Rhythmic Gymnastics Competition Software Compared in 2026
Six ways to run a meet, including the paper one
Six options cover rhythmic gymnastics meets. RGForm (KSIS) is the incumbent: difficulty-form scripting against the Code of Points for 2025–2028 and two earlier cycles, judge entry through the eJudge2 web app, a documented offline venue setup, and adoption listed for Gymnastics Canada, USA Gymnastics and four European federations. Its organizer pricing is not published. RGScores is rhythmic-only, sells competition credits at A$85 with two free to start, and handles music playlists, work orders and coach up-next tracking. Sportzsoft LiveMeet is gymnastics-wide with a rhythmic system that debuted at the ISF Gymnasiade 2024, priced at $75 per meet plus 2.5% of athlete registration fees. JudgeMate is free for athletes and spectators, runs D + A + E entry on the judge's own phone with the FIG trim rule, configurable apparatus rotation, per-apparatus rankings and an LED arena view, and has no Code of Points element database, no difficulty-form scripting, no federation integration, no offline mode and no export of any kind for rhythmic gymnastics. Regional systems exist as well, ITDSport in Poland and DTB GymNet in Germany among them. Paper plus a spreadsheet still runs most club meets and remains the baseline everything else has to beat.
Three jobs, and each tool was built around a different one
A rhythmic meet asks software for three different things, and the tools on this page were each built around a different one.
Before the meet: difficulty paperwork. Every routine arrives with a difficulty form listing the body and apparatus difficulties the D-jury will confirm. Writing one against the Code of Points is paperwork, not scoring, and it is the job RGForm (KSIS) exists for.
On the day: panel entry and arithmetic. Three juries score every routine. FIG runs a D-jury of four judges in two subgroups where the final D is DB plus DA summed, and A- and E-juries where, with four judges, the highest and lowest deductions are eliminated and the remaining two averaged (Code of Points 2025–2028, Arts. 3.3.1, 3.4.5, 3.5.2, 3.6.2). A club meet rarely fields that many officials, so the software also has to hold up with two judges and a coach who volunteered an hour ago.
After each routine: getting the number out. To the coaches, to the wall, to the screen in the hall, and sometimes into a federation database.
Volume is the part organizers underestimate. Under the USA Gymnastics club structure, Levels 5 to 8 each perform four individual routines, so a 40-gymnast meet is 160 scored routines across three panels. Every option below has to survive that.
One clarification before the table. Swiss Timing has supplied FIG-level gymnastics since 1987 with judging terminals, scoreboards, commentator systems, TV graphics and video replay. Nothing on this page competes for a World Championship, and nobody should read it that way.
Six options in one table
Columns are the products. Rows are the questions an organizer actually asks between the entry deadline and the medal ceremony.
| What you are comparing | RGForm (KSIS) | RGScores | Sportzsoft LiveMeet | JudgeMate | Regional systems | Paper + Excel |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Who makes it | Not identified on the site; the footer reads © KSIS | Developing Agility | SportzSoft Solutions Inc. | JudgeMate (us) | ITDSport (Poland), DTB GymNet (Germany) | You and a volunteer |
| Rhythmic support | RG-native origin discipline, plus ten other disciplines listed on their site | Rhythmic only | Gymnastics-wide; the rhythmic system is newly developed | One of 36 sports, rhythmic template shipped | ITDSport lists rhythmic; GymNet is club registration | Whatever you print |
| D + A + E panel entry | eJudge2 keypad entry; panel layout not published | Judge device, or paper chits with a data-entry operator | LiveMeet Judges app for iPhone and iPad | Three panels; one judge may cover all three | ITDSport runs tablets and laptops with its own operators | Three forms per routine |
| Panel averaging, high and low dropped | Not documented publicly | Not documented publicly | Not documented publicly | Yes, from four scores up, switchable per category | Not documented publicly | By hand |
| Apparatus rotation, per-apparatus ranking | Entry is per apparatus, with music and tariff upload | Apparatus and all-around results in one view | Not documented publicly | Configurable rotation, apparatus rankings plus all-around | Not published | One sheet per apparatus |
| All-around and tie-break ladder | Not documented publicly | Apparatus and all-around in one view; ladder not published | Not documented publicly | All-around inside one category; ladder E, then A, then D | Not published | Sorted by hand |
| Judge device | eJudge2 in a web browser; Android tablets in the documented offline kit | Judge device, or chits and an operator | iPhone or iPad | Any phone, tablet or laptop the judge already owns | Equipment supplied by the operator | Pen |
| Offline / venue LAN | Yes, with a documented offline topology | Not documented publicly | Not documented publicly | No, online only | Operator brings the kit; offline behaviour not published | Always |
| Difficulty (D-form) scripting | Yes: 2025–2028, 2022–2024, 2017–2020, individual and group | Not stated on their site | Not stated on their site | No | Not stated | The paper tariff sheet |
| Live public results | Yes, no login | Yes, during the competition | Yes | Yes, no account | ITDSport publishes at online.itdsport.pl | A printed sheet on the wall |
| Arena / LED display | Not advertised | Not advertised | Not advertised | Yes, a jumbotron route with scale, rotation and row count | ITDSport drives the venue screen once the judge approves | No |
| Export (PDF, Excel, CSV) | Meet paperwork is part of the product | Not itemised on their site | Meet paperwork is part of the product | None for rhythmic gymnastics: no PDF, no Excel, no CSV | Not published | The paper is the export |
| Pricing | Not published | A$85 per competition credit, 15% off from ten credits | $75 per meet plus 2.5% of athlete registration fees, minimum $1 per athlete | Free for athletes and spectators | Not published | Free software, paid in volunteer hours |
| Free tier | Free account creation; organizer cost not published | Two competition credits | No | Yes | Not published | Yes |
Where a row reads not documented publicly, it means the vendor's own site does not state it and we will not guess on their behalf. Pricing follows the same rule: not published means not published, not expensive.
RGForm (KSIS): the incumbent
RGForm describes itself as a scripting, registration and scoring system. Rhythmic gymnastics is its origin discipline, and the platform now also covers aesthetic group gymnastics, acrobatic, men's and women's artistic, aerobic, TeamGym, trampoline, parkour, artistic swimming and wushu.
Difficulty scripting is the reason it wins. RGForm builds difficulty forms against the Code of Points for the current 2025–2028 cycle and keeps 2022–2024 and 2017–2020 available, for individuals and for groups. JudgeMate has no element database at all, so a gymnast who needs a validated D-form for a federation event cannot produce one with us. That is not a small gap and it is the first thing to check before you shortlist anything.
Registration is built for the federation pipeline: preliminary entries, online entry for gymnast, judge and coach, group entry, MP3 music upload and a PDF tariff upload per apparatus. Accounts are free to create.
On competition day judges work in the eJudge2 web app. The chief judge issues an eJudge ID and code, the judge selects the panel's apparatus, taps the athlete and enters scores on a numeric keypad. Results are published live with no login.
It also survives a dead internet connection, and we do not. Gymnastics Ontario publishes the offline topology: an offline server package, a wired router, a private judging Wi-Fi, Android tablets pointed at a local address, a head-judge control laptop, and a second public uplink used only to push live results out. That is real venue engineering and it works when the hall's connectivity does not.
It is federation-integrated and we are not. Gymnastics Ontario mandates KSIS for provincial rhythmic events. The RGForm references page lists Gymnastics Canada, USA Gymnastics, the Estonian, Latvian, Romanian and Ukrainian federations, the Korea Gymnastics Association, San Marino, the Japanese AGG federation, Austria's ÖFT, GymFed Vlaanderen and clubs in more than 60 countries, alongside a counter reading 74265 forms created. If your event has to feed federation records, this is the answer and the rest of the page is academic.
Two things it does not tell you. Organizer pricing is not published anywhere on the site, and the operating company is not identified: the footer carries only a KSIS copyright line. Read our RGForm alternative comparison for the one-on-one.
RGScores: rhythmic only, priced per competition
RGScores is made by Developing Agility and does one discipline. Its pitch is time given back to the organizer, and the tooling reflects that.
It handles production work we do not touch. Work orders are generated for the event, music playlists arrive with tracks labelled and ordered to match the performance order, and coaches can track when their gymnasts are next on the floor. Running order can be adjusted during the day. None of that exists in JudgeMate, and on a long meet those three features are the difference between a calm floor and a queue of confused coaches.
Judging is flexible in a way club meets appreciate: judges either score electronically or fill paper chits that a data-entry operator types in. Results cover apparatus and all-around in one view, and live scoring runs for the audience during the competition.
Pricing is published, which is rarer here than it should be. A free trial comes with two competition credits. After that a competition credit costs A$85, with a 15% discount from ten credits up, no per-entry costs and no ongoing subscription. The company also lists discounts for developing countries and small organisations.
For a club that runs three meets a year that is roughly A$255, and the honest question is whether the playlists and work orders are worth it. For many organizers they are. See the RGScores alternative comparison.
Sportzsoft LiveMeet: gymnastics-wide, rhythmic newly added
LiveMeet is web-based meet management from SportzSoft Solutions Inc., covering online registration, scoring, volunteer management and live results. Its established coverage is artistic gymnastics plus trampoline and tumbling; the rhythmic and aerobic systems are described as newly developed.
The credential behind that is worth stating: LiveMeet was the official gymnastics scoring system for the ISF Gymnasiade in Manama, Bahrain, in October 2024, where the rhythmic and aerobic systems made their debut. An international multi-sport championship is a harder shakedown than most club seasons.
Judges work in a dedicated iOS app, LiveMeet Judges, so the panel needs iPhones or iPads rather than whatever the officials happen to carry.
Pricing is published and has two parts: $75.00 per meet plus 2.5% of athlete registration fees, with a minimum charge of $1.00 per athlete, volume discounts above 1000 athletes, no credit card required and billing seven days before the meet. There is no free tier. For a 200-athlete meet with $40 entries, the percentage is the larger half of the bill, which makes LiveMeet cheap for small free-entry events and progressively less so as registration revenue grows.
Like RGForm, LiveMeet is built around meet paperwork you can hand to a head judge or an accountant. We are not. See the LiveMeet alternative comparison.
JudgeMate: what we run, and what we do not
JudgeMate is our product, so read this section with that in mind. It runs 36 sports on one engine, and the rhythmic template shipped in 2026.
On competition day every routine totals D + A + E minus penalties, floored at zero. Judges open the event on their own phone, tablet or laptop with no venue kit at all, and each judge writes only their own score. Each panel is averaged; from four scores up the highest and lowest are dropped first and the rest averaged, which matches Code of Points Arts. 3.5.2 and 3.6.2, and the trim can be switched off per category. One judge may cover all three panels, which is the club-meet reality FIG-shaped tooling is not designed around. Apparatus rotation is configurable in FIG order, with presets for the senior individual programme (hoop, ball, clubs, ribbon), a freehand beginners' setup, or all six apparatus. Per-apparatus rankings and the all-around are computed together, and the all-around tie-break runs E-scores, then A-scores, then D-scores before positions are shared, which is the ladder in FIG Technical Regulations 2026, Section 3, Art. 3.4.1.2. DNS, DSQ and DNF each behave correctly. Results recalculate server-side within seconds of a score write, and the same functions drive our public rhythmic gymnastics score calculator.
Results go two places. The public event page needs no app and no account, and the arena display at the jumbotron route takes scale, auto-rotation and row-count parameters for an LED wall or a hall projector. Public live results are not ours alone: RGForm publishes them without a login, RGScores and LiveMeet publish them too. The arena view is the rarer half. None of those three advertises a dedicated LED or jumbotron view on its own site, and among the regional options only ITDSport describes a venue screen.
Now the gaps, and there are several.
- No Code of Points element database. Judges enter the D value they calculated themselves. We cannot build a difficulty form, validate one, or tell a coach that a combination does not count.
- No export of any kind for rhythmic gymnastics. No PDF, no Excel, no CSV. Excel export does not exist anywhere on the platform for any sport. If your federation, your accountant or your club archive needs a file, we do not produce one.
- No federation integration. Nothing we compute feeds a federation ranking or record system.
- Online only. If the hall's connection dies, we stop. KSIS keeps going.
- Our D panel is not the FIG D-jury. FIG uses four judges in two subgroups and sums DB plus DA. We average entries on a single D panel, which is right for a club meet and is not the world-level procedure.
- Our A and E judges enter the final 0 to 10 value, not the deduction total. FIG judges submit deductions subtracted from 10.00. The arithmetic lands in the same place; the ergonomics differ, and a judge trained on deduction sheets needs a sentence of warning.
- Line and time penalties are dedicated FIG judge roles. We have one organizer-entered penalty field per routine covering line, time and attire together.
- No cross-category all-around roll-up. The all-around lives inside a single category, and the public results grid still labels its columns Run 1 to Run N rather than by apparatus name.
We are free for athletes and spectators, which matters most when the alternative is paying per competition or per meet. It does not compensate for a missing D-form.
Regional systems, and why they are on this list
Not every meet is run on an international product. Several countries have a local system that clubs use because it is what the federation, the hall or the timing company already works with, and two are worth naming as examples.
ITDSport (Poland), based in Kraków, explicitly covers rhythmic gymnastics alongside artistic gymnastics, acrobatics, trampoline, figure skating, sport aerobics and majorettes. The company states that the system runs entirely on multimedia devices, tablets and laptops, publishes live results at online.itdsport.pl, pushes results to a venue screen once the judge approves them, and offers video streaming. Pricing is not published. Read the model carefully before comparing it to us: ITDSport sells a service with equipment and operators on site, not self-serve software. That is a genuinely different offer, not a worse one, and for an organizer who wants to hand the timing table to someone else it can be the right call.
DTB GymNet (Germany) is the German federation's club-side registration and reporting portal. We could not verify any live scoring or judge-device capability on it, and as far as our checks go it is registration only. If it has a judging layer, it is not documented where we could find it, and we would rather say that than invent a comparison row.
The general lesson holds beyond these two. If a regional system already carries your federation's entry data, the cost of leaving it is usually paperwork, not software.
Paper and Excel, the honest baseline
Most club rhythmic meets in the world still run on printed judge forms and a spreadsheet, and any comparison that pretends otherwise is selling something.
The materials are free and available. NAWGJ publishes printable judging scoresheets by level and apparatus as PDFs, with no spreadsheet version. The pipeline that follows is familiar to anyone who has worked a timing table: judges fill their forms, a volunteer runner carries them to the desk, and the referee calculates the final score, usually in a simple Excel file. During the pandemic some judges printed, scanned and emailed the forms instead. An engineer and former gymnast who documented this workflow described it plainly as a manual process carrying real potential for calculation mistakes.
What it costs is not licence money, it is attention. At 160 routines across three panels, every routine needs three forms collected, three numbers transcribed, one trim applied by hand and one subtraction of penalties. One transposed digit moves a podium, and nothing in the process will tell you. Coaches cannot see standings until the desk publishes them, and the audience cannot see them at all.
What paper does better than every product here: it never loses connectivity, it never needs an account, and the judge already knows how to use it.
Which one fits you
No winner here, because the six options are not solving the same problem.
Your event feeds federation records, or your gymnasts need validated difficulty forms. RGForm (KSIS). Nothing else on this page writes a D-form against the Code of Points, and in provinces like Ontario the choice has already been made for you.
Your hall has unreliable connectivity and the meet cannot stop. RGForm again, with the offline server, router and tablet kit assembled in advance. We are online only and would leave you stranded.
You run a long day and the floor management is what hurts. RGScores. Work orders, music playlists in performance order and coach up-next tracking are the parts that keep a rotation moving, and A$85 a competition is a fair price for them.
You already run artistic or trampoline meets on one platform and want rhythmic on the same one. Sportzsoft LiveMeet, at $75 per meet plus 2.5% of registration fees, with the Gymnasiade 2024 debut behind its rhythmic system.
You want someone to arrive with the equipment and run the timing table. A regional service such as ITDSport, if one operates in your country.
Your budget is thin, your judges bring phones, and you want the hall screen live. JudgeMate. Configure the rotation, let one judge cover all three panels if that is the crew you have, put the all-around on the LED wall, and accept that you will leave the day with no exported file and no difficulty forms.
Your meet is small, local and once a year. Paper and a spreadsheet, honestly. Move when the recalculation stops fitting in the gap between rotations, not before. If you do move and cost is the deciding factor, the free rhythmic gymnastics scoring comparison covers the three options with a documented free path, and our rhythmic gymnastics scoring guide explains the arithmetic each of them is automating.
Try JudgeMate on your next event
A rhythmic gymnastics event takes about 10 minutes to configure. No athlete limits, no commission on registrations. See rhythmic gymnastics features · Rhythmic Gymnastics glossary
See also
Free rhythmic gymnastics scoring software 2026
Three routes have a documented free path: RGForm, RGScores on trial and JudgeMate. The fourth is paper with a spreadsheet — free until you count the hours it costs.
RGForm (KSIS) alternative
The incumbent in rhythmic gymnastics: Code of Points difficulty forms per cycle, federation registration with music and tariff upload, judge entry through eJudge2, offline mode. Organizer pricing is not published.
RGScores alternative
Rhythmic-only, A$85 per competition published up front. Covers meet-day production JudgeMate does not: music playlists in start order, work orders, arena display, free spectator access.
Sportzsoft LiveMeet alternative
Gymnastics-wide (artistic, trampoline and tumbling, newer rhythmic and aerobic systems) with an iOS judges app and a documented ISF Gymnasiade 2024 deployment. US$75 per meet plus 2.5% of entry fees.
Frequently asked questions
Sources
- RGForm difficulty forms by Code of Points cycle — KSIS
- RGForm references and adoption list — KSIS
- KSIS judges score entry overview (PDF) — Gymnastics Ontario
- KSIS offline topology diagram (PDF) — Gymnastics Ontario
- Rhythmic competition hosting requirements — Gymnastics Ontario
- RGScores product and pricing pages — Developing Agility
- Sportzsoft LiveMeet product and pricing pages — SportzSoft Solutions Inc.
- Gymnastics at the 2024 Gymnasiade — Wikipedia
- ITDSport competition service and live results — ITDSport
- DTB GymNet club portal — Deutscher Turner-Bund
- Printable judging scoresheets — NAWGJ
- Gymnastics timing and judging systems — Swiss Timing
- FIG Rhythmic Gymnastics Code of Points 2025–2028 — FIG