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Hockey WhiteBoard app for iPhone and iPad


4.0 ( 8880 ratings )
Sports
Developer: Ron DiNapoli
Free
Current version: 2.5, last update: 5 years ago
First release : 26 Mar 2009
App size: 7.69 Mb

Now built for iOS 7 and later with 64-bit support!

Hockey WhiteBoard is an application which allows you to display player and puck positioning as you would on a portable dry-erase hockey coachs white board. It is a universal application that works on the iPad, iPhone or iPod touch.

Simply drag the players and puck around with your fingertips as you explain to a player how to position themselves on the ice! You can utilize pinch/zoom/scroll/rotate gestures and controls to focus on any area of the ice youd like (or leave it at a full-ice display). Teams can be represented by a wide variety of colors and you can have any number of players on each team on the ice at any time. The letter designation on each player can be left at the default "position" letters OR you can put a custom letter/number combination (as many as three characters on the iPad, two on other iOS devices) to represent a players initials or their number. You also have the option of displaying a label (such as the players name) underneath the circle. Player positions, labels and designations can be saved for future recall. You can also save team data separately for use with multiple white boards. Originally released for the iPhone in March of 2009, it is one of the original applications of its kind! Its been totally re-written to take advantage of the latest and greatest features in iOS and to implement some of the great suggestions/feature requests received from users over the years!
Visit http://www.sandcrater.com for more information and to access the Hockey WhiteBoard user manual, support pages and responses to user feedback.

Need to draw lines on the white board? Activate one of the three drawing pens to draw different colored lines on the white board. By default the pens are red, green and blue but you have the option of changing the color of any given pen. To erase lines, simply use the erase control in the icon palette. iPhone and iPod touch users can also give the device a good shake to clear the lines.

Want to show where a player came from when moved? Turn on the "trailing lines" feature and a narrow line will be drawn along the path that each player is moved. This illustrates where the player "came from" before that player reached their current position.

Configuring Hockey WhiteBoard is as easy as double tapping anywhere on the ice (for iPhone and iPod touch users) or simply using the on screen controls to the side of the ice surface (for iPad users). The controls area is where you set the number of players on the ice, team colors, the trailing lines function and is where you go to save the current whiteboard and load previously saved ones.

Hockey WhiteBoard supports some of the latest features in iOS such as iCloud! Team data and white board data can optionally be saved to iCloud allowing you to access them from any of your iOS devices. The same data can be easily edited from both an iPad and an iPhone/iPod touch with ease and without loss of precision. Other more recent iOS features such as support for retina displays, printing to AirPrint printers and utilizing screen mirroring through AirPlay are supported.

Hockey WhiteBoard allows you to use your iPhone, iPod touch or iPad as a tool to help teach players of any age. Younger players are drawn in to the high-tech solution and will not be as easily distracted when compared to using a traditional white/clip board. Not on the ice? Use Hockey WhiteBoard to set up a scenario and then ask your players to move the dots to the right position! It can be used as a teaching tool both on and off the bench.

Pros and cons of Hockey WhiteBoard app for iPhone and iPad

Hockey WhiteBoard app good for

How do u not like this???? You can do everything!!u can save and draw stuff and everything. Just 2 things: eraser and the ability to make the little dots ( players) to follow the plays/ drills you write.
Great App. Can use it on the bus for 1 on 1s with the players. Would love to see more hockey coach tools like this!
Great app! Very cool for coaches of all levels! Please consider adding animation. That will help distinguish this from blackboards and clipboards. Well worth the $0.99! Looking forward to updates!
There should be an update where you can toggle a trail on the players so you can show where they are going and puck passes ect. Other than that good app.
Awesome app! I would highly recomend coaches and players!!!!!
It looks like the latest version fixed the crashing issue. The app works as advertised. Great

Some bad moments

Also, the players are too big for full ice mode. I tried to set up a blue line face off and the guys were so big they take up too much space to fit properly. And you should be able to zoom by pinching. Also, trying to get a hold of a player is commonly misinterpreted as a double tap(opening the menu). Make it a triple tap or something distinct. And when half ice is selected, assume people are going to tilt the screen, and rotate the letters. Nobody looks at ice from the side.
would be better if you had the app showed the puck travel (perhaps a different colour).If your could show movement ie. the player doing a curl and getting the puck I would pay alot more than $.99
Make a practice option so that all players can be one colour and directional arrows can be used. This can allow a coach to draw up and save practice drills. That is more of what I was looking for.
The ice background image is low quality and the drawing line colour is ugly. Players/ice are not to proper scale. This is far from a valuable coaching tool. I dont recommend this app at all.
Its crashing on my iPhone too (3GS updated to iOS4). It worked before.
The last time this app worked was two versions ago. I used to use this regularly but now can not. As of now, all this does is try to boot. Fix the app and I will rate higher