# GameChanger Classic — user reviews > 50 indexed App Store user reviews of GameChanger Classic by GameChanger Media, Inc., rated 4.80/5 from 765,104 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/gamechanger-classic/id318906314/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/gamechanger-classic/id318906314.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 664,743 · 4★ 74,435 · 3★ 16,221 · 2★ 3,590 · 1★ 6,115 ## What do users think of GameChanger Classic? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 👍 Ability to watch games remotely - 🚀 Live updates and stats - 💡 Helpful for parents/grandparents to follow games - 👍 Easy to use and score games - 👍 Detailed analytics and stats tracking **Cons** - 🐛 Frequent crashes and glitches - 🔒 Poor customer service and billing issues - 🔒 Difficulty editing player information - 🔒 Logging out issues and connection problems - 💰 Expensive subscription fees **Commonly reported bugs** - Difficulty recording certain play types (e.g. pickoff errors) - Inconsistent player name pronunciations - Delayed or missing live updates during games **Most requested features** - Add time limit and run limit options - Improve lineup and substitution management - Allow multiple device logins - Enhance search and team management features - Integrate video broadcasting capabilities ## Newest reviews (13 of 50) ### 4/5 — Need Some Updates *2019-10-23, version 10.3* Hi there, I have used GC for 3-4 years now and the updates are getting better and I agree with the updates of the latest review. My problem lies with this situation: With a runner on base if my pitcher/catcher make a bad throw on a pickoff attempt then my only option is to select fielding error or other when it’s neither. I wrote in and was told to select fielding error as the errors all lump together. That’s not right because now the fielding percentage would be skewed and furthermore an error is assigned to a player who didn’t make it.... ### 4/5 — Few options for convenience *2019-10-20, version 10.3* I’ve been using this app for a number of years and over all the free version does its job. When I did use the full paid app I didn’t dig in enough to use all the bells and whistles. So if these feature are already available disregard. In all honestly overall no complaints! what I would like to see if possible is a couple of convenience features. Can you add a time start feature so that coordinators can keep track of their games. Also, can you add it to the Apple Watch feature to include a quick score and time screen while using it. Think about it, what better way to reference time and score then on the watch screen. Again merely suggestion to make a great app better. ### 5/5 — +\- Thougts *2019-10-18, version 10.3* The response time seems extremely long. I know much may be due to operator delay. Consider some movable icon to entertain the users while giving them a sense the person proving updates is still engaged. My wife just transition her older iPhone to my iPhone 6. I now have an iPhone 11. We were watching a baseball game while separately monitoring our twin grandsons play in a baseball game many miles away. Both of our phones have the free version of Game Changer (GC). During games I get to see the action of balls being hit. The ball’s path shows on my screen. That was the same way GC acted when it was my phone. Why doesn’t it show path of balls now? ### 4/5 — Watch Support...Please *2019-09-23, version 10.3* As a coach I would love the have the ability to get a very basic display directly to my watch so I don’t need to carry around my phone on the field. At least showing the Score, balls, strikes, outs, and inning. Quick look at my wrist during the game keeps me on point. Then when you are on defense to display switches to show the same from offense but adds the pitch count for the pitcher. Nice to haves would be on offense: what current batter has done this game, what on deck batter has done. On defense: show balls vs strikes for pitcher and the same nice to have above but for the opponent current and next batter. ### 5/5 — Great App to Manage 8u Baseball Team *2019-08-22, version 10.2* Hi, so far I’m enjoying the app. Not having to do math is awesome. Live updates are also a huge bonus as we have some parents in the military and can keep up with the game live when they’re abroad. I do have some feedback for the developers on the app. When you change your team name, the old name still appears at the top of the app and all notification still have the old team name associated with it. Should be a simple coding fix on the next version. Thanks for your time! ### 5/5 — Good app *2019-07-25, version 10.1* Nice; where else can you get a radio-like broadcast of your kid’s game!? Wish the app would change the pronoun applied to people, allow the user to select a gender so you don’t hear “they’re 0 for 1 today,” who’s they? Seems a simple thing to add. First-world problems, right? Mispronounces common names as well, and a disconnect warning would be nice—sometimes your hear the background noises but no game, and you can’t tell if it’s lost connection or if the person entering the updates is working on it. Also would be nice to get non/play updates, entries titled, titled “conference at the mound” and “coach-umpire discussion” would help there. But overall very glad to have it despite its minor issues. ### 5/5 — Great app *2019-07-03, version 10.1* This app is awesome to hav ether ability to watch you child play their game even when you cannot be there. It’s also a really great tool to check in on upcoming teams on the schedule. However, one feature that would be really great would be the ability to see previous searches when looking for a team. Sometimes you find a team and they are playing another team on your upcoming schedule, it would be cool to tap that team and be taken to their page. These would make the app so much more powerful. ### 5/5 — Keeping in touch *2019-07-01, version 10.1* I love this ap. I can watch my grandson all the time. I can also keep in touch with other young kids that I have met over the years and enjoy their journey in this sport of baseball. Years ago when our daughter was being recruited by Florida State University we wanted to know if we could get videos of her softball games. This ap would have definitely been beneficial at that time. My daughter stayed in the Midwest to play for the Northwestern University softball program. Go Cats!! Thanks for all the data that we capture from this ap as well. ### 4/5 — Good App *2019-06-29, version 10.1* Love this App. Easy to follow and score. Two things that prevent me from giving GC 5 stars are one, constantly having to log in. Any App that makes you enter your password nearly every time you use it, really isn’t an App. I might as well just use my browser and log in that way. It’s not like my team’s data is important to Russian hackers. Secondly, it would be nice if I could score a game after the actual game quickly. Sometimes it’s easier if I don’t have a parent available to score later. In that situation I want to load the data. Still the best scoring App out there. ### 5/5 — Game Changer Review *2019-05-18, version 10.0* It is a nice way for grandparents who cannot make the GE Ames to be able to keep up. Sometimes the scoring is not as accurate as you might want but that is a function of the individual that is feeding the info to the application and not the app itself. Also the lag time between pitches is unfortunate. The audio is pretty canned but I am assuming that unless we agree to pay a lot more it is about as good as it can get. All in all: a pleasing and efficient way to keep up with your team and players. ### 5/5 — Great Statistics App *2019-03-26, version 9.17.1* This app is great for keeping stats, following teams, and messaging. Way better than Team Snap for Baseball/Softball. However a few suggestions. 1) When editing team games/practice the players availability always reverts back to zero. So either the admins have to manually put the availability or each player has to do it again. I’m assuming this is so everyone gets the change. But this makes scheduling changes tedious. Maybe making a button to reset players availability an option when scheduling. 2) Can you add a function? Please add an “event” to the schedule. There are more team functions than just games and practice. This way all team functions are on one calendar. ### 5/5 — College Baseball Coach *2019-01-26, version 9.14* This app is such a great tool for me. I have easy access to spray charts from store throughout the season which gives us a tremendous leg-up in building a game plan with a detailed scouting report. I love the ability to send stats, pictures, and messages to players, parents, or position groups. This app allows the parents of my players to follow the games and get extremely detail reports despite the fact the game may be happening several states away. This is a great addition to any team! ### 5/5 — Excellent App *2018-11-12, version 9.13* I thoroughly enjoy using this app. Extremely easy to use, love the ability to “undo” when needed (especially needed when your a mom and you’re still responsible for your other kids during a game). Love that parents and other family members/friends can “watch” live when they can’t be there. There are just a few items that I would like to see enhanced. 1. I would like to have a place to enter the time limit for a game and have an official start time with a count down clock. While this would be nice in the profile for specific seasons, I think there needs to be an option to change it per game as tournaments often have varying rules. 2. I would like to see an option to add a run limit. In youth sports we often have a run limit per inning. This would be more helpful than a manual override to end the inning. As with the time limit, I would like to see it in the profile to set it for a season, but with the ability to override per game in case a tournament has a different set of rules. 3. I would like to be able to set a tournament schedule so it groups all tournament games together and allows for tournament stats as a sub set of stats to a team and player’s overall stats. **Developer response:** Hey cazzy - Thanks for the great feedback! I'd love to learn more about your ideas. Send a note to me at pete@gc.com. As for the game clock, we do allow you to enter a time limit and have the clock count down for you. You can configure that from a game's "Settings" as seen in the screenshots here: https://blog.gc.com/2018/09/27/catching-up-on-features-for-the-fall/. I hope that helps! ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Poor and inadequate customer service *2021-08-06, version 10.7.1* After four or more requests for customer service regarding billing plan questions, we have still not received the answers to our questions. They refuse to provide phone service and just keep responding (always more than a week later) with repetitive responses of what our current plan fee/s is/are. Check your account charges closely- we wanted to know if our families (and we) are getting overcharged with community team plans PLUS individual accounts, and they refuse to answer our questions. If you are paying $250 for a premium community membership for your team, that should refund/replace family member personal plan charges of $50, but they will not answer if that’s the case. It was not the case for our account- we are charged for both. ### 1/5 — Not a Manager - Player Review *2021-06-21, version 10.7.1* The updates are kinda cool if you miss a game, but 8 dollars a month to look at stats is rough. I can’t look at my own stats without paying. If there’s a way to only view you and your teams stats that’d be nice. They also have professional teams on this app, which I think is hilarious. Why would a fan pay for premium when they can get updates, box scores and stats from ESPN for free? Update: I went on the website to try and ask some questions. The person who answered said they need premium payments to keep the company afloat. Gamechanger is owned by Dicks, the largest sports retailer in the world…. Also, one of my teammates made the decision to buy premium, only to tell us it doesn’t work. ### 1/5 — More complex than iScore *2019-06-06, version 10.1* This app is not as user friendly as iScore. I wasn’t able to edit the line up after the game started. If this is an option I could not find it. I just found it more difficult to find the next options of a play than iScore. In iScore after each play it was ask you “what happened to the runner on 1st, 2nd, 3rd etc.” to remind you to move the runners. I also preferred tapping on a runner and the iScore app asking me what I would like to do with runner rather than me having to drag the icon to the next base. Then I had to take an extra second to make sure I held the icon on Safe or Out. At least with a simple pop up “runner moved to 2nd” the icon would auto move and I wouldn’t have to worry about dragging it. I also had a hard time bring in/out subs. This was new for me though...It would have been easier when setting the lineup if I could include subs as an option. Just like a paper line up has a separate section for Lineup and Subs. ### 2/5 — Game changer crashed *2021-04-05, version 10.7.1* The app crashed in the 5th inning of our game on 4/3/21. I was not able to score the game past that point. I contacted support via e-mail that evening (there is no phone number or chat support). I received a return email and was told they “refreshed” the game. It still did not work. A second return email asked me to “package” the apps data from the app screen. I did that but never heard back. The next evening I was able to follow instructions on the app’s help screen to delete the game. After that I was able to re-enter the entire game using the hand written book. As you can imagine this was quite frustrating and time consuming. In my past experience the app has been very easy to use but as this latest experience tells me their customer support needs improvement. ### 2/5 — Geendreemer *2021-03-21, version 10.7.1* I love to watch my grandson play sports, especially baseball. I am disabled and can’t always make it to his games so I watch it on GameChanger. This weekend he had a game so I decided to go for the free trial and if I liked it, I would buy it. When it first started out, I thought “this is going to be great”. About halfway through the game things started going downhill. I couldn’t see the game at all, the score was behind, the batting was behind and the program crashed!! Since I was in the free trial period I couldn’t get back to the person who usually does the plays for GameChanger. I was so frustrated! I actually had enrolled in your basic plan but immediately cancelled my subscription. I did not want the hassle that I was getting each time I watched a game. I liked the little extras that come with the paid subscription but not well enough to put up with the interruptions while I’m trying to watch a game. I am a senior citizen and am on a fixed budget. I can’t be spending money on things that don’t work like they are supposed to. Perhaps in the future I may try it again. But for now, I will just have to watch the local guy who does GameChanger at our games when I can’t be there. Thank you for your time. ### 2/5 — App freezes and logs me out constantly! *2019-07-20, version 10.1* I have been a premium member for years. Never ever EVER have I had SO many glitches as I have this summer. WHY does the app log me out every time I close it??! I will be watching a game, go read a text, come back a minute later, and I’m logged out!! This is not a banking app. It’s GameChanger. I shouldn’t get logged out every time I leave it for a minute!! The mom who does our team’s GameChanger says she gets logged out during games!!! That is unacceptable!!! I also often get the error message when logging in saying I’m not connected to a server—try again or go offline. But of course I am connected because every other app works perfectly fine. I never had these annoying issues before this summer. FIX THESE BUGS!!!!!!!!!!! ### 3/5 — Great App but Could Use A Few Enhancements *2019-10-27, version 10.3* App works great and love the analytics it keeps. Would like the see the following enhancements to make it an even better experience. 1. Allow the same account to login on multiple devices at once. I’m not suggesting unlimited but sometime like 2 or 3 would be nice (similar to how Netflix works). My wife and son also like to use it to follow friends’ games and we end up kicking each other out the entire time. 2. More filters in team searches would be very handy. Just a few simple ones like age, state, and year would be great. When searching for a team with a common name it would be nice to limit it to only 14u in TX for 2019 year so that I don’t have to scroll through a bunch of stuff like a lot of 10u teams in FL for the last 8 years. ### 3/5 — Meh *2018-09-25, version 9.11* I got this app about a year ago when my son’s team used it, however I haven’t used it since because my son doesn’t play for that team anymore. I deleted the app until today because his current team is using it. With three kids in sports my husband and I are having the to divide and conquer and it is nice to have to see how the game is going when we’re with our other kids. But I would love to be able to stop following my son’s previous team and there doesn’t seem to be an option for that. It gets pretty annoying to have teams you have no interest in pop up notifications. ### 3/5 — No more editing names? *2018-09-08, version 9.10* This app was great until this last version does not let you edit names on the fly or even on the team view. You type in a wrong name and you’re stuck and cannot edit. I don’t always have the roster handy and need to edit later. Sometimes I have to put an identifier until I get name/number etc. Anyone that has used this app knows how important that feature Was. Please fix ASAP. *update-I see the response, tried it, and it works. Still too cumbersome. Did update to 3 stars, because updates should not include taking 2 steps back to move one step forward. I do however, sincerely appreciate the reply. * ### 3/5 — Great app. Can only think of a few things to make it better *2018-05-07, version 9.2* It’s a terrific app. Easy to score games, and the detailed stats are pretty good. Seemed pretty easy for this beginner to get started with right away. There are a few things that would make it even better: 1) Many youth leagues have “mercy”, or run limit rules. It would be great if the app had a place to enter that limit in the team profile, and used that profile data to offer to end the inning when the limit is reached. 2) Many youth leagues allow pitchers and other players to be substituted out without losing their place in the lineup. It would be great if the app had a toggle for that in the team profile, and if toggled, automatically leaves players in the lineup when they are subbed. This will prevent some errors I have had in the past where I forgot to go back and put the player back in the lineup after I sub them out. 3) Many youth leagues have time limit rules for starting a new inning and ending the game. It would be great if there were a way to enter those limits in the team profile, and then the app could provide warnings when these limits are approaching or reached (maybe using the first pitch as a starting point if the scorekeeper doesn’t set it). 4) it would be pretty entertaining if the app could calculate a hypothetical “optimal” lineup based on past games. Or perhaps just a lineup based on sabermetrics :). ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — I am there when I am not. *2021-06-30, version 10.7.1* We were at a restaurant in another state when I pulled out my phone to see if Grandsons game had started. Low and behold I saw he was up to bat. I watched as my Grandson hit a 3 run homer. We screamed and celebrated! Granted we weren’t there but in a small way we were because I knew before anyone could call or text me. If I can’t be there, it’s the next best thing especially when you have multiple kids playing all over the area. ### 5/5 — Great Baseball App When You Can’t Be At The Game! *2021-06-18, version 10.7.1* L❤️VE Game Changer! It gives me the opportunity to have the experience of watching/hearing my grandson play when I’m unable to be at his games especially when they are played out of town. I keep up with the stats and share those and the summary with him. I can talk with him and know how he did. Our relationship has grown closer because of the information I’m able to have and can talk with him about his participation in his games. I’ve got his cousin interested in watching on Game Changer. She doesn’t drive yet and lives out of town. So thankful for it!! ### 5/5 — Please consider this *2020-12-15, version 10.7.1* Parents volunteer to follow the games and provide the data we watch on game changer. Some do a great job and don’t miss a pitch, others not so much. It’s taking your fan/parent time to report each play. I would like a button appear at the end of each game that a subscriber can hit that says “TIP” that we can give a monetary reward for those who disrupt their own leisure enjoyment of the game so that many relatives far away who can’t make the games can enjoy the kids game. ### 5/5 — Extraordinary scoring program! *2020-10-26, version 10.6* I keep score of ball games strictly for my own enjoyment. What I used to do on paper, I now do on GC. My favorite feature is that I have not come across any scoring issue that is not covered by the program, and I have experienced virtually all of them! My 4-star rating is based on one issue only. When I make a change to a team’s roster or lineup, for example a new player, regardless of the situation, I would like to see the program make the same change all across the program automatically. Hypothetically, if my Opponent is Team B, and I have to create a new player, say Player #43, in this particular game, then Player #43 should be added to the roster in all other instances where Team B occurs. That seems only logical to me. I must mention one other item. I have had occasion to ask for help several times. Let me say that your response has always been quick, professional, and effective, and when necessary, your team has stuck with me until the situation was resolved. Thanks for a great experience! ### 5/5 — Glad something like this is available. *2020-09-27, version 10.6* Being in law enforcement and working 12 hour shifts means working every other weekend. My boy plays travel ⚾️ and that means tournaments EVERY weekend. The weekends I work I don’t make the tournaments so GameChanger has been a LifeSaver! The kid is smart and he knows his daddy’s schedule but he still asks every time if I’m gonna come watch him play. Instead of just saying “no, sorry bud” every time I can follow that up with “but I’ll be glued to the play by play on GameChanger the whole time kiddo!” Kinda makes it more than about baseball at that point. Anyway sorry for the rambling but splitting weekends with his mama and seemingly missing out on half of his life makes GameChanger worth every penny and so much more! Baseball is his passion and he’s mine! Thank y’all for everything! ### 5/5 — A Good App That Could Be Great *2020-08-30, version 10.6* Not user friendly when it comes to following or unfollowing teams. Players change teams, move up to different age groups. It’s impossible to unfollow or delete a team off your team list. It should be NEXT TO THE TEAM! Too slow to use at the game, several pitches and plays behind. Most fields don’t keep using the scoreboard during Covid. (Which makes zero sense, it’s outside and in the sun) It’s good app to watch at home. Larry Geiger ### 5/5 — Opportunity to Watch *2020-08-11, version 10.6* This app is just fantastic for me to watch my grandson’s ballgames. First, I live in Michigan and I would not be able to watch any of his games! Second, I have health issues that make it difficult to stand or walk distances. This app gives me the opportunity to watch in real time from my recliner or my cell phone in Michigan! The real bonus is I can comment on the game so my grandson knows I was watching him play. This app is fantastic! It should be expanded so I can watch my granddaughters softball games. ### 5/5 — Needs a lot of work *2020-06-07, version 10.5* I don’t know if it’s the person taking care of the game or if it’s game changer itself but it’s not an app I’d pay for. I have paid for it in the past and it was great but the last several years it’s been horrible. There needs to be someone who is committed to taking care of the scores and what each player is doing. My husband and I are very disappointed in this. And it’s not like it’s the same team. Our grandson has played for several different teams over the years. All the same. ### 5/5 — Great ap *2020-02-28, version 10.4.1* Great app, just a little pricey. One time fee of $49 wouldn’t be too terrible. But, $49/yr is not a cheap app. Also would like to be able to be logged in from more than one device at a time. When I can’t attend games, my wife scored the games. She’s not very familiar with app and struggles create players, correct names and numbers, and make corrections within the app. If we were both able to be logged in at the same time, I could quickly make corrections for her and she could continue to score without missing any plays etc. ### 5/5 — Good App when not physically at game. *2019-12-08, version 10.3* Good App when I am not able to physically attend games. One issue, my daughter & niece on same softball team they both share the same first initial as well as last name. When they are on defense, it does not differentiate who is who. While they play multiple positions, it would be great if developers would allow for the 2nd initial in first name to appear so we can correctly identify which girl is where. On offense it does differentiate between players cause it shows the players number next to the name. Or simply add the players # next to the name while on defense etc. Hoping the developers can fix this or provide some valuable feedback. Other than that, the app is good although I have not paid for it nor tried the free trial. --- *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 2026-06-10.*