Top 5 Basketball Coaching Apps
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We know that basketball coaches are often juggling multiple responsibilities at once. While dealing with a large to-do list, it’s important to consider basketball software to help improve your coaching and save you time.
Whether creating practice plans, reviewing gameplay, improving player development, or evaluating players, the technology you need can often be obtained right from your smartphone.
This article shares our top picks for the best basketball coaching apps that will make your life a lot easier.
1. Basketball Blueprint
Build an unstoppable team with Basketball Blueprint’s drill library, playbook library, and practice schedules.
Drill library
Browse through 135+ drills, organized into easy-access categories (i.e., passing, footwork, shooting, etc..).
Playbook library
Discover the secrets to better spacing, ball movement, and higher percentage shots with 41+ play scenarios.
Practice schedules
Simply drag-and-drop drills from the drill library and even add your own custom drills (if applicable) to create your custom practice plan.
Cost: Free version available. Additional drill packs, playbooks, and coaching tools can be unlocked for a small fee.
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2. Maxone
Take your coaching to new heights—beyond regular practices. Build custom skill development workouts and send them right to your athletes’ phones.
Build Individual Custom Workouts
Include drills for ball handling, shooting, or finishing moves (any drill that an athlete can practice individually).
Athletes can watch a video of how to properly perform each drill and then record their results in real time. Coaches can then track player development and recommend new practice workouts.
Other Features:
- Utilize leaderboards to show athletes how they stack up to their teammates.
- Streamline communication with text, email, and team chat functions.
- Share workouts, game practices and events with parents & athletes through a built-in scheduler.
Cost: $24/player per year
3. SkillShark
SkillShark is a basketball evaluation app started by a coach who wanted to improve the pen-and-paper evaluation process. This basketball evaluation tool reduces the data entry & manpower typically associated with pen-and-paper evaluations: saving coaches an average of 30 to 50 hours per event.
SkillShark is completely customizable, allowing evaluators to score players right from their smartphone or tablet.
Instant results
By using SkillShark’s Evaluation App to evaluate basketball players, you will instantly have access to all your evaluation data in one place. Coaches can swiftly view player rankings and compare top athletes to efficiently draft teams.
Improved communication with players and parents
After each evaluation, you will have the ability to send or view individual performance reports. Report cards will display any video taken at the tryout, show athletes’ scores compared to the group average, and include written feedback left by evaluators. These reports are customizable, meaning you can easily show or hide any information you choose.
With SkillShark you will have access to:
- Simple mobile scoring
- Customizable evaluation templates
- Auto-generated player reports
- Team drafting utility
- Registration integration
- Unlimited evaluation events & evaluators
Cost: Free trial available. Plans start at $5/player annually
4. Hoops Geek
Create basketball plays within seconds using an easy drag-and-drop interface and share them with your players.
Choose Templates
- Choose from a variety of templates (half-court or full-court).
- Half Court templates: traditional, 5 out, box, horns, flex and more.
- Full Court templates: 1-4 press break, 1-3-1 press break, 1-1-2-1 press break.
Drop & Drop Content
Add actions (dribble, pass, screen, shot, handoff, and cut) and place your players appropriately on the court for each play. Additionally, make actions optional or synchronous.
Share Plays
Drag & drop plays from your library into a master Playbook. Export as a shareable link or PDF for your players to view.
Cost: Free trial available. Plans starting at $8.25/month
5. iPractice Builder
Take a proactive approach with practice planning. Save hours building your practices and use your iPad or iPhone to create practices anytime from anywhere!
Add Drills
Browse through a library of basketball drills, adding your favourites to your library.
Customize your practices
Drag & drop drills from your library into your practice schedule. Customize the length of each practice segment by pinching or expanding each drill.
Share your practice plan
Email or print your practice plan for your team to view.
Cost: Unavailable
SkillShark Testimonials
Explore how SkillShark has transformed careers and organizations through real-life success stories. Join our community and streamline your evaluations basketball today.
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SkillShark is hugely beneficial for our athlete development, as we can easily track their progress and identify areas for growth.
Phil Jevtovic
Senior Manager – Canada Basketball
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By taking away administrative tasks, more time can be spent developing successful athletes and winning teams.
Chris Shewfelt
Vice President, Toronto FC & Toronto Argonauts
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I wouldn’t even be able to calculate the time SkillShark has saved us.
James Mays
Technical Director, PA Minor Hockey
FAQ — Basketball Coaching Apps
Furthermore, SkillShark provides a library of player development resources that athletes can access, where they can find instructional videos and PDFs provided by their coaches to help improve their skills.
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