Coach's Eye was shut down by TechSmith in September 2022, and no update is coming back. If what you miss is the core review loop — record, slow down, step frame by frame, draw on the video, compare side by side, record spoken feedback — Coach Video Analysis rebuilds exactly that loop on iPhone, iPad, and Mac, without accounts, team-management overhead, or cloud uploads.
What happened to Coach's Eye
Coach's Eye was one of the first mobile video analysis apps and for a decade the default answer for youth coaches, PE teachers, and parents. TechSmith discontinued it in 2022; the app was pulled from the stores and its cloud sharing switched off. Since then, ex-users have split into two camps with different needs:
- Platform people want athlete rosters, cloud libraries, messaging, and remote coaching. Tools like Onform or CoachNow serve them — at platform prices, with accounts for every athlete.
- Tool people want what Coach's Eye actually was on the field: point the phone at the athlete, slow the video down, draw a line, show them, move on. That's the camp Coach Video Analysis is built for.
The Coach's Eye workflow, feature by feature
| What you did in Coach's Eye | How you do it in Coach Video Analysis |
|---|---|
| Slow motion review | Playback from 1/16× to 4×, adjustable per video |
| Frame-by-frame with the flywheel | Prev/next frame buttons — tap for one frame, hold to step continuously; velocity-tiered scrubbing on the timeline |
| Drawing: lines, arrows, angles | Markup: lines, freehand, three-point angle in degrees, reference lines, six colors, undo |
| Side-by-side comparison | Two videos, side by side, stacked, or overlaid, synced with one tap (Lock) |
| Timer / timing a movement | On-video stopwatch widget plus a tempo tool that reports phase ratios |
| Recorded video feedback (analysis with voice) | Annotate: records the screen with your drawings and your voice into an MP4 |
| Sharing flipbooks / stills | Kinogram and chronogram export: key frames as one image — something Coach's Eye never had |
| Export & share clips | Quick-save Clip button, MP4/GIF export, social-format aspect ratios |
What you gain that Coach's Eye didn't have
- True two-video sync. Link both clips to one timeline with a preserved offset, then play or frame-step them in lockstep.
- Kinograms and chronograms. Export the phases of a movement as one image — the format sprint and strength coaches use for technique review and progress records.
- Mirrored drawing. Draw an angle on one video and the same stroke appears on the second, so both athletes get the identical reference.
- External screen presentation. AirPlay or HDMI shows the team a clean, control-free picture while you drive from the device. See presenting on a TV.
- A Mac app. The same tool on your desk, with drag-and-drop import and keyboard shortcuts (arrow keys for frames, ⌘S for clips).
- Free AI skeleton overlay with sport presets and a live joint-angle graph.
What it deliberately doesn't do
No rosters, no athlete accounts, no cloud library, no messaging. Videos come from your Photos library and exports go back to it; sharing happens over whatever you already use — Messages, WhatsApp, AirDrop, email. If you need a team-management platform, pick one of the platform tools; if you need the fast field workflow Coach's Eye did best, this is the lighter, cheaper path — the app is about 10 MB and free to try.
Switching is a five-minute job
There's no library to migrate — your videos are already in Photos. Download Coach Video Analysis, load a video, and the old muscle memory maps straight over: slow it down, step to the position, Markup the angle, Annotate your feedback, Clip the highlight. Free to download on iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
