Hockey’s subs roll non-stop. Very few apps keep up.
Field hockey’s app market is younger than soccer’s or AFL’s, but it’s growing — club platforms, season tools, tactics boards and training apps. The thin end is still the game itself: rolling subs, card suspensions, minutes and fair game time, live. Here’s who does what.
One of the most interesting new hockey-specific platforms — squad management, match selections, a visual rotation board, playing time, video and player development history, aiming to be a club-wide system.
A season-wide coaching platform — match planning, live scoring, lineups, player evaluations, training templates and stats dashboards connected across the year.
A practical coaching assistant — an interactive field, tactical planning, position management and training ideas. Well suited to school and junior club coaches.
Coach development rather than live coaching — elite coaching videos, skill development, practice ideas and player progression resources.
A player development app — dribbling, passing, shooting and defensive technique drills with weekly plans and instructional video.
The bar: keeping up with the game
Hockey rolls substitutions constantly, cards come with timed suspensions, and junior comps expect equal game time — all while the scoreboard moves. The full match-day job looks like this:
- Rolling subs in a tap, with the bench auto-sorted by who’s owed time on
- Live minutes on every player, and automatic equal game time for juniors
- Card suspensions timed on the game clock — the sin-bin runs itself
- Goalkeeper tracked properly, saves included
- Parents live at the game, and post-game Player of the Match voting
- Halves or quarters to match your association — fully offline pitchside
- Hands-free voice logging for senior grades — Kickd Callout, over a Bluetooth headset
Where Kickd fits
Kickd is built for hockey’s pace: each rolling sub is a tap, the bench stays auto-sorted by who’s owed time on, and every player’s minutes count live with rotation alerts when a change is due. Green and yellow card suspensions run on the game clock in an on-screen sin-bin, the goalkeeper is tracked properly — saves included — and goals are attributed in one tap. Halves or quarters with coach-editable period lengths match whatever your association plays. Parents follow the game free, juniors get post-game Player of the Match voting on behalf of their child, and every match stores a fairness record — fair game time as a number, not a memory. Fully offline at the turf.
Australian-built, juniors to seniors, $40 per season for the whole team — and it pairs happily with your club platform and training tools. See Kickd for hockey.
Keep the club platform for the season and the drills app for training. For the game — the rolling bench, the cards, the minutes and the score — that’s Kickd.
Get the appField hockey apps, answered
What is the best field hockey app for game day?
It depends on the job. Veld and SeasonPulse are building club- and season-wide platforms; CoachMe Hockey suits tactics and planning; Performance Hockey Coach and Field Hockey Training cover development. For running the match itself — rolling subs, live minutes, equal game time, cards and scores — Kickd is purpose-built, juniors to seniors.
Which field hockey apps track playing time automatically?
Kickd counts every player’s minutes live from the match clock — on the pitch and on the bench — keeps the bench order sorted by who’s owed time on, fires rotation alerts when a change is due, and stores a fairness record on every match.
How does Kickd handle hockey’s green and yellow cards?
Card suspensions are timed on the game clock: the suspended player sits in an on-screen sin-bin with a live countdown that pauses when the match clock pauses, so nobody comes back early or gets forgotten on the sideline.
Does Kickd work for junior hockey formats?
Yes — halves or quarters with coach-editable period lengths match whatever your association plays, rotation support runs at every age, and juniors get automatic equal game-time tracking with post-game Player of the Match voting where parents vote on behalf of their child.
Does Kickd work offline at the turf?
Yes. Everything is logged on the phone or tablet you already own, fully offline — no reception needed and no extra hardware.
Do any field hockey apps support voice control?
Kickd is the only field hockey app with sport-aware voice control. Kickd Callout — a premium add-on for senior grades — lets the coach log the game completely hands-free over a Bluetooth headset (the Shokz OpenComm 2 boom mic is the proven pick for turf-side noise): say "goal seven" or "save" and the match updates without touching the screen. Recognition runs on-device and fully offline, built from hockey’s own language rather than generic dictation.