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Spooru vs Spond: what to choose for your team
Spond is an app for organising groups and clubs (events, messages and payments) that presents itself as free. Spooru is also free for the club, but focuses on one specific thing: planning the season and training for youth football and basketball, as well as managing the calendar and call-ups.
- Built for
- Spooru: Grassroots amateur sports clubs in Europe.
- Spond: Groups, clubs and teams in any sport or activity.
- Calendar, call-ups and attendance
- Spooru: Shared calendar (subscribable from Google Calendar, Apple Calendar or Outlook and importable from Excel, CSV or ICS), call-ups, club events with attendance confirmation and a panel of the families' replies, and line-ups with a tactics board and free drawing.
- Spond: One-off and recurring events, a “season planning” event type, availability polls, invitations and a waiting list.
- Notifications and reminders
- Spooru: Phone notifications and, if they do not arrive, email: an automatic reminder for every match and training with “I'm in / Can't make it” buttons, a nudge to families who have not replied, a reminder for staff to take attendance, and an automatic notice when staff create, change or cancel an event. One notice per player, tournament and day. Each club sets the timings.
- Spond: “Invitations and reminders” and “Notifications” are listed, with no further detail on the page we checked.
- Messaging
- Spooru: Team messaging with four channels (read-only notices, team chat, staff chat and private messages between a family and the coach), an unread badge and a notification for every message.
- Spond: Built-in messaging that states it is GDPR-compliant, with supervision for families and guardians.
- Fees and payments
- Spooru: Built-in, optional payment system: registration fee and monthly fee with sibling pricing, SEPA direct-debit receipts and batches (with an XML file and tracking of collected and returned), card payment with Stripe (to the club's own account or with a weekly payout), a club shop with sizes and stock, and a panel where each family sees its receipts, orders and payments.
- Spond: Payment requests within a group or subgroup (annual fees, trips, kit), by card and digital wallets; it shows a transaction fee on each payment.
- Statistics and player review
- Spooru: Match and team statistics for football and basketball, and a developmental review of players visible only to staff.
- Spond: Match statistics are not detailed on the pages we checked.
- Training planning
- Spooru: Season plans by age group, sessions and a library of over 700 exercises with diagrams; every session can be printed as a PDF.
- Spond: No training planning or exercise library appears on the pages we checked; events and season planning do.
- Sports
- Spooru: Football and basketball (today).
- Spond: Lists 12 sports and activities (football, basketball, rugby, running, music…).
- Languages
- Spooru: Spanish, Catalan, English and German.
- Spond: Website in Spanish, English, Norwegian Bokmål, German, US English and French.
- App
- Spooru: Installs from the browser as an app, with no app store.
- Spond: Apps on the App Store and Google Play.
- Price
- Spooru: Club management is free. Optional Creator plan from €15 a month. Card payments carry a fee (Stripe and Spooru). Families see a short ad or remove it with a subscription.
- Spond: It presents itself as free; Spond Club prices do not appear on the pages we checked.
| Aspect | Spooru | Spond |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | Grassroots amateur sports clubs in Europe. | Groups, clubs and teams in any sport or activity. |
| Calendar, call-ups and attendance | Shared calendar (subscribable from Google Calendar, Apple Calendar or Outlook and importable from Excel, CSV or ICS), call-ups, club events with attendance confirmation and a panel of the families' replies, and line-ups with a tactics board and free drawing. | One-off and recurring events, a “season planning” event type, availability polls, invitations and a waiting list. |
| Notifications and reminders | Phone notifications and, if they do not arrive, email: an automatic reminder for every match and training with “I'm in / Can't make it” buttons, a nudge to families who have not replied, a reminder for staff to take attendance, and an automatic notice when staff create, change or cancel an event. One notice per player, tournament and day. Each club sets the timings. | “Invitations and reminders” and “Notifications” are listed, with no further detail on the page we checked. |
| Messaging | Team messaging with four channels (read-only notices, team chat, staff chat and private messages between a family and the coach), an unread badge and a notification for every message. | Built-in messaging that states it is GDPR-compliant, with supervision for families and guardians. |
| Fees and payments | Built-in, optional payment system: registration fee and monthly fee with sibling pricing, SEPA direct-debit receipts and batches (with an XML file and tracking of collected and returned), card payment with Stripe (to the club's own account or with a weekly payout), a club shop with sizes and stock, and a panel where each family sees its receipts, orders and payments. | Payment requests within a group or subgroup (annual fees, trips, kit), by card and digital wallets; it shows a transaction fee on each payment. |
| Statistics and player review | Match and team statistics for football and basketball, and a developmental review of players visible only to staff. | Match statistics are not detailed on the pages we checked. |
| Training planning | Season plans by age group, sessions and a library of over 700 exercises with diagrams; every session can be printed as a PDF. | No training planning or exercise library appears on the pages we checked; events and season planning do. |
| Sports | Football and basketball (today). | Lists 12 sports and activities (football, basketball, rugby, running, music…). |
| Languages | Spanish, Catalan, English and German. | Website in Spanish, English, Norwegian Bokmål, German, US English and French. |
| App | Installs from the browser as an app, with no app store. | Apps on the App Store and Google Play. |
| Price | Club management is free. Optional Creator plan from €15 a month. Card payments carry a fee (Stripe and Spooru). Families see a short ad or remove it with a subscription. | It presents itself as free; Spond Club prices do not appear on the pages we checked. |
Data checked on October 26, 2026 · Source checked: www.spond.com/es/
Data taken from each tool's public website on October 26, 2026. Anything that does not appear on the pages we checked is marked as such and does not mean it does not exist. If something has changed or is wrong, write to info@spooru.com and we will correct it.
Where Spond stands out
Camp and academy management, the waiting list and file storage. It works for any sport and any kind of group, and its payments work in any group (trips, kit, fees). Spooru also collects fees and sells kit, but within the management of a grassroots club.
Where Spooru stands out
Sports planning by age group: season plans, sessions and exercises with diagrams, match statistics for football and basketball, and minors' data with profile-based access, a change log, automatic deletion with prior notice and data export to Excel/CSV with role-based permissions. All explained on the public security page.
Choose Spond if…
- You organise groups in any sport or activity.
- You want to collect one-off payments (trips, kit) inside any group.
- You run camps or academies.
Choose Spooru if…
- You are a youth football or basketball coach or club and want to prepare sessions and the season with an age-based methodology.
- You want a tool in Catalan.
- You need each family to see only what concerns their team.
Frequently asked questions
- Do Spond and Spooru do the same thing?
- Partly: both organise calendar, call-ups, messages and payments. Spond is more general and adds camps and a waiting list; Spooru adds sports planning of the season for youth football and basketball.
- How much does Spooru cost?
- Managing the club is free. The Creator plan (€15 a month or €150 a year, VAT included) is optional and adds your own exercises, AI illustrations and the club crest on PDFs.