Build the base that lasts.
A practice app for kids 8–16. Every catalog sport is first-class. Day one is the same for every sport: a week, protected rest, a timer, and a log in your own words.
One free assessment. No payment details required. Homefield is free for every family right now.
The problem
The quiet drift that costs years
When young athletes start looking better, something predictable happens.
- Friends pull them toward random drills and show-off work.
- Fundamentals get neglected.
- Parents slowly lose influence over how their child trains.
Most tools either entertain or measure noise. Very few protect the base — or the parent’s role in building it.
How it works
Four things, in the order a family meets them
The whole product, in the order it happens. No tour, no onboarding carousel.
- Pick a sport. All thirty are on the first screen, grouped but never hidden. No waitlist, no “coming soon”, no tier to qualify for.
- Get the week. A schedule built for your child’s age, with a protected rest day in it. The day pattern is the sport’s own — a swimmer’s week is not a wrestler’s.
- Run the session. A timer, the drills for that day, and your own additions. A team practice or a game counts as the day; so does a day you close because life happened.
- Log it in your own words. The one piece of writing in the product that is not ours. Nothing scores it.
The system is designed so the parent stays central — not sidelined.
The week
Rest is protected by the software, not by advice
Most training apps will sell your child a seventh day. This one refuses to build a week without a rest day, and no algorithm inside it can take one away.
- MonSkills
- TueConditioning
- WedSkills
- ThuProtected rest
- FriSkills
- SatGame
- SunProtected rest
- Age caps volume, never the other way round. A level-20 nine-year-old gets more complexity, never more load. The clamps are read from the age table and no setting in the app reaches them.
- A rest day can move. Only a parent can move it. It can shift to any day in the next six, from the rest day itself. A parent may also choose to train on it — that is a decision, not a default.
- Each sport has its own week. Every one of the thirty carries its own day pattern and its own rest days. See all thirty.
What makes it different
Built for what actually lasts
- Fundamentals stay high-status. The work that looks basic is treated as the most important work.
- Parents get real continuity. Clear language, visibility over time, and tools that help you stay the constant in your child’s development.
- Progress is counted, not flattered. Sessions completed and reps verified. No rating movement is shown until the measurement noise floor has been measured — and it has not been yet, which we would rather say than quietly imply otherwise.
- No sport is the real product. Day one is identical for all thirty. Deeper coaching and measurement unlock per sport when the work is filmed, reviewed and measured.
Two people, two products
What a parent gets, and what a kid gets
The phone splits by age, and so does this. A parent and an eleven-year-old are not shopping for the same thing.
A parent gets
- The week, before it happensAnd the ability to change it.
- A protected rest dayYou did not have to argue for it.
- One consent decision, held by youRevocable, with a plain record of what is stored about your child and for how long.
- A second guardian on the same weekIf there is one.
A kid gets
- Today, and a timerAges 12–16 can run the session themselves. Ages 8–11 is parent-operated.
- Their own drill list, and their own wordsThe log is theirs. Nothing marks it.
- A Player Card that is theirs to keepFree forever.
- No leaderboard, and no sibling comparisonNothing here celebrates temporarily looking good.
Neither gets
- No ads, everNo ad SDKs are in the app.
- No third-party analyticsAnd no crash-reporting SDK either — a crash SDK is an analytics SDK.
- Raw video is deleted after six monthsAutomatically, by a storage rule and not by a job someone has to remember to run.
- Sharing is off by defaultThe privacy policy names every field.
This is a kids’ product. COPPA and Play Families apply, with the consent threshold at 18, not 13.
The journey
It is a base, not a shortcut
Foundation, then application, then expression — in that order, because that is the order that holds.
- Foundation. The work that compounds, and the first thing a motivated kid abandons.
- Application. The base, used — under pressure, in a game, against someone else.
- Expression. What the child does with it that nobody taught them.
The honest answer to “how fast will my child improve” is: slower than the apps that promise otherwise, and in an order that holds. What Homefield does is keep the boring work visible, keep the parent in the room as the permanent coach — never as a second scorer — and keep the record. A year of sessions in a family’s own words is a thing neither a parent nor a child can reconstruct later, and nobody else is keeping it for them.
What Homefield does not do: make a team for anyone, promise a level of play, or replace a coach.
Sticking to it
The part every family finds hardest
A plan a family abandons in week three is worth nothing, so here is what adherence actually takes.
- A closed day is a first-class state, never a failure. Life happens; the week records it and moves on. Nothing punishes a missed day, because a streak a child is afraid to break is a streak that ends in a lie.
- Five to eleven minutes on a practice day. Not an hour. That number is here before you install anything, on purpose.
- Rest is part of the process, not a break from it. Most sports’ weeks carry two protected days.
- A team practice or a game counts. The week is your child’s whole training life, not just the part that happens inside this app.
- Re-measure on a cadence, not on a whim. Measurement is occasional and deliberate. Practice is daily.
The free Player Card
What the fifteen minutes actually involves
Optional, skippable, and free forever. Skipping it costs the label on progress, never access to practice.
- Frame the phone once. About ninety seconds. You prop it up, the app tells you when the whole body is in shot.
- A short set of stations. A held position, then a movement. Each one is a few takes, with a reset between them.
- Your child is active for under eight minutes. The rest is setup and resets. It is a check, not a workout.
- A Player Card. Yours to keep, free forever, and shareable only if you turn sharing on.
- Where the deeper measurement is, and where it is not. Practice, the schedule, the timer and your log are never gated on measurement. A tryout and a rating unlock per sport as the work is filmed, reviewed and measured — and no sport on this site is singled out as further along than another.
- One camera session per fortnight, per household. Filming is deliberately rare. Nothing opens the camera during an ordinary practice session.
What we offer
Three plan shapes, and you can build your own
Every shape is available to every family right now, in every one of the thirty sports.
- 6-week block One sport
- The default. Six weeks of a sport’s own week pattern, one level granted at the end, with an optional check at the start and at the finish.
- 12-week block One sport
- Two blocks. A checkpoint at week six regenerates the second half from what actually happened in the first, and two levels are on offer rather than one.
- Custom plan As many sports as you like
- You choose the sports and the emphasis; the app builds the weeks and keeps each sport’s own curriculum separate. Add a second sport and the calendar grows to hold it — a six-week plan across two sports is twelve weeks of calendar, not six crowded ones.
- Changing your mind restarts the block, on purpose. Add a sport, drop one, or switch between six and twelve weeks, and the plan begins again at week one. A plan half-built for a sport you left is not a plan.
- Every check in every shape is skippable. And each one says, in words, what skipping it costs — which is the label on progress, never the access to practice.
- No sport sits behind a plan. Nothing about a plan can hide a sport, a schedule, a session log or a level-up from a family — not its length, not your child’s level, and not whether that sport has been filmed and measured yet.
Every sport
Thirty sports, and the same day one for each
Grouped so a family can find theirs, and never grouped so that a family cannot. A sport that fits none of these groups still gets a home on the page.
Bat & ball Team Racket Water Strength & combat Individual & skill
See all 30 sports, with each one’s week and gear
That page is generated from the app’s own sport catalog, so it cannot fall behind what the product actually does.
What it costs
Free for every family, right now
Homefield is free for every family right now — no paywall, no clock, and nothing to cancel. That stays true until the app is ready, and even then no sport will sit behind a plan a family cannot see.
There is no pricing table on this site. When there is something to buy, it will arrive with a price a parent can read, a clock a parent can see, and a cancel button that reaches their own app store.
Start with a clear picture of where your child stands.
The free Player Card takes about fifteen minutes. You’ll need a phone, a bit of space, and your child.
No payment details required. Homefield is free for every family right now.