Team app cost comparison: Spond, TeamSnap, Heja, SportEasy

This team app cost comparison is for anyone who looked up what Spond costs and really wants to know whether free means free. Spond, Teamy, SportEasy, Heja, TeamSnap and Koach sit side by side below, each price with its source and the month we checked it. We make Koach, so keep that in mind as you read.

How much does Spond cost?

Spond does not charge a subscription. The app is free in the App Store and on Google Play, and on its help page about payment costs Spond writes that it is a free platform and only makes money when clubs and groups run their payments through Spond (checked in October 2026). Those payments go through Stripe, a payment company.

According to that page, the standard fee is $1.00 plus 3.29% per product in the United States, £0.20 plus 2.5% in the United Kingdom and €0.20 plus 2.5% in the eurozone; the page also lists rates for Canada, Australia and other countries. The fee is per product selected, not per payment: if one request asks for dues and a team jersey and the member picks both, the fee is charged twice. In the US, $100 in dues costs $1.00 plus $3.29, so $4.29 in total; in the UK, £100 costs £0.20 plus £2.50, so £2.70. By default the group covers the fee, so $95.71 or £97.30 comes in. You can also set it so the member pays the fee; then a surcharge is added on top and the club receives the full amount.

So if you only use Spond for the schedule and attendance, you pay Spond nothing. The costs only come into play when your treasurer uses it to collect dues, camp fees or other payments.

What do Teamy, SportEasy, Heja and TeamSnap cost?

All four are free to download and free to start. The difference is in what you get for free and what an upgrade costs. We took the amounts from each app's own pricing page in October 2026; where that page gives no amount, we say where the figure comes from instead.

• Teamy starts free with Basis, its basic plan: according to Teamy's plans page (in Dutch, prices in euros), that is one team with up to ten members, and not ad-free. If you want more, you upgrade yourself to Speler (player, €3.99 a year, no ads) or Coach (€24.99 a year, with unlimited teams and members), or you take Team: premium for the whole squad, from €49.99 per team a year, with a 14-day free trial. On Google Play, Teamy's listing says the app contains ads.
• SportEasy has Basic: free, up to 30 members and with limited features. According to SportEasy's pricing page, Premium costs €9.99 a month; paid yearly, it works out to €5.75 a month. For that you get unlimited members, team and player stats, live stats, an attendance overview and task management, without regular ads. A new team can try Premium free for a month.
• Heja is free with ads: schedule, availability and team messages. Heja's pricing page lists Team Pro "From $8.33", without saying per what period. In the US App Store, Heja Pro costs $13.49 a month or $99.99 a year; that yearly amount works out to $8.33 a month. Team Pro adds, among other things, access from a computer, payment tracking and attendance stats, and removes the ads for coaches and admins. Team Pro Max removes them for the whole team; the pricing page gives no amount for it, the US App Store lists $18.99 a month or $139.99 a year.
• TeamSnap, according to TeamSnap's pricing page, is free to start; coaches can upgrade for availability tracking, bigger rosters and practice content. In the US App Store there are in-app purchases from $1.99, and on Google Play the listing says the app contains ads.

Team app cost comparison: six apps side by side

Checked in October 2026 on each app's pricing page. The dollar amounts for Heja and TeamSnap come from the US App Store; Teamy, SportEasy and Koach list their prices in euros.

What to look for when you compare team app prices

• Who pays. With Spond, the group or the member pays per payment. With Teamy, each player upgrades themselves, or the team takes one subscription. With SportEasy, Heja and Koach, one person or the club pays for the whole team.
• Per team or per person. A price per team stays the same as your roster grows; a price per person does not. Also watch the limits on what you get for free: Teamy Basis stops at ten members, SportEasy Basic at 30. A volleyball team already has six players on court; add subs and coaches and you are past ten in no time.
• Ads, and who they disappear for. With Heja, Team Pro removes the ads only for coaches and admins; only Team Pro Max does that for the whole team.
• Transaction fees. If you collect money through the app, include the fee on each payment in your comparison.
• Trial and cancelling. A trial lets you test before you pay. Also check whether you can stop month to month or are tied to a year.

How do free team apps make money?

Running a team app costs money: servers, storage, the Apple and Google stores, and people who maintain the app. That bill ends up somewhere. The apps in this comparison use three ways to cover it.

1. Ads. For Teamy, SportEasy, Heja and TeamSnap, Google Play says the app contains ads. Paying users see fewer of them or none at all. Your players and their parents, who use the app for free, still see them.
2. Payments. Spond makes money on every payment that runs through the app. For a club that collects money anyway, that can be convenient; for a team that never collects anything, Spond is free.
3. A subscription. The coach, the team or the club pays a fixed amount. That is the choice Koach made: there are no ads in the app, and Koach makes nothing on the money your club collects. In the interview on what a team app costs, the maker explains why he chose a subscription.

Koach: the coach or club pays, players and parents don't

Koach is an app for volleyball coaches and has no free version: you try it free for 14 days, with no credit card and every feature, and then choose a plan. For that money you get an app that knows volleyball: a lineup with rotations and the libero, live scoring per player, practices with attendance, and stats across the season.

• Coach: €2.99 a month. One team with two coaches. On a yearly plan you pay €2.49 a month, €29.88 a year.
• Club: €9.99 a month. Unlimited teams and coaches, plus the club module; €8.33 a month billed yearly. Club has no trial. From four teams up, Club is cheaper than separate Coach plans: 4 × €2.99 is €11.96.
• Players and parents: free. They get their own account in the app or the browser. A second coach on a team with Coach pays nothing either.

The website lists these prices in euros; in the App Store and on Google Play you pay the store's price, in your own currency. All amounts are on the pricing page, and how the trial and switching plans work is explained in our guide to what Koach costs.

What do your players get for nothing? Their own account where they sign up for practices and matches or say they can't make it, with Sign up for all sessions to join the whole series in one tap. On their dashboard they see Your attendance, Your performances with their points from attack, block and serve, the team's Match statistics and the Next training.

What you don't get with Koach

What Koach does not do belongs in an honest price comparison. You cannot collect dues or camp fees with it: with Club you track under Contributions who still owes something and share your own payment link, but the money does not go through Koach. There is no chat either: there are announcements, polls and tasks that a player or parent answers with I’ll do it.

Which team app fits your team and budget?

• You want to spend nothing and mainly know who is coming. Then Spond is a strong choice, or what Heja, Teamy or SportEasy offer for free if you don't mind ads. What Spond does well and where it stops for volleyball is covered in our Spond alternative for volleyball.
• Your club collects money through the app. Spond has payments built in and charges only a fee per product, with no subscription. That is a real strength that Koach does not have.
• You coach volleyball and want lineups, live scoring and stats per player. That is what Koach is built for; the other apps in this comparison are made for every sport. What to look for in such an app is in the checklist for choosing a volleyball app for coaches. The differences per app are in the Teamy alternative and the SportEasy alternative.
• You run several teams. Work it out per team. With Koach, Club is cheaper than separate Coach plans from four teams up. With Teamy, Team is charged per team, while Coach covers unlimited teams for one person, and SportEasy charges Premium per team.

They don't rule each other out either: you can keep a general team app for the whole group and use a volleyball app for the coaching. How those kinds of apps relate to each other is covered in the overview of sports team apps for volleyball.

Sources: Spond (payment costs), Teamy (plans), SportEasy (plans), Heja (pricing) and TeamSnap (pricing), plus the App Store and Google Play pages linked above, checked in October 2026. Prices and features can change; check them yourself before you choose.

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