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.
How it works
Eyes up. Two hands. One tap at a time.
Tapper runs on the phone or iPad in your hands. You watch the game, not the screen.
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Set up the match Team names, colours, half length. Thirty seconds before throw-in.
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Tap who has the ball, and where The pitch is the interface. Every tap is a possession event on a drawn pitch — no menus, no typing, no looking down.
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It saves as you go Every event is written down the moment you tap it. Get called away, come back, pick up where you left off. No signal needed.
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Full time — the stats are already there No writing up afterwards. Possession, chains, territory, scores. Export to CSV and it is yours.
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Ask it what happened Back 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.
Sports
One grammar. Sport-shaped surfaces.
The way you tap never changes. Only the pitch markings, the scoring, and the restarts.
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
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.