Built on the pool deck
Run the whole meet from one screen.
Paper meet sheets are write-once and unsearchable. Deck Buddy keeps the same at-a-glance shape a coach already reads — but every mark becomes data.
iPad on deck · phone for swimmers · computer for meet entry
Animated preview of the Deck Buddy coach screen: on the left, the heat racing now and the heat that just finished; on the right, the full meet sheet with the current heat highlighted. Places fill in as swimmers finish, then the heat rolls into Previous and the sheet advances to the next event.
Write-once
A meet sheet gets one clean pass, at the table, before the meet starts. Every mark after that — a DQ, a drop, a note about a rough start — gets squeezed into a margin or just remembered.
Unsearchable
Ask how your 9–10 girls did on turns this season and paper has no answer. The information exists. It's on forty sheets in a binder, if it's anywhere at all.
Gone by August
End of season, the binder goes in a box. Next year's coach starts from nothing — no history, no trend, no idea what the team actually needed to work on.
Anatomy of the deck
On deck
The next heat. Lane 1 to the highest lane, in an auto-sliding strip. Toggle between the whole heat and just your swimmers. Tap a card for that swimmer.
In the water
The heat racing now. Collapsed until you hit Start — starting expands it and arms tap-to-place. Heat nav on either side, a red End button, and it auto-advances once every lane has a time.
Previous
The heat that just finished. Shows heat place — full-event places wait until the whole event is done. Nothing about a finished heat is locked; it's still clickable.
Timing modes
Runs without a timing system today. With one, later.
No timing system Working now
Hit Start, then tap swimmers' names as they finish. Each tap assigns the next heat place. Heat place only, no times. No keyboard, no stopwatch, no typing — you can do it while watching the water.
- 1 Hit Start — the heat arms for tap-to-place.
- 2 Tap each swimmer's name as they touch the wall.
- 3 The heat closes itself once every lane has a place.
Connected to a timing system Planned
Deck Buddy can't talk to a timing system yet — it's a feature that comes later. When it lands, the timing system becomes the source of truth: places and times come from it and touchpad splits arrive on their own, leaving you with tagging and notes.
The tag engine
The part paper can never do.
Every tag you drop on deck rolls up automatically — team-wide, cut by age group, by stroke, and over time.
"Turns is our #1 issue across 9–10s."
That's Monday's practice plan. Watch the bar shrink after you coach it.
events parsed from a real championship program
entries in that program
lanes at champs
sheets of paper
Three surfaces
One system, built for where you're standing.
Coach deck
iPad recommended, phone works too
Standing, moving, wet hands, sun on the screen, between heats. Built for tap-to-place and big targets, not typing.
Swimmer side
Phone
Sitting under a canopy. Up next, results so far, best times, and a progression chart for the off day.
Meet entry
Computer or iPad
Sitting, keyboard available. Dense forms are fine here — this is where the program and results get loaded in.
Still being built, in the open
Recent updates.
The build keeps moving. Here's what's new, and what's shipping next.
Current build 0.0.M
LatestOn-deck view now keeps On deck, In the water and Previous visible at once; scratches and no-shows are tracked separately; results import merges straight onto a loaded program.
Next up: 0.1.A — coach & swimmer dashboards, meet sheet and notes. See the full changelog →