Court Canvas

Sketch a play, hit play to watch it move, then text it to your partner as a GIF. A tennis tactics board for anyone who plays, quick enough to use between points.

Draw up a tennis play in about ten seconds, watch it animate, and text it to your doubles partner before you've left the parking lot.

Court Canvas is an animated tactics board for anyone who thinks about tennis — league players planning Saturday's doubles, coaches explaining a pattern between points, hitting partners settling an argument about where the lob should have gone. No account, no login, nothing parked on a server.

Draw it:

• Drop players on the court, drag to draw shots and movement arrows. No mode to switch.
• Shots curve, so a slice looks like a slice — and you can reshape a curve by dragging its arc.
• Write short cues like "split step" right where they happen.
• Start from real tennis patterns, or set up drills with cones, target zones, and a feed basket.

Watch it:

• Press play: a ball travels each shot and players walk their movement, so it reads like a point, not a diagram.
• Pause anywhere, scrub, or step shot by shot while you talk it through.

Send it:

• Share a GIF or video that opens on a title card, then animates. Files arrive named after the play.
• Record a voice-over while the play runs and share the narrated clip (Pro).
• Or send a live link — it opens in their browser and animates right there.
• Add the situation ("30-15, set point") and it prints on the shared card.

Keep it:

• As many plays as you want, autosaved, with a private iCloud backup. Singles or doubles. Padel and pickleball too.

Pro is a one-time $6.99: narrated shares, your name on what you share instead of the Court Canvas mark, and dark mode. No subscription.

I built this because explaining a point with hand-waving and napkin arrows never quite works. It keeps getting better as the people using it tell me what's missing.

Your plays live on your phone. No account, nothing lands on my servers, anonymous usage stats only.

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