Playera is on the App Store
Playera 1.0 is available in the UK on the App Store for iPhone. Install from the App Store badge on this site. Team features stay free for every team.
Changelog
What changed, and when.
Every change that reached playera.club, newest first, written for the coach or the parent it affects. The faults we found ourselves are in here too, because a changelog with only features in it is a press release.
October 2026
Playera is on Google Play (UK)
Playera Production is live for UK families and coaches on Google Play. Open testing is closed for this path. Install from the Play badge on this site.
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Plans and purchases fits on a phone
The purchase screen in the iPhone and Android apps stacks each plan above its price and buy button, and long product names wrap onto the next line. Restore, manage, the terms and the privacy link stay on the screen.
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An adult cannot privately message a player account
A coach or parent can no longer open, read or continue a private message with a player account. Team chat is unchanged, and so are messages between two adults or two players. This is the rule already published on the safeguarding page. No existing conversations were opened or deleted while this was written.
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Plans in the iPhone and Android apps are bought from the store
Premium and AI Coach inside the installed apps are bought through Apple or Google, on the same screen as restore purchases. The website still takes card payment. Club fees are unchanged: the app shows what is paid and what is outstanding, and does not take that payment.
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September 2026
Ratings stay with the coaching team
A match report shared with parents carries the highlights and the next focus for their own child. Coaches' scores and ratings are never shown to parents, and the sharing switches have been removed.
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Playera is on iPhone (TestFlight beta)
The iPhone app is now in public beta on TestFlight. Anyone can install it from the link on the home page, and it works with an existing Playera account.
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Playera is on Android
Open testing is live on Google Play, so any Android family or coach can install Playera today.
Push notifications reach the lock screen
Match updates, messages and reminders can reach the lock screen on Android as well as by email and inside the app, so a parent can see them without opening Playera.
Guardians can now correct a child's registered name
A child's full name on their Playera ID could not be changed by anyone once it was created. A parent can now correct it in Settings, and where a child has no parent linked yet, their coach can. The squad list keeps the name the coach typed.
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A parent linked at one club now sees their child's other teams
When a parent was linked to a child after that child had already been added to a second team, the second team never appeared for them: no schedule, no availability, no team chat. Three children and four parents were affected and have been put right.
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Approve a player link from the notification you were sent
Tapping the request to approve your child's link opened Settings on the wrong tab, so the request was nowhere to be seen. It now opens on Children with the waiting request at the top, and there is a card on your home screen too. Coaches can see which requests are still waiting and send one reminder a day.
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Season Archive no longer unlocked Premium by accident
A one-off archive purchase was granting full Premium for that child, including every earlier-season photo and video for the whole team. Four related entitlement faults were found and fixed in the same pass. Nobody had reported it.
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Position moves during a match, and minutes by position
Move a player between positions mid-match and the minutes follow them, so end-of-season position time is real rather than an estimate from the starting eleven.
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Report and block, everywhere content appears
Report is now on moments, messages and match reports, and blocking someone is enforced in both directions. A club welfare officer sees child-safety reports pinned to the top.
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Today, tomorrow and yesterday now mean the calendar
A match at midnight on Saturday was showing as TODAY on Friday lunchtime, because the app was rounding elapsed hours rather than counting calendar days.
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July 2026
AI Coach
Plan a session from the squad that is actually turning up, at the level they are actually at, from a library of 71 drills. Then a read on the match once the whistle goes.
What is coming, and what is not
The roadmap says which things are live, which are being written, and which are only being thought about. No dates.
See the roadmap