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In hockey, the official scoresheet keeps three things: goals, assists and penalties. Everything else vanishes at the horn: the shift where your player blocked two shots, the faceoff win that launched the attack, the takeaway forced in the neutral zone, the four shots on goal of a night without a goal. RinkLog is a logbook built for those plays. It does not replace the scoresheet, it completes it: goals and assists count as much as the rest there, no more, no less.
The page below describes exactly what the app records, how logging keeps up with the pace of a game, what it does without a signal, what is free and what is not. If what you need is the official scoresheet of a whole team, the section on scoring a team versus one player tells you plainly where to go.
What you score, and how
The game board is a set of buttons, one per event, chosen for your player's position. A center sees faceoffs up large, a defenseman sees blocked shots and hits, a winger sees shots and goals. The master button starts and stops the shift: that is what measures ice time, shift after shift, with no separate stopwatch.
Here is the complete list of what the app records during a hockey game, exactly as it exists in the code, and nothing more.
- Ice time: one tap opens the shift, another closes it; the total and the average per shift compute themselves.
- Shots: shot on goal, and shot missed or blocked by the opponent. Both together give individual Corsi; the first alone gives shooting percentage.
- Goals and assists: a goal takes two taps, where the shot came from on the half ice, then which corner of the net. An assist takes one.
- Faceoffs won and lost, for centers.
- Hits delivered and blocked shots.
- Team goal and opponent goal during the shift, which produce plus minus.
- Scoring chances for and against during the shift, which produce SCF%.
- Takeaways and giveaways.
- Penalties of 2, 4, 5 or 10 minutes, with the situation in play.
- Situation: even strength, power play or penalty kill, chosen for every event.
- Periods: an end-of-period marker splits the game into P1, P2, P3 and overtime.
- Penalty shots and shootouts, logged as separate duels.
- Goalie mode: saves and goals against with the shot location, which give save percentage, high-danger SV% and goals against average.
The rule that holds all of this together: during the shift, one gesture, the thumb, eyes never down for more than a second. The real precision work happens BETWEEN shifts, while your player catches their breath on the bench. A correction panel adds or removes an event, and a quick note, picked from a closed list, pins itself between two shifts. Nothing forces you to rebuild a game from memory that evening. The details of that rhythm are on the live tracking, shift by shift page.
Which stats should you turn on for an 8 year old, a 12 year old, a 16 year old? A U9 player tracks four buttons, a U15 AAA player tracks about fifteen. The guide on which youth hockey stats to track and the youth hockey levels explained page give the breakdown age by age.
Scoring a team versus scoring one player
It has to be said plainly, because too many pages do not: RinkLog follows ONE player. It is not a team scoresheet. The app records your team's goals and the opponent's goals during your player's shifts, and the final score on both sides at the end of the game, but it does not keep the stats of twenty players on a roster, nor the opponent's. A Premium account can follow two players, a Franchise account five, each with their own logbook.
If you are a team's official scorekeeper, if you have to produce the league's scoresheet or run the full lineup, you are looking for a different kind of tool: a team management app. Our honest comparison names them and says what each one does best. Better to know it now than after creating an account for nothing.
This single-player choice is not a limitation, it is the point. A team sheet says who won. A player's logbook says what your child did with their evening: their shifts, their shots, their faceoffs, the plays that have no name on the official sheet. And it says it over ten games, season after season, which no scoresheet ever does. That is the philosophy of progression behind the whole app: read a trend, never a single game.
Works without a signal
Most youth hockey rinks have weak or no cell signal in the stands, and an app that needs a connection to record an event loses data at the worst moment, mid-game. RinkLog is built the other way around: every event is written to the phone first, then sent once the signal returns. You can create the game, track it from start to finish and enter the final score with zero bars.
Syncing happens on its own as soon as the connection comes back, and if the app was closed in the meantime, the queue picks up again at the next launch. The board, the buttons and the event history of the game in progress are readable on the spot, with nothing to download. It is the requirement we test hardest, because a lost game is the one mistake a parent does not forgive.
What it costs
The free plan is permanent, with no credit card and no end date. It lets you create a player, track all of their games live with the full set of skater or goalie buttons, log shot locations, measure ice time, see expected goals and percentile benchmarks against players of the same age and level. Some views show only the last three games: that is the free plan's ceiling, and the only one. Logging itself is never limited.
Premium opens unlimited history, about thirty progression charts, shot map and heat map visualizations, game-by-game detail, CSV and PDF exports of a game, and a second player. It comes with a seven day trial and no card. The Franchise and Club plans add AI report cards and chart analyses, up to five and twenty players. Current amounts live on the pricing page; they are written nowhere else, so you are never shown a stale price.
How it works in three steps
There is nothing to set up before the first game. The board builds itself from the player's position, and you can rearrange it later if you want.
Step 1: Create the player
Name, number, position, sport, birth year and level. Thirty seconds, no card. The board takes the shape of their position.
Step 2: Track the game
Open the shift on the master button, tap events as they happen, fix things on the bench. The final score pre-fills from what you counted.
Step 3: Read the progression
After the horn, totals, averages and ten-game trends. Percentile benchmarks place your player among those of the same age and level.
One game, one thumb, and your player's logbook fills itself in. The free plan never expires.
No credit card required. The free plan stays free.
Frequently asked questions
Is it really free?
Yes. The free plan is permanent: one player, every game tracked live with all the skater or goalie buttons, ice time, shot locations, expected goals and percentile benchmarks. No credit card is asked for. The only ceiling: some views show only the last three games. Premium removes that ceiling and comes with a seven day trial, no card.
Can I score both teams?
No. RinkLog follows one player, not two teams. It logs your team's goals and the opponent's goals during your player's shifts, and the final score on both sides, but not the stats of other players nor the opponent's. To keep a team's official scoresheet, you need a team management app: our comparison names them.
Does it work without a signal at the rink?
Yes. Every event is written to the phone first, then synced once the signal returns, or at the next launch if the app was closed in between. You can create the game, track it fully and enter the final score with no connection at all.
Does it work for ringette and ball hockey?
Yes, both. Ringette has its own buttons, including completed and missed blue line passes, and its own penalty scale. Ball hockey has its own surface and formats. Each sport has its page: ringette stats and ball hockey stats.
Can I track a goalie?
Yes, for free, like a skater. Goalie mode logs every save and every goal against with the shot location, then computes save percentage, goals against average and HDSV%; shot maps, heat maps and history beyond the last 3 games are part of Premium. The details are on the goalie statistics page.
Which devices does it run on?
iPhone and iPad through the App Store, Android through Google Play, and any browser on a computer or tablet. Same account, same data everywhere: you can track the game on the phone and read the progression on the computer the next day.
The free plan lets you create a player and track their games with no credit card.
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- RinkLog against the other appsThe honest comparison, app by app.
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