# What Coach Said — You coach. We write the recap

> You coach. We write the recap (iPhone/iPad app by MATTHEW CRAIG SPIEGELBERG.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/what-coach-said/id6800057396 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [MATTHEW CRAIG SPIEGELBERG](https://appshunter.io/developer/6800057398)
- Category: Sports
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 3 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-08-25
- Data updated: 2026-08-31
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/what-coach-said/id6800057396/reviews.md

## What is What Coach Said?

The best coaching disappears the moment the lesson ends.

A 30-minute lesson covers more than any young athlete can hold onto, and the correction that mattered most is usually the first thing gone by the car ride home. Parents pay for those lessons and rarely find out what was actually worked on — so they can't reinforce it at home or see their kid getting better.

What Coach Said closes that gap without adding a minute to your day.

HOW IT WORKS

Pick an athlete and tap record. Lock your phone and put it in your pocket — recording keeps going with the screen off, so you coach exactly the way you always have. Press and hold to stop, and the lesson uploads on its own while you move to the next student.

A few minutes later the parent gets an email written in your voice.

WHAT'S IN EVERY RECAP

• The focus of the session — the one thing the lesson was built around
• Concepts covered — everything you taught, in your language
• What clicked — the breakthroughs worth celebrating
• Things to work on — honest and specific, not vague encouragement
• Homework before the next session — drills a parent can actually run
• A note from you, written to the athlete
• One tap to book the next lesson

WHY COACHES USE IT

A parent who can see the work reinforces it at home, books again, and tells other parents. A professional recap after every session is the difference between being a good coach and being visibly a good coach — and it arrives without you writing a word.

BUILT FOR HOW LESSONS ACTUALLY RUN

• Recording continues with the screen locked and the phone pocketed
• A lesson that's interrupted picks up where it left off
• Group lessons produce a separate recap for every athlete, with what their own kid worked on
• Add athletes and manage consent from your phone between sessions

PARENTS GIVE CONSENT FIRST

A recap is only ever sent for an athlete whose parent has given consent. 

WHO IT'S FOR

Coaches who teach the same fundamentals fifty times a week and don't have twenty minutes afterward to write it up. Baseball, softball, golf, soccer, basketball, football, volleyball and tennis.

An account is required. Accounts are created at whatcoachsaid.com.


## Version history (last 4 releases)

### 1.0.3 — 2026-08-28

Lessons can now run a little longer before the app stops on its own, and a lesson that goes over is never lost.

Plus reliability improvements.

### 1.0.2 — 2026-08-27

Check your microphone before you record. The home screen now listens for a few seconds and tells you in plain words whether it can hear you — and if a lesson goes silent, the app says so while you can still fix it.

Hold to discard a lesson you didn't mean to start. It never leaves your phone and never counts against your recaps.

### 1.0.1 — 2026-08-26

Uploads now finish in the background. Stop a lesson, lock your phone, and the recap still goes out.

Plus longer sign-ins and reliability improvements.

### 1.0 — 2026-08-25

No release notes.

## Related topics

[what coach said](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/what-coach-said)

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