Tools for coaches: worksheet libraries, template shops and platforms, sorted by who fills in the page

Tools for coaches, in the sense Google ranks the phrase, are mostly pages with a blank on them: a worksheet, a form, an exercise. Somebody still has to fill the page in. Sort the five best-known sources by who does that, and they split four to one.

The AI Overview for the phrase cites The Coaching Tools Company, Paperbell, GoMasterCoach, upcoach and easywebinar. Underneath sit a school-literacy resource page and a Facebook thread about youth soccer, so one results page answers school coaches, sports coaches and life coaches at once.

What are some good tools for a life coach?

The free libraries that say what you may do with the page. The Coaching Tools Company lists 30+ free tools and forms behind its licensing terms. PositivePsychology names ten exercises and assessment tools, with five positive psychology tools as a free download, and the Institute of Coaching keeps dozens behind a member login.

Source	What it hands over	Price, pulled 2026-10-03	Who fills the page in
The Coaching Tools Company	30+ free tools and forms; an 81-tool paid pack	free list; pack price not stated	the coach or the client, by hand
Canva	coaching designs: posts, posters, logos, a workbook cover	”free and customizable”, in its words	the coach, before the session
Quenza	activities for clients, in its own words; sold by plan size	not stated on the page	the client, between sessions
A general AI, asked for a worksheet	a new page from your prompt	not stated	the coach, then the client
Ember	the session report, in your own boxes	closed beta	the AI you already use

In the text pulled from those five vendor pages on 3 October 2026, the word report appears nowhere.

Where do coaches find exercises for a digital coaching program?

In those three libraries, and in Quenza, which sells activities for clients on its own site. Two titles off The Coaching Tools Company’s free list: Kindness Bingo, and 21 Questions to Extraordinary Goal-Setting.

Quenza’s pricing page counts clients and seats rather than content, with Spark, Growth and Impact each including one practitioner and Collective up to three. No figure appears in the text pulled from it.

One coach in r/lifecoaching had already worked out which step was missing: “I was thinking of creating a website where client can fill out exercises while sharing the screen.”

Who fills the page in, and when?

A person does, in four of the five rows. The library hands the blank to whoever is in the room, and an AI asked for a worksheet prints another one. Canva’s design gets typed into before the call, and Quenza sends the exercise out so the answers come back to a coach who writes them up.

Call that boundary the fill-in line. It falls after the hour rather than inside it. Pages for the session are plentiful and free; the page somebody is owed afterwards is the one none of those four rows fills.

A fillable GROW worksheet shows the line plainly, four headings fixed and every answer still yours to write. Your own letterhead and sections is the same job one step later.

The last row is mine. Ember is a session-report builder in closed beta: it takes the session, and the AI you already use fills the boxes of a template you set. I build Ember, so weigh that row accordingly.

Pick by the side of the line you need. The hour itself is well supplied, and the page you owe afterwards is still yours to type, because a library’s job stops at the blank.

Questions people ask next?

Are the free coaching tools free to use with paying clients?

The Coaching Tools Company asks you to accept its licensing terms before you download. The Institute of Coaching asks members not to pass its tools on, with Lew Stern’s copyright kept on all of them.

Do I need consent to record a coaching session?

Consent rules vary by jurisdiction, so ask your client and check the rules where you both sit. That is not legal advice, and none of the five vendor pages pulled on 3 October 2026 answers the question for you.