Run the Season Yourself, Starting Now
LeagueApps sells league software with a demo and an onboarding plan. LeagueHero sells it with a signup button: registration, payments, scheduling, standings and a public league site, free to start, with the platform fee printed on the page.
Where LeagueApps Is the Right Call
LeagueApps sells to youth sports organizations and puts people around the sale — a demo, an onboarding plan, a named support contact. If what you want is a vendor relationship and someone else doing the build-out, that is a real thing to want and it is what they offer. LeagueHero is the other shape: you sign up, you build the season yourself, and nobody has to schedule a call before you can see what the software actually does.
LeagueHero vs LeagueApps, Row by Row
| Feature | LeagueHero | LeagueApps |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan that runs a real season | 1 league · 2 seasons · 12 teams | — |
| Platform fee on registration payments Stripe's own processing fees apply on top, wherever you process payments. | 4% Free · 2% Pro · 0% Enterprise | — |
| Registration money lands in your own Stripe account | Yes | — |
| Open a season without talking to sales | Yes | Starts with a demo |
| Public league site with schedule, standings and stats | Yes | Yes |
| Build that site yourself, section by section | Yes | — |
| Schedule generation built in LeagueHero generates round robin, single elimination and double elimination from the teams you have. | Yes | Yes |
| Standings with per-sport tiebreaker chains | Eight sports configured | — |
| Player stats, leaderboards and profile pages | Yes | — |
| Team chat built into the platform | Yes | — |
| Game RSVPs with automatic reminders | Yes | — |
| Waivers e-signed before payment goes through | Yes | — |
| Automatic waitlists with timed spot offers | Yes | — |
| CSV exports for rosters, registrations, payments and standings | Yes | — |
| Native iOS and Android app LeagueHero runs in a phone browser instead — nothing to download, nothing to keep updated. | No | Yes |
| Background screening built into the platform LeagueHero collects waivers and required documents at registration; it does not run background checks. | No | — |
Every check in the LeagueHero column is something you can use today. A dash in the other column means we are not going to answer for another company — that is their site's job, not ours. It does not mean no.
What It Costs
LeagueHero
- Free forever: 1 league · 2 seasons · 12 teams, with every feature turned on.
- A platform fee on registration payments — 4% Free · 2% Pro · 0% Enterprise. Stripe's own processing fees apply on top, as they would anywhere.
- Paid plans are self-serve from your admin console — no quote, no call.
- Payments settle into your own Stripe account, not into ours.
LeagueApps
- We do not publish another company's prices. They change, and a stale number on our site would be worse than no number at all.
- What is fair to say in general: league platforms sold through a demo are quoted per organization, and the rate taken out of each registration is part of that quote.
- So ask any vendor — us included — for all three numbers: the subscription, the fee on each registration, and what payment processing costs. Then put them side by side.
Every LeagueHero number above is on the pricing page, where the plans themselves are listed.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is there anyone to talk to?
There is an address in the footer — [email protected] — and questions go to the people who build this. What there is not is a call you have to sit through before you can see the product: the free plan is the demo, and you can have a season built in the time it takes to book one.
Can I run more than one league?
Yes. The free plan runs one at a time, and the paid plans raise the ceiling on leagues, active seasons and teams while lowering the platform fee — the current limits for each plan are listed on the pricing page.
How do payouts work?
Through Stripe, into an account in your organization's name. Players pay at registration, the money goes to you rather than through us, and LeagueHero's platform fee is taken from the payment as it passes.
What does LeagueHero not do?
There is no native app to install, no background screening, no bulk roster import, and no custom domain of your own on top of your league's site. If any of those is the reason you are shopping, it is fairer that you read it here.
See it for yourself instead.
Free plan · No credit card · No sales call