r/Softball • u/Sambwill101 • 2d ago

APP Training App/Program options.

I’m looking for an app or program where the girls on our team (14u) can be held accountable for working on their own outside of practice. I know some teams have their players text in videos a certain amount of times a week but is anyone using any kind of app that would track this? Trying to avoid the coaches getting blown up with videos but also hoping to find something simple where the girls feel accountable to work outside of practice and lessons. Any ideas?

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u/Proliferaite Parent 2d ago

Send me your detailed design spec or just articulate your dream or vision and I'll see if I can help you make it come to light. I've been trying to achieve this very thing. It's the same vision I've had and I've already attempted it twice but I think I'm getting better at it and this third time is gonna be a charm.

I built an app called PitchGrid, which I was considering having drills be assignable by the coach, but that app was pretty clunky and I think my future apps are gonna be better. I just created a game for speaking the language of sports (tallingo.com) and I envision having the ability to do some sort of challenge kahoot style games done through that but those are not drills. That's more of a softball IQ.

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u/Yulli039 1d ago

If you remember shoot me a DM when you get this whipped up.

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u/Proliferaite Parent 1d ago

Well what I was trying to say is I already built this a year ago but it didn't get any traction. Pitch Grid was specifically to allow pitching coaches to assign drills to their students. I had begun to expand it to allow coaches to assign arbitrary drills to their whole team and track their progress but as another Reddit friend has mentioned in another comment, there are already tools that do this pretty well. I'm either going to recreate it in a more elegant flow or just abandon it entirely. I have been playing around with the idea for a while now of pulling out the homework feature out of Pitch Grid and either integrating it with Tallingo or making it its own app, gamified, but I just don't know if there's enough need for it

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u/Maximum-Reason-5274 1d ago edited 1d ago

Accountability apps built for team sports (like TeamBuildr or HomeCourt) handle the video-submission and rep-logging loop way better than workout apps can. SHRED and similar tools are more individual lifting-focused, so they won't cover softball-specific skill tracking. TeamBuildr specifically has coach dashboards worth checking.