# Sideline Hero: Basketball Subs — Fair Subs for Youth Basketball

> Fair Subs for Youth Basketball (iPhone/iPad app by Thomas Morris.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/sideline-hero-basketball-subs/id6796588008 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Thomas Morris](https://appshunter.io/developer/6796588010)
- Category: Sports, Utilities
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 16.4 · 57 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-10-20
- Data updated: 2026-10-31

## What is Sideline Hero?

Sideline Hero is a basketball substitution planner and sub timer for youth and community coaches. It plans fair rotations before tip-off and tells you who to sub during the game, so every player gets their share of court time.

You're on the sideline. The clock is running. Someone needs to come off. Who's been on longest? Who hasn't had their fair share of playing time?

Most coaches juggle this on a clipboard and lose track by the second quarter. Sideline Hero keeps track of it for you, so you can focus on coaching.

PLAN BEFORE TIP-OFF

Mark who's available today and pick your starting five, or let Smart Pick choose a lineup from skill level and recent playing time. Sideline Hero builds a rotation plan that balances court time across the whole squad. You choose the priority: equal minutes for everyone, more minutes for developing players, or your strongest group on court. Let the app decide when to sub, set a fixed interval, set a number of subs per period, or plan every sub yourself.

FOLLOW ALONG LIVE

The game clock runs alongside the action, and a vibration alert warns you before each sub, not after it. A planned sub takes two taps. Need a change the plan didn't expect? Manual sub lists the bench with the players who need court time most at the top, and the rest of the plan rebalances around your choice. If a player is injured or fouls out, they come out of the rotation and their minutes are shared across the squad. If your clock drifts from the scoreboard, you can re-sync it without changing anyone's minutes.

TRACK STATS IF YOU WANT THEM

Turn on live scoring to tap in points, fouls and the opponent's score, with an alert when a player reaches the foul limit. Assists and blocks can be switched on too. Court time is logged to the second either way.

SEE THE WHOLE SEASON

Every game adds to a running record. Review the final score and each player's minutes, points and fouls. Share a readable game summary with your team chat, or export a game or a whole season as a spreadsheet (CSV). Group games into seasons, compare each player's season minutes against an even split, and add one-off fill-in players without cluttering your roster. Practice games can be kept out of season totals.

SHARE WITH ANOTHER COACH

Coaching with an assistant, or handing the team over for a week? Send a team file from the team screen, or a single game from its summary, and the other coach imports it from the Teams tab. Free.

BUILT FOR YOUTH AND COMMUNITY BASKETBALL

Made for junior and club coaches where fair playing time isn't just good coaching. It's an obligation to every kid and their family. Rosters of 5 to 12 players, 1 to 8 periods of up to 30 minutes each, and your own team colours and logo.

FREE, WITH ADS

Sideline Hero is free to download and shows small banner ads on the home, teams, history and settings screens. You'll never see an ad while you set up or run a game. An optional Premium purchase, yearly or one-time, removes ads and adds new premium features as they're released.

YOUR DATA STAYS ON YOUR PHONE

There's no account and no login. Your team, player and game data stays on your phone unless you share it. Ads come from Google AdMob and are non-personalised. Google gets technical details like your device type to show them, never your team data. Running a game works fully offline.

FEATURES AT A GLANCE

• Fair-time rotation planner with four ways to schedule subs
• Smart Pick starting lineups
• Live game clock and sub timer with vibration alerts
• Two-tap planned subs, plus manual subs when plans change
• Injury and foul-out handling that rebalances the plan
• Optional points, fouls, assists, blocks and opponent score
• Court time logged to the second
• Seasons, season minutes and game history
• Share game summaries or export to CSV
• Share a team or game with another coach
• Fill-in players and practice games
• Game day runs fully offline, with no account

Terms of Use: https://sidelinehero.tommamakesthings.com/terms

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Sideline Hero Premium | $2.99 | per year |

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Sideline Hero Premium (Lifetime) | $9.99 | one-time |


## Is Sideline Hero safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Sideline Hero.

## Is Sideline Hero legit?

Sideline Hero: Basketball Subs has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Sideline Hero is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 4 releases)

### 1.2.1 — 2026-10-27

New in this update:
• See who's in the next sub on the sub strip. Turn it on in App settings.
• Tap ON COURT or BENCH to sort players by total time, time on, name or number.
• The screen stays on during a game. Turn it off in App settings.
• Player names are capitalised, and Next moves from name to number.
• Fixed: the Add player sheet vanishing as it opened.
• Fixed: the green suggestion naming a stale sub. It's now Even up court time.
• Fixed: planned minutes in a manual game with no plan.

### 1.2.0 — 2026-10-23

New in this update:
• Court tiles show each player's time on since their last sub.
• Plan rows show who comes off, who goes on, and who's on court.
• Edit the final score: tap it on Game Summary.
• One Share and export menu on Game Summary.
• Tips for setting up your first team and game.
• Drag a sheet down to close it.
• Fixed: team and player forms vanishing when the keyboard opens.
• Fixed: leaving a game at half time restarted the period.
• Player Stats shows the right game date.

### 1.1.4 — 2026-10-21

New in this update:
• Share a team with another coach. Send a team file from the team screen, or a single game from its summary, and import it from the Teams tab. Free.
• Tips the first time you reach each tricky spot, from reviewing your plan to subbing and scoring live. Turn them back on any time in Settings.
• Clearer plan rows: every sub shows who's coming OFF and who's going ON, with their number on a shirt.
• The Game in progress bar shows your team's name. Tap it to get back into the game.
• Premium has its own spot in Settings: tap Remove ads. And the ad banner is smaller.
• Player Stats explains the ▲ ● ▼ minutes markers.
• Text stays readable at the largest text sizes.
• Smaller fixes and tidy-ups.

### 1.0.0 — 2026-10-21

No release notes.

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