--- title: "Online Coach Whiteboard – Animate Plays" description: "Free online coach whiteboard to draw drills, animate plays, and share with your team. Works in the browser — football, basketball, and more." url: "https://coachboard.app/coach-whiteboard" dateModified: "2026-09-19" --- # Online coach whiteboard for tactics and drills > A locker-room whiteboard can't show the run. Coach Board lets you draw the drill, press play, and send the movement to every phone on the roster. ## What is an online coach whiteboard? Coach Board is an online coach whiteboard: plan sessions, animate player movement, and share a link with your squad — no install. Open it in a browser on a laptop, tablet or phone. Place players on a true-to-scale pitch or court, drag the runs, press play, and send the board as a link — nothing to download. ## Draw plays on a true-to-scale board Most digital whiteboards start as a blank rectangle. Coach Board starts as the pitch or court you actually coach on — lines, boxes, arcs and goal mouths already in place — so the distances your players see on the board match the ones they run on Saturday. Drop players, a ball, cones and notes onto the surface and sketch the session the way you would on a wall board: a pressing trigger, a horns entry, a 4v2 rondo. The difference is you can keep every board, group them by squad, and come back to them next week instead of wiping the wall. - [Football tactic board](https://coachboard.app/sports/football) - [Basketball coach board](https://coachboard.app/sports/basketball) ## Animate so players see the movement A static diagram shows where people stand. It cannot show when the full-back overlaps, when the screener arrives, or how the third man times the run. On Coach Board you drag each player's path and the ball's path, then press play — the whole move runs back like a clip. Loop it in the meeting, slow it down at the point of the play, and run it again until the timing is obvious. That is the gap between a coaching whiteboard and a coaching app: the squad sees the movement, not just the arrows. - [See how animation works](https://coachboard.app/#features) ## Share one link with the team When the board is ready, turn it into a link. Players open it on their own phones — animation included — with nothing to install. Assistants get the same view, so Tuesday's session is run the way you drew it. Need a file for the group chat or the locker-room wall? Export the board as an image or a short video. The playbook stays on the board; the share is just a pointer. - [Plans and the 14-day trial](https://coachboard.app/#pricing) ## Built for coaches (multi-sport) Coach Board covers 16 sports, each with its own true-to-scale surface — football and futsal pitches, basketball courts, handball, rugby, hockey rinks, and the rest of the list. One account follows you from the sport you plan on Monday to the one you cover on Thursday. The coaching library is there when you want a starting point: football rondos and set pieces, basketball horns and 17s, each with setup, steps and a tip for building it on the board. Then you adapt it for your squad. - [Browse the coaching library](https://coachboard.app/library) - [Football landing](https://coachboard.app/sports/football) - [Basketball landing](https://coachboard.app/sports/basketball) ## FAQ ### Is an online coach whiteboard better than a PDF of diagrams? A PDF is a snapshot — circles, arrows, and a lot left to the imagination. An online coach whiteboard lets you move the players, press play, and send a living board. Players see the timing, not just the final positions, and you can update the same board instead of exporting a new file every time the call changes. ### Does Coach Board work on a tablet or phone? Yes. Coach Board is a web app, so it runs in the browser on an iPad or Android tablet at training, a laptop at home, and a phone on match day. Your boards stay in the same account across every device — nothing to download or sync by hand. ### Is there a free trial? Yes. You can start a 14-day free trial at my.coachboard.app — no card, no commitment. After the trial, the Coach plan is $9/month (or $90/year) and includes unlimited boards, play animation, share links, and image and video export. ### What sports can I use the whiteboard for? All 16 sports Coach Board supports — including football, basketball, futsal, handball, volleyball, rugby and hockey — each with a true-to-scale pitch, court, rink or pool. Open the sport you coach and start drawing. ### Can this replace a physical locker-room whiteboard? For planning and teaching, yes: boards are unlimited, animated and already on every player's phone. Many coaches still keep a wall board or clipboard for timeouts and use Coach Board for session plans, playbooks and the work you do before you walk into the room. --- Try Coach Board free: https://my.coachboard.app