Chalk vs sportsYou

Chalk is a youth sports team management service for coaches, parents, and club directors, available on Android, iOS, and the web. Coaches can handle rosters, scheduling, tryouts, newsletters, waivers, payments, and game-day scorekeeping. Field Mode and Smart Reminders are among its coaching tools, while club administrators can oversee multiple teams, shared resources, registrations, organization-wide tryouts, and finances. Its free plan includes scheduling, dues and registrations, digital waivers, team chat, RSVP, and unlimited players. Coach Pro costs $9 per month and has a 14-day trial; it adds Field Mode, Smart Reminders, Tournament Hosting access, season archives, and priority support. Chalk charges a 5% platform fee on transactions, in addition to Stripe card processing at 2.9% + $0.30 per transaction. Payments go to a connected Stripe account rather than being held by Chalk. The service is available only in the United States, and it does not supply a drill library.

sportsYou is a school-safe messaging and coordination service for coaches and high school athletics. It runs on Android, iOS, and the web, with a free core account and Pro plans priced at $1.99 a month or $19.99 a year. Coaches, athletic directors, administrators, athletes, and families can publish announcements, share other content, and chat in real time with entire teams or selected groups. A photo and video gallery and centralized document library keep team media and files together. Teams can update schedules, share event locations through Google Maps, import feeds from Arbiter, Blackbaud, Bound, DragonFly, Eventlink, Rank One, ScheduleStar/Big Teams, or Google Calendar, and sync sportsYou calendars with Google Calendar, iCal, and Outlook. Pro adds scheduled messages, enhanced calendar views, cross-content search, media downloads, calendar printing, priority support, and dark mode. Pro upgrades are available in the mobile app only. sportsYou says data is encrypted, stored in the United States, and student data is never sold.