Built for iPad
Every kid deserves a broadcast.
One iPad becomes a broadcast booth: a real scoreboard burned into the picture, instant replays, and your own clips — intros, player highlights, sponsor spots — rolled in live. Yeah, I know. This is awesome.
Do it all on the iPad — or add a phone to run the score
One person can run it. Two is easier. Pair a phone and somebody on the bench keeps the clock while you stay on the play.
Why this exists
Built by a hockey dad, for hockey dads…
…(and all sports parents).
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
- Hockey
- Basketball
- Soccer
- Football
- Lacrosse
- Baseball
See it
Film your league games like a professional broadcast.
This is the whole thing, on one screen, while you film. Not a settings page you set up beforehand — the score, the clock, the replays and your clips are all under your thumbs during the game. Every frame below came straight out of the app with the scoreboard already burned into the picture.
Across the top
Clips and Replays open their bins. Grab Replay takes the last ten seconds. Go Live starts the stream, Board hides the scoreboard for a moment, Setup is everything else. The recording timer and the live mic meters sit to the left, so you can see the audio is really arriving.
Down the sides
Score for each team, big enough to hit without looking. Under them, whatever that sport actually tracks — shots, penalties and the power play for hockey and lacrosse, downs and timeouts for football, timeouts for basketball, and the bases, the count and the pitch count for baseball.
Along the bottom
The clock, with −10 and +10 for when you were late on the whistle, the period button, and record. Nothing is more than one tap away, because a menu during a game is a goal you missed.
How it stacks up
The most features, for the least money.
Priced against the other apps that put a scoreboard on youth sports video. Same job, on the iPad you already own, for a quarter of what the closest one charges to unlock everything.
| DadSportsNetwork | ScoreCam | GameChanger | sidelineHD | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Per year, everything unlocked | $24.99 | $99.99 | $99.99 | $35.99 |
| Scoreboard burned into the video | Yes — five designs | Yes | Yes — one overlay | — |
| Your names, colours and crest | Included | Top tier only | — | — |
| Instant replay while you film | Yes | Yes | — | — |
| Roll your own clips mid‑game | Yes — intros, player cards, sponsors | — | — | — |
| A clean second file, no graphics | Yes | — | — | — |
| Phone as a scoreboard remote | Yes | Yes | — | — |
| Account required | No | — | Yes | Yes |
Competitor pricing checked August 2026 from each company’s own published material and App Store listings. Each figure is the cost to unlock everything that company offers for a year: ScoreCam’s Branding + Live Stream tier, GameChanger’s Premium tier, sidelineHD’s sidelinePRO. All three have a free or cheaper tier that does less. Blank cells mean we could not confirm the feature either way, not that it is missing. If any of this goes out of date, tell us and we will fix it.
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. Five board designs — Classic Broadcast, The Rail, The Stack, The Gridiron and The Marquee — 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.
Load a player's profile card, a sponsor spot or an intro before the game, then roll it from the bench when the moment comes — after a goal, at the half, on the whistle. The scoreboard steps aside while it plays and comes back when it's done. Clips stay on the iPad all season.
Save teams with their colors and logos 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.
Paste your stream key once and go live to your own channel at 1080p, scoreboard and all. No subscriber minimum, no approval step — the grandparents watch the game as it happens instead of a file three days later.
An iPhone becomes the scoreboard remote. One person shoots, another runs the clock and the score from the bench — or you run both yourself and just keep the camera steady.
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.
What it costs
Free to film. Pro to make it yours.
- One sport — the one you pick on first launch
- HOME and AWAY, stock colours
- Classic Broadcast board
- Records your game, with the DSN mark
- All six sports
- Your team names, colours and logos
- Five board designs
- Instant replays and your own clips
- Live streaming to YouTube
- Save teams to your library
- A clean second file with no graphics
- Remove or replace the DSN mark
$4.99 a month if you would rather. Cancel any time; nothing you have recorded is ever deleted, and the board goes back to Classic Broadcast.
Free on the App Store. Pro is a 7-day trial, then $24.99 a year — cancel any 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
Youth sports deserves better than a phone held sideways.
On the iPad you already own. Free to film, and Pro is seven days free before it costs anything.