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Alternatives to Catapult
19 sports tools sit alongside Catapult in this directory. Below is what separates each from Catapult on the figures we hold, price, model, tier count and rating, and a direct comparison for every one.
- Alternatives listed
- 19
- With a free tier
- 6
- Cheaper to start
- -
- Catapult starts at
- On request
Why people look past Catapult
Only what the record supports. Each point below is a figure on the Catapult entry measured against the tools listed beside it.
There is no free tier
The record for Catapult carries no free tier, so evaluating it means paying first. 6 of the 19 alternatives below can be used without paying.
What each alternative does differently
Ordered by the aggregated rating on each catalogue entry. Differences are drawn from price, pricing model, tier count and rating, the fields the category listing carries. For a feature-level difference, follow the head-to-head link on each card: those pages read both full records.
Unlock human performance
- Publishes an entry price of $199/year, where Catapult does not.
Your fitness and health companion
- Can be used without paying; Catapult cannot.
- Publishes an entry price of $6.99/month, where Catapult does not.
- 2 tiers to Catapult's 3.
Video analysis and performance platform spanning school teams, elite analysts and automated capture hardware
Priced and rated the same as Catapult on the figures we hold. The difference, if there is one, is in the feature records.
Registration and governance platform mandated by several United States national governing bodies
- Can be used without paying; Catapult cannot.
- 2 tiers to Catapult's 3.
Team scheduling and communication for volunteer-run sport, with a separate quoted product for clubs and leagues
- Can be used without paying; Catapult cannot.
- Sold on a Per team per month model rather than quote.
At-home fitness with live and on-demand classes
- Can be used without paying; Catapult cannot.
- Publishes an entry price of $15.99/month, where Catapult does not.
Every Catapult alternative at a glance
A dash means the catalogue entry carries no figure, not that the answer is nothing.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Tiers | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Catapult (this page) | On request | Quote | 3 | |
| WHOOPFar cheaper per athlete for recovery and readiness monitoring, with no positional or collision data | $199/year | - | - | vs Catapult |
| Garmin ConnectAdequate for endurance squads that need pace, distance and heart rate rather than team load metrics | Free, then $6.99/month | - | 2 | vs Catapult |
| HudlThe better choice when the requirement is coded match video rather than athlete tracking data | On request | Quote | 3 | vs Catapult |
| SportsEngine | Free | Quote | 2 | vs Catapult |
| TeamSnap | Free | Per team per month | 3 | vs Catapult |
| Peloton | Free, then $15.99/month | - | 3 | vs Catapult |
| Strava | Free, then $11.99/month | - | 2 | vs Catapult |
| Komoot | Free, then $3.99/one-time | Freemium | 4 | vs Catapult |
| Spiideo | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Catapult |
| Veo | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Catapult |
| Kitman Labs | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Catapult |
| Coach Logic | On request | Per team per year | 2 | vs Catapult |
| STATSports | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Catapult |
| Nacsport | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Catapult |
| ClubReady | $199/month | Subscription | 2 | vs Catapult |
| Wodify | $99/month | Subscription | 2 | vs Catapult |
| Mindbody | $75/month | - | - | vs Catapult |
| Zen Planner | $99/month | - | - | vs Catapult |
| ClassPass | $19/month | - | 3 | vs Catapult |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry; Softwr hosts no reviews of these products. How each figure is used is set out on the Catapult badges page.
Cheaper ways to solve the same problem
Free to start (6)
These publish a tier that costs nothing, so they can be evaluated before any money changes hands.
- Garmin Connect , Free, then $6.99/month
- SportsEngine , Free
- TeamSnap , Free
- Peloton , Free, then $15.99/month
- Strava , Free, then $11.99/month
- Komoot , Free, then $3.99/one-time
What you would be giving up
Catapult is most often brought in for a professional football or rugby club managing training load across a squad through a congested fixture list, a national team programme that needs consistent workload data across athletes who play for different clubs, a college programme with a sports science department that will act on readiness data rather than file it, an indoor sport organisation prepared to fund a venue installation to get positional data where satellite tracking fails. Anything replacing it has to cover the ones you actually depend on, and a cheaper tool that misses one of them is not cheaper.
Two things this page cannot settle. It compares on price, model, tier count and rating, because those are the fields the category listing carries, feature-level differences need both full records, which is what the head-to-head pages load. And the ratings are third-party aggregates imported with each entry rather than reviews written here, so a 0.2 difference between two tools is noise rather than a finding.
If Catapult is broadly right and the question is cost, the Catapult pricing breakdown covers every tier and what each one adds. If you want the whole field rather than a shortlist, the Sports category lists everything the directory holds, and best sports tools ranks them.
Catapult runs on web, ios, android, windows. Platform coverage is not carried on the category listing for the alternatives, so it is one more thing to check on each head-to-head page rather than here.
Questions about Catapult alternatives
- What are the main alternatives to Catapult?
- 19 other sports tools are listed in this directory, led by WHOOP, Garmin Connect, Hudl, SportsEngine. They are ordered by the aggregated rating on each catalogue entry, not by any Softwr ranking.
- What is the best free alternative to Catapult?
- 6 of the alternatives listed here can be used without paying: Garmin Connect, SportsEngine, TeamSnap, Peloton, Strava.
- Why do people look for an alternative to Catapult?
- On the figures on record, one thing stands out: there is no free tier. Each is set out with the numbers behind it above.
- What would I give up by switching from Catapult?
- Catapult is most often brought in for a professional football or rugby club managing training load across a squad through a congested fixture list, a national team programme that needs consistent workload data across athletes who play for different clubs, a college programme with a sports science department that will act on readiness data rather than file it, an indoor sport organisation prepared to fund a venue installation to get positional data where satellite tracking fails. Anything you replace it with has to cover the ones you actually rely on, the side-by-side comparisons linked from each alternative below put the two feature records against each other.
- Is there an open-source alternative to Catapult?
- None of the sports tools listed here are recorded as open source. That is what the licence field on each entry says, and the field is not always filled in, so it is worth checking directly for any tool you are serious about.
- How were these Catapult alternatives chosen?
- They are the tools filed in the same category, Sports, ordered by the aggregated rating on each entry. There is no editorial shortlist, and nothing on this page is paid: no sponsored placement runs on alternatives pages and the order cannot be bought. Softwr has not used these products.
- Where can I compare Catapult against one of these directly?
- Every alternative below has a side-by-side page against Catapult covering price, platforms, features and what each one is used for. Those pages read the full record for both products rather than the summary shown here.
- Does this list cover every sports tool?
- No. It covers what this directory holds in the Sports category, 19 tools beside Catapult. The category page lists the rest of the catalogue as it grows.