Our own products CoachBook (a coaching journal app for tennis coaches) and MatchLog (a match-logging and analysis app for tennis players) now work together, starting with version 2.0.0 of both apps.
Until now, getting a match a player had logged into the coach’s hands meant going through a messaging app or email — and the coach then had to retype what arrived. With this integration, a player’s records feed straight into the coaching cycle.
Connect by invite code or QR code
Linking a coach and a player is done with an invite code or a QR code. The coach issues a code in CoachBook, the player scans it in MatchLog, and that’s it — no searching for accounts, no exchanging email addresses.
Match reports land in the coach’s inbox
Match reports a player logs in MatchLog can be sent straight to the coach from within the app. On the coach’s side, reports arrive in an inbox to be reviewed, and once approved they’re saved into that player’s match records in CoachBook. Because nothing is imported until the coach reviews it, there’s no risk of records being overwritten unintentionally.
Feedback lands in the player’s Coach tab
Feedback sent by the coach arrives in the player’s MatchLog with a notification. It all collects in the new Coach tab, so it can be read again any time — before practice, or before the next match — instead of getting buried in a chat history.
Names and avatars sync automatically
The display name and avatar a player sets in MatchLog sync automatically to the coach’s CoachBook. There’s no roster for the coach to retype.
The story behind it
CoachBook was built for the coaching side and MatchLog for the playing side, and until now they were developed separately. As people used them in earnest, a shared problem surfaced: the same match was being kept twice, once in the coach’s hands and once in the player’s. That’s what led to this integration.
Rather than forcing two apps with different roles into one, we connected them so that only the information that needs to move actually moves. As a design principle, that’s no different from integrating business systems. The instincts we’ve built up through years of contract development go straight into our own products.
Both apps are available on the App Store. For details, see the CoachBook and MatchLog pages. If you’d like to talk about an app project, get in touch any time.