to the right to see anything after ABs and half of OPS. Besides this one mistake the app runs pretty smoothly for the most part, but I would like to see me and my teammates’ stats again asap
- [R25] Not User Friendly & Doesn’t Help Coaches AT ALL: This app is absolutely HORRIBLE!! We CANNOT see stats like we used to be able to years back, can’t see where kids are excelling at vs what they need to work on muchless who is getting play time where, fouls called and on who/what to help correct our players we coach, and a lot more information like such to be coaching friendly for our players to ben
- [R88] It is ok.: The app is like most other sports apps. The one exception being that you can’t track game stats for all sports.
- [R259] Need more Stats: This is a great app but you should be able to have access to the stats of players on the other teams in the league
- [R18] No customer service: App keeps locking up no matter what I do. Tried deleting and re-installing. Insured the app has the latest version and my iPhone is up-to-date. Still nothing. And when you try to reach out to customer support, there is none they direct you to talk to your league like my team manager who does not have access to my phone is gonna be able to fix it for me.
- [R41] App broken: App won’t login after update. No way to report this issue.
- [R56] Why: Why can’t they make where 9+ can have this so my kid can’t access it
- [R103] Emails: I just think that you should allow at least 13 and up to make an account for “just me” because this is the age that a lot of kids are playing sports and to have to sign in with a parent can be hard because of the emails and stuff.
- [R1] Stay away from: This app is very buggy the keyboard don’t work half the time
- [R14] Latest version has rendered the App useless - FIXED: I have re-installed multiple times and upgrade to latest iOS version, yet app is still locking up. Update: YAHOO. Latest version as of today has fixed my issue.
- [R7] Oversaturation of DM options: This app has a chat function and a message function. We already connect via text and email. We don’t need the redundancy and the possibility of missing a message.
- [R47] RSVP List and Chat: Please make the RSVP list in order of those who RSVP first-last. Some teams need to limit players and keep track of who signed up first vs last. Also please let us remove players from team chat. Subs get added to our roster and we don’t always want them in our team chat but there is no way to remove them..
- [R2] Won’t load upcoming events: Horrible
- [R35] Improvements: The added schedule enhancements and ease of use are great.
Synthesized from 120 recent App Store reviews · updated July 2026 · View on the App Store