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BonziTeam app review: a team management and communication app

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Introduction

BonziTeam by Bonzi is a team management app created specifically for people who run a sports team. It is used for all kinds of interactions within your team such as attendance checking, schedules, photo sharing, organization of any events, and general team communications. This app is not useful on its own. You need to use it in cooperation with the BonziTeam website to actually be able to use it. None of the features of the app will function if you don’t have your team and schedules properly set up.

BonziTeam

Free

Setting up the App

The first thing you will have to do to make the app work is set up an Bonzi account via the website. When this is done, you need to register a team and create a schedule. You also need to add everyone from the team manually via the website, and all these members will need a Bonzi account as well. All in all, it is a huge amount of effort just to get this website up to date.

The app is simply an extension of the website. You can access schedules and manage attendance relatively easy via the app (even though you will need an Internet connection), as well as take photos and send text alerts to your registered team members. These photos will be uploaded to your team's photo album, which any member of your team can see on the website.

 

How Useful is the App, Really?

If you are a coach or trainer of a sports team, and you manage only a few people, this app can be quite helpful. The usefulness of this app stops when you have one or two members refusing to use BonziTeam’s online registration, which means they will not be able to see or receive any of the communications coming from BonziTeam’s website or the app. If I was a coach, I would not use BonziTeam, as it’s way too much effort to set up. You can easily do anything that their service has to offer by being organized and having actual training rhythm. If you run multiple teams, this app might come in handy, but only if all team members are willing to use the service Bonzi supplies.

 

BonziTeam

Free

Pros and Cons

Pros

  • Manage schedules and attendance from within the app
  • Upload photos from the team wherever you are
  • Send updates straight from the app to your team members' phones

 

Cons

  • Only for iPhone
  • Full team registration needed on the BonziTeam website
  • Setting up the team can take a while 

 

Conclusion

I would never use this app for managing a sports team. It simply takes too much effort to get the entire schedule and team set up on the BonziTeam website, and the risk of any of your team members not registering at all is too big to waste all this time on. There are much better ways to manage a team.  The fact it’s just an extension of the website and only for iPhone make this an app to avoid.

 

BonziTeam

Free
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Cherry is a hard-working writer and an aspiring web designer who can't go a day without using her favorite apps. She's always on the lookout for new apps and enjoys discovering ones that others have overlooked.