# Baseball Rules — user reviews > 38 indexed App Store user reviews of Baseball Rules by James Bettencourt, rated 4.40/5 from 50 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/baseball-rules/id1495289484/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/baseball-rules/id1495289484.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 40 · 4★ 2 · 3★ 1 · 2★ 1 · 1★ 6 ## Newest reviews (14 of 38) ### 5/5 — Great App *2022-04-03* The app is great especially on a specific question that allows you to search for certain words in the app to find a ruling quick and easy Age 44 **Developer response:** crib113456, thanks for the great R & R, could you please leave your contact info on our contact us page at https://www.baseballrulesinblackandwhite.com/contact-us, Jim ### 5/5 — Spectacular!! *2022-04-03, version 1.1.0* What a great app!! So helpful when looking up specific rules. Great for new umpires! ### 5/5 — Great for parents! *2022-02-28* So user friendly and necessary for those of us who are learning the game for the first time! I no longer have to ask my husband what just happened! 🤣 Highly recommend! **Developer response:** Love this great rating and review, have the best baseball season ever. Jim Bettencourt, Baseball Rules in Black and White CEO ### 5/5 — Great resource *2021-03-14, version 1.1.0* This app was suggested to me by a fellow baseball umpire. Super easy to use, and great resource for any umpire. ### 5/5 — Awesome App *2020-06-25* This is the best baseball rules app that I’ve seen. It was well written, well thought out, and well put together. Awesome for newer and younger umpires as well as anyone who wants to crack the book open to reference or continue their knowledge of the rules. I hope this app and James gets the recognition it deserves! ### 5/5 — Awesome App *2020-06-03, version 1.0.0* It was a shirt season but I used the App multiple times. This is a must for all Umps. Easy to use !!! ### 5/5 — BRIBAW APP 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽 *2020-05-16* What a great app! Very easy to navigate, easy to find rules in much easier to read language than the normal rule books. Great job Jim B and team. ### 5/5 — This app is perfect! *2020-05-15* This is a great app to overview before games and in situations where your rule book is not with you. It provides video and examples as well as the rules itself. If you are an umpire or even just trying to learn more about the game of baseball, this is the perfect app for you! Other than the actual rule book itself, this is my number one source for rules. The best free app for sports officials on the App Store!! ### 5/5 — 6 Stars! *2020-05-15* If I could give this app 6 stars, they would get 7! Absolutely love how easy this app is to use, and how easy it makes the rules sound! Have a rule you’re unsure about because of the wording? Look it up in BRIBAW and read it in common english! Rule books sometimes are written in a way that make them hard to understand, but BRIBAW makes it easy to understand! 10 out of 10 will recommend! ### 5/5 — Great App *2020-05-15, version 1.0.0* Super easy to use and it is very interesting! ### 5/5 — Helpful app *2020-05-15* This app is great for any official, new or veteran. Written in a way that is easy to understand and the videos are great!! I would recommend thus app to any official. ### 5/5 — Great App *2020-05-14, version 1.0.0* Highly recommend. Has different rule sets. Must have. ### 5/5 — Love it *2020-05-14, version 1.0.0* Love the app and it’s ease of finding rules. Used it while studying for the yearly exam and found the rules in no time. ### 5/5 — Change in Review *2020-05-12* After changing the fonts as recommended by the Developer, it works great and easy to use. Great app! Disregard prior rating. **Developer response:** If you've enlarged your phones font size it prevents rule sections to open. Re-set your phone's font to default setting. Should solve the problem, if this does not fix your problem you can contact me through our website www.baseballrulesinblackandwhite.com ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Subscription experience is terrible *2025-02-22, version 2.0.5* Made a subscription with Apple App Store and didn’t recognize. Absolutely terrible and app keeps crashing on new iPad ### 1/5 — Little reason to pay *2024-10-09, version 2.0.0* I liked the app when it was free. Paying a subscription for an app that gives you rulebook is not something I’m willing to do. Just use UmpireBible. ### 1/5 — Not working *2020-02-21, version 1.0.0* No “Select” buttons appear in the screen for OBR and NFHS. I can only select NCAA but I need NFHS. ### 3/5 — Sadly to a paid subscription *2024-10-11* Was a good resource that I would have teens download who I would teach umpire classes to. Was great way to give them a fast reference if they got stuck on something. Unfortunately now it’s back to googling the rule. Free and simple, this was a perfect app for beginners. **Developer response:** Thank you for the kind words, and we did provide our app free to thousands for four years. Unfortunately, free does not sustain the cost of producing and maintaining a fast, multiple rules set, effective baseball rules resource. $10 is a small price to pay to have these great features quickly at your fingertips. Best regards, Jim Bettencourt CEO Baseball Rules in Black and White. ### 4/5 — NFHS Runners Lane *2025-12-13, version 3.0* Page not loading correctly to review all information ### 4/5 — New to App *2022-04-17* Just downloaded this app. Looks great! Can’t wait to use it once I start umpiring. First year coming this spring! Thx ### 4/5 — Easy to use *2020-06-04* This is a very user friendly app. I wish it had a baseball Canada option along with the High school and NCAA interpretations. But very quick and very efficient. Cheers ### 5/5 — Great resource for baseball officials *2026-03-10, version 3.0.2* Great resource for baseball officials ### 5/5 — Simple and Visual *2026-02-07* First year doing college baseball this year and trying to pick out differences between nfhs and ncaa with just the rule book was overwhelming. This app really helps. Just make sure if you try to watch the videos in the app you don’t have a vpn on or it won’t let you watch the videos ### 5/5 — Excellent App *2025-02-20* Extremely well done app. Rules and format are so easy to digest. It makes it nearly impossible to advance your knowledge. ## Most praised reviews (7 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Excellent App *2024-04-10* Extremely well done app. Rules and format are so easy to digest. It makes it nearly impossible to advance your knowledge. ### 5/5 — Great app with big potential *2022-04-21* Coming from a young 18 year old umpire. I must say this app was great. It provided great rules and a lot more information for me as a whole. Overall great app and I hope that it succeeds ### 5/5 — Umpires need this *2022-04-19, version 1.1.0* A top notch and easy to use guide that quickly explains any rule you need to access. It’s a must have at any level! I use it for youth baseball and it’s come in handy more than once. **Developer response:** Hello carrier1031, thanks for the great R & R, could you please leave your contact info on our contact us page at https://www.baseballrulesinblackandwhite.com/contact-us, Jim ### 5/5 — Convenient and user friendly *2022-04-18* I plan on officiating high school baseball games next spring as my post retirement job/hobby. I got the NFHS Rulebook as a gift so I could begin studying the rules and to have on hand as I attended baseball games in person to see how umpires interpret and enforce the rules. This app has made it much more convenient to quickly navigate to a particular rule or subject in seconds. Easy to read and is in line perfectly with the rules in the hard copy with rule numbers and everything for reference. I’m 47 years old and not the most tech savvy but this app is easy to follow. For new umps I suggest downloading this app and actually go to some games before you ever set foot on the field and follow along on the app as the ump makes calls, especially the lesser known or rare situations that occasionally occur during games. This has definitely helped my understanding of the rules tremendously. Shawn ### 5/5 — Amazing *2022-04-17, version 1.1.0* This app has helped me a lot to learn and better understand the rules not baseball. Im 20 and have been umping for years and with this app its helped me learn new rules I can apply to the game. ### 5/5 — Great App *2022-04-06, version 1.1.0* This app will help me, 26, learn the rules for NFHS while maintaining the ability to understand the differences with NCAA and high school. Not to mention, it is VERY easy to use. Would recommend to anyone! ### 5/5 — Nice App *2022-04-03* I’m a second year umpire and this app really is helping me understand the rules better. At 47, I made a late start and learning new “tricks” is tough but they simplified method here is amazing. **Developer response:** Shneven106, thanks for the great R & R, could you please leave your contact info on our contact us page at https://www.baseballrulesinblackandwhite.com/contact-us, Jim --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-11.*