Product update ·
Hello, sunshine: everything new on Eggbeater this fall.
A new look, a simpler app, a home for the whole family, an app for coaches, high school ratings, and five tournaments carried live. Five busy weeks, one post.
Confession time: we’ve been so busy shipping that we forgot to tell anyone. Since our last post on October 3, Eggbeater got a new look, a simpler app, a home for the whole family, an app just for coaches, and a front-row seat at five tournaments. Grab something from the snack bar. Here’s all of it.
By Eggbeater Water Polo · November 6, 2026 · 7 min read
The short version, for the pool deck:
- A new look: navy and sun, on every app.
- A simpler app: the same five tabs, one glance each.
- The Family hub: calendar, team chat, carpools and Studio.
- Eggbeater Coach: the coach’s office, on the App Store.
- High school ratings and strength of schedule.
- Five tournaments, live: Battle By the Bay, Tri-Valley, the Big Splash, WACC and NCS.
- We’re on Snapchat, with a lens for NCS.
A new look: navy and sun
On October 4, every Eggbeater app changed into new clothes on the same night: iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, the Desk, the web apps and this website. One deep navy, one sunny yellow, and the Lexend type you’re reading right now. The old water polo ball icon has retired; the sun is our mark now.
The website is new under the hood, too: rebuilt from the ground up, with a tournaments hub, a help center and a What’s new page that lists every change, dated, the day it reached you.
The app got simpler (on purpose)
We took a hard look at what families actually reach for at the pool: the next game, the last score, the standings, their player’s stats and the team’s leaders. Everything else was getting in the way. Eggbeater 5.8 for iPhone and iPad keeps the same five tabs and makes each one a single glance:
- Games opens on one card: the next game, the last score and where you stand.
- My Player opens on your player: one stat line and the last game.
- Team leads with the season leaders.
- Standings tells you your place in words, not just a table.
- Share cards for a game, the standings and the leaders, made for the group chat.
Settings got shorter, too. The scorer and Apple TV now live under More tools, out of the way until you need them.
A home for the whole family
Two kids, three teams, one very full fridge calendar? The Family hub puts every child across teams and clubs in one place. On iPhone and iPad it’s now its own Family tab; on Android and the web, tap your initials.
One calendar, one chat
One family calendar with a reply for each child, practices and attendance, contacts you enter once, announcements with a Got it button, and a team chat built for safety. Fans who just want the scores can follow the games without the logistics.
Carpools
Each team can run one carpool: a coordinator, the drivers and the riders, with a reminder the hour before pickup. No more 47-message thread to figure out who’s driving to Livermore. Included with every club plan.
Eggbeater Studio
Every game’s photos and clips from the team’s families, plus the coach’s game film, filed under the game itself. Coaches and the club admin moderate. No more “can someone AirDrop me that goal?” Studio is included with club, league and tournament host plans; other families get it with Premium Spectator.
One account for Apple and Google
Signed in with Google on the laptop and Apple on your phone? Link them under Ways to sign in, and both open the same account: the same kids, the same teams, the same carpools.
Coaches got an app of their own
Eggbeater Coach landed on the App Store on October 31: the coach’s office on an iPad. Today’s schedule, the roster, games and team chat on one dashboard; a halftime replay with your real lineup by position; an Apple Pencil play board; and your playbook.
A day later, Coach 1.1 reorganized everything by job (Today, Team, Games, Prep and Club) and added a practice plan for every practice, a lineup for every game, and coach notes on every player. It’s free to install and included with a club plan; the same coach account opens the coach dashboard on the web.
And for club admins: one Publish button
The club admin was redesigned around the jobs you actually do (Events, Teams, Club and Records). Changes to games, schedules and rosters now wait as a draft. Review changes shows each one, and Publish to spectators sends them all at once. No more half-finished schedules showing up on a family’s phone.
High school: how tough is your schedule?
Players asked us a fair question: how hard is our schedule, really? Now every rated high school team has a team rating and a strength of schedule, computed by our own model from published results. Before a game, the game card shows both teams’ numbers; tap it for a side-by-side Matchup card. It works in high school tournaments too.
School pages also picked up season player stats from published box scores, alongside the records and scores they already carried for all eleven states. Find your school →
Tournament season, live from the first whistle
October and November were a blur of swim caps. Every one of these events got its own page, with every score live in about five seconds, the full bracket, and a history page for the record books.
Catch up on Battle By the Bay (Oct 2–3), Tri-Valley, the Big Splash and WACC, or follow NCS through the finals on November 14. Want the long view? NCS history, WACC history and Tri-Valley history go back years.
The tournaments hub also gained record pages for the Junior Olympics, the Super Finals, the US Club Championships and the Cal Cup State Finals: champions, finals and medal tables, mirrored from each organizer’s published results.
Rep your team on Snapchat
We’re on Snapchat now as @eggbeaterwp, and we made a lens for NCS. Tap to pick your school (26 of them), and a water polo ball bounces around the frame while your school sits proudly above the eggbeater mark. Scan the Snapcode in Snapchat, or tap it on your phone.
NCS Water Polo ’26, a lens by @eggbeaterwp.
Scan it in Snapchat, or on your phone: open the lens in Snapchat →
A few more things you might have missed
- Live video, in sync. When a club streams a game, the iPhone and Apple TV apps draw the score bar and the plays as of the moment on screen.
- The iPhone Duo. The Games tab opens like a book: the schedule on one panel, the live game on the other. See it →
- How-to videos. Our YouTube channel walks through the Desk, the scorer and the app, one short video at a time.
What’s next
NCS runs through November 14, with every score live on the NCS page. After that, more for the families who follow along all season, and we promise not to wait five weeks to tell you about it. The full, dated list of every change lives on What’s new.
Eggbeater, for spectators:
Eggbeater Desk, for the scoring table:
Eggbeater Coach, for coaches on iPad:
Follow your team this weekend.
Free for spectators. Live scores in about five seconds, the full bracket and your team’s path.
Open the NCS bracket