Built for iPad
Every kid deserves a broadcast.
DadSportsNetwork turns one iPad into a broadcast booth. A real scoreboard burns into the picture while you film — score, clock, period, penalties — so the game you hand around actually looks like a game.
No account. No cloud. No tracking. Your footage is written to your iPad and stays there.
Program feed1080p
Burned in, not stuck on. The scoreboard is part of the video file the moment you stop recording. Nothing to edit in afterward.
Why this exists
Built by a hockey dad, for hockey dads.
I've stood in a cold rink at 6 a.m. holding a phone sideways, and what I got back was two hours of shaky video where you can't tell who's winning, what period it is, or whether that goal was the one everybody stood up for.
That's not a game. That's footage. So I built the thing I wanted in my hands: one iPad, one tripod, and a broadcast that a grandmother in another state can watch and follow. Youth sports has been filmed like an afterthought for twenty years. It deserves better than a phone held sideways.
Kyle — founder · Scottsdale, Arizona
The rundown
What it does on game day.
Everything happens live, in the picture, while you film. There is no export step and nothing to render when the game ends.
Score, clock, period, penalties and power plays render into the frame in real time. Four board designs, your team colors, your logos. What you record is exactly what everyone else sees.
The buffer is always rolling — there is nothing to arm. Tap once and the last ten seconds come back with a DSN transition on both ends, then cut back to live when you're ready. A replay you had to remember to switch on is a replay you missed.
Save teams with their colors and crests and load them again next weekend. Drop a sponsor's logo in the corner and it stays there all game — the people paying for the ice get seen.
Record the broadcast with the graphics burned in and a clean copy without them, on the same timeline — so an editor can re-cut the game later without fighting a scoreboard that's already baked in.
The most common way a sports app fails is at the very end: it doesn't save. DSN writes the file itself, keeps it on the iPad, and drops a copy into Photos. Two places, every time.
Records from the iPad's microphone or from a mic you plug in, so you can put a commentator on the game instead of eight rows of crowd noise.
- Hockey
- Basketball
- Soccer
- Football
- Lacrosse
Five sports, one app. The clock, the segments and the stats change with the sport — periods, quarters or halves, counting up or down, the way that sport actually keeps time.
On purpose
What it doesn't do.
A camera app that films children has no business collecting anything. So it doesn't. Everything below is a design decision, not a feature we haven't gotten to.
- account to create, and no password to forget
- cloud upload — your video never leaves the iPad on its own
- analytics, trackers or advertising SDKs
- access to your photo library — the app can only add to it
- data sold, shared or handed to anybody
In build
What's coming next.
Listed here because it isn't in the app yet. When it ships, it ships — we're not going to sell you a screenshot of something that doesn't exist.
Youth sports deserves better than a phone held sideways.
DadSportsNetwork is in active development on iPad. Questions, feature requests, or want to test it with your team?