--- title: "Coach's Eye Alternatives for Golf Instructors (2026)" description: "Coach's Eye was discontinued in 2022. Compare the best replacements for golf instructors — V1 COACH, Hudl Technique, OnForm and Swing Profile — on price and features." lang: en json-ld: | [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Organization", "name": "V1 Sports", "url": "https://swing-analysis.v1sports.com/swing-analysis/" }, { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "FAQPage", "mainEntity": [ { "@type": "Question", "name": "What happened to Coach's Eye?", "acceptedAnswer": { "@type": "Answer", "text": "TechSmith retired Coach's Eye on 31 March 2022. 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V1 COACH is the paid tier for professionals running a teaching business." } }, { "@type": "Question", "name": "Can I import my old Coach's Eye videos?", "acceptedAnswer": { "@type": "Answer", "text": "Videos saved to your camera roll or exported before the shutdown can be imported into V1 GOLF or V1 COACH like any other clip. Anything left only in the Coach's Eye cloud was deleted when the service closed." } } ] }, { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Article", "headline": "Coach's Eye Alternatives for Golf Instructors (2026)", "description": "Coach's Eye was discontinued in 2022. Compare the best replacements for golf instructors — V1 COACH, Hudl Technique, OnForm and Swing Profile — on price and features.", "author": { "@type": "Organization", "name": "V1 Sports" }, "mainEntityOfPage": "https://swing-analysis.v1sports.com/swing-analysis/coachs-eye-alternatives" } ] --- # Coach’s Eye Alternatives for Golf Instructors Coach’s Eye shut down on 31 March 2022. If you taught with it, here is an honest comparison of what to move to — and why golf instructors mostly landed on V1. ## The best Coach’s Eye alternative, in short For golf teaching professionals, **V1 COACH** is the closest one-for-one replacement for Coach’s Eye: the same draw-on-video, slow-motion, voice-over lesson workflow, plus a student library and direct delivery to the player’s phone. If you only need to review your own swing, **V1 GOLF** is free and covers recording, slow motion and side-by-side comparison. ## Comparison at a glance App Price Golf focus Drawing & telestration Remote lessons V1 COACH Paid; V1 GOLF player app free Golf-first, built with PGA instructors Full drawing, angles, timeline, voice-over Yes — send lessons to students' V1 GOLF app V1 GOLF (free) Free on iOS & Android Golf-first Lines, angles, slow motion, side-by-side Request review from a V1 COACH instructor Hudl Technique Free tier, paid upgrade Multi-sport, no golf specialisation Basic drawing and slow motion Limited OnForm Subscription per coach Multi-sport Strong annotation and voice-over Yes Swing Profile Subscription Golf-only, auto swing detection Auto-tracing, fewer manual tools Limited Pricing and feature sets change; check each vendor before committing. ## What golf instructors lose when they pick a multi-sport app Generic multi-sport tools handle video fine, but they were never built around a lesson business. Golf-specific gaps show up fast: no Tour swing reference library to compare a student against, no P1–P8 position vocabulary, no student roster that keeps every past lesson in one place, and no companion player app so the student can re-watch your voice-over at the range a week later. That last point is the one most ex-Coach’s Eye instructors raise. A lesson that lives only in a shared file gets lost; a lesson delivered into the student’s own swing app gets rewatched. ## Frequently asked questions ### What happened to Coach's Eye? TechSmith retired Coach's Eye on 31 March 2022. The apps were pulled from the App Store and Google Play, cloud accounts were closed, and existing installs no longer receive updates or support — so instructors relying on it needed a replacement. ### What is the best Coach's Eye alternative for golf instructors? For golf specifically, V1 COACH is the closest replacement: it keeps the telestration, slow-motion scrubbing and voice-over lesson workflow Coach's Eye users expect, and adds a golf-specific student library, lesson delivery to the V1 GOLF player app, and a Tour swing reference library. ### Is there a free Coach's Eye alternative? Yes. V1 GOLF is free on iOS and Android and covers recording, slow motion, drawing tools and side-by-side comparison — enough for a player or a coach reviewing their own students informally. V1 COACH is the paid tier for professionals running a teaching business. ### Can I import my old Coach's Eye videos? Videos saved to your camera roll or exported before the shutdown can be imported into V1 GOLF or V1 COACH like any other clip. Anything left only in the Coach's Eye cloud was deleted when the service closed. ## Keep reading [Switch from Coach’s Eye: migration guide →](/swing-analysis/switch-from-coachs-eye)[Golf swing analysis, frame by frame →](/swing-analysis)[Side-by-side comparison tool →](/swing-analysis/side-by-side-comparison)[Drawing & overlay tools →](/swing-analysis/video-overlay)[For competitive golfers →](/swing-analysis/for-competitive-golfers)