Football play design and quizzes, $5.5K MRR: playbook learning

A tool for football coaches to draw plays, manage playbooks, and turn them into quizzes for players. Its $5.5K MRR is verified through the payment provider's API by TrustMRR (Stripe), as of September 30, 2026.

What it actually sells

Play Designer Pro is a football play design and playbook management tool for offensive teams. Coaches can draw plays with customizable defenses, formations, player styles, and color-coded positions, then invite coaches and players into the team workspace.

How it charges

Some currency amounts appear on the pages we read, but none could be tied to the product's own price, so no pricing is stated here (pages read 2026-10-01).

Month by month

Monthly revenue as read from the payment provider by TrustMRR, in US dollars, as of September 30, 2026.

Month	Revenue (USD)
2025-10	$60
2025-11	$280
2025-12	$880
2026-01	$896
2026-02	$540
2026-03	$560
2026-04	$2,213
2026-05	$1,300
2026-06	$1,988
2026-07	$3,991
2026-08	$6,420
2026-09	$6,681

Where customers come from

The site says the product is “Perfect for coaches at all levels” and identifies youth, high school, college, and professional football programs as its audience. It does not disclose acquisition channels, founder listings, referral programs, partnerships, or paid advertising.

What stands out

The product connects playbook creation with player learning. It imports existing material—“Upload your PDF, PowerPoint, images, or other files and we'll convert it for you.”—then generates bite-sized quizzes from plays, installs, and tags and tracks team quiz performance.

From the official site

Perfect for coaches at all levels.

Upload your PDF, PowerPoint, images, or other files and we'll convert it for you.

Excerpts from the official website, fetched October 1, 2026.

Where it sits in the data

Play Designer Pro's $5.5K MRR is higher than 90% of the 5,602 projects with payment-verified revenue in our dataset; the median across them is $150. Within the “Education” category (517 projects) it is higher than 92% (category median $156). Snapshot: 2026-09-02 to 2026-09-30. The dataset only covers founders who chose to publish their numbers, so it leans toward businesses that work; use it for scale, not as an average.

Currency

All figures are in US dollars as published. A rough yuan or euro conversion is not applied here because prices, taxes and acquisition costs differ by country.

Could you build something like this?

In my view, the buyer is a football coach or program that already manages a playbook and needs a structured way to distribute plays and check player understanding. Distribution would need to come from coach communities, football education networks, and direct outreach to programs; the pages do not disclose which channels this business uses.

In my view, the hard parts are converting many playbook formats accurately, producing useful quizzes, supporting team roles, and maintaining a tool coaches trust with game materials. Regulation is not the main obstacle, but support load, file compatibility, product reliability, and competition from established playbook and coaching tools would matter.

Verdict: Needs real work.

One thing to take from it

The clearest product angle is not play drawing alone. It is the workflow from existing playbook files to a maintained team playbook, generated quizzes, player access, and performance tracking.

Sources

Play Designer Pro official website, fetched October 1, 2026
Play Designer Pro pricing page, fetched October 1, 2026
TrustMRR: revenue verified through the payment provider's API by TrustMRR (Stripe), as of September 30, 2026

Revenue, team and start-cost figures are what the founder reported at the interview date, not current figures and not a prediction of what you will earn. Product and pricing facts come from the business's own website as checked on 30 September 2026. Method & sources · Disclosure