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Share one play with anyone, and find your plays by formation. SHARE A PLAY • Send a link to a single play, at the option you choose, from the play's ⋯ menu • Anyone can view it in a browser, no account needed; with Roots Playbook installed it opens in the app • See and turn off your links from the playbook's Share tab • For team playbooks, by the team's Owner or an Admin PLAYS BY FORMATION • Tap a formation to see every play drawn from it, and start a new play from it • Filter or group the Plays tab by formation • Load Formation and Save as Formation keep each play under the right formation DRAW FASTER • 24 new routes in a Route Library, in both editors • Clean Up Route straightens or smooths a hand-drawn route • Throw timing (Quick, Normal, Late) and Fake Handoff in Basic • Swipe past the edge of the field to go back VIDEO • Videos record in the direction your field faces; Drive Up makes a vertical video that fills the frame MORE RELIABLE • Saves are retried automatically and kept when you leave the app • Large playbooks open much faster • Playback picks up where it was after you switch apps • Animation fixes for flips, handoffs, throwbacks and more • Search now appears where it helps: on your plays and playbooks PRIVACY • Settings › Privacy is now a single switch for anonymous usage counts Your playbooks, plays and teams carry over unchanged.
Roots Playbook is a football play designer for coaches. Build formations, draw routes and blocking, call your defense, and press Play to watch the play develop, from motion through the snap to the finish. BUILT FOR THE WAY COACHES THINK • Any setup from 5v5 to 11v11: presets for 5v5, 6v6, 7v7, 8v8, 9v9 and 11v11, or set your own number of players on each side • Formations you can reuse across every play in a playbook • Routes, blocking, pre-snap motion, handoffs, passes and option reads • Defensive calls by team, position group or individual defender: fronts, stunts, pressures, and man or zone coverage WATCH IT RUN • Animated playback, from motion through the snap to the route • Scrub through a play step by step, or slow it down to teach it ON THE SIDELINE • Sideline View: any playbook full screen and read-only, for game day • Swipe between plays and between a play’s options; tap a player to see his assignment • Turn the field to face the way you do, upright or sideways, online or off FIND ANYTHING • Pull down from the top of a page to search every play, option, formation and playbook you can open PRINT AND SHARE • Wristband cards sized for youth and adult bands, ready to print • Play sheets as PDF or image, and animation videos • Your plays, your diagrams: export your whole library any time YOUR TEAM, IN SYNC (optional) • Sign in with Apple or Google and turn on sync for a playbook to use it on your iPhone, iPad and computer • Invite coaches as Admins, Editors or Viewers • Edit together live, with changes and history kept for each play • Share a view-only Team View link or code with players and parents. No account needed to view PRIVATE BY DESIGN • Everything works on your device without an account • No ads, no tracking, no AI • Screenshots and screen recordings are blocked in the app, to help keep your playbook yours Roots Playbook is for coaches, players, parents and team staff. Accounts are for ages 13 and up; everything else works without one. Free for a limited time.