For players
Be seen by more than whoever happens to be on the touchline
Upload your clips, tag them so somebody looking can actually find them, and see who has viewed you. Teams, calendar and call-ups live in the same app. Breakout is used from age 13, and as a young player everything you post is private until you decide otherwise.
Talent should not be limited by division
Three things cause good players to be missed. None of them is about how good they are.
The matches are played with nobody watching
In lower divisions there is rarely a scout on the touchline. Your best match may well be the one nobody outside the team saw.
There is nowhere to show yourself
The clips stay on your phone, or in a story that is gone within a day. Nobody looking for a player is going to find them there.
You never find out whether anyone watched
Even when something does move forward, feedback rarely follows. You do not know what worked, and you do not know who saw it.
How it works
Four steps, and the first takes a couple of minutes
Most of the work sits in step three. It is also what decides whether you get found.
Build your profile
Position, club, league, shirt number, height, stronger foot, strengths and weaknesses. Every field you fill in is one more filter you can turn up in when somebody searches.
Upload a clip
Pick from your camera roll, trim off the run-up and choose a cover frame. 90 seconds maximum — roughly as long as anyone will watch anyway. Three clips a day are included free.
Tag it so you get found
Set clip type, moment, position, phase of play and match context. The tags are what make a scout searching for a full-back finishing in youth football turn up your clip. An untagged clip is seen by little more than the people already following you.
Follow what happens
Views, likes, scout likes and new followers, with the change against the previous period. You see which clips are doing well and which tags are pulling.
Free
What you get without paying
Everything below is included. What premium adds is further down the page.
Your feed
Three views: the people you follow, the latest, and what is performing right now. Like, comment and follow other players — and get followed back.
Three clips a day
Upload, trim and tag. Every clip is screened automatically before it goes live, so the feed stays clean.
Challenge of the month
Submit an entry and follow the leaderboard. Points come from views, likes, scout likes and how many different people commented. Finish in the top three and your profile carries a medal everyone can see.
XP, levels and badges
A hundred levels and around twenty awards. You earn XP for uploads, for the likes you receive, considerably more for a scout like — and for a scout visiting your profile. There is a leaderboard per sport.
Teams and calendar
Call-ups you answer with a reason when you cannot make it, squad selection before a match, a chat per event so Sunday's questions land in the right place, and the whole calendar subscribable from your phone's own calendar app.
Ratings in five parts
Coaches and scouts can rate defending, passing, strength, shooting and technique. You can ask somebody you follow for one — and switch ratings off entirely if you would rather not have them.
Privacy
You decide who sees you
Breakout is used from age 13. If you are between 13 and 17 your account starts private and invisible to both scouts and coaches. Not as a setting you have to go looking for, but as the starting point. You switch visibility on yourself when you want to, and can switch it off again just as easily.
It is built that way on purpose. A profile that sits open until somebody actively closes it puts the burden on the wrong person.
- Your town and region are never shown to anyone outside your circle — whatever your age.
- A shared clip link does not work at all if you are under 18. It answers that the page does not exist.
- You see which scouts and coaches have visited your profile, and get a notification when somebody starts watching you.
- A parent can link their account to yours and then pause it, approve or decline trials if you are under 15, and ask us to delete it. They cannot read your messages.
- You can switch ratings off completely. With them off, nobody can rate you.
What Breakout does not do
Four things worth knowing before you download, so you do not go looking for them:
- We have no match statistics. No goals, no assists, no tables. Goals and assists exist only as tags on a clip — the statistics are about how your clips perform, not about how you perform on the pitch.
- The club you play for is something you type in yourself. We do not check it against the federation, so it is not proof of anything.
- There is no recording inside the app. You pick clips from your camera roll — film with whatever you like, a phone on a tripod goes a long way.
- There is no chat between you and a scout. An accepted contact request opens a dialogue, but your contact details are never handed over automatically.
And one more, which is easy to assume the opposite of: premium does not make you more visible. Where you land in feeds and searches is decided by how the clips perform — not by whether you pay.
Common questions
You get a long way free: profile, three clips a day, challenges, XP and levels, teams and calendar, and ratings. Premium unlocks unlimited uploads and the full statistics — including the names of the scouts who visited your profile.
At least 13. If you are under 18 your account is private and invisible to scouts and coaches until you choose otherwise. We do not require a guardian's consent for you to create the account, but use the app with your parents' knowledge — and go through the settings together.
No. Where you land in feeds and searches is decided by how the clips perform — views, likes, scout likes, comments and how recent it is. The subscription is not part of that calculation anywhere. What premium gives you is that you see more, not that others see more of you.
The whole picture, not just the highlights. Goals and dribbles say less about you as a player than how you move when you do not have the ball — how you transition, how you defend, how you chase back when you have lost it. Post several clips showing different parts of your game rather than one with your five best moments. Whoever is watching is looking for a player, not for a showreel. Always tag clip type, moment and position — the tags are what make you turn up when somebody searches.
Only scouts and coaches, and only ones we have verified by hand. They send a request you can decline. If you accept, the dialogue is open — but we never hand over your email or phone number automatically, and there is no chat between you inside the app.
You delete the account in the app or through the form here on the website. Clips, profile and associated data go with it. You can also simply make the account private if you want a break without deleting anything.
Three things matter, in this order. Fill in your profile — every field is one more filter you can turn up in when somebody searches. Tag every clip with its type, moment and position, because tags are what a scout searches on. And switch on visibility to scouts in settings; if you are under 18 it is off to begin with.
You always see how many scouts and coaches have visited, and you get a notification when somebody starts watching you. Their names — and how many times each of them came back — are part of premium, under Audience in your statistics.
Download and post your first clip
The profile takes a few minutes. Pick a clip you are happy with, tag it properly, and see what happens in the first week.