Officials Assistant vs Ballplayer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Officials Assistant
Manage your sports officiating schedule, track game payments, and log expenses by sport. Generate compliance cards, email them to coaches, and get game count reports to ensure you meet requirements. Import assignments and back up your data to the cloud.
- Game scheduling and reminders
- Payment tracking
- Expense logging by sport
- Compliance card generation
- Game count reporting
- iCal assignment import
- Cloud backup and restore
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Officials and umpires can now track your schedule of games and get reminders, flag games as paid when your game check arrives, keep track of all expenses even by sport. Check out the pre-game topics for crew and coaches. Generate a compliance card with coaches signatures and email it to them while walking away from the pre-game meetings. Get a game count report at anytime during the season to make sure your on track to get your required games in. Import your game assignments from assigning website that exports your games by iCal file. Backup and restore your data to/from the cloud. The perfect assistant for officials and umpires through out the year.
Ballplayer
Track and share baseball and softball game statistics in real-time. This app allows players to record every hit, catch, walk, and stolen base, and share live stats with friends and family. Features in-app messaging and live activity feeds for a social game-day experience.
- Real-time stat tracking
- Share stats with friends and family
- In-app messaging
- Live activity feeds
- Comprehensive stat recording
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Ballplayer is a scorekeeping app designed to stay with you from the little leagues to the big leagues. Share your stats with your friends and family – every hit, every catch, every walk, every stolen base. Ballplayer is the social app for ballplayers to share and compare LIVE stats during their game, featuring in-app messaging and LIVE activity feeds.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Ballplayer at Free against Officials Assistant's $3.99. Ballplayer also leads on rating (4.0 vs 2.0) and ratings volume (60 vs 1). On ads, in-app purchases and device support 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
Ballplayer is free to download; Officials Assistant costs $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Ballplayer holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Ballplayer has 60 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Officials Assistant ships an update monthly, Ballplayer weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Officials Assistant | Ballplayer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $3.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 2.0 (1 ratings) | 4.0 (60 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 56.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 60 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 73 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Philip Cole | Baseball App LLC |
Customer experience
Officials Assistant
Ballplayer
Bugs and requests
Officials Assistant
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Ballplayer
Reported bugs
5 issues- Slow loading times on notifications
- App crashes or shows errors on tap
- Username unavailable error for account creation
- Age verification incorrectly flags users as not 13
- Inability to press 'DONE' to complete game creation
Requested features
5 requests- Real-time game stats
- Live video streaming
- Ability for parents to create multiple player profiles
- Ability to edit things in certain places
- Fix 'DONE' button issue for game creation
In-app purchases
Officials Assistant
No in-app purchases
Ballplayer
No in-app purchases
Questions
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