Outgrowing Spond?
Manage the whole club in one app.
Spond is a great free app for team chat and RSVPs. Medalyst is built for the club behind the teams: 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.
Spond vs Medalyst at a glance
Both apps cover the everyday team work. Medalyst adds the club-wide admin on top.
| Feature |  | Spond |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Per athlete, every module included, from €0.57 a month | Free app, 2.5% + €0.20 per payment collected |
| Membership fees and card payments | ||
| Payment reminders | Automatic, before fees fall due | Sent by an admin after the deadline |
| Events, RSVPs and attendance | ||
| Attendance export | ||
| Group messaging and news feed | ||
| Member records with custom fields | ||
| Equipment inventory and handouts | ||
| Written coach feedback per athlete | ||
| Performance statistics and leaderboards | Match results and a player of the match vote | |
| Learning materials for athletes | ||
| Data storage | European servers, GDPR | EU servers (Dublin, Frankfurt), GDPR |
Spond details checked on 22 September 2026 from Spond’s own pages: transaction fees · payment reminders · attendance · match events · Spond Club availability · data storage.
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?
Spond is a strong choice for a single team or a casual group that wants a free app for RSVPs, chat and the occasional payment. It is quick to start, used by more than 12 million people, and keeps its data in the EU.
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 Spond 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.
Spond alternative: frequently asked questions
For clubs that coordinate several teams and collect membership fees, Medalyst is a strong Spond alternative. It combines scheduling, attendance, card payments and group messaging with automatic fee reminders, written player feedback and equipment inventory, in one plan priced per athlete.
Yes, the Spond app is free to download and use. Spond earns a transaction fee when a club collects money: 2.5% + €0.20 per payment in euro countries such as Belgium, Ireland and the Netherlands, and 2.5% + £0.20 in the UK. By default the club covers the fee. A club website is available as a paid add-on.
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.
Spond’s help centre describes payment reminders as a manual step: an admin presses Send Reminder once the deadline has passed. Medalyst sends automatic reminders about fees that are coming due, so the treasurer keeps the evening free.
Spond lets clubs charge for equipment, and tracking who holds which item 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.
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. Spond covers match results and a player of the match vote.
According to Spond’s help centre, new Spond Club sign-ups are open in Norway, the United Kingdom, the USA, Canada and Ireland. The Spond app itself is used in more than 100 countries. Medalyst works with clubs across Europe, including Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark and Ireland.
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.