MaxPreps vs NCSA Athletic Recruiting
Choose MaxPreps for a more reliable and feature-rich experience.
MaxPreps offers a more comprehensive app experience with better features and user satisfaction compared to NCSA Athletic Recruiting, which suffers from numerous complaints about usability and customer service. While both apps have their drawbacks, MaxPreps stands out for its extensive sports coverage and overall functionality.
Head to head
you want a comprehensive app for high school sports with better features and user satisfaction.
you are specifically looking for recruiting tools and are willing to navigate a less reliable app.
Evidence note: MaxPreps has a wealth of positive reviews, while NCSA's negative reviews highlight significant user dissatisfaction, indicating a clear disparity in user experience.
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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.
- [R2] MaxPreps 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
- [R11] MaxPreps 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.
- [R68] NCSA Athletic Recruiting Expensive, but worth it.: If you are new to recruitment, this is defiantly the right app for you. You can literally contact any coach through this, and if you don’t answer you on here it has there contacts for other social media. You send your highlight to NCSA and they will match you up with schools that fit you and your level. I played D3 because I chose that path, but it matched me with D1 scho
- [R74] NCSA Athletic Recruiting Game changer!: Using the checklists that they provide, NCSA is the perfect tool to search for, research, and communicate with college coaches. The app would set itself above everyone is they allowed the ability to use your email templates from your app instead of having to log onto a computer to do it.
- [R41] MaxPreps 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
- [R52] MaxPreps Becoming unusable: Constant pushing video ads over and over has literally made this app UNUSABLE. Horrible. I used to use it a lot but now I only open it when absolutely necessary. What a joke. Bad strategy Max Preps.
- [R63] NCSA Athletic Recruiting please fix login: app works pretty good, the login process is just really flawed. I cant even get into the app and its very inconveniet that I have to call someone to actually fix it.
- [R67] NCSA Athletic Recruiting Broken/ Unavailable: All the services in the app are unavailable. It is totally useless.
- [R25] MaxPreps Tons of bugs: I’ve had this app crash and error out so many times right in the middle of a game when I’m scoring for the team. Try everything to get it back up and running so the people following online can get the latest updates but then get a “thank you for scoring” message, app ends the game when the actual game isn’t even over. Frustrating when the poor quality of the app screws up everything.
- [R44] MaxPreps Fantastic App when it lets me report scores: I absolutely love this app. It gives me standings, scores, playoff brackets, and everything I need for high school football and basketball. However, only recently, as in the past 2 weeks, the app has not been entering the scores I report. I have entered over 250 scores over the past few years and am a verified scorer. Have had to enter them numerous tim
- [R76] NCSA Athletic Recruiting Doesn’t work can’t sign in error every time: Every time i try to sign in it just says error and i waited on there website for someone to chat with about it no one said anything
- [R22] MaxPreps 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
- [R49] MaxPreps ads: u have to watch 30 second ads just to view videos on here???? Ridiculous
- [R109] NCSA Athletic Recruiting Such an obscene amount of money for such a poor product: I unfortunately fell for the NCSA marketing. Let’s start at the beginning. I paid 2500 for the “premium” package. I was told that I’d be aided in my search- this simply did not happen. There is zero personalized experienced whatsoever. There is zero help with recruiting whatsoever. You fly completely solo, building your own email template, o
- [R3] MaxPreps 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.
- [R45] MaxPreps 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.
- [R61] NCSA Athletic Recruiting Won’t delete my account: I’ve wrote several deactivation requests and they still won’t delete my account
- [R94] NCSA Athletic Recruiting Low quality help: They give you useless information that you could just find out by google. The meeting are the same useless information every time. The app is extremely laggy and low effort.
Synthesized from 120 recent App Store reviews · updated July 2026 · View on the App Store