PlayCooker
Sports
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
PlayCooker is the only playmaker you need as a coach.
Draw plays fast. Organize them your way. Print clean wristband-ready sheets for game day.
WHAT YOU CAN DO
- Design plays on a real field canvas — players, routes, defenders, labels
- Build formations once, reuse them across your whole playbook
- Organize plays into groups and folders
- Tag plays so you can filter by concept, down, or personnel
- Search your playbook instantly by name
- Print custom playbook sheets with name, number, and highlight options
- Cloud sync across devices (Pro)
BUILT FOR COACHES
PlayCooker was made by a youth and high school football coach who got tired of laminated sheets and tedious digital play creation and play management. Every feature exists because a real coach needed it on a real sideline.
PRO SUBSCRIPTION
Upgrade to Pro to unlock unlimited plays, cloud sync across ALL devices, advanced print options as well as many other features.
- Monthly Subscription Available
- Subscription auto-renews unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period
- Manage or cancel anytime in your Apple ID account settings
Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Privacy Policy: https://playcooker.com/privacy
more PlayCooker 1.6.5 — the biggest update yet.
• Concepts. Group concepts by position (OL, WR, RB, QB) with run, pass, RPO and trick tags.
• Link clips to plays. Attach any game clip to a play diagram, then open the diagram to see every time you ran it.
• Move plays between playbooks. Select plays and send them to your own playbook or any team you coach.
• Cleaner designer. Major improvements to the route stencil, flat field, default black routes, notes drawer open for players.
• Improvements to all printable exports
• Film Room fixes. Cmd+Z undoes deletes, recover deleted clips, shortcuts stay out of text fields, smoother clip import.
1.6.5 5d ago
• Teach tapes show your recorded takes and publish as soon as they're ready.
• Private notes on any play, shown while you record, and one-tap tagging of the play you're watching.
1.6.2 Oct 21
Film Room
• Import a game that's already cut up. Pick a folder of clips (one per play) and they land on the game in order, already split into plays. Three upload at a time and the whole batch resumes if you close the app.
• An imported game plays its clips back to back as one timeline, so scrubbing, tagging and teach tapes work the same as on a single-file game.
• New Tapes tab. Teach tapes and film review now sit next to Games and Plays for every member of the team, players included.
• Teach-tape editor: plays load correctly and Record is available as soon as the tape opens.
• Upload rows show real progress while a take or game uploads.
Teams
• First-run team setup. Open the Film Room with no team and PlayCooker walks you through creating one, or offers the right team when you've opened the other kind of playbook.
• Switch between your teams from the Film Room, and move a game to another team of the same type.
• Team playbooks: a team's plays, formations and groups live with the team.
Also
• Editable keyboard shortcuts for iPad with a keyboard.
• Fixes and performance improvements.
1.6.1 Oct 8
OUR BIGGEST UPDATE YET —
FILM ROOM IS HERE
- Upload full games straight from your phone. Uploads keep going even if you close the app.
- Send your camera guy an upload link. He drops the film in, no account needed.
- Cut a whole game into plays with one tap. Split, trim, delete, restore.
- Tag Offense, Defense and Special Teams. Downs fill in automatically. Red Zone tagging stays on until you turn it off.
- Draw on film: pen, arrows, lines and circles in 4 colors. Export any frame as an image.
- Hold the right side of the screen for 2x, 4x or 8x. Double-tap left to jump back 5 seconds.
- Plays tab: every play from every game in one place. Filter by tag, side, down or game.
TEACH TAPES
- Build a teaching tape from plays across any game, organized into sections.
- Record your voice over each play, one at a time. Keep it or retake it.
- Your players watch one clean, continuous video.
YOUR WHOLE TEAM
- Invite coaches and players with a join code.
- Players get watch-only access to the film and tapes you publish.
- See who actually watched the film.
GAMEDAY CALL SHEET
- Build your call sheet from your playbook, color-code it, and print it or export it as a PDF.
Plus bug fixes and performance improvements.
1.6.0 Oct 5
UI improvements for in-game speed.
1.5.3 Jun 1
What's new in v1.5.1:
- Field numbers and hashmarks for tackle plays — three levels: NFL, College, and High School, each with fully accurate and proportional field markings
- End zone toggle for tackle plays
- Pro and Tackle purchases now verify reliably on iOS
- Various stability and performance fixes
1.5.1 May 29
PLAYBOOKS ARE HERE!
* Print or save your playbook in just 2 clicks!
* Notes can be added to any position and any play.
More massive updates coming soon!
1.5.0 May 28
Tackle Mode — full 11-on-11 playbook designer with offensive line, blocking schemes, and defense templates. Available as a separate subscription at $12.99/month (independent from Pro).
Plus a host of bug fixes and improvements.
1.4.1 May 26
Annual Pro plan now available with savings vs. monthly. Offline access for Pro subscribers — keep designing plays even without a connection, and they'll sync when you're back online. Plus sync reliability improvements.
1.4.0 May 19
PlayCooker is now providing the ULTIMATE advantage for flag coaches…
Defense Mode is here! Pro coaches can now design defenses and stamp them onto plays to see how their offense holds up. Build any look — coverage, pressure, run fits — and drop it onto any play in one tap and quickly change between different looks.
Fixes: Zone Dimensions panel display issue in the play designer.
1.3.1 May 15
Game Mode — a new sideline-focused mode for live games. Tap Game Mode, hide any folders you won't run this game, and call plays from a clean filtered view. Adjust routes and defense on the fly without overwriting your saved plays.
Cleaner play designer — replaced the top hamburger menu with a back button that returns you to the folder or tag view you came from. New Play moved into the side menu alongside Save, Defense, and Settings.
Smarter sidebar — when a play is open, the sidebar now shows only plays from that folder so you can flip through related calls faster.
1.3.0 May 14
Formations got a major upgrade:
- Formations now use the same designer as plays — same canvas, same tools, same gestures
- Set any formation as your default, and new plays auto-populate with those players
- Switch a play's starting formation anytime with the new "Starting from" dropdown
- Cleaner Formations tab accessible from the playbook sidebar
- Behind-the-scenes cleanup — faster, simpler, more consistent
1.2.0 May 13
Route editing got a major upgrade in this release:
- Edit individual segments of a route — change color, line style,
or tip type on just one segment instead of the whole route
- New unified editing menu: tap a segment in Select mode,
right-click on desktop, or double-tap on mobile
- Sticky Player tool — place multiple players in a row without
switching back to the tool every time
- Various stability fixes around saving and editing routes
Old plays open and render exactly as before.
1.1.0 May 7
# PlayCooker v1.0.1 — Release Notes
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## What's New in This Version
**Version 1.0.1 is a bug fix release. No features have changed.**
### Pro Subscription — Activation Fix
Some users who purchased a Pro subscription were not receiving Pro access immediately after payment. The app accepted the purchase but failed to complete the activation step, leaving paying users on the free tier until they force-quit and relaunched the app (or tapped Restore Purchases).
This is fixed in v1.0.1. Pro now activates immediately and reliably after purchase. The Restore Purchases flow has also been updated to use the same verification path, so restoring on a new device works correctly.
If you were affected — thank you for your patience. We are sorry this happened. Your subscription was never cancelled; you were charged correctly and your access is intact. If you still see any issues after updating, tap **Restore Purchases** in the account screen and it will sync your status.
### Printable PDF — Route Arrow Direction Fix
When printing a playbook that contains curl routes or spot routes, the arrow tip at the end of those routes was pointing up the field (away from the line of scrimmage) instead of back toward the QB. The play designer canvas and thumbnails were always correct — only the printed PDF was affected.
This is fixed in v1.0.1. Printed curl and spot route arrows now point in the correct direction on all route types and at all print scales.
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## App Review Notes
v1.0.1 is a CRITICAL BUG FIX RELEASE.
**Issue 1 (IAP):** After v1.0.0 launched, real users were able to purchase the Pro subscription, but the app was failing to grant Pro access after payment. The Cloud Function responsible for receipt verification was never being called.
**Fix 1:** Updated the IAP completion flow to properly invoke the verifyAppleReceipt Cloud Function with receipt data after a successful purchase. The Restore Purchases flow now uses the same path.
**Issue 2 (PDF rendering):** Curl routes and spot routes rendered with the arrowhead pointing in the wrong direction (away from the line of scrimmage) when a play was exported to a printable PDF. The designer canvas and thumbnails were unaffected.
**Fix 2:** Corrected the direction-anchor logic in the PDF route painter so short return segments on curl/spot routes use the correct reference point when computing arrowhead orientation.
No new features. No changes to functionality. Only the IAP receipt verification path and the PDF arrowhead rendering are updated.
Requesting expedited review due to user-facing payment issue affecting active subscribers.
1.0.1 May 4
PlayCooker 1.6.5 — the biggest update yet.
• Concepts. Group concepts by position (OL, WR, RB, QB) with run, pass, RPO and trick tags.
• Link clips to plays. Attach any game clip to a play diagram, then open the diagram to see every time you ran it.
• Move plays between playbooks. Select plays and send them to your own playbook or any team you coach.
• Cleaner designer. Major improvements to the route stencil, flat field, default black routes, notes drawer open for players.
• Improvements to all printable exports
• Film Room fixes. Cmd+Z undoes deletes, recover deleted clips, shortcuts stay out of text fields, smoother clip import.
more Version 1.6.5 5d ago
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