Benchwarmer now runs on iPad, and it comes with a tactics board. • iPad: the whole app full screen on iPad, with room to see the pitch. • Tactics board: drag your players, the opposition and the ball anywhere on a full pitch. Draw runs (dashed) and passes (solid), tap a line to remove it, and undo as you go. • Scenarios: keep several set-ups side by side in tabs, such as a kick-off, a corner and pressing high. Each match and each team keeps its own, and they're saved on the device. • Open it from the pencil in the match header, or from the Tactics card on your team page. • Format per match: play a friendly 7-a-side while your team is set up for 9. Pick the format when you create the match, or change it in the settings of a planned match. The match list shows when a game was played at a different format. • Shared teams are more reliable when several coaches edit the same match.

• Fixed a problem that could stop the app from loading your teams and matches. • The close button on the match screen now always works. • Guest players' goals now count in the score on your match list and in your season totals. • Clearer messages when something goes wrong with your connection.

• Plan every quarter, not just the first. Before kick-off, tap Q2, Q3 or Q4 above the pitch and drag the line-up you want for that period. "Copy from Q1" gives you a starting point when only a player or two rotates. The fair-share badge shows projected minutes as you plan, so a gap that would open in Q4 can be closed on the drive to the ground. • Make the planned changes at the break. Between periods, the players who need to move show a marker on their token: on, off, or a new position. Drag them one by one, or tap "Make N planned changes for Q2" and do them all at once. Undo covers it, as with any substitution. • Watch a match back. From the match log of a finished match, open Replay and scrub through the game. The pitch, bench, score and cards show exactly as they were at any moment, with markers at every goal, card and period boundary and playback at 4×, 8× or 16×. • Correct a player's minutes. If you made a substitution in the app a while after you made it on the pitch, tap the player, choose "Adjust minutes", and step their total with −5 / −1 / +1 / +5. Only that player changes, and the correction reaches back over every spell they played, not just the last one. • A clearer start. The first screen now says what Benchwarmer is for: fair playing time for every player, from the sideline. Build your squad, drag a line-up onto the pitch, run the clock and share the minutes. Or see it all first with a sample squad. • How it works, on one page. Under Help on the Teams screen, every screen and gesture is explained in a line each. From a match, Match settings has "How the match screen works", which opens the guide straight at the part about dragging, tapping, nudging the clock and undo. • Hints where you need them. The first time you open a match, the bench caption tells you what to do next: drag a player onto the pitch, tap a player to record a goal or card, drag a bench player onto someone to swap. Each hint disappears the moment you've done it, and never comes back. • Smaller things. Changing the formation or the number of periods refits or trims the plans you've made rather than stranding them. Shared teams sync plans and minute corrections like everything else. Backups carry the plans, and every older backup still imports.

• Invite by link. Send it in any messaging app and it opens the team on their phone. If a link gets mangled on the way, the code can be typed in by hand. • Anyone invited can run the match. Control of a live clock is taken over in one tap, behind a confirmation naming whoever is holding it, so a phone that dies at half time no longer freezes the game. • One clock, not two. The phone that loses a match stops straight away, and both devices read the same elapsed time — including when the handover happened while one of them was offline. • Your evaluations stay yours. Match and training ratings are visible only to the team's owner. • Fix a match after the whistle. Correct a scorer or remove an event on a finished match and every statistic that depended on it follows. • Leave or stop sharing without losing anything. Un-share and the team goes back to being yours alone, on your phone. • The home screen now keeps what is on this device separate from what has been shared with you. Sharing is optional. Sign in only if you want it — a team you keep to yourself still needs no account, and still works with no signal. The privacy policy has been updated to cover accounts, shared teams and crash reporting: benchwarmer.nl/privacy

Match ratings You can now rate your players after a match, on the same four axes as a training session: Effort, Performance, Attitude and Teamwork. The app offers the ratings at the final whistle, and if that's the wrong moment they stay reachable from the match log and from the finished match, so you can fill them in on the way home. Only players who got minutes are listed, and every axis is optional — fill in what you can. Season averages now appear on each player's screen and in match statistics, where you can sort the squad by rating. Fixes • Changing formation mid-match no longer strands your line-up. Whoever is on the pitch stays accounted for, and nobody loses minutes. • The bench now fits a full squad at the larger formats instead of overflowing. • The backup reminder can be dismissed again. • You can try a sample squad at any format, from 5-a-side to 11-a-side.