TeamSnap Alternative for Youth Sports Clubs

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Clubs rarely go shopping because one feature is missing. They go shopping because the season is running on one app plus a group chat plus a spreadsheet plus a signup form, and the volunteers holding it together have run out of evenings.

This page is about what Rostered does. We are not going to characterise anyone else’s product. Their site is the right place for that, and a comparison written by a competitor is worth what you paid for it. What follows is ours, including the parts where the honest answer is “we don’t do that”.

What Rostered is

Rostered runs the week-to-week season for a youth sports club: scheduling, RSVPs, attendance, rosters, families, messaging, registration, volunteers, expenses and live scoring, in one app on iOS, Android and the web.

Three things shape every decision in it:

Free for parents and athletes, always. Families never pay us and never see an advertisement.
One flat monthly fee for the club: published, sized by athlete count. Not per team, not per family, not a quote.
We don’t sell user data. Not to brokers, not to advertisers, not to anyone.

Built club-first, not team-first

Most sports apps start with a team and grow upwards. Rostered starts with the club: divisions, teams and cohorts are the structure, and families are first-class records rather than addresses attached to a player.

That shows up in the places that annoy people:

One parent account covers every child, across every team and division.
A family calendar feed carries the whole household, so a parent with a U12 and a U16 subscribes once.
RSVPs are answered per athlete, and per day on multi-day events.
Moving a player between teams is an edit, not a re-registration.

What Rostered does

Scheduling and calendars: club, division and team events, multi-day tournaments, and five kinds of calendar feed that keep updating in Google, Apple and Outlook.
RSVPs and attendance: per athlete and per day, reminders that link straight to the event, a live confirmed/declined/pending count, then present-and-absent marking with excused reasons.
Team messaging: channels created automatically per team and division, reactions, attachments, mentions that resolve a role rather than a list of names, and on-request translation.
Rosters and families: divisions, teams, cohorts, jersey numbers and positions, with spreadsheet import.
Family registration: a public signup page where enabled, an admin review queue, and matching against families you already have.
Volunteers: live scoring and expenses.

What Rostered does not do

No public website builder. If your club needs its public site built and hosted, this is not that.
Live scoring covers a range of team sports, not all of them. If yours is not in the catalogue yet, tell us. Demand is genuinely what moves it up the list.

We would rather lose a club at this paragraph than at the demo.

The questions clubs say they wish they had asked

Spend ten minutes reading what club administrators write about youth sports software in forums, in reviews, and in the replies to any thread asking for a recommendation, and the same regrets come up. They are almost never about a missing feature. They are about the terms.

Ask these of us and of anyone else on your list:

Is the price on the website? If you need a call to find out what it costs, you will need a call every time you want to change something.
Who pays, the club or the families? And what does a household with three children pay across a season?
What happens when we add a team in October? Ask for the number, not the policy.
Do parents see advertising? If a product is free to a parent and monetises them anyway, it is worth knowing how.
Is user data sold or shared? The answer should be one word.
Can we export our data ourselves, today, without a support ticket?
Does one parent login cover three children? This quietly decides whether parents adopt it at all.
Can a grandparent use it without installing anything?
Is there a contract, and what is the notice period?

Moving your club across

Import a spreadsheet, map the columns, and preview every family before anything is created. Whether welcome emails go out is your choice at import time, which matters if you are migrating in July and would rather not notify two hundred families on a Sunday.

What it costs

Squad $9/mo (up to 10 athletes), Team $19/mo (up to 25), Club $49/mo (up to 50), Academy $99/mo (up to 100), Elite $199/mo (up to 250). One flat fee for the club, free for parents and athletes, no advertising, cancel and export whenever you like. Full detail on the pricing page, and talk to us above 250 athletes.

Start your club. Nobody will make you sit through a call first, and you can bring your roster in on day one.