Player Highlight takes your game video, pauses on the moment that matters, draws the highlight — circle, arrow, or box — holds it long enough for everyone to see, then rolls on. Cut the clips that make a film session land, or the college recruiting reel that makes sure a coach never loses sight of your player.
Real output: the exported clip freezes right here, holds the circle on your player for as long as you choose, then keeps playing — original quality untouched.
College coaches skim dozens of reels. A freeze-and-circle at the start of every clip means they never waste the first five seconds hunting for a jersey number — they watch your player make the play. It's why this app was built.
Freeze the shape, circle the run that should have happened, hold it while you talk. Clips drop straight into the team chat so the lesson lands before the next practice.
Scrub to the moment, tap once to freeze it, drag a circle, arrow, or box over your player. Pick color, stroke, and how long the freeze holds.
Everything outside the freeze is byte-copied, not re-encoded — exports are fast and the video keeps its original quality.
Native QuickTime-style trimming built in — clip out the 20 seconds that matter before you annotate.
Point it at a folder of clips and work through them one after another — built for the night after the game, not one file at a time.
No uploads, no account, no cloud processing. Footage of your players never leaves your computer.
Buy it once, use it for good. No subscription, no seat management, no renewal emails.
Player Highlight was built by a volunteer youth soccer coach who was cutting a college recruiting reel and got tired of hoping the recruiter would spot the right player — and of saying "watch number ten… no, the other side of the screen" at film sessions. It started as a tool for his own players — now it's offered to yours.
That origin is why it works the way it does: it runs entirely on your Mac because game footage of kids shouldn't be uploaded anywhere, and it's a one-time $9.99 because a volunteer coach wouldn't pay a subscription either.
When he's not circling players, he's breaking down the youth game on YouTube at @soccercoachkw — and mapping team shape with DotMapper, this app's sibling.
Requires an Apple Silicon Mac (M1 or later) running macOS 14 or newer. Your license key arrives by email after checkout and activates the copy you already downloaded.
