The best option for keeping rugby stats is Framesports, and it needs no app: you send the match footage and it comes back with the stats worked out, so nobody spends the game tapping a phone. If you would rather tap them in yourself, here are the best rugby stats apps in 2026, which ones have gone quiet, and the free ways to keep stats with no app at all.
What a stats app can and cannot do
Every stats app works the same way: someone on the touchline taps each event as it happens. One person can keep up with the scoring, the cards and the set piece, but nobody can log every tackle for thirty players live, so coaches on the Sportplan forum advise keeping touchline stats to the basics. Decide which numbers you need first; our guide to rugby metrics that matter helps.
1. Framesports: the best option, with no app to tap
Best for: teams that want every stat without anyone missing the match to collect them.
Framesports is not a tap-along app. You upload the match, or paste a link from a Veo, a Hudl account, YouTube or Google Drive, and it comes back with every tackle, carry, ruck, kick and set piece tagged and the stats worked out. Because the stats come from the footage, every player also gets their own clips by WhatsApp or email.
- No app, and nobody tapping on the touchline
- Tackles, carries, rucks, kicks and set piece, for the team and every player
- Clips of each player’s moments alongside the numbers
- The first ten minutes of your first match are analysed free, and there is a free trial
- Priced for a school or team rather than a professional programme
2. Rugby Scorebook+: the widest stat list, free
Best for: more than the score, free, on an iPhone or iPad.
Rugby Scorebook+ is free and records more than any other maintained app we found: tries, conversions, penalty and drop goals, lineouts, tackles, passes, turnovers, kicks and penalties. It keeps a play-by-play log, tracks a season and exports to CSV. It is iPhone and iPad only, built with American college rugby in mind, and has hardly any ratings yet. Last updated March 2026.
3. Rugby+ Match Stats Scorebook: each player’s season
Best for: a coach who wants a season record for every player.
Rugby+ is free, with a lifetime unlock for about fifteen pounds. It logs tackles, missed tackles, penalties, scrums, lineouts, turnovers and tries for each of your players, in union or league, and backs everything up to a file. It records the opposition only as a name, and works more as a log you fill in after the game than a live tracker. iPhone and iPad only, updated September 2026.
4. Assistant Coach Rugby: one app for the whole season
Best for: a coach who wants team admin and stats in one place.
Assistant Coach Rugby costs under five pounds, once, and has been going since 2012. It covers union, league and sevens: squads, game logs, player and team stats, practice plans and PDF exports. It has more ratings than any other rugby-only stats app, though it does not say which stats it keeps. iPhone and iPad only, updated February 2026.
5. TryPoint and TryLog: free match records for both teams
Best for: Android users, and a free match record.
TryPoint, on iPhone and Android, is free with ads, and a few pounds removes them. It records both teams’ scorers by shirt number, sin bins that stop with the clock and substitutions, then produces a PDF match report, offline and with no account. TryLog, on Android only, adds kicking success by kicker and season stats per player. Both launched in September 2026, so they are new, and both record scoring and discipline rather than tackles or set piece.
6. Breakdown: the best team analysis, with a warning
Best for: team analysis on an iPhone or iPad.
Breakdown turns tapped events into real analysis: possession, set-piece success, penalties conceded and kicks at goal by position. It is the best reviewed rugby stats app we found, at a few pounds a month, but it has not been updated since April 2024. Kickd is the alternative: offline on iPhone and Android, with voice logging, though for union it records little beyond the score.
Apps that have gone quiet
Several apps still turn up in searches but are no longer looked after: Halftime Rugby was last updated in January 2023 and still asks for a subscription, My Coach Rugby in June 2024, and Rugby StatKeeper has gone from the App Store, with its Android version last updated in 2022.
Free ways to keep rugby stats
- A paper sheet with shorthand: a letter and a shirt number for each action, such as T7 for a tackle by number 7, and three letters for each set piece: SOW for a scrum, our ball, won, or LTL for a lineout, their ball, lost
- A printed sheet, then a spreadsheet: fill it in on the touchline, then type it into Excel or Google Sheets
- Free video tools after the match: Kinovea for frame-by-frame review on Windows, and LongoMatch’s free plan for tagging up to fifty events per project, both covered in the best free rugby analysis tools
- Free trials: Nacsport for 30 days, Count Rugby for a month and Kickd for three matches
How to choose
- You want every stat without anyone tapping: Framesports
- You want the widest free stat list on an iPhone: Rugby Scorebook+
- You want each player’s season record: Rugby+ Match Stats Scorebook
- You want one app for the season: Assistant Coach Rugby
- You are on Android, or want both teams’ scoring for free: TryPoint or TryLog
Once you have the numbers, our set-piece success rates show what good looks like at the lineout and scrum. For filming and reviewing on a phone, see the best rugby analysis apps for iPhone and iPad and for Android.
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