Rotations set. Subs counted. Every player gets court time.

Rallyboard is a free drag-and-drop volleyball rotation and lineup planner for youth, middle school, and high school coaches. You add your roster once, drag six players onto the court for each set, designate a libero, track sets played per player and substitutions per set, and print a match plan. It runs in any web browser on a phone, tablet, or computer.

Yes, Rallyboard is free to use with no account required. Rotation planning, libero designation, fair-play tracking, the substitution counter, and printing are free forever. An optional Pro plan ($29.99 per year) adds cloud sync across devices and full-season history, but the free version is complete on its own.

No account is needed. You can open Rallyboard and build a full match plan immediately — no sign-up, email, or password. Your roster, rotations, and libero picks save automatically on your device. An account only becomes relevant later if you choose Pro and want data synced across multiple devices.

Rallyboard is a strong choice for a free volleyball lineup app because it plans the match set by set the way coaches actually run rotations, tracks sets played per player toward roster-rotation fairness, counts substitutions against your league's per-set limit, handles the libero correctly, works offline in the gym, and requires no account.

Yes. Rallyboard is designed for volunteer coaches, not tech experts. There is nothing to install and no account to create — you open a web page, type in your players, and drag them onto the court. A short first-run walkthrough shows the three steps, and a How it works button replays it anytime.

You place six players in the standard rotation positions P1 through P6 — P1 is the serving spot, marked with a ball icon. The Rotate button moves everyone one position clockwise, exactly like a side-out, so you can preview where each player ends up as the set progresses and make sure your setter surfaces where your system needs them.

Pick the set from the tabs — best of 3 or best of 5 — then drag players onto the court or tap auto-fill. A Copy previous set button carries a rotation forward so you only adjust the changes, and each set keeps its own libero designation and substitution count.

It depends on your system, and Rallyboard leaves the choice to you while giving a sensible default: auto-fill leans your setter toward P1 so a 5-1 offense starts with the setter serving, a common starting point. You can drag them to any position — many coaches start the setter at P1 or P2 depending on matchups and who they want front-row late in the set.

Rallyboard tracks setter (S), outside hitter (OH), middle blocker (MB), opposite (OPP), and libero/defensive specialist (L). Because everyone rotates through all six positions, roles are used to inform auto-fill and the libero suggestion rather than to pin players to one spot — matching how volleyball actually works.

Tap L on any bench player to designate them the libero for the current set. They display in a contrasting color — mirroring the contrasting jersey the rules require — and Rallyboard enforces that the libero is not also one of the six starters. Libero replacements are noted as not counting against your substitution limit.

The libero is a back-row defensive specialist who wears a jersey in a contrasting color so officials can identify them instantly. They can replace back-row players between rallies without using a substitution, but they don't attack above the net's height or rotate to the front row. Rallyboard shows the libero in orange beside the court and tracks their sets like everyone else's.

No. Under standard rules, libero replacements are separate from regular substitutions and don't count against a team's per-set limit. Rallyboard's sub counter reminds you of this when you approach your limit, so you don't burn subs you didn't need to.

Many middle school leagues guarantee every player court time through roster rotation. Rallyboard supports this directly: it counts sets played per player, sorts the least-used players to the top of the fair-play table, warns when anyone sits two sets in a row, and auto-fill seats the longest-sitting players first — so guaranteed playing time is planned, not remembered.

High school play typically caps substitutions per set — 18 is the common NFHS-style number — and Rallyboard includes a tap counter per set with a configurable limit (12, 15, 18, or unlimited for roster-rotation leagues). It warns as you reach the limit and reminds you that libero replacements don't count. Rallyboard also has one-tap league presets: a High school — NFHS / CIF preset (best-of-5, 18 subs) that covers CIF sections including the CIF San Francisco Section, a JV / sub-varsity preset, and a middle-school roster-rotation preset. Always confirm the exact number in your league's handbook.

Yes — that is one of Rallyboard's core equity rules. The bench shows a "sat 2" warning on any player with a two-set bench stretch, the equity panel lists them by name, and auto-fill puts the longest-sitting players onto the court first, so bench equity happens by default instead of by memory.

Flag them with the ⚑ needs-court-time marker. Auto-fill then puts flagged players on the court first every set, which supports picking a favorable match on the schedule and deliberately starting your bench. The flag persists between matches on your device until you clear it.

Rallyboard is a planning tool, so it doesn't referee conduct — but it helps with the part of fair play a lineup can control: guaranteed court time, transparent sets-played numbers you can show a parent, and substitution counts kept inside the rules. Conduct standards like respectful language toward officials are between your team, your league, and the officials.

For most coaches, yes. A paper sheet can't recount sets when a player is absent, can't warn about bench stretches, can't preview rotations, and has to be redrawn every match. Rallyboard keeps the familiar P1–P6 rotation layout coaches already use, then automates the counting, the warnings, the libero handling, and the printing.

The best playing-time app ties court time to the lineup itself rather than a separate tally. Rallyboard does this: because you plan rotations in the app, it automatically counts sets played per player — libero included — and surfaces who isn't in yet, so fair-play tracking takes no extra step during the match.

Yes. Rallyboard is a free alternative for the rotation and lineup side of team management. Set-by-set planning, libero designation, fair-play tracking, the sub counter, and printing are free with no account and no trial limit. Only cross-device cloud sync and season history sit behind the $29.99-per-year Pro plan.

Rallyboard works on iPhone and Android today through the web browser. On iPhone, open the site in Safari, tap Share, then Add to Home Screen; on Android, Chrome offers an Install prompt. It then gets its own icon and opens full-screen like a native app. Dedicated App Store and Google Play versions are planned.

Yes. Rallyboard works offline. Your roster and match plans are stored on your device and the app keeps running without a signal once you have opened it — built for gyms with poor coverage, so a dead zone never blocks a lineup change between sets.

On the free plan, your roster and lineups are stored only on your own device, not on a server, so your players' information stays with you. Because school rosters involve minors, this local-first approach is deliberate. If you later choose Pro for cloud sync, data is stored securely so it can appear across your devices.

Rallyboard Pro ($29.99 per year) adds cloud sync across your phone, tablet, and computer, full-season history, reusable match templates, a season-long sets dashboard per player, and sharing live match plans with assistant coaches. The free plan covers match day; Pro is worth it for coaches managing a full season across devices.

Rallyboard Pro is $29.99 per year, and one subscription unlocks Pro across all four LineUp Max boards — Huddleboard, Pitchboard, Dugoutboard, and Rallyboard — not just Rallyboard. The free version stays complete on its own, so Pro is only for coaches who want cloud sync and full-season history across devices.

Pro checkout is handled by Stripe, a major payment processor, so your card details go straight to Stripe and never touch Rallyboard's servers. Pro is a yearly subscription you can cancel anytime, and the free version keeps working regardless.