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Team Shake vs Random

Team Shake 4.9★ · $1.99 · ⚠ stale 85
Winner Team Shake
Random 4.5★ · Free + IAP 60

Team Shake is the better choice for educators and coaches who need robust team-making features with balanced groups, while Random is suitable for casual, varied randomization needs despite its intrusive ads and confusing premium model.

Full reviews: Team Shake · Random

Team Shake offers specialized features for creating balanced teams, importing lists, and managing multiple classes, making it ideal for teachers and coaches, though some users find its interface clunky. Random provides a wider variety of randomization tools like dice rolls and spin wheels, but its free version is heavily ad-supported and its premium model is confusing and buggy for many users.

Head to head

Features for Team Making edge: Team ShakeR1R12R15R26
Team Shake Team Shake excels in specialized team-making features, allowing users to rate players by strength, balance groups, avoid specific pairings, and handle multiple classes R26R27R34. It supports importing CSV lists and saving groups, which is highly valued by teachers R28R12.
Random Random offers a team-making feature, but it's less sophisticated, with users reporting difficulty understanding it and a lack of advanced options like balancing or importing lists R97.
Ease of Use & Interface edge: Team ShakeR6R9R12R23
Team Shake Team Shake has a learning curve, with some users finding the interface not user-friendly and challenging for importing lists or navigating options initially R6R9R23. However, many users find it easy to use once familiarized R12R48.
Random Random is described as confusing and not user-friendly by many, with issues creating lists, understanding features, and navigating the app R6.
Reliability & Bugs edge: Team ShakeR2R4R7R17
Team Shake Team Shake has some reported reliability issues, including the shake feature not working, inability to save changes after iOS updates, and problems adding classes R4R7R17. Some users also wish for multi-device syncing R2R33.
Random Random users report significant bugs, such as premium purchases not being recognized, ads appearing despite payment, lists being deleted, and the app not working as intended for features like the wheel or card generator R67.
Price & Value edge: Team ShakeR1R30R48R60
Team Shake Team Shake is a one-time purchase of $1.99, and many users consider it money well spent for its features and utility, especially for teachers R30R48R60. Some users, however, feel that for a paid app, it deserves continued updates R1.
Random Random is free with IAP, but its monetization model is a major point of contention. Many users are frustrated by intrusive ads, a 'credit' system that limits free usage, and a confusing subscription model where features they paid for become inaccessible or require further payment R61R67.
Support & Updates edge: Team ShakeR1R10R14R24
Team Shake Team Shake has received positive feedback for its support, with one user reporting a quick response within 24 hours including a video tutorial R14. Another user mentioned a bug fix within a week . However, some users note a lack of continued updates or unresponsive developers regarding issues R1R10R24.
Random Random users report difficulty contacting support or getting issues resolved, especially regarding premium features not working . There's also a perception of rude developer replies .
Pick Team Shake if

You are a teacher, coach, or group leader who needs advanced, balanced team-making capabilities, including importing lists, saving groups, and balancing teams by skill or gender R26R27R28R30. You prefer a one-time payment for a reliable tool, even if it has a slight learning curve R48R60.

Pick Random if

You need a general-purpose randomizer for various tasks like dice rolls, coin flips, or simple wheel spins, and you are comfortable with a free app that may have ads or a confusing premium model .

Evidence note: Team Shake's reviews are predominantly positive, with specific complaints often related to desired feature enhancements or occasional bugs. Random's reviews are highly polarized; while some users love its versatility, a significant portion expresses strong dissatisfaction with its monetization, bugs, and user experience, leading to a lower lifetime rating.

Frequently asked

Can I import lists of names into these apps?
Team Shake allows you to import CSV lists, which is highly valued by users for setting up classes or groups quickly R28R58. Random, however, lacks an import feature, requiring users to type in names one by one, which is frustrating for large lists R66R97.
Do these apps help create balanced teams?
Team Shake is specifically designed for creating balanced teams, allowing users to rate players by strength, avoid specific pairings, and distribute boys and girls or different skill levels evenly R26R27R30R34. Random's team-making feature is much simpler and does not offer options for balancing teams by skill or other attributes .
Are there ads in these apps?
Team Shake is a paid app ($1.99) and does not feature ads. Random is a free app with in-app purchases, and its free version is heavily criticized for intrusive and loud pop-up ads R61R90. Some users who paid to remove ads still reported seeing them R67.
Can I use these apps across multiple devices?
Team Shake users have expressed a wish for device syncing, indicating that lists are not easily transferable between devices R2R33. The reviews for Random do not explicitly mention multi-device syncing capabilities.

What reviewers actually said

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  1. [R1] Team Shake 2/5 · US Needs continued improvement: This app is the tip of the iceberg of what could be done for team making and randomizing. I’d love to see a lock feature to keep teams in place, it’s impossible to stay still as a teacher that uses this. I’d appreciate a feature allowing certain players to always be with specific others. I’d appreciate other strength and weakness features to be added as well. For a pai
  2. [R12] Team Shake 5/5 · US Efficient: This app works great.You make groups and you can save the groups and you can randomly then break them up into different groups time after time. Use-friendly, fast, an easy peasy. I am in lovr wotj this app.
  3. [R15] Team Shake 1/5 · US Can't have multiple classes: App only allows you to create a list for one class. If one teaches multiple classes, this app won't help you make a list for each class.
  4. [R26] Team Shake 5/5 · US Life is easy: With team shake! We use this program at least three times a week, and it works exceptionally well. Matches teams/players comparatively close. Just rate each player from weakest to strongest, select the number of players and shake. Been very helpful for about 2 years now!
  5. [R6] Team Shake 3/5 · US Not user friendly: Seems simple but it's not. Import list, press shake. No. that didn't work. Wish I knew what i was doing wrong.
  6. [R9] Team Shake 1/5 · US Not user friendly: The interface is difficult to work with, and should be more straight forward. It's challenging to import class lists and has confusing wording for the different options. Seems like it should not be this difficult. Waste of $.99...unless they can improve the navigation in adding classes/students.
  7. [R23] Team Shake 5/5 · US Not like the preview: This app has been hard to figure out and doesn’t show me the same features that I see in the preview. That being said, it is still useful but minimally so.
  8. [R2] Team Shake 4/5 · US Wish…: I wish this app would sync among devices. We use this for school every day. LOVE IT!!! Now our iPad is in the shop but unable to transfer the info easily to new device.
  9. [R4] Team Shake 2/5 · US Won’t Shake: I’m not sure if it’s my iPhone or it’s operating system, but on occasion, the shake feature won’t work. I have to restart my phone to get it working again. This is frustrating because I group my PE classes at the beginning of each class and wind up having to wait until my phone is ready to begin the lesson. Also, I can’t disable the shake function (to just using the touch screen ic
  10. [R7] Team Shake 1/5 · US Useless: I have used this app in the classroom for 5 years. I recently needed to change my classes but it gives me a warning and I can’t get past it to add a class. I went ahead and upgraded to the paid version but it still doesn’t work.
  11. [R17] Team Shake 2/5 · US Won't save: Since iOS update the app won't let me save ANYTHING!!! Very frustrating when you have 14 classes you would like to use it with.
  12. [R30] Team Shake 5/5 · US Highly recommended: I teach an adult ESL class, in which the students are at drastically different levels. This app makes it so easy for me to arrange them in either homogenous or heterogeneous groups, depending on the activity. I can leave the iPad opened, so they can easily find their group or partner, allowing me to facilitate those who have already begun. Worth every penny!
  13. [R48] Team Shake 5/5 · US Great!: It is easy to set up and use. Team Shake makes unique groups a breeze. Money well spent.
  14. [R60] Team Shake 5/5 · US Life saver: Spent about 10 minutes today importing my classes and a bit more time looking at strengths/ gender/ pairings to avoid and voila - all set to go! Great app for PE teachers or anyone else looking to do easy groupings. Love the random call out feature too where you can randomly select any student. Fab - best $.99 you’ll spend
  15. [R10] Team Shake 4/5 · US great but: Needs to be updated, please
  16. [R14] Team Shake 5/5 · US Amazing app: I needed an app to sort 24 different singers who all sing a different harmony voice part into 6 random quartets. I emailed support and got a response back within 24 hours. They even included a special video telling me exactly what to do. Opposing Teams was the answer. Amazing app and fantastic support
  17. [R24] Team Shake 5/5 · US Doesn’t work: I have had this app for a while and gets worse by the moment. I have tried to contact the developer and no word on why I cannot save my class rosters. When it worked it was awesome. But since then is has been bogus.
  18. [R28] Team Shake 5/5 · US Excellent: Great app! You can even import a csv list so you don’t have to type in every name to the app.
  19. [R58] Team Shake 5/5 · US Great App for PE classes: This is a great app that saves time and minimizes arguments in my classroom. No more arguing what team you are on it is right there on the screen. I use this app to quickly divide my class of 50-60 students into groups or teams. The initial setup is quick and easy using the import feature. I highly recommend this app for all PE teachers, coaches, counsellors, or anyone
  20. [R66] Random 3/5 · US Excellent except…: It’s an excellent app with several options except that I can’t import lists to use. So I spend a lot of time typing in names for PTA drawings. It’s exhausting and creates many chances for human error. I would really would love to see an option to import a spreadsheet.
  21. [R97] Random 1/5 · US You have to enter each item on the list one by one?: This doesn’t make much sense for people who have hundreds of items.
  22. [R27] Team Shake 5/5 · US Love it!: I teach K-12 PE and love how I can have all the kids in one app and quickly divide teams - have boys and girls and different skill levels evenly distributed- save a ton of time!
  23. [R34] Team Shake 5/5 · US Great App for the Classroom!!!: This app has so many useful features! I love how you can set it to avoid putting 2 particular students on the same team. This app makes it much easier and fun to choose teams!
  24. [R61] Random 2/5 · US Ads too intrusive: Recently the ads have become loud pop ups instead of banners. Deleted this.
  25. [R67] Random 1/5 · US Why am I still seeing ads?: I paid to remove ads but they’re still popping up? Isn’t this breach of contract?
  26. [R90] Random 5/5 · US Great App Except for the ads: this app is really great it is very useful! The only problem is the ads every stinkin time you spin the wheel or flip a coin. I managed to fix it however if you go to settings and turn off cellular data for just that app then turn off your wifi or turn on airplane mode...no wifi, no ads
  27. [R33] Team Shake 5/5 · US A favorite PE app but could use some tweaking: I think this app is great for all the different options for creating teams. I use it almost daily. Printing out permanent teams for a team unit is helpful for the kids and is a time saver for me. It does take a little getting use to the user interface but once you have played around enough it's pretty easy. The one complaint I have is that my lists ar

Synthesized from 120 recent App Store reviews · updated July 2026 · View on the App Store