Team Shake app for iPhone and iPad

4.2 ( 9312 ratings )

Utilities Education
Developer: Rhine-o Enterprises LLC

1.99 USD

Current version: 3.0.3, last update: 1 year ago
First release : 09 Oct 2010
App size: 7.58 Mb

Team Shake provides a technological and environmentally friendly way to choose teams for board games, sporting events, tournaments, school projects or anytime groups are required. The newest release brings many new features including full iPad support, balancing teams based on skill or gender, importing users from a file, enabling video output, and sharing teams via facebook or email.

Team Shake is the premier iOS App for creating teams. Instead of a hat and scraps of paper, the user enters his friends names in his iPhone and gives it a shake. The screen will then display a random set of color-coded teams. These teams can immediately be used for game play or shared via facebook or email. The quick and easy selection of random (or balanced) teams eliminates fighting over who will be on which team. Innovative use of the iPhone shake gesture gives users the satisfying feeling of shaking a virtual hat without the trouble of carrying around an actual hat. Conventional buttons can also be used for those who would rather not shake their expensive hardware about.  

The app is designed with ease of use and simplicity in mind. Names can easily be entered with the onscreen keyboard, chosen from the users contacts, or imported from a file. The email and facebook functions document the members of each individual team as well as preserving the team number and color assigned by the app. For repeated use of Team Shake, lists of friends can be easily saved and loaded later. The current list is also automatically saved so that if you exit the app, or even reboot the device, changes will not be lost. For teachers and others with large lists of people, Team Shake supports the ability to import teams from text or csv files.

If you have any problems, feature requests, or comments please send an email to [email protected].

Features:

* Create 1 to 64 random teams
* Create completely random or balanced teams
* Full iPad support
* Eliminates fighting over choosing teams
* Share / Save teams via email or Facebook
* Teams can be chosen by the number of teams or by the size of teams.
* Save lists of friends for later games
* Import lists from email or spreadsheet
* Export lists and options for use on another device
* Satisfying feeling of shaking a “virtual” hat to create teams
* Animated shaking hat
* Entry of names via onscreen keyboard
* Entry of names via iPhone contacts
* Temporarily disable people who are absent
* Set groups of people to always be on the same team
* Set groups of people to always be on different teams
* Set user strength to make more even teams (now supports fully balanced teams)
* 5 users strengths level
* Pick a single random person from the list of players
* User strength indicator on the main screen (can be disabled in options)
* Number of active players and total players is now displayed on the main screen
* Video Out Support
* Option to Sort Teams by Name
* Option to balance male / female team members
* "Equal Ability" option to create teams where all players have the same strength
* Option to create separate male and female teams
* Configurable Team Colors
* Configurable Team Names
* Print Support
* Export Teams in CSV or XLS Format
* Team Shake now supports simultaneously assigning players to multiple subteams and / or oppose teams at the same time.
* Subteams / Oppose teams can now have customized names to make selection easier
* Subteams / Oppose teams can now be enabled or disabled globally so that teams can be made quickly without subteams / oppose teams. In particular, Balance Teams Strengths will work when separate Male / Female teams are created.

Yappler-Tags: Teams, Groups, Random, Hat, Entertainment, Games, Utilities

Pros and cons of Team Shake app for iPhone and iPad

Team Shake app good for

Please add wide format and improve usability :) Maybe add max. limit for teams and generate the count of teams.

Functions as described. Can be improved: - please make it so that absent players are all grouped at the bottom of the main list and present players at the top. All while re-organizing both groups (present and absent) of names to be in alphabetical order by first or last name (add an option setting). - a better hat picture in the background Ty for the app but I believe these suggestions need to implemented soon for overall improvement.

I have used this app to sort each of my classes into random groups. The absent feature is useful, as well as the feature that allows me to put students on opposing teams (ie they wont be in the same group). I have used this to create a seating plan on the fly when it was clear the kids needed a change. These were things that took me a fair bit of time in the past. *update*. The new update makes it even easier for me to temporarily remove absent students, and also allows me to pick a random student to ask a question to. Great!

Gym teacher here. Thanks for the app. Does what it says it will. Waiting for more updates.

Id like it to default to 2 teams (currently 4) when I open it up. I found a very minor bug, reported it and recieved immediate response from developer. He will also implement my request Very satisfied

Excellent app for a coach or teacher who needs to change the teams constantly. The ability to rate the students help make sure team are fair.

Some bad moments

Does what its supposed to. Look at the picture to determine if this is working for you. I sent the developer 3 emails to see if a tweak was possible and Im still waiting an answer.

I mean its ok for gym teachers but by the title of this app it sounds like a thing where you pick one name and say like for example Paige then pick another person. It only makes teams.

The interface is difficult to work with, and should be more straight forward. Its challenging to import class lists and has confusing wording for the different options. Seems like it should not be this difficult. Waste of $.99...unless they can improve the navigation in adding classes/students.

What a great find while searching the App Store. Didnt expect to find this "perfect" App that does just what I needed for putting my golf groups together in a random order. Has so many more capabilities then I can use now but nice to know they are there. A well designed program.

I use this almost daily for my classes. I use it to split students into teams, to pick for activities, etc. love!

By far the best app Ive seen for Phys.Ed. Teachers. Great way to create groups, partners, etc... You can transfer class lists to other iPads and iPod touchs too. Please do not change this app! It is perfect.

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random name picker, random chooser, and other. So, download free Team Shake .ipa to run this nice iOS application on iPhone and iPad.