What's new

A goal allowed while the team is shorthanded no longer counts as a minus. That is the official plus/minus rule (NHL and Hockey Canada), and the season total already followed it, but the board during the game, the post-game summary, the per-game chart and the benchmarks still showed -1. All four now agree; nothing to re-enter, games already played recalculate on their own.

Downloading a PDF (season sheet, report cards, charts) failed on recent phones and browsers, which describe some colours in a way the capture tool did not understand. The tool has been replaced; PDFs generate again, with the same colours as on screen.

Tracking the team's scoring chances during the game, and where they happened, is now open to everyone, free plan included. The Team impact analysis stays in the paid plans.

App updates are lighter and download faster, and the app no longer downloads one when nothing changes for it.

A phone or computer set to English now sees RinkLog in English from the first visit, and the app opens in the phone's language. Your choice in the language switcher is remembered and always wins.

The online assistant has been redone: a real puck in the corner of the screen, a window that slides up from the bottom on phones, four frequent questions to start with, and typing no longer zooms the screen on iPhone.

Live feed notifications read at a glance, even on a watch: the score, the period and the opponent under each goal, and notifications from the same game stack on iPhone and Apple Watch.

A player without a photo now wears the back of their jersey, with their name and number, everywhere in the app: My players, their page, the live feed and their public profile.

Spectators: grandparents, friends and coaches follow your players as read-only, without using a member seat. Send a link to the family, accept each request, and everyone sees the stats, the charts and the live feed, with an email summary after each game. Never the notes, photos or report cards. In Settings, then Account members, Spectators section.

My account becomes Settings, everything grouped by topic: subscription, family, notifications and reminders, profile, privacy, help. A search finds a setting in two letters, and "Live chat" opens the assistant. Also new: the usage statistics switch, and Log out in the same place.

The live game feed now alerts you on your phone, even with the app closed: when a member of your account tracks a game, get goals, assists, hits, faceoffs, scoring chances, or everything. Just one notification per goal, and you pick which players. In Settings, then Notifications, or with the bell on the feed. With app 1.0.15 and up, since October 18.

RinkLog dresses up for the holidays: in October, a carved pumpkin with the RinkLog shield on the ice, an orange glow, a web and a little spider in the menu; from December 1 to January 2, a village rink under the snow, string lights and a tuque on the logo. Only the background and the menus change, never your stats or the tracking board. To turn it off: Settings, then Profile and preferences, "Seasonal themes".

Watched the goal again on video? Its location can now be fixed after the game. In "Edit game", the new "Locations" section shows every placed goal and shot: tap one, move it on the ice (the danger zone updates right away), then, for a goal, in the net. Heat maps and shot zones follow. For goalies too, saves and goals against included. Thanks to the member whose question led to this addition.

Live score: the tracker now keeps both teams' score with a single tap. A strip under the RinkBuddy header shows it for the whole game, whether the player is on the ice or on the bench: tap the scoring team's number, swipe down to fix a mistake. Your player's goals count on their own (their goal, their assist, a team goal on the ice, or a goal against for a goalie). People following the feed see the score big at the top of the card, the numbers rolling on every goal and the scoring team in green, with a "Goal" pill in the feed. At the end, the result screen opens with that score already filled in. The strip is offered to everyone; the live feed itself stays a paid-plan feature.

Live score, three additions. A mistake is fixed by holding your finger on the number for 1.5 seconds: a red ring fills up, then the goal is removed. In the feed, the opponent's goal is circled in red, yours in green. And the RinkBuddy Builder has a new option, "Keep the score": set to Yes, the strip sits at the top of the board for the whole game; otherwise it stays hidden and shows up as soon as someone follows the game live, with an eye and the number of people connected.

Follow RinkLog on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok right from My players and My account: a small arena scoreboard, with its scrolling lights, opens each network in one tap. What's new before anyone else, stats tips and behind the scenes.

Live game feed: while one account member tracks the game at the rink, the others follow it live, on a computer or a phone, without being there. Every play shows up the moment it is logged, and a card up top shows the followed player's full line just like their profile (goals, assists, plus-minus, shots, hits and the rest), with the period. Every line opens up for the detail: the shot type, a faceoff's zone, the goalie's part on a save (glove, blocker, pad), and goals show inside the net at the exact spot. You also see when the player steps on and off the ice, and the power play or penalty kill is shown in color. The end of the game is clear, with the final score. RinkLog only tracks one player: the team score shows only at the end, when the tracker enters it. You reach it from a LIVE banner on My players as soon as a game is active, and the tracker sees how many people are following. Premium follows 2 games live, Franchise and Club with no limit.

Forgotten ice time: you can now enter it by hand after the game. On a game that is already saved, open it and tap Edit. On a game you are entering after the fact, the same section sits right inside the manual match sheet. Either way: minutes, seconds and number of shifts. The time you enter counts toward your averages and charts just like a timed one, and the game summary says it was entered by hand. Handy when shift tracking was off, or for a match sheet filled in later.

A full guide to account members. It shows what sharing an account is for, how to invite someone step by step, what an invited person sees and does not see, how to switch between accounts, how to remove an access, and what happens when you record without a network. You will find it in the guide, with new questions in the FAQ too.

When someone accepts your invitation, you get an email: who joined, with which role, and how many seats you have left. If you were not expecting it, you remove the access and the link can no longer be used. The person who joins is welcomed on screen, gets their own welcome email, and knows right away which account they are recording in and how to get back to their own.

Invite someone to your account: a friend, another parent, someone close. In My account, open Account members and create an invitation link to send them. Your guest follows and tracks your players' games with their own login, switches between their account and yours in one tap, and you can remove their access at any time. Premium includes 3 guests, Franchise 5 and Club 10, on top of you.

Every class is now offered for all three sports. Ringette only had five and dek hockey four: AAA, BB, CC, Espoir, Elite and the school divisions are available everywhere. There is no way for us to know which classes exist in your region, so they are all there and you pick. No level already recorded has changed.

The number of periods is now yours to choose. When you create a player or a team, say whether you play 2, 3 or 4 periods: top level ringette plays four, some recreational leagues play two, and hockey plays three. The "End of period" button, the intermission, the timeline and every per period stat follow that setting. Overtime is always added, whatever the number. Existing teams stay at three periods, nothing changes for them. Thanks to the U19 AA ringette coach who pointed it out.

Ringette: the goalie board now has four save outcomes, frozen, rebound, clear completed and clear intercepted. The moment she controls the ring inside her crease the referee counts five seconds and she must clear it, so the app computes her percentage of completed clears, over her clears only. Freezing is still possible and stops play, whether she chooses it or fails to clear in time. You also get these measures per period and as charts. Hockey and dek hockey keep frozen and rebound, nothing changes for them. Thanks to the ringette coach who explained the rule to us, and who corrected our first reading.

Community presets: share your RinkBuddy board (buttons, colours, style, options) under a title and a signature, and apply other people's boards with one tap, free plan included. The gallery lives at rinklog.com/en/presets and in the Community tab of the Builder. Every preset shows its votes, downloads and how many boards use it as is; a board that came from the community stays neon green until you change it. Publishing is for paid plans.

The RinkBuddy Builder has been reorganized: your board first, then all its options in a single list, with a line saying what each one changes. An option never decided shows as "To choose", and the first opening walks you through them one by one with their explanation. Done only closes once every option is answered: nobody misses shift tracking or shot location anymore.

Shift ratings: after every shift, three rows of five stars on the bench, Offensive, Defensive, Intensity. The scale is relative to the player, 3 = their usual, and nothing is required: an unrated shift does not count. Rating and last game averages are free for everyone; the season, the shift by shift curve and per period averages are Premium. Turn it on in the RinkBuddy Builder, "Shift ratings" option. A miss is fixed from "Edit game".

When you place a shot or a goal on the ice, the type wheel can no longer choose by itself. A single slightly long press could place the spot AND confirm whichever type sat under your finger, recording a choice nobody made.

New Hard backcheck button, added from the RinkBuddy. It counts sustained defensive returns, the kind that leave no trace on a scoresheet. The total follows the player everywhere: end of game summary, intermission screen, player page, export and development goals.

New Battle button, added from the RinkBuddy. The rink opens with the offensive zone in green and the defensive zone in orange: you tap where the battle happened, then a flower asks how it ended: won physically, with the stick, with speed, or lost. The player page gains a section showing the win rate, what the player relies on to win, the win rate in each of the three zones, and the share fought along the boards. The button and the count are for everyone; the detailed section is for paid plans.

Deleting your account now really erases everything: players, games, photos, cards and uploaded files. Nothing is left behind.

A development goal can be removed, or adjusted up or down, without having to recreate it. A target raised again becomes a goal to reach instead of staying marked as achieved.

Games imported from a league calendar now go into Google Calendar like other events. A switch lets you choose between the whole calendar, games included, or only the events created in RinkLog.

Ending a shift takes a single tap, straight from the ice, without going through a stoppage. The button shows the current shift time and carries the bench watermark, so you can see at a glance where the player stands.

Career goals and assists on the My players page no longer count calendar games that have not been played yet.

Each player card shows their season numbers (goalies see save %, goals against average and shutouts), their next and last game. A brush opens Card style: the card changes color live while you choose. The RinkBuddy, the shareable card and delete are in the … menu.

The My players page has been redone: a compact header, your players right below, then This week, Calendar, Bulletins and Offers tabs. Nothing was removed, everything is better placed. This week shows the upcoming games of all your players, with Start this game on game day, and the latest result of each one.

On the free or Premium plan, the Bulletins tab shows a real sample bulletin, matched to your player's position. The player limit windows show the real prices of the Franchise and Club plans.

The Bulletins tab of My players puts the latest unread bulletin up front, with the others below, filterable by player. Opening a bulletin marks it read without archiving it, and Archive or Restore are always visible to your finger. The frequency is set in one place, for the whole account, with the date of the next bulletin, and Off is finally one of the choices.

Bulletins on the player page (Photos and notes tab) now have the same style as on My players: the latest unread one up front, the frequency right above, Archive and Restore always visible. On the free or Premium plan, the player page shows a real sample bulletin instead of the old Franchise banner.

During a stoppage, Resume and End shift now sit together at the top, and the rarer actions (End of period, Penalty shot · Shootout) are grouped below in their own section. On the faceoff rink, the offensive zone is tinted green and the defensive zone orange, with a legend, so you can tell the sides apart at a glance.

Without a connection, a player's page now opens even if their stats were never saved on the device: Start a match works, and a notice explains that the stats will come back with the network, never showing fake zeros. The page appears in two seconds instead of waiting eight, and the card for a game is still available.

At intermission, a summary of the whole game played so far now shows at the bottom of the screen, not just the period that just ended.

The End of period button is now also available while the player is on the bench. It used to appear only during a paused shift on the ice.

In a game summary, tiles such as "Short-handed" no longer spill out of their box, and their numbers are centered.

On a phone, the AI analysis of a chart now opens in the middle of the screen. It used to appear at the very bottom of the page, behind the other blurred charts, and you had to scroll down to find it.

In the Per period section, the average shift only showed for the 1st period. Shifts played after the last logged end of period counted toward no period at all; the 2nd and 3rd now get their real average.

Height and weight display in imperial or metric, your choice, in My account. The setting is saved to your account and follows you on every device.

The player page is now organized in tabs: Overview, Stats, Charts, Training, Calendar, Photos and notes. Nothing was removed, the sections just no longer pile up one under the other. On a phone, every tab fits on screen across two rows.

This page is now in the member menu, right under My account. Once signed in, no link led to it.

Fixing a total in Edit game (say 3 shots to 4) no longer pulls those stats out of their period or off the shot map. Only the difference is corrected.

A forgotten end of period can now be fixed after the game. In Edit game, tap shifts and move them to the 1st, 2nd, 3rd period or overtime: the ones after them and their stats follow, and ice time per period is recalculated. For an older game or a goalie, you move the stats themselves.

Accessibility: a visible outline follows the keyboard across the app, icon buttons have a name screen readers announce, and on the player page a missing value shows as a dot instead of a dash.

The printable report now sits in the Print menu of the player page, with the other print options, instead of opening the Charts tab. Its description says what it actually does: season stats, printing and CSV export, with AI analysis started chart by chart.

Game history: the opponent's name shows in full and delete is more discreet. Empty shot zones explain how to place a goal, and Benchmarks offers the button to add the birthdate.

Stat cards no longer show "0" for a stat your RinkBuddy does not track: that zero suggested the player had done nothing. The "Season stats" title is no longer written twice.

Season goals now show on the stat cards, with their progress, and as a summary in the Overview. The Stats and Charts tabs remind you of the active filter, and calendar titles are now readable.

A Player settings button gathers the team for upcoming games, profile visibility, bulletin frequency and units. The page header now keeps only the player and their actions.

The next game now shows at the top of the player page: the opponent, home or away, the arena and a countdown. On game day, Start this game opens the form already filled in, and the same button appears in the calendar list.

On a phone, a compact tab bar stays at the top of the screen while you scroll the player page, and on a computer the tab bar stays in view. The page shows its shape while loading, and a link can open a tab directly.

Customize the page: pick the tab order, hide the ones you do not use, choose the tab that opens first and the big buttons kept in the header. Your stat card and chart choices are now saved to your account and follow you on every device.

Four goalie charts are open on the free plan, as for skaters: shots against, goals against, save % per game and its trend. Overtime losses join the goalie scoreboard, and goalie abbreviations follow the screen language.

The goalie page now opens on a real summary: W-L-OTL record, save %, goals against average, shutouts, save % by danger zone and recent games. Key numbers also show under the goalie's name.

Two new AI analyses for goalies: puck control (rebounds, frozen pucks, rebound goals) and save percentage by shot type. They are also added to the printable report.

Goalie charts, heat maps and ice time now live in the Charts tab. The net map shows the glove side and the blocker side, save % by situation includes the power play, and the goalie sees a quality start rate and current streaks.

At intermission, RinkLog may invite you to rate it, once the period is over. On Android, the Google rating window opens right away, without leaving the app.

The goalie puck control AI analysis computes its rates on all saves, like the chart, and names shot types and zones in English when the screen is in English.

The Print and More menus on the player page are no longer cut off at the edge of the player card. With a keyboard, section titles no longer empty a tab, your chosen opening tab is respected, and Customize the page tells you when your choices are waiting for the network.

Moving shifts in Edit game also works on a game played without period tracking, and "all in the 1st" keeps 1st period ice time. The periods shown always follow the current ends of period, even after an undo.

The goalie quality start rate can no longer go past 100%: it is computed on the games shown, marked "last games" on the free plan. The no-goal-against streak ignores games with no ice time, and danger zones are spelled out in full.

A player's .rinklog file now carries their shifts and page settings, and importing it recreates them on the new player.

Player settings and Customize the page now work fully from the keyboard: Tab stays inside the window, arrow keys change the choice, and focus returns to the original button on close. Switches are easier to tap with a finger.

Two corrections to the same game sent at the same moment, from two devices, no longer double the difference: the second is refused with a message asking you to reopen the game. In the goalie chart by situation, a game with no shots on the power play or short-handed no longer shows a false 0%.

With a keyboard or a screen reader, the More and Print menus open on their first choice and move with the arrow keys, and player page windows close with Escape. Switches in My account and on the public profile are easier to tap, and "Tomorrow" shows correctly when the clocks change.

The public profile history no longer shows calendar games that have not been played yet. Danger zones carry the same names everywhere, and the goalie free plan wording now says the same thing on every page: HDSV%, rebounds and quality starts are free.

Goalie frozen puck and rebound rates are computed on all saves, everywhere: player page, public profile, charts, bulletins and goals now show the same number. Goalie curves no longer drop to 0% in a game with nothing to measure, and a game card no longer shows a shutout without saves.

The training drill sketches have been redrawn: jointed figures that move continuously, in the RinkLog navy style.

In an arena with no wifi, Start a game could spin forever. The player page now opens with the data kept on the device, and the game is logged offline as intended.

When you start a game and your calendar has one that day, RinkLog offers to use it, with the opposing team and the venue already filled in. You can also skip it and enter everything by hand.

The charts on the player page also counted imported calendar games that had not been played yet: a player at their very first game could show 33 games. They now count only games actually played.

A goal marker is now a RinkLog token with its own animated halo, and it scales with the map instead of staying tiny.

The goal map and the net placement map now offer two readings: one dot per goal, or heat zones. Dots answer "where did he score", zones answer "where does he score most".

Games sitting in the calendar no longer count as games played. If you import your league calendar, your counter was showing the whole season in advance; it now shows what was actually played, and your per game averages finally divide by the right number.

The player page now shows how many imported games are still ahead. The count goes down on its own as games get played.

A reminder before every game, adjustable in My account. You pick the lead time, from 15 minutes to 3 hours, and the notification fires from your device even with no network, which is exactly the situation inside an arena.

This page. Every addition, improvement and fix is recorded here, week by week, as it ships.

Zone percentages now describe the dots shown right next to them, and they add up to exactly 100.

The heat map finally measures density. Every shot was painted across the full color scale, including a lone shot with no neighbors: one isolated shot looked as hot as a cluster of six. The scale is now fixed, so two players can be compared.

The equipment part that made the save is now a RinkBuddy option: blocker, glove, pad, stick or body. The goalie is clickable right on his own silhouette.

On the goalie board, the Save button asks for the shot type right on the button, then the equipment part. A save is logged in one chained gesture instead of three screens.

The consent banner now covers every page, including the trial page, and no measurement tool loads before you answer. The privacy policy has been rewritten accordingly.

An optional promo code field at signup, for anyone arriving with a team or tournament code.

The charts in the Periods and Duels sections are now configurable: you pick which ones you see and in what order.

End of period is logged right on the board, with a frozen clock and an intermission screen. The goalie board too.

A Per period section. Every existing section also gains a Total or Per period switch, to see whether your player starts strong or finishes strong.

A Duels section: penalty shots and shootouts get their own stats, kept apart from the rest. Two or three taps are enough to log one.

Subscription emails now take your plan colors, and the benefits list has been brought up to date.

A full video tutorial at the top of the guide, walking through a game from start to finish.

Your language is remembered on your account, not just in this browser. It follows you from one device to the next.

Age groups U7 through U18 year by year, plus the CC, D1R, D2R and D4 classes. The level shows before the team name and can be changed on an existing team.

A player can belong to several teams in the same season, and you pick the team when a game starts. Level, season and game type become filters you can cross on all of his stats.

The tournaments page has been reworked: fuller filters, an intro video and a zoomed out map. Past editions are listed separately.

Even strength, power play and penalty kill can no longer be confused: the power play turns cyan, the situation is picked from a wheel, and a timed banner stays visible for as long as it lasts.

The board main button spells out its action instead of leaving you to guess it.

The free plan has been rethought: it now limits how DEEP you can analyze, never what you can log. You record everything you want during the game, and locked sections show your own real data behind a veil rather than a made up example.

A training session you check off writes itself into your calendar.

A Training section, with full programs in French and English, per player tracking and animated sketches for every drill. Programs are printable.

A full calendar guide, so you can import your league feed or sync with Google Calendar without guessing.

The update overlay has been redrawn: a halo, cascading pucks and a progress bar that names the step and the percentage, instead of a frozen screen.

A mini calendar inside the player page, in week or month view, with smooth month changes.

A PDF button on the Ice time section, to export the charts as a printable page.

Tournament organizers can request Player of the game cards directly online.

A full Ice time section: six charts for a skater, two for a goalie, a game by game log with power play and penalty kill shifts, and a block in the post game summary.

An age group comparison table in the Academy, to find your way between U7, U11, Novice, Atom and their equivalents elsewhere.

The site mockups now show the app inside a real phone frame, at a fixed size.

The App Store rating now shows on six pages of the site, and every article has its own share image.

The calendar, in full. Import your league iCal feed in one click, write straight into Google Calendar, create an event by dragging a type onto a date, and move it with the mouse. Games, practices, tournaments, tryouts, sharpenings and appointments each get their own color.

The RinkLog icon now appears in the notification status bar, instead of Android's generic info dot.

An event reminder now names its type and the player it concerns, instead of a generic line.

A frosted world map of tournaments that frames itself on whatever is shown, pinches to zoom, and opens a tournament page when you tap a marker.

When a sync fails, the error is readable and the source is named. You can trigger the sync again by hand without waiting.

An Articles section on the public site, with its RSS feed and share images.

The RinkBuddy has been fully redrawn for the phone, and the five button styles can now be seen in the plans, the guide and the demo before you pick one.

Three exclusive board button styles: electric, liquid glass and steel. You pick them in the RinkBuddy and they apply to your board in a real game. The classic style stays open to everyone.