The best app for a sports coach plans the season, writes tonight's practice and prints it. AURA Coach does that for 15 sports: you enter your team once, it periodises the season around your match calendar, and AURA AI writes each session from a curated drill library with diagrams. The first session of every team is free.
The practice planner app for sports coaches in 2026
The best app for a sports coach plans the season, writes tonight's practice and prints it. AURA Coach does that for 15 sports: you enter your team once, it periodises the season around your match calendar, and AURA AI writes each session from a curated drill library with diagrams. The first session of every team is free.
The challenge
Most coaches, and almost every volunteer coach, plan practice the night before from memory. Sessions repeat, the load ignores the match at the weekend, young players get adult volumes, and the paperwork (attendance, call-ups, match sheets) lives in a notebook and three chat groups.
How Aura helps
The season is periodised from your calendar, with phases, lighter weeks and a load for every training slot, so the plan follows the championship instead of ignoring it. You can also load your own periodisation.
AURA AI never invents an exercise: it picks from curated drill libraries with diagrams, filtered by age group, the players actually present and the equipment your gym owns. Every practice exports to a printable PDF.
Each age band carries its own ceiling (jumps in volleyball, throws in handball and baseball, contact in rugby) and a deterministic check refuses a generated session that exceeds it. Body weight is never asked for or stored.
Call-ups as a PDF or as a message for the parents group, the attendance register with a season report, and live match scouting in the team and racket sports. An assistant can code the match while you coach.
How to plan a season with AURA Coach
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Pick your sport and create the team
Choose among 15 sports, then set the age category, the roster with nicknames and birth years, and your training and match days.
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Declare what you have
Tick the space and the equipment you really own. A drill that needs something you do not have is never offered.
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Generate tonight's practice
Open a session in the calendar and generate it. Untick whoever is missing and it is rebuilt for the players actually there. Change drills, minutes and intensity if you want: the plan stays yours.
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Print it or open it in the gym
Export the PDF with diagrams, or open it in the AURA Coach Android app, which keeps the coming week available without signal.
Frequently asked questions
What is the best app for sports coaches?
It depends on the job. Team-management apps handle schedules and chat, video platforms handle analysis. AURA Coach covers the part most coaches do alone at night: a periodised season, each practice written out with drills and diagrams, attendance, call-ups and live match statistics, for 15 sports in 13 languages.
Which sports does AURA Coach support?
Volleyball, football (soccer), basketball, handball, rugby, baseball, tennis, padel, pickleball, running and athletics, swimming, combat sports (boxing, kickboxing, MMA, BJJ), fitness and calisthenics, yoga and pilates.
How much does AURA Coach cost?
The season plan and the first session of every team are free. After that a session costs 1 USD in AuraCoins, or a one-time EUR 19.99 Coach Pass covers unlimited sessions and match scouting for up to three teams of the same sport for 365 days. Clubs can buy one licence for all their coaches. Yoga and Pilates use a EUR 2.99 monthly pass instead. The scoreboard and the sports-nutrition guide are free.
Is it suitable for youth teams and volunteer coaches?
Yes. Categories start from the youngest age bands, such as minibasket, mini rugby and tee-ball, and each band has its own load ceiling. The roster stores a nickname and a birth year, never body weight.
Does it work without internet in the gym?
The Android app and the installed web app keep the practices of the coming week available offline, and the attendance register is saved on the device and sent when the connection returns. Generating a new practice needs a connection.
Is there an Android app?
Yes. AURA Coach is on Google Play as its own app, with the same account, teams and Coach Pass as on the web. On iPhone and desktop you use it in the browser or install it as a web app.