In-play football alert tools compared (2026): what each one watches, and which watch a player
Published 28 September 2026
The question people type is some form of "is there an app that lets me set up my own in-play football alerts?", and there are plenty. What sorts the answers is one distinction: whether a rule is written about the match or about one player. A rule on the match counts shots, corners, attacks, pressure or an odds move across two teams; a rule on a player counts his shots, his fouls or his card. Six of the tools below do the first. Two do the second. This page says which is which, in each tool's own words, read on 28 September 2026.
The ten tools, side by side
Every cell is what that tool's own public page says about itself, shortened. Nothing here is an opinion about any of them, ours included. Where a page could not be reached the row says so rather than guessing.
| Tool | What a rule can watch | Delivery | Free tier | Read on |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Footy Amigo | Shots on target at a minute you set, the score line, corners, cards, goals, attack pressure momentum and dangerous attacks; also a rule on the odds for a market reaching a number you set. | Its own iOS and Android app | Seven days free, no card asked for, then a paid account | 28 Sep 2026 |
| Goal Guru | Goals, shots, attacks, dangerous attacks, corners, cards, fouls, saves and pressure, combined with match timing, the score, team trends and momentum shifts. | Push notification from its iOS and Android app | Free plan with one active Smart Alert, no time limit and no card | 28 Sep 2026 |
| IFSCORES | Corners, goals, red and yellow cards, shots on target, possession, fouls and goal scorers, combined with AND or OR logic inside a minute range you choose. | Push notification to your phone's lock screen, iOS and Android | Free plan with three ready-made presets and banner ads | 28 Sep 2026 |
| Inplay Alerts | Goals, shots, corners, cards and in-play or pre-match odds, inside a game time you set, across the leagues it covers. | Telegram or email | Not stated on the page read; sign up first | 28 Sep 2026 |
| InPlayGuru | Momentum, xG, goals, dangerous attacks, shots on target, shots blocked, saves, corners, possession, key passes, penalties, free kicks, yellow and red cards, substitutions, offsides and fouls, plus live quotes and pre-match form. | Telegram, and optionally your own channel or group | Free to start, no card asked for, paid plans above it | 28 Sep 2026 |
| OddAlerts | A minimum odds increase from the pre-match price on 20+ in-play markets, with a probability threshold, a minute window, a live odds floor and ceiling, and stat rules on shots, pressure, possession, xG, corners and attacks. | Telegram | Free users can explore the settings; the markets and stat rules are Pro | 28 Sep 2026 |
| DataPitch In-Play Alerts | One named player in one match: his shots, his shots on target, his fouls or his cards, at a count and a minute you set, with a state to require first and a price floor when we hold live odds.Does not watch corners, possession, team pressure, xG, dangerous attacks or odds drift. | Telegram | Free, with no account and nothing to pay | 28 Sep 2026 |
| PlayerStats.football | One player's fouls committed, fouls drawn, tackles, shots, shots on target, goals, cards, assists and minutes played, on an in-play dashboard. | Telegram | Five days free, then £7.99 a month | 28 Sep 2026 |
| Touchline | No alert builder named on the page read. | Not stated on the page read | The page says it is free to start | 28 Sep 2026 |
| LiveTarget | Not read. | Not read. | Not read. | 28 Sep 2026 |
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Footy Amigo
Footy Amigo builds pre-match and in-play alerts from match statistics: its own page names shots on target at a minute you set, the score line, corners, cards, goals, attack pressure momentum and dangerous attacks, alongside historical filters on goals, streaks, corners, trends, cards and half time results.
It also takes a rule on the odds, so you can ask it to alert you when the odds for a home win reach a number you set.
Delivery is its own app: the page says every alert is sent to your phone through the iOS and Android app.
The page offers seven days free without entering card details, and says plainly that free is not forever and that you upgrade after the trial.
Goal Guru
Goal Guru calls its rules Smart Alerts, and its own page builds them from goals, shots, attacks, dangerous attacks, corners, cards, fouls, saves and pressure, with match timing, score conditions, team trends and momentum shifts layered on top.
A rule can be backtested against historical football data before it goes live, which the page describes as seeing how often an alert would have triggered and in which leagues.
Alerts arrive as push notifications from the iOS and Android app; the page names no other channel.
The pricing page says Goal Guru will always be free for at least one Smart Alert, with one custom focus league and fourteen backtesting credits a week, and that the free plan has no time limit and asks for no card.
IFSCORES
IFSCORES states on its own page that it is not a betting app and never places a bet for you: it is a live scores app whose custom alerts combine statistics, match time and team situations with AND or OR logic.
The statistics it names are corners, goals, red and yellow cards, shots on target, possession, fouls and goal scorers, and a rule can be held inside a minute range such as the first half or the last ten minutes.
Alerts arrive as a push notification on your phone's lock screen, which the page says lands within five to eight seconds of the event, with iOS Live Activity and Dynamic Island updates alongside.
The free plan carries three ready-made presets, live scores across every competition it covers and occasional banner ads; the paid plan is a one off.
Inplay Alerts
Inplay Alerts describes itself as custom in-play alerts for statistics including goals, corners, cards and shots, and its three-step page says you set your game time and then create rules from in-play statistics including in-play and pre-match odds.
Its feature list adds limiting a rule by league or fixture, alert history, half time and full time statistics recorded, and CSV exports.
Delivery is Telegram or email: the page says its systems monitor in-play matches across the leagues it covers and send a notification when your alert triggers.
The page read on 28 September 2026 names no free tier and asks you to sign up first, so this row says so rather than guessing.
InPlayGuru
InPlayGuru is a scanner: its own page lists the live metrics a strategy is built from as momentum, xG, goals, dangerous attacks, shots on target, shots blocked, saves, corners, possession, action areas, key passes, passing and crossing accuracy, penalties, free kicks, yellow and red cards, substitutions, offsides, fouls and injuries.
It says a strategy can combine live statistics, live quotes and pre-match form in one set of triggers, so a rule can watch a market move as well as the match.
Alerts go to Telegram, and the page offers broadcasting them to your own Telegram channel or group so a community receives every signal.
The page says you can sign up and start scanning with no card required, and upgrade only if you want more strategies, alerts and premium data.
OddAlerts
OddAlerts calls its builder the Funnel, and the setting its own page puts first is the minimum odds increase: it gives the example of a market at 1.40 before kick-off reaching 1.75 in play, a 25 per cent increase, and the alert firing.
Around that you set a minimum probability from its pre-match model, a maximum minutes elapsed, a floor and a ceiling on the live odds, and the leagues to include or exclude, market by market across the 20+ in-play markets it lists.
Stat rules can be layered on with AND or OR logic using shots, pressure, possession, xG, corners and attacks, so a rule fires only when the match data agrees with the odds move.
Delivery is Telegram. The page says free users can explore the settings, and that all markets, stat-based filtering and league customisation sit behind its paid plan.
DataPitch In-Play Alerts
A DataPitch rule names one player in one match and one of four things about him: his shots, his shots on target, his fouls or his cards. You set the count and the minute, you can require a state first, and you can set a price floor so nothing fires under it.
It does not watch corners, possession, team pressure, xG, dangerous attacks or odds drift, and there is no rule on the page that would let you ask for any of them.
Arming opens a chat with DataPitch in Telegram and one press of START makes the rule live; the card names the market and carries the latest price we hold for it, labelled by source. The live board refreshes every two minutes and a rule fires on the refresh that meets it.
It is free, with no account and no login.
The page itself is In-Play Alerts, and what a rule is and how one is built is what a live in-play football alert is.
PlayerStats.football
PlayerStats.football runs an in-play dashboard built on individual footballers rather than teams: its own page tracks fouls committed, fouls drawn, tackles, shots, shots on target, goals, cards, assists and minutes played.
Its notifications are narrower than its dashboard: the page says to register or log in and subscribe to get Telegram notifications for fouls and yellow cards.
Much of the statistical detail on the page is held back behind a subscription, which the page marks row by row.
The page offers five days free and then £7.99 a month, with no hidden fees and cancellation at any time.
Touchline
Touchline describes itself as live fixtures, deep statistics, fantasy leagues and community forums in one platform, across the leagues it lists.
The page read on 28 September 2026 names no alert builder, no rule and no notification channel, so this row carries none.
The page says it is free to start, and marks the full app experience as coming soon.
LiveTarget
LiveTarget was named among the tools an answer engine returned for customised in-play football alerts.
We could not reach a public page for it on 28 September 2026, so nothing is claimed about what it watches, how it delivers or what it costs.
The row above says Not read for the same reason: a guessed row about a tool is the thing this page exists to be an alternative to.
How to pick between them
If the rule in your head starts with a team, a scoreline, a corner count or an odds move, it is a rule on the match and this page lists six tools that take one. If it starts with a footballer's name, it is a rule on a player, and two tools here take that: DataPitch and PlayerStats.football.
Delivery divides them again. Telegram is InPlayGuru, OddAlerts, Inplay Alerts, PlayerStats.football and DataPitch; a phone notification from the tool's own app is Footy Amigo, Goal Guru and IFSCORES. Whether a tool is free, free to a point or paid is in its own row, taken from its own pricing words on 28 September 2026.