The Openside app · iPhone & Android
Your club in your pocket. Record a whole match with no signal at all, see what's on this week, and keep your profile up to date, for every Openside club you belong to.
Coming soon to the App Store and Google Play.
Free for members of clubs on Openside. Club not on Openside yet? Get your club its own site.
Openside
What's in the app
One app for every Openside club. Add your club by its web address, sign in on its own sign-in page, and you're in.
The match-day recorder, for whoever's on the touchline with the phone.
For members your club lets record matches.
What's on, day by day: fixtures, tournaments and training, kept on the phone so it opens without signal.
For clubs whose site has the calendar.
Your profile, your devices and your clubs.
For every member.
Match day, start to finish
Rugby grounds have a habit of being where phones don't reach. The recorder was built for exactly that.
The app keeps your fixtures from a week ago to four weeks ahead, and your squad, on the phone. Pick the team at home, or on the bus.
Tap Try, Penalty or Card as it happens. The score and the clock keep up, even with the screen locked.
Undo, put it back, or fix any line on the timeline: the right scorer, the right minute.
Whenever there's next a signal, it all goes to your club's site: the score, the scorers, the cards. Nothing to type up again.
Built for the touchline
Every tap is saved on the phone before anything else happens. When the signal comes back, the events go to your club's site in order, and only the ones the site confirms are marked as sent. Anything it turns down stays on the phone with the reason, ready to send again.
Sent in the order they happened, as soon as there's signal.
Calendar
Fixtures, tournaments and training, day by day, straight from your club's site. It's kept on the phone, so it opens with no signal, and it catches up when you pull down.
Privacy
The app talks to your club's own site and nothing else. Your club looks after your details, and you can delete your account from the app.
There are no advertising, analytics or tracking kits in the app, so it never asks to track you across other apps.
You sign in on your club's site, in your phone's secure sign-in sheet. The app never sees your password, and its keys are locked in the phone's Keychain or Keystore.
Your profile and the matches you record go to your club's site, which your club controls. Openside runs it for them, and never sells or shares it.
Me › Delete my account removes your account from your club's site. Signing out takes the club's keys off the phone.
Languages
The app follows your phone's language. Your profile can be written in each of your club's languages, so every member reads it in theirs.
iPhone and Android
Two apps, each built for its own phones, with the same screens and the same rules, so a match recorded on one reads exactly the same on the other.
Built in SwiftUI, in Apple's own look. Fixtures refresh in the background, and anything waiting goes the moment the phone's back online.
Built in Jetpack Compose with Material 3, in your club's colours. The screen stays on while the board's open, and every button gives a little buzz.
FAQ
Members of rugby clubs whose website runs on Openside. You'll need an account on your club's site: ask your club if you're not sure. The app is for adults (18 and over).
No. The app is free on the App Store and Google Play, with no in-app purchases and no ads. Clubs pay for Openside; members don't.
Yes. Everything you tap is saved on the phone first, and the app sends it to your club's site when it's next online, even if you've closed the app in between. Just don't delete the app before it's sent.
Whoever your club gives permission to. If you can't see the Match tab, ask your club's admin.
Only one phone records each match. Anyone else sees the board read-only, with the recorder's name, and can take over if they need to.
Add each one by its web address. You sign in to each separately, and switch between them in Me.
Yes. Openside gives rugby clubs their own website, with fixtures, results, news and the match-day recorder built in. See what Openside does for clubs.
In the app, go to Me › Delete my account. Your club's site removes your account; match events you recorded stay in the club's records, as part of the match. You can also ask your club directly.
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