An honest comparison
fourteen03 vs CricHeroes
CricHeroes is the largest live-scoring app in cricket, with over forty million users. fourteen03 is a permanent, cross-platform cricket legacy, built to hold a career, not score a match. They are different products solving different problems. Here is what each one is for.
What CricHeroes is built for
CricHeroes is a live-scoring platform. Its centre of gravity is the match in progress, ball-by-ball commentary, real-time scorecards, leaderboards, tournament management. It does that brilliantly, at scale, and predominantly inside the Indian cricket ecosystem where it has the deepest network effects. If you are running a club tournament, hosting an inter-corporate league, or scoring a Sunday game, CricHeroes is one of the strongest tools available.
What CricHeroes is not built for is preserving a single cricketer’s entire career across multiple platforms over twenty years. Career profiles inside CricHeroes hold the matches that were scored on CricHeroes. Matches recorded on CricClubs, WebSports, or Stumps are not part of that profile, and never can be, because they live on different infrastructure.
What fourteen03 is built for
fourteen03 is a cricket legacy platform. Its centre of gravity is the player, not the match, not the tournament, not the league. It exists to aggregate every scorecard a cricketer accumulates across every platform they have ever played on, into one permanent profile that the player owns and that is shareable with one link.
fourteen03 does not score live matches. It is not trying to. It is the home you put your matches in after they have been scored on whatever platform the league or school happens to use.
Side-by-side
| Dimension | CricHeroes | fourteen03 |
|---|---|---|
| Primary purpose | Score live matches | Preserve a career |
| Cross-platform aggregation | No, only matches scored on CricHeroes | Yes, matches from CricClubs, WebSports, Stumps, CricHeroes, and any source |
| Profile portability | Tied to the CricHeroes account | Player-owned, exportable, one shareable link |
| Geographic strength | India-led, expanding globally | Built in South Africa, designed for any cricketer anywhere |
| Live ball-by-ball | Yes | No, not the goal |
| School cricket integration | Limited, most school cricket is scored elsewhere | Designed for it, aggregates whatever the school uses |
| Cost | Free with paid premium tiers | Free for every cricketer, forever |
| Best used together? | Yes | Yes |
When to use which
Use CricHeroes (or CricClubs, or WebSports, or Stumps) for the live match: the team list, the toss, the ball-by-ball, the result. Each league and school has the platform it scores on, and the choice of which one is rarely up to the player.
Use fourteen03 for the career: the rolling record across every platform the player has ever been scored on, the milestones that span multiple seasons, the profile that survives when one of the platforms changes its terms or shuts down. fourteen03 sits one layer above the scoring apps, it is the cross-platform legacy layer they were never designed to be.
The two products are not in competition. They are stacked.
The cross-platform gap
The category of “permanent, player-owned, cross-platform cricket legacy” did not exist before fourteen03. CricHeroes validated that millions of cricketers want their stats tracked, over forty million users prove the demand. What it did not solve, by design, is the cricketer who plays school cricket on CricClubs, tournament cricket on WebSports, club cricket on Stumps, and the occasional Sunday game on CricHeroes, and wants one place that holds all of it.
fourteen03 is built for that cricketer.