One app, all sports
Build the knowledge to compete
A player knows how to hit, shoot and skate. LearnPlayKnow teaches the other half — the cutoff man, the help side, the offside line — by putting them in a real game where right answers score and wrong answers can lose the game.
How it works
It's not a quiz. It's a game.
You play against a real opponent on a real scoreboard. The questions are the plays — and how hard the question is decides how big the play is.
Pick your sport and level
Choose a difficulty — Rookie, Veteran or All-Star — and the rule set you actually play under. A 10-year-old in Little League and a high school shortstop get different questions, because they play under different rules.
Right answers score
An easy question is a single. A hard one is a home run. In basketball it's a free throw or a three; in rugby it's a penalty kick or a converted try. Miss, and it's an out, a stop or a turnover on downs.
Every miss teaches
Wrong answers don't just cost you — they show you the correct answer with a coach's explanation of why. That's the whole point. You lose the run and you learn the play.
The catalog
One App, All Sports
Every sport is its own game with its own rules, its own field, its own opponents and its own scoreboard. Softball plays in innings and outs. Football plays in downs. Tennis plays in sets. No sport is the same game with a different jersey.
Defense
One out, runner on first, and the ball is hit into the left-center gap. Which infielder goes out as the relay for the throw back in?
A real question
This is the whole product
Not trivia. Not "who won the 1998 World Series." Situations a coach shouts from the third base box, with the reasoning underneath.
Every question in every sport follows the rules and regulations set forth by organizations such as USA Softball, Little League, NFHS, USA Hockey, US Youth Soccer, and World Rugby, to name a few. When levels change, rules may also change, so keep that in mind.
In every sport
What a pack includes
Three rule levels
Because the rules genuinely change. Slow pitch bans bunting; fast pitch has the look-back rule. Little League has no leading off; high school does. You pick the one you play.
Five opponents
Rated one to five stars, and the rating isn't cosmetic. Tougher teams score bigger when you miss, and they make your defensive questions come from a harder pool.
Chalk Talk
A standing reference you can open any time: position numbers, cutoff and relay assignments, coverage charts, rules-by-level tables, and how to read a scorebook.
Scouting report
After every game, your accuracy broken down by category — rules, defense, situations, strategy — and a plain-language note on the one thing to work on next.
Built for
Players, parents and coaches
Players
Learn the reads that don't come up in practice. Ten minutes on the drive to the field is worth a season of "why didn't you throw it to third?"
Parents
Follow the game your kid is playing. Most of us learned one sport, and now we're watching a different one every Saturday.
Coaches
A way to teach situations away from the game, when you can't have all your players together. Chalk Talk works as a rules reference on the bench too.
Pricing
A dollar a sport. Three for all of them.
Subscribe to the one sport you play, or to every sport for the price of three. Subscriptions are either monthly or by the year. The first full game for every sport is free.
One sport
per month
$9.99 a year — two months free
Start here. Cancel the month the season ends.
All sports
per month
$29.99 a year — two months free
Three sports' worth for every sport — and every sport we add next is included, at no extra cost.
Prices shown in your language’s local currency. The App Store and Google Play charge in your own currency and set the exact amount.
- Unlimited games at every level and difficulty
- All questions in that sport, with full explanations
- Chalk Talk reference, always available
- Progress and scouting reports saved on your device
- No ads, no tracking, and no account needed to play
- Cancel anytime in your App Store or Google Play settings
The web version runs on any phone, tablet or laptop — no install needed. On a phone, tap Share then Add to Home Screen and it opens full screen like an app, and works with no signal.
Questions
Before you ask
What age is this for?
Roughly 7 and up, and the level you pick matters more than the age. Coach pitch, tee ball, flag football and the 10-and-under tennis pathway are written for young beginners. The high school levels are genuinely hard — plenty of adults miss the cutoff and coverage questions.
Do you collect any personal information?
Playing needs no account at all — the display name, optional team name and game progress live on your own device and are never sent anywhere. Subscribing does need one thing: a parent or guardian’s email address, so the subscription can be restored on a new phone. That is the only personal detail we hold. We never ask a player for a name, an age or an email, and children never create accounts.
We don't ask for an age, an email or a location. Notifications about app updates are opt-in and use an anonymous device token. Full detail is in the privacy policy.
Whose rules do the questions follow?
The governing conventions for each sport: USA Softball and NFHS for softball, Little League and NFHS for baseball, NFHS for basketball and football, US Youth Soccer and NFHS for soccer, USA Hockey for ice hockey, FIH and NFHS for field hockey, World Rugby for rugby, and ITF and USTA formats for tennis.
Local leagues modify rules constantly — run limits, home run caps, mercy rules, contact ages. Every Chalk Talk screen says so, and the app tells you to check the book you actually play under.
Can one subscription cover the whole family?
Yes. App Store Family Sharing and Google Play family library both apply to the subscriptions, so a household shares one purchase per sport.
Why is each sport separate instead of one price for everything?
Most families play one or two sports, and charging them for the whole catalog would be silly. So the entry price is one sport for a dollar a month — less than a bag of sunflower seeds at the concession stand. The moment you'd be picking a third sport, the all-sport plan costs about the same as those three and covers all the rest, so there's no reason to pay for sports one at a time past that point.
I found a question I think is wrong.
Please tell us — that's the most useful message we can get. Rules change, and some are genuinely contested between rule sets. Write to us from the support page with the sport and the question and we'll fix or clarify it.
Is LearnPlayKnow affiliated with any league or governing body?
No. LearnPlayKnow is an independent educational app. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by USA Softball, Little League, NFHS, USA Hockey, US Youth Soccer, World Rugby, the USTA, or any other organization.