# Touchline Studio — Drill & Session Planner

> Drill & Session Planner (iPhone/iPad app by Umang Desai.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/touchline-studio/id6757970508 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Umang Desai](https://appshunter.io/developer/1861001370)
- Category: Sports, Productivity
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 26.2 · 26 MB
- Languages: English
- Released: 2026-01-21
- Data updated: 2026-08-23
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/touchline-studio/id6757970508/reviews.md

## What is Touchline Studio?

Touchline Studio is the complete training companion for soccer coaches who want to spend less time planning and more time coaching.

PLAYER DEVELOPMENT TREE
Map what each player needs to achieve over the season with a structured tree. Outcomes break into Capacities, Habits, Actions, and Evidence. Track progress with status updates, timestamped notes, and session links. Progress rings and status breakdowns roll up automatically so you can see where every player stands at a glance.

AI-GUIDED WALKTHROUGHS
Create sessions, drills, and development trees through a conversational flow. The AI walks you through coaching intent, focus, logistics, and structure, then drafts the full plan for you to review, edit, and refine. Regenerate individual drills or ask AI to rewrite specific activities.

BUILT-IN COACHING GUIDE
A comprehensive reference explaining every development node type with coaching questions, real soccer examples, and 10 full holistic tree samples covering U8 through U17 age groups. Contextual hints in the editor change based on the selected node type.

PLAN YOUR ENTIRE SEASON
Create teams, define seasons, and set default game formats and weekly practice schedules. New sessions start from your next scheduled practice slot. See your entire schedule at a glance and track focus areas and training intensity across your program.

BUILD A REUSABLE DRILL LIBRARY
Save drills to your personal library with tags, descriptions, equipment lists, and player counts. Search by keyword or filter by tag. Draw animated diagrams on the coach board with player markers, cones, ball, and movement arrows on multiple field styles including grass, whiteboard, chalkboard, and blueprint.

LIVE SESSION TOOLS
Run training sessions with a clear drill timeline. Use the built-in stopwatch to time drills, sprints, or any activity. Record splits with a single tap and tag players as they finish. Capture per-player notes during activities. Player timing history is automatically tracked across their profile.

VOICE AND TEXT NOTES
Take notes on individual players during practice using text or voice dictation. Notes are automatically linked to the session and player, building a complete development record over time. Record general session notes that aren't tied to any specific player.

PLAYER EVALUATIONS
Rate players using built-in starter templates or build custom ones from a unified skill catalog. Tap a category to grab all its skills or expand to cherry-pick individually. Compare performance over time with snapshots, track trends, and export reports to share with staff or parents.

COACH JOURNAL
Capture coaching reflections in a team journal or a general journal that isn't tied to any specific team. Quick access from the Home tab for both team-specific and general coaching notes.

ROSTER MANAGEMENT
Import your roster from CSV or Excel files with a review step to catch errors. Track players across seasons, manage jersey numbers, and keep detailed player profiles with notes, evaluations, development trees, and timing history.

MATCH SCHEDULING
Schedule matches alongside your training sessions. Set lineups from formation templates. Keep your entire season organized in one place with opponents, kickoff times, and live match event tracking.

SYNC ACROSS DEVICES
Your data syncs privately through iCloud, so you can plan on your Mac and run sessions from your iPhone or iPad on the pitch.

DESIGNED FOR COACHES
No clutter, no social features, no distractions. Just the tools you need to develop players and run effective sessions. Whether you're coaching youth soccer or adult leagues, Touchline Studio adapts to your workflow.

Download now and take your coaching to the next level.


## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 6.2.0 — 2026-07-08

What's New in 6.2.0

Team Focus
- Team Focus now centers on active priorities with one level of coaching cues
- Manage priorities from one place by editing, reordering, archiving, reactivating, or deleting them
- Roster and Home keep the current focus concise while past priorities stay available for reference
- AI Team Assistant uses only active priorities and coaching cues

Drill Editor
- Quick Drill mode now includes a description field
- Goal supports multiple lines for clearer coaching intent
- Drill content renders markdown with bold, italic, bullet points, numbered lists, and headings
- Markdown appears throughout drill details, the library, session runs, and session templates

### 6.1.0 — 2026-06-27

What's New in 6.1.0

AI Team Assistant
- Chat-based coaching assistant grounded in your full team context
- Reads roster, sessions, player notes, matches, evaluations, development maps, attendance, homework, and coach journal
- Create full sessions with drills via guided walkthrough directly from chat
- Save standalone drills to your library with coaching points, setup, and constraints
- Generate player development trees based on notes, match signals, and evaluations
- Ask open coaching questions like weekly priorities, player attention areas, and match prep emphasis
- Per-player profiles combine all signals for targeted advice

Team Focus
- Set team focus priorities on the Roster page
- Add sub-focus items under each priority
- See a summary card on Home

Session Management
- Full drill builder in session with Save to library toggle
- Coaching Details now labeled with helpful descriptions
- Default session length setting (90 min with 10 min grace period)
- Sessions stay marked as current until shortly after they end
- Auto-assign season segment based on session date

Match Day
- Combined opponent/location/competition field with saved values dropdown
- Score entry now uses steppers for easier adjustment
- End Match & Enter Score action for quick match completion

AI History
- Unified AI call log tracks every conversation, session draft, drill draft, and development walkthrough
- Usage summary with total calls, tokens, cost, avg duration, and success rate
- Filter by call type and tap any entry for full details including model, tokens, and response ID

Lineup Fixes
- Lineup preview on roster page now reflects actual player positions and field orientation
- Match lineup preview now reflects actual player positions and field orientation

### 5.6.0 — 2026-05-22

What's New in 5.6.0

AI evaluation reports:
- Player evaluations now has an additional option to generate an AI-written coaching narrative including strengths, focus areas, an encouragement message, and per-category coaching points alongside the raw skill scores.
- The narrative for each category sits directly above that category's skill chart so the story and the data stay together on the page.
- Coach's category notes are now treated as the strongest signal when picking which categories should receive a next-step action.
- Reports calibrate tone and recommendations to your team context if you set it.

Team profile:
- Team settings now include optional competition level, age group, and team gender. These values feed AI evaluation reports and can be left unspecified.

Report pagination:
- Player evaluation PDF exports now paginate long evaluation details across proper A4-sized pages.
- Long category sections, coach notes, and general notes now continue cleanly instead of being clipped or starting midway down the page.

Player privacy:
- Player names are never sent to the AI service. A placeholder is substituted before the request and the real name is restored only when rendering the PDF.
- Exported evaluation PDFs no longer reference how the narrative was produced.

Stability and polish:
- AI evaluation report errors can now be copied for easier troubleshooting.
- AI evaluation reports handle a wider range of service response shapes without failing.
- Social and attitude language in reports is tempered so traits like effort and teamwork are described as positive without being oversold.

### 5.5.0 — 2026-05-16

What's New in 5.5.0

Homework Evidence Capture:
- Take photos or record videos directly when attaching homework evidence.
- Keep the existing photo and video library options for evidence already on the device.
- Captured and imported evidence photos are compressed so high-resolution camera images attach reliably.
- Tap attached evidence photos to open them in the native preview with standard share actions.

Schedule Fixes:
- Practices can now be deleted from the Schedule tab day detail and timeline menus.

Homework Status Dates:
- Set the actual submission or review date when changing a player homework status.
- Homework submitted on or before the due date no longer shows overdue just because it was updated later.
- Reverting a player to Assigned clears stale submission and review dates so overdue counts stay accurate.

Reports:
- Evaluation player exports now use a right-side attendance comparison against the team average.
- Evaluation player exports now include parent-friendly attendance development context beneath the attendance graphic.
- Evaluation player exports now start evaluation details on a new page when attendance is included.
- Evaluation and stopwatch reports can now be scoped to all data or through a selected date.
- Stopwatch reports now show first, best, latest, and average time summaries with a compact practice-day table.

Roster Attendance:
- Set a season join date for a roster player.
- Attendance before a player join date is ignored instead of counting the player present or absent.
- Past practice screens hide players who had not joined yet, without rewriting old session records.

### 5.4.0 — 2026-05-02

What's New in 5.4.0

Evaluation Matrix Polish:
- Tapping a cell now only focuses it. Previously a tap silently wrote the median score, which led to accidental ratings.
- Double tap a cell to clear an existing score.
- The cell long-press menu has been removed; it was popping open in the middle of a press-and-drag rate. Min, median, and max are easy to land via the scrub itself.
- A floating score badge now follows your scrub at the top of the matrix so you can read the value past your finger.
- Locked rating mode now shows an amber callout pointing at the lock toolbar button, and the lock button itself pulses on first open so it is easier to find.
- Locked cells get a clear diagonal hatch and a larger lock chip so it is obvious which cells cannot be edited.
- The RAG legend now shows the actual numeric ranges (eg 1-4 Needs Work, 5-6 Developing, 7-10 On Track) using your snapshot's thresholds.
- Categories collapse and expand from their label, so long templates fit on iPhone without endless scrolling.

Performance:
- Score commits now update the matrix in place instead of rebuilding it, and saves are debounced. Fast scrubbing no longer stutters and the screen no longer flickers between cells.

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