What's new

1.5.0

20 September 2026

Added

• Equipment goes on the board: cones, tires, nets, sleds, hurdles, ladders and spot markers, plus what each sport actually wheels out. Pick one from the drawing palette and tap the surface; it stays picked, so a line of six cones is six taps.
• A pile of pucks can be dropped in the corner for a shooting drill. It is one thing on the board, so it drags in one go and cannot be pulled apart by accident.
• Rectangle and triangle zones can be drawn, resized, coloured and shaded with diagonal lines, so a forecheck area and a no-go area do not read as the same wash of purple — on screen or printed.
• A net you place is the same cage the rink already paints at its goal lines, and anything on the surface can be turned a quarter turn at a time.
• Equipment shows on play cards in My Plays, as it does on the board.
• A coach can be placed on the board without being faked as a roster player.
• A Settings screen, with line smoothing, language and which side the drawing tools sit on, each showing its current value.
• Freehand lines are steadied as you draw them, at a strength you choose.
• A play that needs a newer version of the app opens read-only and says which version, instead of letting you edit into a save that will be refused.

Changed

• The drawing palette is in three named groups that fold away, so a coach running a cone drill is not scrolling past seven route tools to reach a cone. What you fold is remembered.
• Volleyball no longer offers a carry tool. Carrying is a fault, so the palette was naming something that cannot legally happen.
• The app stays landscape on Android 16 large screens, which would otherwise ignore the orientation lock.

Fixed

• A saved session no longer comes back thinner than it went in. After a restart the app forgot your avatar, your language and whether your email was verified.
• A play holding more than one puck no longer loses all but the first when it is opened, and then loses it for good on the next save.
• The drawing tools can be reached on a short screen, and are shown at every window width. Below a certain width the palette was hidden entirely, and nothing else offers the tools.
• Leaving with the back button asks before throwing away an unsaved play, and offers to save it.
• The toolbar, the arrows panel and the notes header no longer overflow — including in Spanish and French, and on common tablet widths in English.
• Folding, unfolding or rotating a device no longer slides the view across the surface while zoomed in.
• The navigation rail and canvas no longer sit underneath the Android system bars on Android 15 and later.
• The sport picker no longer opens with the keyboard covering the list of sports.
• Your avatar no longer turns into a blank circle after changing the language.

1.4.0

7 September 2026

Added

• A coach or NPC marker can be placed on the board alongside players.
• Routes can smooth automatically as you draw, not just after.
• Avatar and team logo uploads let you choose the crop.

Changed

• The visibility badge shows the team's actual name, not just "Team."
• "What's new" now opens this page in your browser instead of a screen inside the app.

Fixed

• Volleyball no longer offers a tool it doesn't use.
• The arrows panel no longer overflows its rows.
• Tokens no longer spawn underneath a coach marker.
• The designer's toolbar no longer overflows in some languages.
• The navigation rail stays clear of the system bars.
• The canvas stays put when the window or screen resizes.
• BlueBinder stays in landscape on Android 16 large screens.
• Email validation opens correctly from the account page.

1.3.1

28 August 2026

Added

• Freehand routes can be smoothed, so a shaky line still reads as the shape you meant.
• Notes can be written before a play is saved.
• My Plays shows which plays have notes.

Changed

• Avatars upload as JPEG, so they're much smaller and quicker.
• Removed the default line-style picker, which didn't affect anything.

Fixed

• Drawing stays on the playing surface instead of running off it.
• Notes history opens when a play has no notes yet.
• Team names refresh when you come back to the designer, so a renamed team isn't stale.
• The arrow list's notation menu no longer overflows its panel.
• Sport icons for lacrosse, volleyball and football.
• Player shapes for basketball, soccer and football.

1.3.0

23 August 2026

Changed

• Reworked interface and a new colour scheme throughout.
• Plays are stored in field measurements rather than screen pixels, so a play drawn on one device looks the same on another.
• Announcements refresh when the app comes back to the foreground.

Fixed

• Choosing which team a play is visible to.
• A crash when a message appeared at the wrong moment.
• Avatar and team logo upload.
• Images no longer spill outside their frame.
• The radius of the net on the hockey rink.

1.2.1

13 August 2026

Changed

• The admin panel is available on every platform.

Fixed

• The "session expired" prompt no longer keeps reappearing after you sign back in.

1.2.0

12 July 2026

Added

• A countdown when a play is animating.
• The visibility badge appears as soon as a play loads.

Changed

• Drawing is noticeably faster on a busy board.

Fixed

• Saving a play with a name you've already used explains itself.
• Routes stay attached to their player across a save and reload.

1.1.0

20 June 2026

Added

• The app follows your device language.

Changed

• Phone-sized screens are no longer supported; BlueBinder is built for tablets.

1.0.0

12 June 2026

First release — the play designer, formations, practices, teams and sharing.