myGrounds
By Andrew Brook
myGrounds is a football groundhopping utility for tracking stadium visits and match attendance on iOS and Android.
The App DNA
What makes this app unique?
The platform removes the cognitive cost of manually maintaining a stadium visit history by providing a structured, global database of football grounds.
For Football fans and groundhoppers who track their stadium visits and want to compare their travel statistics with peers.
What does it look like?
Key features
Logs visited football grounds and tracks completion progress against global and historic datasets.
Allows users to record specific match details and attendance at visited grounds.
Displays groundhopping statistics and rankings relative to friends and the wider user base.
How much does it cost?
The freemium model utilizes ad-supported access while gating image quality improvements behind a Premium tier, a move that has caused friction among long-term users.
Velocity
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The app maintains an active development pace, shipping three releases over the last three weeks. Development is currently focused on refining core image processing capabilities and addressing server-side stability. The release trend is stable, with the publisher alternating between platform-specific bug fixes and general feature improvements. This consistent update frequency indicates a healthy, ongoing maintenance and optimization cycle.
Who built it?
User Sentiment
What do users think recently?
Recent user voice shows a thrilled sentiment. Users appreciate groundhopping enthusiasts value the ability to log and track every stadium and match they attend and the free tier provides a comprehensive feature set that satisfies the needs of most football fans, but report inconsistent database coverage for lower-division and international stadiums limits the utility for some groundhoppers.
How are ratings & reviews evolving?
What users say, by theme
- Groundhopping enthusiasts value the ability to log and track every stadium and match they attend
- The free tier provides a comprehensive feature set that satisfies the needs of most football fans
- Responsive customer service helps users resolve technical issues and add missing grounds to the database
- Inconsistent database coverage for lower-division and international stadiums limits the utility for some groundhoppers
50 of 50 recent reviews analyzed · high confidence · Thrilled overall
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Competitive landscape for myGrounds
How's the Sports market?
myGrounds operates in the sports utility space with a focus on historical stadium data. The platform's reliance on a freemium model with recent photo-gating shifts creates a tension between monetization and the high-utility free experience that currently defines its user satisfaction.
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Key takeaways for myGrounds
Where is it heading?
The sports utility market is consolidating around platforms that offer both historical depth and user-contributed flexibility. myGrounds remains advantaged by its established database, but the current monetization friction threatens to stall growth if the platform does not address the demand for manual entry and data accuracy.
- Monetization shifts gating photo uploads drive user frustration, which risks eroding the goodwill built by the high-utility free tier.
- The consistent release cadence of three updates in the last three weeks demonstrates active feature investment rather than maintenance-mode stagnation.
The SWOT
- Global historic stadium database provides a high barrier to entry for casual rivals
- Social comparison features drive retention through community-based progress tracking
- Manual entry feature for custom grounds would address the top user request
- Advanced metrics like total miles traveled would deepen the engagement loop
Next best moves
Ship manual stadium entry feature because it is the top-requested user feature → reduce churn among lower-division fans
+ 1 more prioritized moveThe counter-intuitive read
The reliance on manual user-submitted data is not…
Read the full takeSince the last report: The platform has pivoted its competitive narrative to frame user-submitted data as a defensive barrier, while monetization of photo uploads continues to drive negative sentiment and churn risk.
Bottom line
myGrounds maintains a strong utility position through its historic stadium database, but the recent gating of photo uploads risks alienating the core user base. Prioritizing data accuracy and manual entry will unlock the grassroots segment and stabilize the retention loop.
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Is myGrounds suitable for tracking non-professional football matches?
Does myGrounds charge for all features?
What should I use if myGrounds is missing a stadium?
Sources
- [1] App Store
- [2] Play Store
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