Comparison

Coach Tactic Board vs DeepSurfCut

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Coach Tactic Board

Design animated plays, create drills with various equipment, and manage your team's tactics. Save unlimited plays and drills, organize them by opponent or session, and customize player information. Export your strategies as images or PDFs for easy sharing with players and staff.

Highlights
  • Animated play creation
  • Drill design with equipment
  • Powerful drawing tools
  • Unlimited tactic saving
  • Team and player management
  • Export tactics as images/PDF
Features
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Your tactical whiteboard — always in your pocket. Create animated plays, design drills and organize your team faster than ever. Trusted by thousands of coaches worldwide with a 4.7 rating. Plan & Create • Create animated plays and tactical boards • Design drills using full training equipment (cones, balls, ladders, and more) • Use powerful drawing tools with multiple line styles (solid, dotted, curved, etc.) Organize • Save an unlimited number of tactics and drills • Organize tactics by opponent, match or training session using folders • Quickly switch between full pitch, half pitch, training pitch or plain board Teams & Players • Create teams and manage your players • Make substitutions with simple drag & drop • Customize players (name, number, position, photo) Share & Export • Export tactics and drills as images or PDF files • Save to Photos, Dropbox, or other apps • Easily share your ideas with players or staff Designed to stay out of your way Built to be fast and intuitive, stable and reliable — focused on coaching, not distractions.
 No unnecessary complexity. Just the tools you need, when you need them. Support & Contact If you have questions or suggestions, feel free to contact us: Email: support@evlonsoft.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/CoachingAppsByBluelinden

About

DeepSurfCut

This AI-powered video editor transforms long surf session recordings into organized, editable clips. It automatically detects rides, groups them by surfer, and allows for easy editing and exporting of individual sessions. Designed for surfers, coaches, and venues to review progression and create highlight reels.

Highlights
  • AI-powered ride detection
  • Automatic ride grouping by surfer
  • Interactive timeline editing
  • Clip trimming, splitting, and merging
  • Manual surfer track creation
  • Export individual ride clips or reels
  • Cross-device compatibility (iPhone, iPad, Mac)
Features
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Turn long standing-wave sessions into organized, editable surf clips. DeepSurfCut is an AI surf video editor for fixed-camera recordings of stationary waves and wave pools. Import a session, find rides with on-device analysis, group repeat rides by surfer, then review and refine the timeline without uploading the video for analysis. FIND AND ORGANIZE RIDES • Automatically find rides in long recordings • Group repeat rides by surfer • Review every surfer and play complete clips REFINE YOUR TIMELINE • Trim, split, merge, delete and move clips • Create surfer tracks and correct groups • Work with landscape and portrait footage • Keep the original video unchanged EXPORT WITH PRO • Export individual clips, batches or a complete surfer reel • Adjust time before and after each ride • Use portrait follow to frame the action • Save projects and use Restore Last Scan Free features include importing, opening existing projects, unlimited analysis and grouping, playback and timeline editing. DeepSurfCut Pro is required for saving projects, all video exports, portrait follow and Restore Last Scan. Subscription options and any eligible trial are shown before purchase. Use the same Apple Account across iPhone, iPad and Mac. For best results, use stable, wide fixed-camera footage with the entry, wave and fall zone visible. Performance depends on the device, footage and operating conditions. The app interface is available in English and Simplified Chinese. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Coach Tactic Board4 screens
DeepSurfCut4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: DeepSurfCut at Free against Coach Tactic Board's $4.99. DeepSurfCut also leads on update cadence (every 9 days vs every 2 months) and rating (5.0 vs 4.8). Coach Tactic Board's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and ratings volume (214 vs 1). On ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

DeepSurfCut is free to download; Coach Tactic Board costs $4.99 up front. DeepSurfCut sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Coach Tactic Board asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

DeepSurfCut holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Coach Tactic Board has 214 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Coach Tactic Board ships an update every 2 months, DeepSurfCut every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Coach Tactic Board versus DeepSurfCut: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCoach Tactic BoardDeepSurfCut
Price$4.99Free — better
Rating4.8 (214 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews84.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings214 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 9 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS14.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size77 MB146 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBLUELINDENYao Zhao

Customer experience

Coach Tactic Board

All ratings212 ratings
Positive94.8%
Neutral4.2%
Negative0.9%
Written reviews169 reviews
Positive84.6%
Neutral7.1%
Negative8.3%

DeepSurfCut

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Coach Tactic Board

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

DeepSurfCut

Subscriptions2
  • DeepSurfCut Pro Monthly14 Days trial$7.991 Month
  • DeepSurfCut Pro Yearly1 Month trial$69.901 Year

Questions

Is Coach Tactic Board free?
Coach Tactic Board costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is DeepSurfCut free?
DeepSurfCut is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Coach Tactic Board or DeepSurfCut?
DeepSurfCut is rated higher. Coach Tactic Board averages 4.8 out of 5 from 214 ratings, while DeepSurfCut averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Coach Tactic Board or DeepSurfCut have ads?
Neither Coach Tactic Board nor DeepSurfCut shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Coach Tactic Board or DeepSurfCut?
Coach Tactic Board ships an update every 2 months, and DeepSurfCut every 9 days. Most recently, Coach Tactic Board was updated on November 1, 2026 and DeepSurfCut on October 29, 2026.

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