Frequently Asked Questions

PlayClearly is a coaching platform for basketball, soccer, and football. It turns a coach's ideas into animated, shareable plays, well-structured practices, offseason training, game day tracking, and clear feedback on game film, all built to be used on a phone or tablet, in real time.

Basketball, soccer, and football today, with the same clear, thoughtful and hand-drawn approach to each of them.

PlayClearly is built for iOS and Android phones and tablets, designed first for the sideline, not a desktop tool you use back at the office.

Two things: clarity and restraint. Every play, drill, and screen is built to be understood at a glance, by your players, their parents, and coaches alike. Progress reads as plain information, not a competition.

PlayClearly is built with programs in mind, not just individual teams. A club or school athletic department should be able to evaluate it as durable infrastructure, not a trendy app. If you're looking at PlayClearly for a multi-team program, you will need to establish a team subscription for each team within the program with common coaches across the teams.

Email info@playclearly.app. If you're reporting a bug, tell us what you were trying to do and what happened. That context helps far more than "it's broken." We read every message and use it to shape what we build next.

Draw a play the way you'd draw it on a whiteboard: place players and sketch routes step by step, then watch it animate. It works for basketball, soccer, or football, and you can share the finished play with your team in a tap.

A library of animated plays you can browse, filter by sport, and adapt to your own team, so you're never starting from a blank whiteboard.

Build a structured practice in minutes, with drills, timing, and focus areas laid out clearly so the whole session runs on schedule, not just the first ten minutes of it.

Upload game or practice footage, mark the moments that matter, and turn what happened on the field into clear teaching points you can share with a player or the whole team.

Lineups, substitutions, and other live tools built to hold up under sideline pressure, readable in sunlight, on a phone, with one hand.

TeachClearly turns film into coaching a player will actually rewatch. Record or upload a practice or game, trim the moments that matter into short teaching clips, write the point you want made, and assign each clip to the players it applies to. Players watch and respond from their own device, and you see at a glance who has worked through their assignments and who still needs a nudge.

Practice Plans are what your team does together. Individual Training is what a player does on their own between sessions. Each sport has training pathways organised by position and age group, made up of workouts that progress in difficulty, with benchmarks so a player can see whether the work is paying off. A coach can assign a pathway, or a player can simply follow one.

Each sport ships with a curated tactical library written in plain language: basketball actions, rubrics, and templates; football formations, offensive and defensive concepts, and special teams; soccer patterns, principles, set pieces, and match preparation. They are there for the moment you need to explain why, not only what.

Create a team, then invite coaches, players, and families by link. Each person sees the view that fits their role, and you keep control of who can see and change what. Ownership of a team can be transferred if your coaching staff changes.

IDPs let a coach set development goals with each player and track honest progress over time. They're built to give calm, clear feedback that a player and a parent can both understand. Never a leaderboard, never a ranking against teammates.

Players see the same clear visual language as coaches, simplified around what matters to them (assigned plays and their own development goals), presented in an encouraging, plain way. There's no separate "kid" version with a different tone.

Not in the way most apps do. PlayClearly avoids streak pressure, badges, and ranking mechanics around player development. A missed day reads as neutral information, not a failure to be guilted over.

Exactly what a coach chooses to share, and nothing shared vaguely. A parent might receive a play their child is learning, a clip from the Film Room, or an IDP summary, always tied to a specific player and a specific reason, never a public or anonymous feed.

Carefully, on purpose. PlayClearly is built for teams that include minors, and player records, video, and development data are shared only with the coach, the player, and that player's parent or guardian, never publicly by default. Full details are in our Privacy Policy, including how parental consent works.

It's not on the App Store or Google Play just yet. Email info@playclearly.app and we'll let you know the moment PlayClearly is available to download.

When PlayClearly is available, any paid plans will be billed through the App Store, Google Play, or Stripe. See our Terms of Service for how billing, renewal, and cancellation work. We'll share full pricing here at that time.

Program is for clubs, schools, and organisations running more than one team. It is billed per coaching seat rather than per team, so every team in your organisation sits under one account and one bill, with a dashboard for adding and removing coaches as your staff changes. Program includes everything in Team. It is set up on the web rather than in the app — see the Program plan page for current pricing.

Free, Individual, and Team are purchased through your device's app store, and you cancel them in your App Store or Google Play subscription settings. The Program plan is billed through Stripe, and you can change seats or cancel at any time from the Stripe customer portal linked on your Program management page.