The ticksheet that does the asking
A spreadsheet waits for somebody to fill it in. SideMinder asks: each week it emails your side what needs an answer, and most people reply with two taps, straight from the email.
Free for your first year, then £30 a year for the whole side.
It does the chasing, so nobody has to
Running a side is mostly finding things out: who's free, where you're dancing and what the meeting decided. SideMinder keeps all of it in one place, on everybody's phone. It chases the answers too, so nobody spends Sunday evening doing it.
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The counting's done for you
Every dance out totals its yeses, with dancers, musicians and guests counted separately. The maybes and blanks are counted too, so you know who's left to ask.
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It does the asking
The Weekly Digest emails each member whatever still needs an answer. Tap Yes, No or Maybe beside each one, then confirm, and the answer is recorded without signing in.
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Dance outs land in your calendar
Subscribe once and every dance out appears in your phone's calendar. When a date or a place changes, your calendar changes with it.
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Nobody's left out
Anybody can put in an answer for somebody who rang. Every change is recorded, and tapping a square shows who made it and when.
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The record keeps itself
A dance out files itself the day after, with everybody who came. People who stop dancing become associate members, and keep their history.
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No app and no password
SideMinder works in the browser on any phone, tablet or computer. You sign in once from a link in an email, and it remembers you after that.
An empty square isn't a no
A spreadsheet is good at recording what the side already knows. It's poor at finding out, because somebody has to read down the column and chase whoever hasn't answered.
On the ticksheet, everybody has their own column and fills it in from wherever they are. An empty square means nobody has answered yet, and the Weekly Digest keeps asking until they do.
Whoever's organising Saturday can look once and see if there's a set, a band and somebody to call the dances.
It can look like your side
Your side's name and badge sit at the top of every page, and the badge is its icon on your home screen. Colours of your own choosing run through the whole thing. An admin sets them on the Theme page, and can change them whenever the side likes.
Switch on only what your side needs
Start with the ticksheet and add the rest when you want it. Anything you leave off never appears, so nobody faces a row of empty tabs.
One side might use the ticksheet alone for years. Another runs its whole year through SideMinder. It's the same app, at the same price.
- Dances
- Lists
- Music
- Minutes
- Docs
- Polls
- Practice notes
- Associate members
- Calendar feed
Other performance groups welcome too; rapper, sword, clog, music, etc
Cotswold or border, rapper or longsword, a side's year has the same shape. There's a list of dates, a list of people, and somebody working out whether the two add up.
When your side is set up, you choose morris, rapper or longsword words, so a rapper group could be called a team, not a side, for example. An admin can retype any of the words later, on the Theme page.
The demo (opens in a new tab) has all three, each with its own invented side.
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And the band
It was made for Hereburgh Morris first
SideMinder was written by one of Hereburgh Morris's dancers, to replace the side's spreadsheet. Hereburgh have run on it since the summer of 2026, with records going back to 2017.
That's around twenty dancers and musicians, aged from their twenties to their eighties. Every part of SideMinder was shaped by a problem the side really had.
Free for your first year
After that it's £30 a year for the whole side, however many members you have. Setting a side up takes a few minutes, so most of the wait is for a reply to your email.