A Heja alternative
for the whole club.
Heja is a friendly app for keeping one team in the loop. Medalyst is built for the club behind the teams: one shared set of records, membership fees with automatic reminders, written feedback for every child, and every piece of kit accounted for.
100 sports clubs and 23,000 athletes already use Medalyst.
Heja vs Medalyst at a glance
Both apps cover RSVPs and team messaging. Medalyst adds the club-wide admin and player development.
| Feature |  | Heja |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Per athlete, every module included, from €0.57 a month | Free version with ads, Heja Pro €109.99 a year per team (Irish App Store) |
| Membership fees and card payments | Included with a Pro subscription | |
| Payment reminders | Automatic, before fees fall due | One automatic reminder on the due date |
| Events, RSVPs and attendance | ||
| Group messaging and news feed | ||
| Member records with custom fields | Jersey number and position fields | |
| Equipment inventory and handouts | ||
| Written coach feedback per athlete | ||
| Performance statistics and leaderboards | Game scores and video challenges | |
| Learning materials for athletes | Skills videos with the Heja Plus add-on | |
| Data storage | European servers, GDPR | Processing within the EU/EEA, GDPR |
Heja details checked on 22 September 2026 from Heja’s own pages: pricing · App Store prices (Ireland) · ads · clubs and Club Connect · fees and reminders · member profiles · Heja Plus · privacy.
See the platform for yourself
Click through Medalyst the way your admins, coaches and parents would use it.
Membership fees that remind people for you
Administrators create the fees in Medalyst, either for the whole team or for individual players. Athletes or parents pay by card through Stripe. Medalyst tracks every payment, so the treasurer always knows who has paid and who still owes.
The system also sends automatic reminders about fees that are coming due. The treasurer sees the whole season in one place, with financial reports ready when the committee asks.
Give children written feedback after training
Let your coaches write down what each child worked on and how they are developing, straight after the session. Make the note visible to the team, or share it privately with the parents.
Parents see the progress their children are making, and you can follow how the children are developing across every age group.
- Written feedback per child
- Private notes for the parents
- Photos attached to any note
- Full feedback history on the athlete profile
Track all of your club’s gear in one place
Let your staff hand gear out to a whole team or to one player in a few clicks. Keep track of which items are in stock, which items are out with which teams, and which items are due back.
So every set of bibs, balls and kit stays accounted for as it moves between your training venues.
- Stock counts and locations for every item
- Handout to a whole team or to selected athletes
- Pickup confirmed by the athlete in the mobile app
- Available, issued and due back items in one view
Which one fits your club?
Heja is a strong choice for a single team that wants a free app everyone can join. RSVP reminders go out automatically, read receipts show who has seen each message, parents can follow their children’s conversations, and the app is rated 4.8 out of 5 by more than 35,000 users.
Medalyst fits best when a club coordinates several teams and age groups, collects membership fees across the season, and wants coaches, parents and administrators working from the same records. Administrators work in the web app, coaches manage their teams from the mobile app, and athletes and parents see everything in one place on their own phone.
One plan. Every module.
You pay for the size of your club, priced per athlete per month. Everything Medalyst does is included.
| Athletes | 1-year plan | 3-year plan |
|---|---|---|
| 25 to 200 | €0.96 | €0.76 |
| 200 to 500 | €0.86 | €0.69 |
| 500 to 1,000 | €0.72 | €0.57 |
Prices per athlete per month, excluding VAT. Above 1,000 athletes we prepare a custom quote. The core features of the mobile app are free. Work out your club’s price.
Moving from Heja to Medalyst
- Book a free demo. Half an hour, your questions, your club’s data. We show how Medalyst would run your season, and you decide afterwards.
- We set up your club. We create your whole club in the platform within a couple of hours, and you can start using it straight away.
- Invite your members. Athletes and parents join through an invitation sent from Medalyst, or by entering the team’s unique code, and fill in the details you ask for.
Heja alternative: frequently asked questions
For clubs that coordinate several teams and collect membership fees, Medalyst is a strong Heja alternative. Every team works from one shared set of club records, and it adds membership fees with automatic reminders, written player feedback and equipment inventory, in one plan priced per athlete in euro.
Heja has a free version, and it is ad supported. Team Pro and Team Pro Max are paid team plans: on the Irish App Store, Heja Pro costs €13.99 a month or €109.99 a year, and Team Pro Max €19.99 a month or €149.99 a year. Collecting fees through Heja needs a Pro subscription, and in the EU the payer covers a card fee of about 2%.
Medalyst is one plan with every module included, priced per athlete per month: €0.96 for clubs with 25 to 200 athletes, €0.86 for 200 to 500 and €0.72 for 500 to 1,000, or €0.76, €0.69 and €0.57 on a three-year commitment. Prices exclude VAT. Above 1,000 athletes we prepare a custom quote. The core features of the mobile app are free.
Heja’s help centre says teams remain managed individually. Club Connect adds shared messaging and announcements across a club, switched on by Heja’s support team, and club pricing is quoted per team. In Medalyst the whole club works from one set of records, priced per athlete, with every team in the same plan.
Heja’s features centre on the team calendar, messaging and fees, and equipment tracking sits outside its feature set. Medalyst’s inventory keeps stock counts and locations for every item, hands gear out to a whole team or to selected athletes, and shows available, issued and due back items in one view.
Heja offers skills videos with the Heja Plus add-on and video challenges for the team. In Medalyst, coaches write down what each child worked on and how they are developing, straight after the session, and share the note with the team or privately with the parents.
In Heja, every player, parent and coach creates their own profile. In Medalyst, the club decides which details it needs, and athletes and parents fill them in when they join through an invitation or the team’s unique code. The platform sends reminders about anything missing.
We can create your whole club in the platform within a couple of hours, and you can start using it straight away. Athletes and parents join through an invitation sent from Medalyst, or by entering the team’s unique code.
Yes. The administrator decides who sees what: athletes, parents and fellow coaches each get their own permissions. The data is stored on European servers, in line with the GDPR.