Outside the professional game, most of the people around a rugby team carry an Android phone, and most rugby app guides are written as if everyone has an iPhone. An Android phone can do four jobs in analysis: film the match, watch the clips afterwards, keep the stats live, and review a skill on video. No single app does all four, and the live-tagging apps that feed desktop software are mostly missing from Android altogether. For most teams the best option is Framesports, which needs no app. For the rest, we went through the Play Store in September 2026 and noted when each app was last updated, because an app that has gone quiet is a risk on a match morning. We wrote the iPad and iPhone version last week; the Android picture is different enough to need its own page.
The best option: Framesports, with no app to install
Framesports runs in Chrome on an Android phone. Film the match on the phone, upload it straight from there or paste a link to where the footage already sits, and it comes back tagged, with clips and player stats. Nobody tags anything on the touchline. Players on the team sheet get their own clips by WhatsApp and email as soon as the analysis finishes, so nobody needs another login, and the same site works on a laptop, including a Chromebook. It is priced for a school or team rather than a professional programme.
If you want to watch a platform’s video, keep your own stats or work on technique, these are the Android apps worth knowing.
Watching your team’s video: the platform apps
Every big platform has a free Android app for players and staff to watch what has been produced on it. Hudl’s app has been downloaded more than a million times and was updated this month, though it is poorly rated on the Play Store, with a score around two stars from nearly twenty thousand reviews. Nacsport Hub was also updated this month and carries the video, analyses and presentations from Nacsport. Catapult’s Hub does the same for its tools, on a much smaller user base, and was last updated a year ago. Coach Logic’s Android app was last updated in November 2023. Metrica’s Nexus Mobile has arrived on Android as a companion to its desktop software, for receiving clips on the bench rather than making them.
Each of these is only useful if your analysis already lives on that platform, and each asks every player to download and log in to something new. Framesports sends clips by WhatsApp and email instead, so players have nothing to install.
Live tagging: mostly not on Android
This is where Android falls behind. The apps that let someone on the touchline tag events for desktop software are almost all iPhone and iPad apps: Nacsport’s Tag&view, Performa Sports and iCODA are Apple only, and Metrica’s Android app is for reviewing clips, not logging them. If live tagging matters to you, it is a reason to borrow an iPad, or a reason to let the tagging be done after the match by someone else.
Stat-taking apps
If you want numbers rather than video, Scorebook for Sports Leagues has a rugby template that records points, tries, kicks, tackles, lineouts, scrums and penalties and exports the totals, and it was updated last October. RecLeague’s scorebook app tracks rugby scores and stats and shares totals and averages. The rugby-specific scorebooks, Rugby+ Match Stats and Rugby Scorebook+, are iPhone apps.
The caveat is the same on any phone. The numbers are only as good as the person tapping, one person cannot watch a ruck and log a tackle at the same moment, and none of these apps links a stat to the clip that proves it.
Video review and drawing
For technique work on a single clip, a lineout throw or a tackle entry, the coaching video apps are well made and both run on Android. CoachNow does video feedback with slow motion, drawing, voice-overs and AI skeleton tracking, has more than a hundred thousand downloads and was updated this month. OnForm offers slow motion, drawing, side-by-side comparison and voice-over, and its coach app only came to Android in 2025. Dartfish’s myDartfish Express covers the same ground on Android but is poorly rated there, at around two stars.
These apps are built for one movement filmed up close. They are the wrong tool for an eighty-minute match.
Filming on an Android phone
The phone itself is the most useful analysis device most teams own, as long as it is used properly: on a tripod at the halfway line, as high as you can get, at 1080p rather than 4K so it does not overheat or fill up, with a power bank in your pocket. How to film a rugby match for analysis has the full set of rules. Once the match is filmed, the upload to Framesports can start from the phone before you have left the ground.
Which to choose
- You want full-match analysis without anyone tagging on the touchline: Framesports, the best option for most teams. The cheapest way to get rugby analysis done compares it with the other routes.
- Your analysis already lives on Hudl, Nacsport, Catapult or Coach Logic: that vendor’s Android app, having checked its last update date and its rating first.
- You want live tagging on the touchline: an iPad, because Android does not have those apps.
- You want match stats without video: Scorebook for Sports Leagues, and accept that the numbers will be rough.
- You are coaching one skill at a time: CoachNow or OnForm.
Hero photo: Océanos y datos, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.
