Your kid played.
You filmed it.
Make the highlight.

NextPlay turns raw footage into finished sports highlights. Upload phone clips, a practice session or a full game; AI finds likely plays and cuts the downtime. You review what it found, remove plays that are not your athlete and mark your athlete on the ones you keep. The same analyzed plays can make a vertical Highlight for family or social sharing and a silent 16:9 Recruiting Highlight for college coaches. Game Tape keeps every detected play in order for study.

Your highlight is only as good as your footage. The closer, steadier and sharper the video, the better the plays look. Film from the sideline, close to the action. Zoom only a little; the play needs room around it. Hold the phone steady and horizontal, and record at 1080p or higher. Keep your athlete in frame. On full-game film, keep the scoreboard in view when you can. Wide team cameras (Trace, XbotGo, Veo, Hudl) work too. Every play the AI detects is cut for the whole team, and you mark your athlete.

No. You upload the footage and NextPlay's AI finds the plays, cuts the clips, and builds the output you picked. Your part is choosing: check the plays, take out any that aren't your athlete, and tap Mark athlete on the ones you keep. Highlights are capped to the strongest plays; Game Tape and Coach Film keep every detected play in order for review.

No. NextPlay cuts every play it finds for the whole field and does not track a player or read jersey numbers. Mark athlete lets you tap your athlete on any play — circle, arrow or spotlight — and the mark is burned into the downloaded video. Film that follows one player (phone footage, a Trace or Veo player view) keeps them in more of the clips. Team plans can use roster numbers to suggest which athlete each play belongs to.

NextPlay supports 41 sports including basketball, football, soccer, baseball, softball, volleyball, lacrosse, wrestling, swimming, track and field, tennis, hockey, rugby, golf, cheerleading, gymnastics, rowing, fencing, pickleball, padel, and more.

Athlete is $14.99/month for one athlete, or $99/year (Save $81 a year), with unlimited uploads and unlimited highlight reels. Family is $24.99/month for up to 4 athletes, or $179/year (Save $121 a year). Team is $149/month and Team Pro is $249/month for clubs and programs. Or buy a Season Pass on the web: three months for one payment that does not renew — Athlete $40.99, Family $67.99, Team $402.99, Team Pro $672.99. Every plan includes AI play detection, unlimited highlight reels, downloads and share links, and no watermark. If you already subscribe, your price doesn't change.

Uploads are unlimited. AI analysis on plans started on or after September 16, 2026 has a monthly fair-use allowance: Athlete 150 clips and 10 full games; Family 300 clips and 20 full games; Team 1,000 clips and 60 full games; Team Pro 3,000 clips and 200 full games. A full game is a video 15 minutes or longer. A video past the allowance is saved and playable, and is analyzed automatically when the allowance resets on the 1st of the month, or soon after you move to a plan with a larger allowance. Subscribers who joined before September 16, 2026 keep unlimited analysis.

No. NextPlay is a paid product. Creating an account is free so you can look around, but adding film needs a plan. Plans start at $14.99/month and you can cancel at any time.

Everything you already made stays watchable, shareable and downloadable, and your uploaded videos stay playable, for 60 days after your plan ends; choosing a plan keeps them. What stops is new work: a new upload, a new AI analysis, a new reel, or a new version of a reel after an edit all need a plan.

If your account has no active plan — a subscription ended, a payment failed, or a plan was never chosen — we keep your uploaded game films and the reels made from them for 60 days. We email you 30 days and 7 days before they are removed, and choosing any plan before then keeps everything. After that the video files are deleted; your account, athletes, teams and the record of your uploads remain. Paused plans, Season Passes and trials count as active plans.

A subscription renews every month or year until you cancel. A Season Pass is one payment for three months that does not renew, so there is nothing to cancel — Athlete $40.99, Family $67.99. Both make the same highlights, downloads and share links; pick the pass for one season, the subscription if you film all year.

Yes, if no video on your account has ever been analyzed — that means the subscription was never used. Once a video has been analyzed the subscription is not refundable, but you can cancel any time from Settings → Billing. A refund closes the account: when we refund a charge, the plan ends right away and the account is deleted, including its uploads, clips and reels. If you would rather keep your film, cancel instead — cancelling keeps everything. See the full Refund Policy at /refunds.

No. XbotGo's shared Cloud links are for watching online only — the person you send one to cannot download the video, and the link expires — so there is no file for NextPlay to bring in. Save the game from the XbotGo app to your phone and upload it, or download it from XbotGo's web cloud on a computer and upload the file.

No, what already arrived is kept — but a web browser cannot keep uploading after the page closes or the computer sleeps. Open NextPlay again on the same computer and choose the same file; the upload continues from where it stopped instead of starting over. Before a big upload NextPlay shows how long it should take on your connection. For very large files, keep the computer awake and plugged in with the tab open, or use the NextPlay iPhone app, which keeps uploading in the background.

Yes, for soccer, ice hockey, field hockey and lacrosse games. Download the game's video file from the Trace or XbotGo app and upload it here, or import from a public Veo club library — NextPlay does not connect to your camera account. These cameras film the whole field, so the result is team film: every play the AI detects is cut, for both teams, and a full game takes an hour or more to analyze. To make your athlete's highlight, open the reel, go to Play-by-play and use Mark athlete on their plays. These videos usually have no score on screen, so NextPlay cannot confirm which moments were goals; it adds attacking plays at the goal area as big plays for you to review. Some will be near misses, and a goal the camera did not keep in frame cannot be found. If your camera app can put the scoreboard in the video, turn it on — NextPlay reads goals from an on-screen score.

NextPlay supports local video files up to 25GB and source videos up to 6 hours - a pocketful of 20-second clips, a full game, or a long tournament recording. On the web, keep the tab open while the file is transferring; after upload finishes, transcode, AI analysis, rendering, and recovery continue server-side.

On iPhone and iPad, yes — the app uses native background transfer, so you can lock your phone or leave the app and the upload keeps moving. On Android, keep NextPlay open while a large film uploads. If your account is behind the latest store build, NextPlay shows an update notice until the new version opens.

You don't lose your progress. NextPlay tracks how much of the file already arrived, resumes from where it stopped when possible, and keeps the upload row visible instead of deleting it. When something truly needs action, the dashboard tells you whether to resume, re-upload, update the app, or retry analysis.

Upload rescue, render recovery, and the admin support dashboard watch for stuck uploads, missing playback, empty reels, missing source MP4s, and game-film clip risks. Safe issues can verify and clear themselves, while provider-side issues stay visible until an operator handles them.

Not from a Hudl link directly. NextPlay ingests local video files, not authenticated player links. Download or request the MP4 file first, then upload that file to NextPlay.

Yes. Create the watch link, stream from the NextPlay iPhone app, and share that same link with viewers. When the game ends, the saved recording lands in your library without a second upload. NextPlay can use it for a Highlight, Recruiting Highlight, Game Tape or Coach Film. Football uses play-by-play boundaries; other sports use their calibrated sport format or honest game segments. You still review the detected moments, because results depend on the footage, camera movement and signal quality.

Yes. Set up the game in NextPlay on the website or in the app and choose XbotGo, or Other camera for any camera that can stream to a custom RTMP address. NextPlay gives that one game its own stream address and stream key; enter them in the camera's own RTMP setting (in the XbotGo app it is under Platform Streaming → RTMP). Viewers watch on the game's link in a browser, and when the game ends the recording is saved to your Library. Each game has its own key, so an address saved from an earlier game has to be replaced.

No. NextPlay is not affiliated with or endorsed by XbotGo. It uses the standard RTMP streaming XbotGo cameras already offer. You do not connect an XbotGo account, and NextPlay never asks for your XbotGo login.

No. A game streamed to NextPlay — from the NextPlay iPhone app or from an external camera — is saved to your Library when it ends, with no second upload. It is processed after the game, not while it is live: finding the plays in a full game takes over an hour, so start it and come back.

From an external camera, 720p is the most reliable choice: it holds up on a busy or weak connection and leaves the camera room to keep tracking. 1080p is sharper but needs a strong, steady upload connection. Pick before the game and keep it — changing it mid-game can break the picture for viewers. The NextPlay iPhone app checks your connection before kickoff and streams in 720p when the signal cannot carry 1080p.

The game stays open for up to 5 minutes while the camera reconnects, and viewers see a holding screen instead of an error. If the camera is back within that window the stream continues as the same game. A longer outage ends the stream; what was recorded before it is kept. For a long game, use Wi-Fi when you have it, keep the camera powered and out of direct sun, and start a few minutes early to check the picture.

No. A live game's watch link and a finished reel's share link both open in a web browser with no app, no account and no payment. Links are unlisted: only the people you send them to can find them.

Yes. Every play the AI detects becomes a clip, in the order it happened, and the cut is never shortened to hit a runtime — a breakdown missing plays is not a breakdown. A full game takes over an hour to analyse, on top of the time to upload it and to build the finished video, so start it and come back. Detection depends on what the camera captured: a fixed wide-angle, sideline or corner camera works, but plays off the edge of frame cannot be found. You review the detected plays against your own footage and remove anything you do not want.

It is a roughly 30-second vertical cut built for Reels, TikTok and Shorts. Every other view plays your whole reel; the Hype Reel keeps only the strongest plays and joins them with hard cuts. It is generated alongside your other cuts, so it is ready without being asked for. It does not change the color of your footage or add music; you can use your own sound in the app where you post.

Yes. Videos are private by default and sharing requires an explicit action by you. NextPlay does not train or fine-tune AI models on your footage; processing uses providers only to analyze and render your videos.

Yes. NextPlay can create landscape Recruiting Highlights, downloadable MP4s, tracked share links, and unlisted YouTube exports you can send to coaches or paste into recruiting sites. It does not automatically contact coaches or generate school matches.

Yes. Finished reels can be shared by link or downloaded as MP4 files. Plain Download is the safest path for long Game Tape; Movie and Hype versions are rendered as their own MP4s when the source clips can support that format.