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MaxPreps vs Tribe Athletics Sports Events

MaxPreps 4.8★ · Free + IAP 70
Winner MaxPreps
Tribe Athletics Sports Events 4.8★ · Free to download 40

MaxPreps offers a more comprehensive platform for high school sports information, despite its issues with ads and bugs, while Tribe Athletics Sports Events is primarily focused on event streaming with limited overall functionality.

Full reviews: MaxPreps · Tribe Athletics Sports Events

MaxPreps provides extensive high school sports data, including stats, standings, and schedules, but users frequently complain about excessive ads, bugs, and incorrect scores. Tribe Athletics Sports Events is praised for its event organization but has issues with streaming quality and high costs.

Head to head

Features & Content edge: MaxPrepsR2R5R11R13
MaxPreps MaxPreps is highly informational, offering stats, standings, schedules, and coverage for every school in every state, with quick updates R11. However, users desire the ability to follow more than 16 teams R2 and want more sports like middle school teams or dance added R5. Some features, like viewing articles or adding videos to profiles, are reported as broken R13.
Tribe Athletics Sports Events Tribe Athletics Sports Events helps users track games and favorite teams . It is also noted for organizing tournaments .
Ease of Use & Navigation edge: MaxPrepsR4R27R29R33
MaxPreps MaxPreps is generally considered intuitive and user-friendly, but recent updates have made navigation less fluid, such as removing the ability to click on opposing teams from a game view R29R33. Users also report issues with account creation, including login problems and birthday verification errors R4R27.
Tribe Athletics Sports Events There is not enough information in the reviews to assess the general ease of use or navigation for Tribe Athletics Sports Events.
Reliability & Performance edge: MaxPrepsR6R9R12R13
MaxPreps MaxPreps suffers from numerous bugs and performance issues, including frequent crashes , error messages like '406 not acceptable' R15, and the app becoming unreadable due to glitches R6. Users also report slow performance and issues with articles not loading R13. Scoring features are particularly problematic, with incorrect scores being posted R9R12R14R54, difficulty submitting scores , and stats not updating correctly .
Tribe Athletics Sports Events Tribe Athletics Sports Events has issues with its streaming service, which needs improvement .
Price & Value tieR1R6R15R22
MaxPreps MaxPreps is free to download but charges for features like favoriting teams and watching live games, which users find expensive and frustrating, especially when live game links redirect to other services R1R22. The app is also heavily criticized for an overwhelming number of ads, pop-ups, and banners that obstruct content, making it difficult to use R6R15R34R41.
Tribe Athletics Sports Events Tribe Athletics Sports Events is free to download, but its streaming service is considered 'outrageous' in cost .
Support & Communication edge: MaxPrepsR3R37R45
MaxPreps MaxPreps users report difficulty communicating with support, stating there's no apparent way to contact anyone R3 and that reported issues often go unaddressed R37R45.
Tribe Athletics Sports Events There is no information in the reviews regarding support or communication for Tribe Athletics Sports Events.
Pick MaxPreps if

You need a comprehensive source for high school sports information, including stats, standings, and schedules across many sports and schools, and are willing to tolerate frequent ads and occasional bugs R11.

Pick Tribe Athletics Sports Events if

You are primarily interested in tracking specific games and teams, or if you are involved with tournaments organized by Tribe Athletics .

Evidence note: Evidence for Tribe Athletics Sports Events is very thin, with only four reviews available, making a comprehensive comparison difficult. MaxPreps has a much larger volume of reviews, providing more detailed insights into user experience.

Frequently asked

Is MaxPreps free to use?
MaxPreps is free to download and provides much information, but certain features like favoriting teams and watching live games require a subscription or in-app purchases R22R56.
Does MaxPreps have a lot of ads?
Yes, MaxPreps is heavily criticized for having an excessive number of ads, banners, and mandatory pop-ups that often cover content and make the app difficult to use R15R34R41R42.
Are scores and stats accurate on MaxPreps?
Users frequently report issues with incorrect scores being posted, scores changing days later, and total stats calculations being wrong R9R12R14R54.

What reviewers actually said

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  1. [R2] MaxPreps 4/5 · US Very good app, could use some tweaks: Very good app! I usually do some reporting for my school, basketball. Football works too, but when it comes to baseball, soccer, etc., the scoring just doesn’t work. My second complaint isn’t all that much of a deal, but i feel like having a limited amount of team sports you can follow is a bit redundant, especially if you are “loyal”, per se, to multiple scho
  2. [R5] MaxPreps 5/5 · US Grades available: The app is one step f the best and I really recommend it but should add middle school teams.
  3. [R11] MaxPreps 5/5 · US A lot of information: This app is SO informational. It has stats, standings and so much more. It has every school in every state. It has top notch information about every school. This app updates very quick. I definitely recommend downloading this app.
  4. [R13] MaxPreps 2/5 · US Articles don’t show: When you click on the articles, it’s just a blank page. The articles won’t even pop up anymore in the app.
  5. [R4] MaxPreps 1/5 · US Not good: First of all, nobody wants to create yet another log-in in this day and age. If there was ever an app crying out for “Log-in with …”, it’s this one, a high school sports app. Second, I’ve never seen an app use as much data as this one. I have auto play “off” for videos, and it’s still somehow chewing up MBs like crazy.
  6. [R27] MaxPreps 3/5 · US Signing in: For some reason as soon as I try to make an account and it asks for my birthday it says that they can’t answer my request making it impossible for me to make an account.
  7. [R29] MaxPreps 4/5 · US Latest Update: App has always been intuitive and user friendly. Latest update took a little step back. When viewing a game, I like to look at the past schedule of the teams of the game in viewing for multiple reasons. Previously, I could click on a team, even if I wasn’t following them, and view their season schedule. Now, I cannot find a way to do this w/o searching a team from the main search ba
  8. [R33] MaxPreps 3/5 · US A Step Backwards: Why did they take away links to other schools in the team schedules? That was one of the most useful features. If team X is playing team Y and I look at the schedule or the matchup, I can’t click on team Y to see their page. I have to go all the way out and search for the other team. Waste of time.
  9. [R6] MaxPreps 3/5 · US Glitches: Please update this app. It’s been unreadable for quite a while now. I couldn’t find anything on Support to file a recommendation. There’s ads or whatever that is blocking half the page. Being where I live, this app is of great interest to me. I miss using it
  10. [R9] MaxPreps 3/5 · US What are score boards: How are yall gonna put that our team won 60-35 because that’s what happened and then change the score two days later to tell they lost
  11. [R12] MaxPreps 3/5 · US What?: So I checked my football team score against the game we played Thursday and the score was wrong. It got correct that we did win. Oh it bothered me as it said 39 to 32 which was incorrect cause they did not get 32 points. we got 35 points and they got six points. Can someone please fix the scoring system because y’all are getting it wrong
  12. [R1] MaxPreps 2/5 · US Great until subscribed: The app works good, however, a subscription to watch live games only ever takes me to NFHS when I click “Live.” What am I paying for on maxpreps if it redirects me to NFHS? Why can’t it keep the livestream on maxpreps, or let me watch on NFHS since I am subscribed to maxpreps.
  13. [R15] MaxPreps 3/5 · US E6: Decent app but lots of error 406 messages. I understand you need to play the bills, but all the ads & banners fill up 3/4 of the page from top to bottom and there’s very little space to see info, read articles and view stats. Also, the frequent mandatory pop-up ads are so 2002, they’re worse than an infield fly rule…and the new extra-innings rule to start the inning with a runner on 2nd.
  14. [R22] MaxPreps 1/5 · US EXPENSIVE: This app costs money to favorite a team🤯they should just let us do it for free and to watch a game it also costs money, can they just let us watch it for free
  15. [R3] MaxPreps 3/5 · US Not Interactive: My grandson is a junior and moved to Whitewright, TX. He’s the starting point guard and the app does not let me add him for basketball - cause the database doesn’t list his name, I guess. He is listed as an athlete in football for Whitewright. Basketball is his main sport. There is no apparent way to communicate with anyone at MaxPrep.
  16. [R37] MaxPreps 1/5 · US Garbage: Glitches everywhere. Garbage support. I have reported issues and never hear anything. Update: I messaged the developer as requested and guess what? NOTHING HAPPENED!😂 What a surprise. Still can’t close out a softball game when it’s over. I guess you have to wait till they decide it’s over.🤷🏼‍♂️
  17. [R45] MaxPreps 3/5 · US Good and bad: Love using the app to get game updates and to provide updates. But MaxPreps does not respond. Emailed and posted and can’t get help removing a scorer who doesn’t score on games.
  18. [R56] MaxPreps 5/5 · US Max preps: Is max preps to sign up is free
  19. [R34] MaxPreps 1/5 · US Worst app ever: Using on an iPad, this is my least favorite app. Obtrusive ads take up the whole screen. You close one ad and another pops up 10 seconds later. Curious if anyone who works at MaxPreps actually uses their own app and doesn’t get frustrated doing so.
  20. [R41] MaxPreps 4/5 · US I like this app a lot, but the commercials are out of control.: I use this app a lot to check my high schools stats and when thier games are so I can go watch them, homewever sometimes I like to watch the highlights of games or of player film. But the problem with this is how there are so many ads it is impossible to watch it without getting annoyed. I know that you need to be able to have ads on
  21. [R42] MaxPreps 3/5 · US Way too many ads: This app used to be great, but now 1/3 of the screen is covered in ads. I understand they need to make a profit, but Holly cow you don’t choke people with the ads.
  22. [R14] MaxPreps 4/5 · US Incorrect score posting: Midlothian’s record is incorrect as posted. Their record is shown as 12-0-4. Their record should be listed as 12-0-3. MaxPreps posted the Atlee score twice. Midlothian only placed Atlee once. The game that was scheduled for May 5th was canceled due to weather. The game was rescheduled for later in the schedule in a game where the score was posted as a 3-3 tie, which is
  23. [R54] MaxPreps 3/5 · US Final Scores Wrong: Every final score I’ve looked at in your videos for Texas are wrong. What’s your problem?

Synthesized from 64 recent App Store reviews · updated July 2026 · View on the App Store