Touch runs on rolling subs. Almost nothing runs the bench.
Touch football has great official coaching resources and the usual admin tools — but very little that helps a coach during the game, in a sport where the interchange never stops and every junior comp expects a fair run. Here’s who does what.
Touch Football Australia’s coaching resource — coaching activities, skill demonstrations, session plans and progressive pathways. Built for training sessions, not match management.
A simple substitution manager with equal playing-time tracking and bench management — a good fit for volunteer coaches who don’t need scoring or statistics.
Availability, messaging, scheduling and rosters — the organisational layer many clubs already run alongside a dedicated match-day app.
A player development platform created with Touch Football Australia — fitness programs, speed and agility, touch-specific skills and conditioning for players and rep teams.
The bar: a rolling-subs sport needs the full match day
Six on the field, a bench that never stops moving, short halves and a scoreboard that only moves in touchdowns — most coaches still run it all from a stopwatch and a whiteboard. The full job looks like this:
- Unlimited rolling subs on a live 6-a-side field — every sub one tap
- Automatic playing-time tracking with rotation alerts at every age
- A match clock that keeps running with the phone in your pocket
- One-tap touchdown scoring — with TD assists, line breaks and touches made from U13 up
- Parents live at the game, and post-game Player of the Match voting
- Season fairness records — fully offline at the fields
- Hands-free voice logging for senior grades — Kickd Callout, over a Bluetooth headset
Where Kickd fits
Kickd treats touch as its own sport, juniors to Opens: a live 6-a-side field of links, wings and middles where every rolling sub is one tap, running minutes on every player, and rotation alerts at every age so the fair run takes care of itself. Touchdowns are one tap with scorer attribution (TD assists, line breaks and touches made from U13 up), the match clock keeps running with the phone in your pocket, parents follow the game free and vote in the post-game window, and every match stores a fairness record. Fully offline at the fields.
Australian-built, $40 per season for the whole team — and multi-sport, so the same app runs league, oztag or union too. See Kickd for touch football.
Keep First Try for training night and TeamSnap for the admin. For the game — the rolling bench, the minutes, the touchdowns and the fair run — that’s Kickd.
Get the appTouch football apps, answered
What is the best app for touch football coaches?
Touch is one of the least crowded markets for game-day apps. First Try and The Final Touch are Touch Football Australia’s excellent training and development resources; Easy Team Subs is a lightweight rotation tracker; TeamSnap handles admin. For running the game — unlimited rolling subs, live minutes, fair game time, touchdowns and voting — Kickd is purpose-built, juniors to Opens.
Which touch football apps track playing time automatically?
Kickd counts every player’s minutes live from the match clock — field and bench — fires rotation alerts when a change is due at every age group, and stores a fairness record on every match, so a fair run is a number you can show.
Does the match timer keep running if I leave the app?
Yes. Kickd’s match clock is anchored to real time, so backgrounding the app, locking the phone or stepping away never stops it — the time is right when you come back, and a live match timer sits on your lock screen on both iPhone and Android.
What touch football stats does Kickd record?
One-tap touchdown scoring with scorer attribution at every age; from U13 up it also logs TD assists, line breaks and touches made — with post-game Player of the Match voting and season leaderboards built in.
Is touch football its own sport in Kickd?
Yes — touch is built as its own sport: a 6-a-side field of links, wings and middles, unlimited rolling interchange, half lengths matched to real comps, and junior parent-proxy voting. And because Kickd is multi-sport, the same app runs your league, oztag or union team too.
Do any touch football apps support voice control?
Kickd is the only touch football app with sport-aware voice control. Kickd Callout — a premium add-on for senior grades — lets the coach log the match completely hands-free over a Bluetooth headset (the Shokz OpenComm 2 boom mic is the proven pick for sideline noise): say "touchdown three" or "sub two off, six on" and the match updates without touching the screen. Recognition runs on-device and fully offline, built from touch’s own language rather than generic dictation.