How to use Spiral AI
Every tool, in the order you'll use it: test a play in the Matchup Lab, draw it in Playbuilder, plan the week, and call it on game day.
Matchup Lab
Put any offensive concept against any defense and see who wins, route by route.
- Pick the matchup
- Choose Pass or Run. For a pass play, pick a formation, a concept and a coverage. For a run, pick a run scheme and a front.
- Read the verdict
- Coach Says and the matchup verdict tell you whether the concept beats the coverage, why, and what to adjust if it doesn’t.
- Routes and zones
- Toggle Routes and Zones to show or hide the route paths and the zone shells. Use the hash buttons to move the ball to the left hash, the middle or the right hash.
- Watch it run
- Press Play to animate the snap: routes run and defenders drop into their zones.
- First-down line
- Drag the 1ST handle to set the line to gain.
Playbuilder
The whiteboard. Draw plays, animate them and print them for the field.
- Set up your team
- Your first visit asks who you’re coaching: a team name, 7-on-7 or 11-on-11, and your colors. Choose “Just exploring, skip for now” to go straight to the board.
- Level
- Use the Level selector in the toolbar to choose your level. The field size and player count adjust automatically.
- Select
- Press and drag any player to reposition them.
- Route
- Tap a player, then drag to draw a route, or pick a route from the route picker.
- Block
- Tap a blocker, then tap the target to draw the blocking assignment.
- Text
- Add labels and coaching notes right on the field.
- Run It
- Watch every player run their assignment. Use Speed to slow it down for a walkthrough or speed it up for a quick check.
- Save Play
- Save the play to your team’s playbook. Undo, Redo, Flip play and Clear board are in the toolbar too.
- SmartCoach
- The SmartCoach menu has Play Templates, Ask SmartCoach for play suggestions and coaching questions, Team Setup, Depth Charts and a Season Plan.
- Share and print
- Export image saves the play as a picture, Share play sends a link, and the print buttons make wristband cards and scout cards.
Offense and Defense libraries
Every scheme, drawn on a real field and explained in plain football.
- Offense library
- 20 passing concepts, 10 formations, 10 run schemes and 7 systems, with animated routes and blocking.
- Defense library
- 26 coverages, 10 fronts and 8 stunts. Tap a defender to see his zone or gap responsibility.
- Detail pages
- Each scheme has its own page with the diagram, what it does well and where it’s vulnerable. Test any of them in the Matchup Lab.
Playbook
Your team’s saved plays in one place.
- Find a play
- Every play you save in Playbuilder lands here.
- Back to the board
- Tap a play to pull it back onto the whiteboard for practice or a game.
- Export and import
- Use Export playbook and Import playbook in the Playbuilder toolbar to move a whole playbook between devices.
Game Plan & Wristbands
Call sheets organized by down and distance, ready to print.
- New game plan
- Start a plan for your next opponent, then add plays from your playbook to each situation.
- Call sheets
- Slot plays by down and distance so the right call is where you look for it.
- Wristbands
- Turn your calls into wristband cards for your quarterback, then print them.
- Export the call sheet as a print-ready PDF.
Game Day
Sideline charting: a phone-first play caller with big buttons.
- Kick off
- Enter your opponent and tap Kick off to start charting.
- Call and log
- Every play you call is logged automatically, with down, distance and field position.
- Game log
- Review the game log after the whistle, and open your season history from the start screen.
Scout & Tendencies
Know the opponent, and know yourself.
- Scout
- Import opponent film or stills and get a breakdown of their formations and tendencies, with suggested counters.
- Tendencies
- Self-scout your own calls: chart plays, tag outcomes, and filter by formation and situation to find what actually works.
Practice
Practice plans in minutes, plus a drill board.
- Start from a template
- Pick a built-in practice plan organized by focus area, then make it yours.
- Edit periods
- Change any period’s name, duration, drills and coaching notes, and reorder the periods.
- Print a clean one-pager for every coach on staff. Switch print themes for different printers.
- Drill board
- Draw cone setups, movement lines and labels, save drills to your library and reuse them in any plan.
Learn: Flashcards, Study Guide, Football 101
Study the game at your own pace.
- Flashcards
- Flashcard decks and timed quizzes across 7 categories: coverages, fronts, concepts, formations and more.
- Study Guide
- Step-by-step walkthroughs of every coverage, front, stunt, concept, formation and run scheme.
- Football 101
- A primer on personnel groupings, how the game has changed, and how to read a defense before the snap.
- Articles
- Longer reads on schemes and coaching.
Virtual Reps
See the offense from the defender’s eyes, in 3D, in your browser.
- Pick a spot
- Stand where the corner, safety, linebacker or defensive lineman stands.
- Read the formation
- See exactly how the offense lines up and practice recognizing it before the snap.
Team & sharing
Your team is the anchor for plays, practice plans, game plans and self-scout.
- Team page
- Manage your roster, staff, season and depth chart.
- Switch teams
- Coaching more than one team? Pick the active team on the Coaching page.
- Share a team
- Share Team saves your team as a single -spiral.json file. Text or AirDrop it to parents and players; no account needed.
- Import a team
- Got a team file from your coach? Import it on the Coaching page. It’s added alongside your other teams.
- Player View and Parent Mode
- Parent Mode explains what your kid’s position does in plain English. Player View puts the team’s plays on each player’s phone.
Danger zone
Reset everything
Start fresh by clearing all saved data on this device: plays, teams, practice plans, drills and preferences. This cannot be undone.