Stack Team App Reviews

by Okie8181

Mediocre and diseased with ads. It has some decent features, like scheduling, chat, and the ability to post picture galleries, but those features are poorly executed, almost to the point of not being functional. Hokey feel all around. I’d rather use an app where you can start a GROUP with you and ME (no ads and a simpler interface that does all the same things).

Update: Oh look, they responded! Totally relevant response. “Oh you don’t like the ads? Pay us and they will go away.” No mention of how the chat function, schedule function, and notification system all operate like a 5 year old designed it.

Update #2: Oh look, another response. Why email feedback when we can just do it here? My feedback: delete StackTeamApp and use groupme instead, which is simpler, more user-friendly, less hokey, more responsive, has no ads, and does everything yours does but better. My kid’s coach insists on using your app, otherwise I would never use it

by Soozieee333711

I use StackTeamApp simply because this is the platform the school I work for has chosen to use to communicate with students.
I really dread using StackTeamApp.
There are so many bugs it hinders the use of StackTeamApp itself. For instance, whenever an add pops up the whole app crashes and I have to restart. The notifications are wonky and red dots will appear even though you have already cleared it. When posting on events or on the calendar a lot of times it will not go through completely and will have to add it several times before it gets posted.
Other than the massive amount of bugs it’s not a bad app and has a lot of potential if StackTeamApp worked more smoothly.
StackTeamApp is completely updated so devs PLEASE don’t tell me to download latest update, just PLEASE fix StackTeamApp .

by ATLBP

The interface looks good, and appears to function well as designed. However it is difficult to keep track of things as a parent because you have too many places to look for things. It seems as though there are too many ways to enter things that aren't easy to find if your not the person that entered them. There is a news, event, gallery and schedule area. All of which have comment sections. If you want to see the latest updates or catch up on things you have to guess how the item was entered then go to the comments on each individual entry or scroll through the list of notifications that you get for each time someone adds a comment to anything, cheers a photo, or adds content. Seems like a message board would be easier to quickly view "messages" and find out updates.

by Njwindsurfer

StackTeamApp is terrible. Falls short in many ways. 1) Can't easily find a team membership directory of players and parents. Instead the directory includes some players from our team and random other players from other unrelated teams. 2) Availabilities is awkward and frustrating. You can't easily update availabilities. InsteAd you have to go into individual events and you can't see which dates you have updated for availability unless going back into the event, causing you to go into the event again and again to double check whether you have updated that event. 3) Event (Calendar) will show new event, but it is hard to find the new event. Sometimes the new event doesn't show so you really never know if you have a new event without scrolling through the entire calendar. 4) Ads. We get served ads which is just frustrating.

My other children's teams use Team Snap which is heads and shoulders much better. Calendar, Events, Roster and player list are all easy to navigate. I wish this GPS would also consider Team Snap and get rid of this cumbersome awkward piece of junk. No I don't work for Team Snap. Just a frustrated percent.

by DillMomOfSix

I hate using StackTeamApp! Random ads pop up when I am trying to click to either read a message from a coach, or go back to the previous menu to click to a different team. I HATE having to wait for an ad to get done just to read what time practice gets done tomorrow. It is not very user friendly, I have a hard time navigating between different sports and each coach has their sport group set up a little different, so even on the same app, I can’t contact each coach the same way. Ugh - I have SIX apps just for contacting coaches/teachers for my kids in school, and this one is my least favorite. Maybe I’m just irritated at having to use so many stupid apps for stuff we could LITERALLY JUST PUT IN AN EMAIL OR GROUP TEXT, but for real - the frequent ad pop ups are the worst.

by SGrenead

My complaints: 1) there isn't an option to go back and search/find information in the chat efficiently, 2) you cannot send video links in chat & sending a video directly is distorted and 3) a web link sent in the chat isn't easily accessible from a device, you can only link directly from a computer. This needs to be fixed. It's a major drawback. My team has to type the whole thing out into a web browser. It won't even let them copy and paste. ☹️

Having said that, StackTeamApp still makes communicating with my team and parents simple. We use it mostly for the chat groups, documents, and events tabs. All information can be quickly updated for everyone, which is a bonus. I love that it can a accessed by mobile regardless of the software, as well as online. That's makes it convenient for kids that do not have phones or {heaven forbid} get grounded from their phones! 😉

If the three things listed above were to be fixed, I would not hesitate to give it 5 stars.

by Curvyukulelej

I feel that overall StackTeamApp developers aren’t sure how far to take some features. Some are super detailed and others aren’t robust enough. I appreciate StackTeamApp is trying to be customizable, but too much isn’t actually helpful. I did have a hard time with repeating events in the calendar and trying to edit them. If I’m the person publishing a newsletter I shouldn’t also receive a notification when the post happens. The whole setting up a team, then adding teams on top of it, is confusing. Our whole organization doesn’t use StackTeamApp , just our team, but I had to basically set it up like I was running it for the organization to make the features work. I feel like where Team Reach was too simple, Team App is too complicated. Remember these apps are typically updated by team managers or coaches who more often than not have a full time job and don’t have time to become an app expert.

by Jpicol

Great ap all around; would rate it four or five stars. However, it's very, very, very frustrating that notifications are automatically deleted after they've been viewed - especially when they contain event times and dates. Leave viewed notifications in the notification screen, and then give users the ability to save or delete them. I'm not sure why the developers don't understand this, and I can't think of another ap that does this with notifications. Most of the time, it is easier to view dates and times in a notification, instead of having to tap through three or four screens to view the same info. Especially when the ap is being utilized for a large organization with several teams across multiple age groups.

by NicBurt

I am the head coach of a high school volleyball in a small school. I made one team for all levels but made different access groups within it. JV:Varsity Players, JV/Varsity Parents, JH Players, JH Parents, Elementary Players, Elementary Parents, Support Staff(administration, community stakeholders, and others that are involved with our program in other ways), Coaches amd Senior Players. You can link the players with their parents.

I love many things about it. The only reason I give it a 4 is I wish that we could put the scores next to the corresponding games in our schedule. Also, I wish there was an option to put stats for kids to look at.

I still have a lot to learn on features but i love this communication tool! Also, it is nice that when you message the player access group, it automatically goes to the parents as well so it keeps communication professional between players and coaches always. However, if you need to only communicate with the parents, you can message only the parents.

Love StackTeamApp!

by Faithfuldad3

For the most part, I like StackTeamApp. There are so many things I like about it, but let me tell you about the things I don’t like. The chat seems to update very slow, and sometimes sends double messages or half messages. They end up clearing up later, but us a pain when communicating instantly. I have to keep refreshing. Also, I should be able to edit my messages if I make a mistake on describing something to my team, I should not have to completely retype it. Also, I could not find a way to change scheduled practices to games without changing everything in the future due to recurring events. I should be able to select to not change other events. It was easy to enter all our practice dates recurring, then it was a nightmare to later change some of those dates to matches without affecting everything in the future on that day. Other than that, I would gladly give a 5th star if these issues were fixed.

by Crljc

As a club director over several teams, I love having everything in one place. StackTeamApp
Is user friendly and offers just about anything we could ever want. However, the two biggest sources of frustration for me is that my restricted admins cannot edit anything I create. Since I create 99% of the our teams information, editing also falls into my lap. It would be much less stressful for the restricted admins to be allowed to make edits. Instead they can only go and recreate a new event entirely, but this can be confusing for users as they may not know which event is accurate.

Another major headache for me is that there isn’t an option when editing to choose for that event only or all future events. This creates so much extra work for me because 1) I either have to create each individual practice for every team or 2) I have to remember to go back after each edited event to re-edit the future events.

These seem like two easy fixes that would make your users management so much easier and smoother. Speaking for myself, this two issues almost make me want to give zero stars.

by Firebrand2011

StackTeamApp allows links to related websites, like spirit-wear, cheer teams, Facebook, franchise websites, and sponsors. It allows for all documents and all links to documents in one place. It would be infinitely better if documents could be deleted or if access to documents could be changed AFTER they are created. I had numerical docs set up for ease to release on specific dates, with specific access in mind, only to find later that the docs were permanently inaccessible to non-administrators. I can load everything twice, but I think that Team App support might find a way to fix this issue for the benefit of everyone using StackTeamApp . In all fairness, I haven’t spoken with support about it yet, but this was probably a foreseeable problem.

There are so many great things about StackTeamApp that make it useful, such as ability to add links to maps of playing field locations, team schedules, scores, etc. I have only begun to get all of the functions working, and people are amazed at how nice it is to have everything in one place. I’m hoping the functions will get even better in time. Other than the documents access problems, StackTeamApp is terrific.

by Punkapee

StackTeamApp was recommended by a parent for our team who had had as good experience with it for another team. .

The good:
- Easy to set up. I set it up fort or team in about 10 minutes.
- Easy to customize. Super easy to use with lots of customizations possible. You can relabel buttons on StackTeamApp to fit your team's needs.

The not-so-good:
- Not enough flexibility in setting up buttons. There are currently spots for three "links" buttons, which is not enough for me. I think every button should offer the admin the option of taking you to a link or a photo or a file.
- StackTeamApp doesn't allow the same degree of customization as the web version. And the mobile web version doesn't offer the same options as the desktop version. We often don't know where to find live scores, heat sheets, etc until the day of our event, so on-the-fly edits are essential. Sometimes we'll need to link to a url, sometimes a doc, and sometimes I'll just take a photo of it.

Overall, I have had a good experience with TeamApp, but I hope they can make it just a little bit better.

by Justalass

Works well to manage team communication. However, every now and then I’ll open StackTeamApp to read a message or check the schedule and an ad immediately starts playing. An ad without a mute option on the screen, therefore, the sound cannot be quickly stopped. An ad with sound that startles me so that I juggle my phone like I’m auditioning for the circus trying to turn the volume down manually. It’s like the Russian roulette of app opening; will an ad start or will it not. It is like those canned biscuits that pop open before you can get the wrapping off. If you use the version with ads and you are startled easily, make sure to silence your phone before opening StackTeamApp . It will save you’re heart from a few skipped beats, possibly extending your life.

by Tjtrie

I like most things on StackTeamApp so far. I do wish we could post videos up to 2-2 1/2 min since that’s how long a dance routine is. So when evaluating, it’s hard to do because we have to break up the video into small sections and post multiple videos. Also, I wish there was a section that was an excel type spreadsheet that was usable. And i wish I could see who sees stuff and who doesn’t. Even in the chat, it shows the first few people who see it and then it turns to a number of people and you can’t click on it to see which people seen it so I’m not sure who misses seeing my posts. I love the calendar/events section. It is so great for keeping everyone on track and organized, especially with the reminders. I’m still learning new things on StackTeamApp and finding ways to utilize it to work for my needs.

by Roblarkins

I migrated to Team App from Team Snap to avoid the expensive fees and have been pretty happy. I was a little confused at first on how to set up my parents for communication versus my team roster but I figured it out. I like that I can customize my dashboard with a fun team graphic and for parents to easily find our schedule, roster, chat, news, gallery, custom link to our league site for standings, etc. That covers everything that’s most important.
My only complaints are that you can only upload 1 video and 3 images to the gallery (pretty tough to cover a game in just 3 images), but more importantly, when you receive a notice for a calendar update, selecting the update notice takes you to today on the calendar - not to the date of the update - so you’re on your own for figuring out where exactly the change is. Relatively minor, but things that should be addressed to make StackTeamApp 5 stars.

by 453great

I like StackTeamApp because it allows you to update on any device and it has a website for your team with all the same set of features. I used it for managing 3 basketball teams and now for managing a softball team. A real nice feature is that you can customize the names of the buttons. For instance, instead of the default 'Events,' I renamed it 'Schedule' because it also allows parents and players to sync the practices and games to their own device calendar or to their Google calendar.

One thing I would like to see: capture/display final score of games. What I'm doing in those instances is going back to the game and changing the title to either "win" or "loss" with the final score. It would be nice to display the team record on the front page of screen of StackTeamApp .

Another feature might be showing an update on the first screen in StackTeamApp of the next 1-2 events or the next events coming up on the schedule for the weekend. That would be a good way to help parents and players plan for upcoming weekend activities.

But I highly recommend StackTeamApp!!

by Launching Point

Been using StackTeamApp for 1 1/2 years for our non profit organization to have one place for announcements, updates, links, and a calendar. It has it all. We can’t afford the cost to get rid of ads, but ads don’t interfere with performance at all, distraction but not a problem. What I like is that it is also usable online so if someone doesn’t have a device they can still keep updated via website. The only option I’d like to see is the ability to change the reply options; currently it’s No, Maybe, Yes...I would like the option to customize those replies. Like I said, fully functional app...private chats, pictures, really great!

by Blonde1972

I run 3 bowling leagues and have been using StackTeamApp for a little over a year now. I tested and tried many different apps before selecting this one and I sure am glad I did. I can customize pretty much everything and it’s FREE! Only issue I’ve run into is getting some of the parents to actually download it and use it, but that’s not the apps fault. LOL It’s very user friendly, behind the scenes though has a learning curve. I just kept playing around with settings and trying different things to see how it would appear to members. I’ve had to reach out to support and they promptly responded and helped walk me through the problem I was having. I can’t say enough good things about StackTeamApp as is surpasses everything out on the market for team organization! Download it!! You need it more then you think you do!

by BJJFan

As a parent and a person with multiple kids in multiple sports, this is the best app I have been able to utilize by far. There have been several other applications that I have been exposed to, and utilized, and this is by far the best! I was sent an invite by my kid’s coach, I am able to see the schedule (the team has different age groups), that schedule hooks up with the calendar on my phone, and makes changes when the coaches do, I am able to chat with my child’s coaches and different parents, as well as our team’s parent group chat. It’s easy to confirm that I’m going to be there. There are many other capabilities that the team
Has not yet utilized, because games aren’t schedule yet, but I’ve been utilizing this for a couple of months and it’s the best application that I have had to use to schedule team activities. Keep up the good work!!

by Stdebra

I like StackTeamApp except that often it takes a while for it to recognize that I have read the latest updates so my red dot 🔴 for notifications stays highlighted and I dislike all the pop up advertisements that have nothing to do with soccer. I find both of these things to be annoying. Other then those two items it’s great. Easy to use and navigate in. I do wish there was a way to search for a key word in your messages/ chats. Since we use the messenger / chat part of StackTeamApp often information shared gets lost deep into a message and you forget which chat a parent / coach stated something in.