Tapper

Match stats by the people, for the people

One person on the sideline, tapping the pitch as the game runs. No crew, no camera rig, no training course. Just somebody who knows the game, watching it closely.

Game over? Stats done.

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Matches

All matches

How it works

One tap at a time.

Tapper runs on the phone or iPad in your hands. Watch the game, tap the screen.

Set up the matchTeam names, colours, half length. Thirty seconds before throw-in.
Tap which team has the ball, and whereThe pitch is the interface. Every tap is a possession event on a drawn pitch — no menus, no typing, very little looking down.
It saves as you goEvery event is written down the moment you tap it. Get called away, come back, pick up where you left off. No signal needed.
Full time — the stats are already thereNo writing up afterwards. Possession, chains, territory, scores. Export to CSV and it is yours.
Ask it what happenedBack online, run the analysis — possession patterns, momentum shifts, and a plain-language read of the game you can hand to a manager.

Evidence-based tactics is for spectators as much as for managers. This is citizen science, pointed at sport. The people who know a game best are already standing at it — parents, selectors, players carrying a knock, someone who has watched the same club for forty years. Tapper turns that attention into a record. Every match tapped is a match that would otherwise have gone unrecorded, and the record belongs to whoever made it. Tactical analysis becomes table stakes in this day and age. The stats evolve to measure a team's range of development across a season. The more games we tap the more we learn.

Sports

One grammar. Sport-shaped surfaces.

The way you tap never changes. Only the pitch markings, the scoring, and the restarts. We are honing the app with hurling and Gaelic football but football is ready for testing also.

Football

Association football. Goals, corners, goalkicks and offside mapped to the pitch.

In testing

Hurling

Puckouts, frees and the goals-and-points scoreline, in the grammar of the game.

In testing

Gaelic Football

Kickouts, the two-point arc, and the same possession chains.

In testing

Rugby Union

Scrums, lineouts, and try scoring on a union pitch.

In testing

Get access

Tapper is in private testing.

Leave your email and the sport you follow. Places go out a few at a time, so the feedback is worth something.

What happens next: nothing automatic. John reads these himself and replies — usually within a few days. If there is a place going for your sport, the reply carries a TestFlight invitation. If there is not yet, you will be told that too.