Every Hobbit release, newest first: what shipped, when, and why it matters for your coaching week.
· Now on Google's latest image model, Nano Banana 2.1. · You told us the cards did not look quite like the child: the Photoreal style is now almost 100% true to the photo. · One page for everything: upload photos, set the style, make cards and download them, with no jumping between screens. · Only delivered images count: a failed image used to use up allowance, now only an image that actually arrives counts. · Allowance reset: every paying member has this month's 50 images back in full, so you can remake the whole squad without a second thought.
Open →A few accounts have been running automated scripts that generate session plans around the clock, so we have added a Hobbit rate limit: chats, session plans and drill diagrams are still unlimited, and only when one account uses a great deal within five hours or within a week does it pause for a while, picking up again on its own when the time comes. Everyday coaching has nothing to worry about: this is mainly to stop scripts and AI agents calling Hobbit in bulk.
Open →Recruitment posters, matchday graphics and player portraits are now drawn by Google's newest image model, Nano Banana 2.1, which is what the two bananas beside the title stand for. Pictures come out more polished, the text on a poster is more accurate, and faces and lettering hold steady through several rounds of edits. Why not let it draw a first version of your next recruitment poster?
Open →Every hour we read more than forty sources and coaching communities and keep the coaching methods, research and debates worth your time, and every Monday they become an issue. Each piece is printed whole, in your language, and every issue is a free PDF. The front page sorts everything by topic, so nothing is lost once its week is over.
Open →The whole club in Hobbit: a login for every coach, the director seeing every team on one page, a curriculum the club writes once and every session follows. It is being built now, and what you tick on the registration decides what we build first. Three minutes, nothing charged.
Open →Every ground the team trains at is pinned, the crest stands on it and a small count says how many sessions it has seen. Open any training or match and the same map sits at the top, with this one lit. Old sessions that named no ground get one question on the page, and one answer places them all.
Open →A band of days along the top scrolls to any week, and each event carries four dots for what it still needs: the plan, the parent preview, the register, the debrief. Open one and the day walks itself, before, during and after, without leaving the page.
Open →The team brain leads: the memory Hobbit keeps from your debriefs, the memo of what you have told it, your philosophy, then the squad and the material. Below it, a knowledge base of 5GB per team for outlines, photos and match video, which Hobbit reads when it writes.
Open →Players gathers every child across your teams: a wall of tiles for each training and match, and a fee account that takes sessions off the register you already keep. Income shows what came in by month and by team, who is due to renew, and how much prepaid work is still owed. Recorded, never collected.
Open →The tactics board now has stands, perimeter boards and corner flags in your club colours: import your roster and the players wear their own faces and names. Hobbit also runs on Mac and Windows now, alongside iPhone and Android.
Open →Report a problem, ask for a feature, or start a discussion, in any of our eight languages. Every post gets an answer: let us build Hobbit together.
Open →A pitch you can walk around. Choose a formation from 5v5 to 11v11, drag players and the ball one step at a time, then play the whole move back and turn the ground to whatever angle you please. For the training half, lay out cones, mini goals and mannequins, and carry the result away as a GIF or an MP4, free and with no account at all. Sign in and a board keeps its place in your tactics library, ready to reopen later, and any one of them can be shared with anyone on a single link.
Open →Two built-in standards have been added. From the German FA, Warm-up-Main-Close: the three-part unit structure DFB-Training publishes to this day, its main part composed of two connected, escalating forms, with variations as the difficulty control. From the Dutch FA, the Rinus Session: the session structure taught by the KNVB's official Rinus platform, a ball-rolling warm-up, two match-derived exercises and a closing match form, the tradition Hobbit's own free small-sided close descends from. This brings the built-ins to five: Hobbit DGC plus the current session structures of the English, US, German and Dutch federations, each reproduced faithfully from official coach-education materials, usable as they are or copied and edited into your own version. Every standard also displays its original international term alongside the localized name.
Open →Every club trains its own way, and every coach carries their own idea of what a session looks like. This update hands that back to you: on the new My Session Standard page, you shape your own session framework around your needs and your club's reality. How many blocks a session has, what each block is called, how long it runs and what it must achieve, all yours to decide; midweek sessions, matchday-minus-one, indoor rainy days, build a standard for each. From then on every plan is built exactly to the framework you pick, while Hobbit still writes decision points, rule design and competition into every block. Not sure where to start? Three built-ins serve as starting points: the Hobbit five blocks, plus England FA Whole-Part-Whole and US Soccer Play-Practice-Play, both crafted faithfully from official materials; copy any of them and make it yours. And one more thing: the old back-and-forth questioning before a generation is gone. Say one sentence, check the confirmation form, pick your standard, and off it goes.
Open →There is a new page in the sidebar, just under your teams. It counts everything you do here: the trainings and matches you run, the plans and drills you save, the debriefs you record, every question you talk through with Hobbit. At the centre is a grid of your days, one square each, coloured on any day you did something, with the run of weeks you have kept going right above it. Below that sit the themes you train most and the ones you keep putting off, how each squad turns up, and the milestones you are closing in on. Nobody usually keeps count of this work. Now something does.
Open →Hobbit's web search and research have been rebuilt from the ground up. It no longer answers off a single search: it breaks the question down, searches in several passes, opens the original documents and reads them end to end, and cross checks before it speaks, whether you are tracking how a coaching idea has moved, working out what a newly published curriculum actually says, or judging whether a study is any use for the age group you coach. You can watch it work as it goes, every query it ran and every page it opened, and the sources sit under the reply so each conclusion traces back to where it came from. Hand it a link of your own, an article, a curriculum, a paper, and it will read the whole thing before discussing it with you.
The beta days are behind us, and this is the biggest step Hobbit has ever taken. Until now everyone shared one clever assistant that forgot you the moment you left. From today, every team you coach has an AI agent of its very own, built on a team brain that knows the squad, remembers your philosophy and every note you leave, and grows wiser the longer you two walk together. It no longer just answers when asked: it drafts the training preview, tidies the match recap, sorts new signups, and runs the errands around your sessions on its own. One simple subscription opens all of it, unlimited, no counting. To everyone who trusted us in the early days: your support has already been turned into membership time, waiting in your account. Thank you for walking this far. The real road starts here.
Open →You ran the session, so no one reads it better than you: who shone, what needs work. Tap record and talk for a minute or two, and Hobbit polishes it into a tidy team debrief. Export it as a report for parents, players and colleagues, and keep it on your team timeline.
Open →A game-intelligence training session has four phases: Warm-Up, Technical, Skill, and Conditioned Game. They sit around one theme and build on each other in sequence. Tell Hobbit how you want one of them changed, and it redesigns just that phase based on your request plus the other three already in place, so you can polish your way to a session you are proud of.
Open →Anything that needs sign-ups now has a home: camps, weekend trainings, tryouts, friendlies. Build a form in a minute, share the link, and parents fill it in without making an account. Every name lands in your list as it comes in, ready to export or bring straight into a team when you need it.
Open →We used to say leaving Deep Thinking off would cost only a third of the credits. Now it costs nothing at all. Any signed-in coach can chat freely with Deep Thinking off, as much as they like. Save your credits for the heavy lifting: session plans, drill diagrams and writing still run with Deep Thinking on.
Open →Hobbit has a fresh new face. We rebuilt the home page to look sharper and load far faster, so a coach arriving for the first time quickly sees what is on offer. Next time a fellow coach asks what you use, just send them the link.
Open →Every match tells a story, and now it is yours to keep. Record who showed up and who found the net in a single flow, then watch the whole season's tale unfold right next to your training schedule.
Open →A season of small victories deserves more than a number in a spreadsheet. Generate a handsome end-of-term certificate for each player, with words the AI helps you polish so every parent keeps it on the fridge.
Open →Some questions call for a long, careful ponder, and others just need a quick answer on the touchline. Flip on Deep Thinking for the hard ones, or leave it off for everyday questions and spend only a third of the credits.
Open →Set out your lineup the night before the match on a clean, broadcast-style pitch. Arrange the formation, name your eleven, then share it as a polished image so the whole team knows the plan before they lace up.
Open →A saved idea is no good if you lose the road that led to it. Every bookmark now links straight back to the chat it came from, so the full conversation is one tap away whenever you need it.
Open →Turn an ordinary photo into a portrait your players will be proud of. Choose the scene and art style, hand the captain an armband or leave a shirt unnumbered, and let the AI do the rest.
Open →Nobody wants to type out a roster name by name. Pull a whole squad over from another team in a single step, and have everyone ready before the first whistle.
Open →Match recaps, team notices, those delicate messages to parents: the writing is often the hardest part of the week. Hand it to an assistant tuned for youth coaches, and turn a blank page into a finished draft in a moment.
Open →A coach lives by the week ahead. Lay training and matches out on a calendar with weekly repeats and a location for each, and let every team carry its own color, so one glance tells you how the week shapes up.
Open →Get the play out of your head and onto the pitch. Draw it by hand, or just snap a photo of your whiteboard (or that napkin scribble) and let the AI redraw it into a clean, share-ready diagram. No more wrestling with design tools.
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