Sideline.
The Fieldhouse,
on iPhone.
Same calendar, same RSVPs, same sponsors — built native for the place you actually use it. Lock-screen live scores. Home-screen widget. Offline-cached game day. Push the second a practice moves.
Always free for parents and players. No ads, ever.
Same Fieldhouse. Different door.
“The Fieldhouse” was already taken on the App Store, and Apple frowns on apps with the word “app” in the name. So the iPhone build goes by Sideline on the listing.
Once you install it, it’s the same product you signed up for on the web. Same login, same teams, same kids, same RSVPs. We named it Sideline because that’s where parents and coaches actually use it — not at a desk.
▎ On the web
The Fieldhouse
Org admin, branding, sponsor approvals, season setup. The full keyboard-and-mouse workflow.
On iPhone ▎
Fieldhouse Sideline
Live scores on your lock screen, RSVPs in two taps, the home-screen widget, offline-cached schedule.
▎ Made for the sideline
Things only the iPhone can do.
Sideline isn’t a wrapped web app — it’s a native SwiftUI build that uses the parts of iPhone that earn their keep on game day.
The score on grandma's lock screen.
Coach taps Go live. Every parent and grandparent watching from home sees the score climb in real time on the iPhone Lock Screen and Dynamic Island. Final · 3-2 · before anyone reaches the parking lot.
Next event, on the home screen.
The next game or practice on your home screen — what, where, when, and how long until kickoff. Long-press to pick which kid or team it tracks.
Practice moved an hour ago. You'd already know.
Push notifications for schedule changes, RSVPs, snack and carpool updates, and live-game starts. Per-team mute, master opt-out, and a 30-second debounce so a chatty coach doesn't buzz you four times in a row.
The sideline doesn't always have signal.
The schedule, the roster, the next event, your kid's allergies — all cached locally. The app group entitlement means the widget reads the same cache the main app writes. Bus through a dead zone? Calendar still works.
Tap an invite. Land in the right place.
Coach sends a parent invite, grandma gets a follow link, league shares the team page — every URL opens straight into the right screen in Sideline. No copy-paste, no “open in browser instead.”
Tracking off. By default, by design.
Declared in PrivacyInfo.xcprivacy: no IDFA, no SDK telemetry, no third-party advertising. Photos parents upload have GPS and camera metadata stripped server-side before storage.
Already a Fieldhouse user?
Sign in with the same email. Your teams, kids, and RSVPs are right where you left them.
▎ Everything else, built in
Plus all of The Fieldhouse you already pay nothing for.
Sideline isn’t a stripped-down companion. Every feature parents and coaches use on the web is here, just shaped for tapping on a sideline at 11°F.
RSVPs in two taps
Going / Maybe / Not going, per kid, per event. Coach sees the tally before the bus rolls.
Carpool board
Offer a ride or claim a seat. Driver phone gated until the seat is confirmed. Tap-to-call when it is.
Snack volunteer rotation
"I'll bring it" with optional notes. Coach + every Going parent gets pinged so the team knows snacks are covered.
Team chat without the spam
Per-team thread. 30-second debounce on push fan-out so four messages in a row don't buzz four times.
Score-keeper delegate
Coach can't make it? Hand the keys to a parent on the roster — for that single game only.
Read-only follow links
Send grandma a link. She gets the schedule, the widget, the live game. Never the RSVP power.
CSV season import
Files-pick the schedule. We parse, fuzzy-match locations, flag duplicates, and let you fix anything weird.
Allergies + emergency contact
Per-kid, parent-controlled. Allergies surface above snack signups. EC stays parent-only until you flip the toggle.
Family-tier dashboard
Up to eight kids' schedules. Cross-team rollup so your Saturday makes sense at a glance.
▎ How to get it
Three taps to a calmer Saturday.
Sideline is currently in TestFlight while we collect real-world game-day usage from parents and coaches. Free, of course — and we’ll move to the public App Store once feedback settles.
Open the TestFlight invite ↗Tap from your iPhone. On a desktop? It’ll show install steps to scan or AirDrop to your phone.
- 1
Install TestFlight (one time)
Apple's free beta-app installer. Skip if you already have it.
- 2
Tap our invite link
Opens TestFlight straight to the Sideline install page.
- 3
Sign in or sign up free
Use the same email as your web account, or create one fresh. Family tier is free, forever.
- 4
Add a kid, add a schedule
Or paste an invite link from a coach. You're done.
A few honest answers.
Wait — is Sideline a different product?
Nope. Sideline is the iPhone build of The Fieldhouse — same backend, same login, same data. The only thing different is the App Store listing name, because “The Fieldhouse”was already taken and Apple discourages putting the word “app” in app names. Once you install it, you’ll never see “Sideline” again.
Do I need both?
Most parents and coaches end up living in Sideline because it’s where game day actually happens. The web app is great for setup, branding, sponsor approvals, and any keyboard-heavy work — but the iPhone is where the season is. You can use just one or both freely.
What does it cost?
Sideline is free for parents and players, like everything else. Coaches and orgs running paid tiers (Club $11.99/mo, School $98.99/mo) can manage their subscription right in the iPhone app via Apple StoreKit, or on the web via Metahuman Network — same prices either way.
Are there ads in Sideline?
Never. Same policy as the web — no third-party ads anywhere, no SDK telemetry, no IDFA, no advertising identifiers sold. The only paid placements anywhere are sponsors that a team’s admin or coach explicitly approved for that team’s own page.
Android?
On the roadmap, after Sideline hits 1.0 on the App Store. We didn’t want to ship two okay apps; we wanted to ship one really good one first.
Same season. Different door.
Open The Fieldhouse on the web. Open Sideline on iPhone. Same calendar, same kids, same Saturday.