InstaTeam sports team manager Reviews

In today’s day and age this is an absolute must have! It is extremely user friendly and an excellent way for the college coaches to see your players in action. I absolutely love how you can see the archived games. It’s also brought the advantage that colleges have in being able to scout other teams as well as see your own players weaknesses. I’m very pleased at the designers attention to detail and openness to suggestions. Best app out there for integrating live game feeds as well as scoring for everyone.

I have multiple kids playing multiple sports. I also coach. And for all those teams, I have seen many “team manager” apps. So from my comparison of them, this one is at the bottom of my list for one reason. Ads. Tons of ads. I get it. Apps cost money, and this one is free...like my 12th cup of coffee. Trust me...nothing is free. You just pay in different ways. Just try your own comparison. All the good reviews of InstaTeamsportsteammanager cite features that almost all of the competing apps have, too, so it doesn’t set itself apart there. But compared to those other apps, the time spent having an ad shoved in your face is noticeably higher with InstaTeam. For me, it’s past inconvenient and moved into aggravating to see a new 10-second ad every 3 clicks (or less). If you’ve got lots of time and patience, then by all means enjoy InstaTeam. For me...there are better alternatives out there.

I like InstaTeamsportsteammanager . Seems to do a decent job so far of managing a swim team. The ads are annoying - it’s unclear if you have any option but to click on them to proceed. They seem to time out but they are generating clicks unethically. InstaTeamsportsteammanager constantly asks to enable gps data. You can’t look up a team in an area by name. They ask for gps data or you have to manually place a pin on a map. I’d like to think that’s just innocent trying to add a cute helpful feature but seems much more likely that their advertisers want location data constantly which is very valuable. I haven’t enabled it yet (and looking down below I notice they haven’t provided apple yet with data on privacy practices) so extremely low trust (hence the rating).

I am a team parent and use Instateam to communicate with other parents and send team messages. We have also used it for fundraising by creating payment items, and it is unbelievably easy for parents to contribute. So many other features which makes InstaTeamsportsteammanager awesome. Very much recommend it.

I’ve only been using InstaTeamsportsteammanager for a few months and in the beginning it started just as an app to see our schedule of games and practices. That in itself is awesome because it makes a lot of sense the way it works, it’s very simple. I’m an athletic trainer and I am responsible for collecting forms that we have people sign digitally and there’s a way to do that on InstaTeamsportsteammanager as well. The customer service has been excellent and it really help me to understand how to use this to the fullest extent. I highly recommend it and look forward to using it.

The fact that it’s free earned it the second star. There are better apps available for youth sports teams. Finding postings, messages, etc. is not intuitive. The messaging function is clunky and limited. And every time you open InstaTeamsportsteammanager , you have the pleasure of staring at some random advertisement while you hunt for the “X” to close the ad. In the hundreds of times I’ve opened InstaTeamsportsteammanager , I can’t tell you what a single ad is for because all I do is look for the “X”. I understand free apps require ads to stay in business, but use a different system. Thankfully, only one team we’ve been on uses InstaTeamsportsteammanager. Not recommended.

I find InstaTeamsportsteammanager clunky to navigate to find the information I’m looking for, which is not helped at all by the ads popping up while switching between every section of InstaTeamsportsteammanager . I use this for two different teams which makes it even less user-friendly. The ads-free version is not at all cost effective for the length of my kids’ seasons, hence why I avoid using InstaTeamsportsteammanager because the ads are ridiculous. If this is actually designed for use by sports teams, the “Events” section should be able to distinguish between practices and games easier. All in all, I pretty much hate using InstaTeamsportsteammanager and hope my kids’ teams choose a more user-friendly app next season.

Parents are super busy so having ads in your face every 30 seconds is aggravating. It seems every third click pops up an ad that has the X cleverly concealed (but not invisible) and time-restricted so you can’t click it until it gets so far. This is nonesense for parents who are on the run and trying to balance their child’s schedule with their own. I wouldn’t pay to upgrade-we’ll just find a different app.

Love InstaTeamsportsteammanager. Simple to use and keeps me informed about the social events for our group. We organize all our club activities using Instateam. We recently started using payment items feature which has nade life so simple as the members can pay using creditcards and we dont need to collect cash etc. Very nice app.

I started using InstaTeamsportsteammanager about a year ago as a parent. What a life saver. Our coach loves it and made us download it. I was skeptical in the beginning, but once I started using it, I got hooked. I have now taken charge of many things such as refreshments, carpool and even posting real time score. I love it.

I realize that with a free version, you expect ads but the ads that come up whenever you respond to a notification are not only invasive (they are all full screen and, more often than not they have some sort of auto play video with sound) but some of them are also political. I’ve never seen a ad supported app with more obnoxious ads. I’d pay for the add free team option for my organization but that caps out at 50 team members.

Our school uses InstaTeamsportsteammanager and it has been a great experience. Now I get reminders for all games and with the team messages I don’t miss any communication. Really like the social feature to share photos. Simple and easy to use. Highly recommend it.

Unless you are ok waiting for video commercials to play before you see whatever you need to see then look elsewhere. You literally have to watch an ad before seeing a message the coach just posted.

Our coach selected InstaTeamsportsteammanager so we paid - TWICE to stop the madness. Does not take into consideration the family sharing in the Apple store. Each member with an account in InstaTeamsportsteammanager must pay to stop the advertising madness.

App functionality seems fine. There are other apps that are much less intrusive with their ads or leverage the Family Sharing option in InstaTeamsportsteammanager Store.

The development team does care about accurate info in the reviews and I do apologize for mis-representing the sharing of personal info with advertisers with the initial review I submitted.

I find it’s amazing especially team events reminders and the ability to communicate with coaches and other parents. Snacks, live coverage, are also very useful. He only con is the number of ads but that’s expected for a high quality and free app.

It’s OK to have Wish as an advertiser, I suppose. But please tell them to only put images of PG swimsuits. The ads are not appropriate for a youth sports team website.

How much to block ads for our whole organization (nonprofit youth soccer) Aurora Juventud/AJFC? Preferably 1-time fee

InstaTeamsportsteammanager is a great way for my teams to connect without clogging up our text feeds. Too many ads, though. I don’t know if there’s an ad-free Pro version. I guess I should look into that.

InstaTeamsportsteammanager functions well enough but the ads take over InstaTeamsportsteammanager so much that you can’t navigate. Basically, they force you into a click. None of the content of any ads so far has been of any value to me. I don’t know why they’re targeting senior citizens with this considering most parents aren’t senior citizens but I guess it is what it is.

I find InstaTeamsportsteammanager clunky to use and the ads annoying similar to other reviewers. The messaging functionality is confusing. I posted a message to the team and saw new messages from the other parents in the message board, but InstaTeamsportsteammanager just repeated my message under everyone else’s name. Makes no sense. The ads pop up all the time and the ‘X’ to close it is under more click bait stuff.

Loved it for my middle school basketball team, it made it very easy to make sure everybody is on the same page. I’ve had many parents compliment InstaTeamsportsteammanager too. Definitely recommend InstaTeamsportsteammanager for all teams.

Love it just wish the mobile app had a condensed upcoming week view versus just 2 days at a time. Too much detail I wish I could collapse it to just show the when and where and attendance

Other scheduling apps (Team Snap and SE) have this feature and it super nice.

Thanks!

Parents are super busy so having ads in your face every 30 seconds is aggravating. It seems every third click pops up an ad that has the X cleverly concealed (but not invisible) and time-restricted so you can’t click it until it gets so far. This is nonesense for parents who are on the run and trying to balance their child’s schedule with their own. I wouldn’t pay to upgrade-we’ll just find a different app.

InstaTeamsportsteammanager is not working. There a glitch error and doesn’t allow you to move past the screen it’s stuck on.