SpiralXO vs Pro Quick Draw: Which Fits Your Program?

Last verified February 2026.

If you have looked at football playbook software, you know Pro Quick Draw. In market since 2018, holding a US patent, with customers running from high school through the CFL and NFL.

Coaches who use it tend to like it. That is worth something in this industry.

So if you are searching for a Pro Quick Draw alternative, here is the straight version. This comparison is not about who draws a better play. Both draw good plays. It is about what happens to that play after you finish drawing it.

The Short Answer

Pro Quick Draw is a drawing and formatting tool that runs inside PowerPoint and Visio, helping coaches build playbooks, scout cards, and install presentations. SpiralXO is a connected system where the play you draw becomes the install, the quiz, the practice script, the scout card, and the call sheet.

What Pro Quick Draw Does Well

They made a smart bet early. Rather than building a new drawing program and asking coaches to learn it, they built on top of software coaches already knew.

You install it as an add-in. You keep working in PowerPoint or Visio. But now you have football-specific shapes, stencils, routes, field backgrounds, and starter plays organized for offense, defense, and special teams.

Their templating is genuinely strong. Routes, blocking schemes, formations, and full concepts get drawn once and reused. Because PowerPoint sits underneath, every shape, color, line weight, and label is yours to modify down to the pixel.

Their integration list is long: Hudl, QwikCut, Catapult, PFF, GoArmy Edge, GoRout.

And your work saves as .PPTX and .VSDX files in your own folders. If file ownership is your top priority, that is a real point in their favor and worth knowing before you compare anything else.

Playbook pricing is not published. Third-party reviews have reported the high school tier around $199 to $250 a year, though that figure is a couple of seasons old. Get a current quote.

What Happens After You Draw It

Here is the workflow question that decides this comparison.

You have built an install presentation. It looks great. Now what?

You want film in it, because kids learn from film. So clips come out of your video platform and into the deck. Then the deck exports as a video, because a PowerPoint file is not something a seventeen year old opens on his phone. Then that video goes back up to the video platform so players can find it.

Pro Quick Draw has been working on this. Their Cutup Generator connects to Hudl and QwikCut and automates a real chunk of it, listed at $750 a year. That is a genuine build and they deserve credit for it.

Look at where you still end up. You are producing a file, then moving that file somewhere else so players can see it. And that file is frozen. Change the protection midweek and the video you exported on install day is wrong, with no way for it to know.

In SpiralXO the presentation is not a file. It is part of the system.

You build it inside the platform. Cutups drop in without a download. Playbook plays, scripts, and scouting information drop in because they already live there. You share it and players have it on their phones.

Then you open the analytics and see that eleven of your fourteen offensive linemen watched and three did not. That is useful before kickoff instead of after.

Change the play in your playbook and everything downstream updates. There is no exported video sitting somewhere carrying last week's blocking rules.

Want to see that run against your own install? Book a demo.

The Quiz Nobody Writes

This is the piece with no counterpart on the other side.

When you build your playbook in SpiralXO, the platform generates player quizzes off it automatically. No coach writes a question. No coach builds a bank.

You draw the play. The quiz exists.

Players take them for self-study on the bus or in study hall. Results come back by player and by concept. If your backup center is missing his rule on every odd front question, you know that Tuesday.

That matters at every level. A staff with three graduate assistants still has weeks where nobody gets to it. Automatic means it happens regardless of what else the week threw at you.

And a better looking install does not tell you whether the install worked. A quiz does.

Feature Comparison

"Not publicly marketed" means exactly that. Their public pages cover the playbook tool, the Cutup Generator, and integrations. If a row matters to you, ask them directly rather than trusting a comparison table. That includes this one.

Where Each One Fits

Pro Quick Draw fits the coach who wants total control over how a play looks and wants his files sitting on his own drive. If you have strong opinions about line weights and label placement, PowerPoint gives you a level of control a purpose-built platform never fully will.

SpiralXO fits the program that needs the playbook to reach players and report back.

If kids are blowing assignments, a cleaner drawing does not fix it. Players who can open an animated play with teach tape attached, quiz themselves, and get tracked on it, does.

It also fits programs managing more than a playbook. Practice plans, scripts, scouting, call sheets, roster, depth chart, events, and staff communication all run through the same system. A drawing add-in is not trying to do those things.

SpiralXO publishes pricing. Plans start at $1,500 a year, which includes two teams at no extra cost, and Elite starts at $2,000 with four teams and live analytics. Final pricing depends on program size.

There is also SpiralXO Lite at $29 a month or $299 a year with a 30-day free trial, so you can put hands on it before anybody signs anything.

Can You Run Both?

Some programs do. If a coach has ten years of library built in PowerPoint, nobody needs to throw that out.

The friction is two playbooks. The pretty one in PowerPoint and the working one feeding your quizzes, scripts, and call sheet. Keeping those matched is a job that lands on whoever has the least time.

Most staffs that try it pick one within a season.

The Bottom Line

Pro Quick Draw builds a beautiful playbook and they have been doing it longer than most. If drawing is the craft you care about, they have earned their reputation.

The gap they were never built to close is the one between the playbook and the player. The kid who never opened it. The install taught three different ways. The weekend spent moving clips between platforms so somebody might watch a video.

SpiralXO closes that. One system, all week. The play becomes the install, the animation, the film clip, the quiz, the script, the scout card, and the call sheet. Share it in a click and see who actually studied.

If you want the best drawing tool in football and nothing more, Pro Quick Draw is a strong choice.

If you want the playbook to reach your players and tell you whether it worked, that is a different kind of tool.

Book a Call with SpiralXO and bring your actual problem.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is SpiralXO a Pro Quick Draw alternative?

For most programs, yes. Both let you template routes, blocking schemes, and formations and reuse them across a staff. SpiralXO adds animated plays, attached film, auto-generated player quizzes, and instant sharing with viewership data. Pro Quick Draw offers deeper drawing customization because it runs inside PowerPoint.

Does SpiralXO save and reuse routes and blocking schemes?

Yes. Draw a route, a blocking scheme, or an entire protection once and save it. Every coach on staff pulls the same drawing, so the same concept looks identical no matter who builds the play. That consistency carries into installs, scripts, and scout cards automatically.

What does Pro Quick Draw cost?

Pro Quick Draw does not publish playbook pricing. Third-party reviews have reported the high school tier around $199 to $250 a year, though that figure is dated. Their Cutup Generator is listed at $750 a year. Request a current quote directly from them.

Can I put film in my playbook with SpiralXO?

Yes. Teach tape attaches directly to any playbook play, and cutups drop into presentations without downloading anything to your computer. You share it inside the platform and players open it on their phones, and you can see who watched.

Do I have to write my own player quizzes in SpiralXO?

No. Quizzes generate automatically from your playbook with no coach input. You draw the play and the quiz exists. Results come back by player and by concept, so you can see who knows the material before game day rather than after.

Do I keep my playbook if I stop using SpiralXO?

Export is available. Pro Quick Draw has a genuine advantage here worth naming: their files save natively as .PPTX and .VSDX in your own folder system, so the work is portable by default. If total file ownership is your priority, weigh that.

Can I use SpiralXO on a Mac?

Yes. SpiralXO runs in a browser, so it works on Mac, Windows, iOS, and Android with nothing to download. Coaches and players can open the same playbook, installs, and quizzes from whatever device they already carry.