Family guide
For grandparents, aunts and uncles, and family friends. Someone — a parent or the coach — sends you a code, and you can watch the score from wherever you are, live, as it happens. See also: How grandparents and family can follow a youth hockey game live.
This is the simplest way to use RinkTally. You don't track anything, you can't change anything, and there's nothing to set up beyond the code. Following is free.
Getting started
You need a code or a link
Most of the time you'll be sent a link — tap it and it does the rest. If you get the code on its own it looks like ABCD-2345, eight characters. Only the player's parent or their coach can make one, so if you don't have it, ask them; there's no way to search for a player or a team.
A coach can also share one code for the whole team. That works exactly the same for you — you just see the team's games rather than one player's.
Signing in
Install RinkTally and sign in with Apple, Google, or a one-time code emailed to you — there's no password. Then tap Join a Team with a Code, enter the follow code, and you're watching. If you tapped a link, the code is already filled in.
Everyone signs in the same way, so what you follow is tied to you rather than to one phone: change or reinstall it and you're still following.
Entering a code by hand
Open the app and type it into the follow-code screen — the hyphen is added for you and it's not case-sensitive. You'll land on a screen showing who you're following and their team.
If it won't take, the app will tell you why: the code was typed wrong, it expired, it was turned off, or it's been used the maximum number of times. In every case the fix is to ask for a new one. After ten wrong attempts you'll be asked to wait about fifteen minutes.
Watching games
While the game is on
When the coach starts tracking, a Live Now card appears on your home screen on its own — you don't need to have the app open or refresh anything. Tap it for the full feed:
The score, which period they're in, shots on goal for both teams, and every goal as it goes in, with who scored and who assisted. It updates within a second or two of the coach tapping.
After the game
The card turns into the final score, and recent games stay listed so you can catch up on one you missed. Tap any of them to see how the goals went in.
What you can't see
The roster, the schedule, other players' stats, and anything the parent tracks privately. You see the game and the player you follow — nothing else about the team or the other children on it.
Following more than one
Two grandchildren on different teams? Three? There's no limit. Tap Follow another player on your home screen and enter another code.
Each player needs their own code from their own parent or coach — following one child doesn't give you access to their teammates or siblings.
When more than one of them is playing at the same time, both appear under Live Now and you can move between the two games.
Season stats
Open a player and you'll see their season totals: games played, goals, assists, and points. Those are free for followers. The game-by-game record needs a subscription.
Games your player missed aren't counted — a game they weren't at won't show up as a game where they didn't score.
If the player is your own child
Following is read-only, but if you're the parent you probably want more than that — your own stat tracking, season trends, and a say in what the coach can see. Getting linked is free.
On your home screen, tap Is one of these your child?, pick them from the roster, and the coach gets a request to link you. Once they approve, RinkTally moves you over to the parent experience on its own.
If you started watching before October 2026 without an email, you'll need to add one in Settings first. Being linked to a child means holding their stats, and that shouldn't rest on an account that disappears with the phone. The coach approves rather than it being automatic, because a follow code can be passed around and only the coach actually knows who the parents are.
Stopping
Open a player and tap Stop following — anyone else you follow is unaffected. To leave entirely, use Settings → Stop following everyone.
The parent or coach can also remove you, or turn off the code you used. If the games stop appearing, that's the likely reason — ask them for a new code.
Your account
Settings holds your email address, your plan, sign-out and account deletion. Deleting your account is permanent and doesn't cancel a subscription — cancel that in the App Store or Play Store first.