Comparison

BASEBALL 9 vs Ballistic Baseball

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

BASEBALL 9

Experience a fast-paced, realistic baseball simulation with streamlined gameplay. Build, customize, and manage your own team of players, then compete to become the Legend League Champion. Enjoy both manual and automated play options, with comprehensive player stats and team management.

Highlights
  • Fast-paced gameplay
  • Realistic baseball mechanics
  • Player customization
  • Team management
  • Offline mode
  • Comprehensive player stats
Features
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Enjoy fast-paced, realistic baseball game, featuring compact gameplay and informative stats. Play BASEBALL NINE to become the Legend League Champion! * Game Features - Lean and fast gameplay! - Casual characters and serious game mechanics! - Pitching and fielding as fun as batting! - You can play base running manually! - Comprehensive player stats! - Improved Autoplay with selective automation of player, inning, watching, and quick result. - Rename, gear up, and customize your players! - Offline mode available! * Fast, compact gameplay! - Enjoy a speedy, streamlined playing experience. - Hit massive dingers and get thrilling strikeouts. - Specialized auto functions by game, by inning, and by player are a given! * Enjoy realistic baseball! - Experience gameplay with realistic baseball rules. - Simulated results based on actual game stats. * Recruit and develop your roster! - Recruit players and develop them by raising stats of your choice - Equip and upgrade skills to develop them into specialists. - Raise the player tiers to turn them into hall of famers. * Customize your players! - Rename them and set them as left-handed or right-handed batters or pitchers. - Change their faces, pick body types, and choose different batting and pitching motions. - Try equipping a range of bats, gloves, cleats, guards, and glasses to customize your players in unique ways. * Manage your team and get promoted to higher leagues! - Rename your team and change its emblem and uniform. - Expand into new stadiums and manage the team’s cumulative stats. - Advance to the postseason and win for promotion to a higher league. * Supports tablets. Indonesia Rating: This game has been rated IGRS 3+ by the Indonesia Games Rating System (IGRS).

About

Ballistic Baseball

Engage in thrilling head-to-head baseball matches, testing your batting and pitching skills. Compete in real-time showdowns, build your dream team in career mode, and aim for the top of the leaderboards. Experience the excitement of baseball with strategic gameplay and visually dramatic moments.

Highlights
  • HR-hitting contest
  • Real-time PvP matches
  • Career mode with player progression
  • Team building and customization
  • Strategic pitching and batting
  • Animated emotes for interaction
Features
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Ballistic Baseball has a new HR-hitting contest! Can you hit more home runs than your opponent? This HR-hitting contest requires hitting balls well, WITH accuracy! Earn bonus points by hitting targets, consecutive HRs, and random bonus pitches. Have you got the bat skills necessary to top the Game Center leaderboard in our new Ballistic Bash home run contest?! Put your baseball strategy to the test in live head-to-head matches where you’ll choose the perfect pitch to strike out opponents, or swing for the fences on your way to becoming a champion. Ballistic Baseball is a celebration of the Great American Pastime realized in a fun, larger-than-life art style. Email your feedback or questions: ballistic-support@gameloft.com For news, advanced help, and more, visit our official site at ballistic-baseball.com REAL-TIME SHOWDOWNS - Square off against real opponents in a real-time PvP baseball game! - With just a tap, you can direct every pitch, using a wide selection of pitching styles. - Step up to the plate and swing with easy-to-learn tap controls. - Challenge friends to private player-versus-player matches anytime! - Congratulate, amuse or taunt your opponents with fun animated emotes. CAREER MODE - Take your team all the way to the Big Leagues in a new Career mode! - Each win gives you Training Points that can be spent to improve your players’ Power, Contact, Speed, Fielding or pitching attributes. - Then take that team online to challenge your friends and the world! - Unlock Bronze-, Silver- and Gold-tier players, each with their own strengths and weaknesses, to create a unique team. A WINNING PLAN - Strategically pick your pitchers, batting order and field positions to make quick work of each opponent that steps up to you in the ballpark. - Earn XP for every achievement in your baseball games. - Customize the look of your players with a range of bats, helmets, uniforms and more to make your team unique. BIG MOMENTS - Feel the anticipation as the batter gets ready to hit the ball and run, or as the catcher’s mitt edges closer to the runner sliding into home plate. - Witness each amazing strikeout, close call, and home run that gets the entire ballpark cheering! - Ballistic Baseball captures and amplifies these moments in a visually dramatic style. Ready to play ball? Download Ballistic Baseball and begin your team’s rise to glory now! _____________________________________________ Don't forget to follow us on social media: Facebook: https://gmlft.co/BallisticBaseball-Facebook Forum: https://gmlft.co/BallisticBaseballforum Twitter: http://gmlft.co/SNS_TW_EN Instagram: http://gmlft.co/GL_SNS_IG YouTube: https://gmlft.co/BallisticBaseball-YouTube Terms of Use: http://www.gameloft.com/en/conditions-of-use Privacy Policy: http://www.gameloft.com/en/legal/apple-arcade-privacy-policy/ End-User License Agreement: http://www.gameloft.com/en/eula

Screenshots

BASEBALL 94 screens
Ballistic Baseball4 screens

Verdict

The call

BASEBALL 9 and Ballistic Baseball both sit at 4.5 stars, but that hides the real split: 80% of BASEBALL 9's written reviews are positive against 37% of Ballistic Baseball's. BASEBALL 9 also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 3 months) and chart position (#25 vs unranked). Ballistic Baseball's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 11) and ads (none vs shown). On price, rating, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. BASEBALL 9 sells 11 one-off in-app purchases. Ballistic Baseball asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for BASEBALL 9 against 4.6 for Ballistic Baseball. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: BASEBALL 9 has 136K ratings behind it against 22K, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 80% of BASEBALL 9's written reviews are positive against 37% of Ballistic Baseball's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

BASEBALL 9 ships an update every 3 weeks, Ballistic Baseball every 3 months. Both last shipped on September 25, 2026.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
BASEBALL 9 versus Ballistic Baseball: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBASEBALL 9Ballistic Baseball
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (136K ratings)4.6 (22K ratings) — better
Positive reviews80.1% of reviews — better37.4% of reviews
Number of ratings136K — better22K
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 3 months
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
Best chart rank#25 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV — better
Requires iOS12.0 — better13.0
Further details — not scored
Size396 MB1.1 GB
Age rating4+4+
Developerplayus softGameloft

Customer experience

BASEBALL 9

All ratings135,677 ratings
Positive89.1%
Neutral2.5%
Negative8.3%
Written reviews3,639 reviews
Positive80.1%
Neutral5.2%
Negative14.6%

Ballistic Baseball

All ratings22,139 ratings
Positive90.4%
Neutral4.6%
Negative5.0%
Written reviews398 reviews
Positive37.4%
Neutral22.9%
Negative39.7%

User reviews

BASEBALL 9

From 136K App Store ratings

What we love

  • ⭐ Great game, fun and addictive
  • 🎨 Vibrant graphics and smooth gameplay
  • 📊 Detailed statistics and team management
  • ⏱️ Ability to skip innings or games

Room to improve

  • 🤖 Unbalanced AI and auto-play mode
  • 💰 Expensive in-app purchases and grindy progression
  • 🔁 Repetitive gameplay and lack of variety
  • 🏃‍♂️ Issues with baserunning and fielding

Ballistic Baseball

From 22K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Great gameplay
  • 👍 Fun and addictive
  • 🎨 Good graphics
  • 💯 Best baseball game on the market

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Frequent glitches and crashes
  • 🔍 Difficulty finding online opponents
  • 🤖 AI too difficult to beat
  • 🔄 Repetitive gameplay
  • 🕹️ Lack of control over runners and fielding

Bugs and requests

BASEBALL 9

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Inconsistent batting and pitching outcomes
  • Glitches with player substitutions and dugout
  • Issues with base running and tagging up

Requested features

5 requests
  • Online multiplayer mode
  • More customization options for players and teams
  • Improved reward system and easier progression
  • Adjustable difficulty settings
  • Career mode or story-driven gameplay

Ballistic Baseball

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Freezing and crashing issues
  • Inconsistent scoring and gameplay mechanics
  • Inability to defend against bunting strategies
  • Runners getting stuck or not advancing properly

Requested features

5 requests
  • Ability to control pitching speed and location
  • More game modes and progression options
  • Stat tracking and league/season features
  • Ability to customize teams and players
  • Better online matchmaking and connectivity

In-app purchases

11 purchases

BASEBALL 9

One-time11
  • 200 Gems$1.99
  • 510 Gems$4.99
  • Daily Package$4.99
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  • New User Package$4.99
  • [Event] Accessory Package$4.99
  • 1,050 Gems$9.99
  • Trial Player Package$9.99
  • Premium Daily Package$29.99
  • 3,300 Gems$29.99
  • 5,700 Gems$49.99
  • 13,000 Gems$99.99
None

Ballistic Baseball

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is BASEBALL 9 free?
BASEBALL 9 is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Ballistic Baseball free?
Ballistic Baseball is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, BASEBALL 9 or Ballistic Baseball?
Ballistic Baseball is rated higher. BASEBALL 9 averages 4.5 out of 5 from 136K ratings, while Ballistic Baseball averages 4.6 from 22K ratings.
Do BASEBALL 9 or Ballistic Baseball have ads?
BASEBALL 9 shows ads; Ballistic Baseball does not.
Which is updated more often, BASEBALL 9 or Ballistic Baseball?
BASEBALL 9 ships an update every 3 weeks, and Ballistic Baseball every 3 months. Most recently, BASEBALL 9 was updated on September 25, 2026 and Ballistic Baseball on September 25, 2026.

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