Built for youth, flag, 7v7 & tackle coaches

Design plays.
Coach the whole season.

Design plays, plan practices with Coach Cal, keep your team in sync, and take your playbook to the sideline — from any device.

Web, iPhone & Android

A 7v7 playbook in XO Gridmaker — a two-column grid of play cards with route diagrams
Every screen

Your playbook goes
where you coach.

Draw it up at the kitchen table, teach it from a tablet, and pull up the call on your phone between series. XO Gridmaker works on the web, iPhone, and Android, with offline playbooks ready when the field has no signal.

Playbook on a tablet
A play open on a phone

Try 10 prompts free · included with Team Coach

An assistant coach who
knows your playbook.

Ask Coach Cal to create plays, explain reads, build practices, or help prepare for an opponent. The results live inside the same playbook your team uses.

Coach Cal creates a Smash play to beat Cover 2 and explains the quarterback's read

Free team operations · No coach left behind

Run the season without another spreadsheet.

The calendar, roster, and team comms stay beside your playbook — free. RSVPs, automatic reminders, and player access mean fewer group texts and fewer last-minute surprises.

Schedule the season

Practices, games, scrimmages — with arrival times, locations, and one-tap directions. RSVPs roll up so you know who's coming before you load the cooler.

  • Reminders go out automatically
  • Embedded maps + Apple/Google Calendar feed

Roster, in one place

Names, jersey numbers, and positions — kept current without spreadsheets. Coaches and players see the same source of truth.

  • Free for every coach, no per-seat fees

Players and parents in the loop

Invite unlimited players and parents to view the playbook and schedule from any phone. They see what's coming next without texts and screenshots.

  • Owner-controlled — disable, approve, or open

Free, forever

Start free. Upgrade when your team needs more.

One playbook with up to 8 plays is free, forever. Call sheets print free. The team calendar, player invites, and roster are all yours — upgrade to Team Coach when you want wristbands, bigger playbooks, and assistant-coach collaboration.

  • Up to 8 plays in your own playbook
  • Full editor — routes, formations, tags
  • Team calendar — practices, games, scrimmages with player RSVPs
  • Invite unlimited players + parents — playbook and schedule on every phone
  • Try Coach Cal with 10 free prompts
  • Print call sheets to PDF
See it live

See what you can build.
Open one, poke around.

These are actual xogridmaker playbooks built by coaches. Every play opens in the real editor, every formation is live, every wristband is printable. Click in and tinker — nothing you do here is saved.

Printed call sheet and four wristbands on the field — generated from a real xogridmaker playbook
Print-ready

From screen
to wristband.

One-click PDFs sized for wristbands, call sheets, and the bench-side binder. Numbering, formations, and tags all carry through so the printout reads just like the app.

Every example playbook has a live print preview — try one.

Single wristband card generated from a real example playbook

4-across wristband layout — generated from your call sheet.

Call sheet generated from a real example playbook

Full call sheet — group by situation or personnel.

Football Library

Learn the game
while you build playbooks.

A free, public library of football concepts — plays, formations, routes, defenses, drills, and practice plans. Each concept page renders the play in the same editor you'd use to design it, with coaching cues and an “Add to my playbook” button.

Browse the library

Each concept page renders in the same play editor that powers the builder — same diagrams, same coaching cues.

Built by a coach

Built by a youth football coach
for youth football coaches.

xogridmaker is built by an active flag, youth tackle, and 7v7 coach. Every feature exists because a real practice, a real game, or a real drive home from the field demanded it.

Read the story
xogridmaker

Build the plan. Bring it to the field.

Start free, draw your first play in minutes, and take it anywhere your team goes.