Comparison

Baseball Stats Scorekeeper Pro vs Roots Playbook

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

Head to head
About

Baseball Stats Scorekeeper Pro

Track individual player and team statistics for baseball games and practices. Record offensive, pitching, and fielding data, with automatic calculation of key performance metrics. Save, email, or export your game data for easy analysis and sharing.

Highlights
  • Track offensive, pitching, and fielding stats
  • Automatic calculation of advanced metrics
  • Save and email unlimited game data
  • Export stats to CSV
  • Offline functionality
  • Universal app support for iPhone and iPad
Features
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Thank you for using Baseball Stats. You are the kind of baseball person who notices the details that decide games, and this app is built for that careful scorekeeping. Whether you coach a youth team, follow a weekend club, help a school roster, or track your own season, Baseball Stats gives you a clean place to record the numbers that matter. Baseball Stats is a local baseball scorebook and stat tracker for iPhone and iPad. Log games, players, teams, awards, photos, notes, batting, pitching, and fielding in one focused app. Keep your library on your device, review totals quickly, and share useful summaries when you need them. What you can track: - Games with date, player, team, opponent, position, status, notes, and photos - Players with names, notes, birth dates, profile photos, and related games - Teams with names, notes, photos, and game history - Awards with dates, player and team details, notes, and card images - Opponents, positions, game status, local notes, and record photos Batting and offense: - Plate appearances, at-bats, hits, singles, doubles, triples, and home runs - Walks, strikeouts, hit by pitch, sacrifices, runs, RBI, and stolen bases - Batting average, on-base percentage, slugging, total bases, and more Pitching and defense: - Innings pitched, earned runs, pitching result, walks, hits, and strikeouts - ERA, WHIP, opponent average, strikeout to walk ratio, and pitching totals - Pickoffs, putouts, assists, errors, fielding percentage, and range factor Built for practical baseball work: - Fast lists for Games, Players, Teams, Stats, and More - Search players, teams, opponents, and games - Review player and team summaries without rewriting old records - Share or print useful game, player, team, stat, and award summaries - Add photos from your library when a record needs a face, card, or memory - Use light, dark, or system appearance - Works on iPhone and iPad Useful for: - Coaches who want a simple baseball stat tracker for a roster - Parents who help keep a scorebook during long weekends at the field - Players who want a personal record of games, batting, pitching, and fielding - Scorekeepers who need quick notes, totals, photos, and shareable summaries - Fans who like following a team with more detail than a final score Season uses: - Build a player history game by game - Keep team notes close to the records they explain - Review batting, pitching, and fielding before lineup talks - Save award moments with a card image and note - Export a local backup before a new season starts Local by design: - Core baseball records stay in the app's on-device database - No account is required for scorekeeping, stat review, local export, or recovery - No cloud sync is required to open, edit, share, or export your baseball library - Import and export use local JSON files so you can keep your own backup workflow - Existing records remain viewable and editable even if you do not choose Pro Baseball Pro: - Free creation includes up to 5 new records per day - Free creation includes up to 15 total new records across games, players, teams, and awards - Baseball Pro keeps record creation available after the free limit - Monthly Pro and Lifetime Pro both support Family Sharing through Apple - Existing records, viewing, editing, recovery, sharing, printing, and JSON export stay accessible without Pro Baseball Stats is made for coaches, parents, scorekeepers, players, fans, and anyone who wants a dependable baseball stats app without extra clutter. Track the season, keep the scorebook honest, and bring the right numbers back when the next lineup, practice talk, player review, or postgame recap needs them. For monthly subscriptions: Monthly Pro is a 1-month auto-renewable subscription. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Roots Playbook

Design, animate, and share football plays with this comprehensive tool for coaches. Build formations, draw routes and blocking, and visualize plays with animated playback. Works offline and offers team synchronization options.

Highlights
  • Build custom formations (5v5 to 11v11)
  • Draw routes, blocking, and motion
  • Animate plays with step-by-step playback
  • Offline play design and viewing
  • Printable play sheets and wristband cards
  • Team synchronization for multiple devices
  • Share view-only links with players and parents
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Roots Playbook is a football play designer for coaches. Build formations, draw routes and blocking, call your defense, and press Play to watch the play develop, from motion through the snap to the finish. BUILT FOR THE WAY COACHES THINK • Any setup from 5v5 to 11v11: presets for 5v5, 6v6, 7v7, 8v8, 9v9 and 11v11, or set your own number of players on each side • Formations you can reuse across every play in a playbook • Routes, blocking, pre-snap motion, handoffs, passes and option reads • Defensive calls by team, position group or individual defender: fronts, stunts, pressures, and man or zone coverage WATCH IT RUN • Animated playback, from motion through the snap to the route • Scrub through a play step by step, or slow it down to teach it ON THE SIDELINE • Sideline View: any playbook full screen and read-only, for game day • Swipe between plays and between a play’s options; tap a player to see his assignment • Turn the field to face the way you do, upright or sideways, online or off FIND ANYTHING • Pull down from the top of a page to search every play, option, formation and playbook you can open PRINT AND SHARE • Wristband cards sized for youth and adult bands, ready to print • Play sheets as PDF or image, and animation videos • Your plays, your diagrams: export your whole library any time YOUR TEAM, IN SYNC (optional) • Sign in with Apple or Google and turn on sync for a playbook to use it on your iPhone, iPad and computer • Invite coaches as Admins, Editors or Viewers • Edit together live, with changes and history kept for each play • Share a view-only Team View link or code with players and parents. No account needed to view PRIVATE BY DESIGN • Everything works on your device without an account • No ads, no tracking, no AI • Screenshots and screen recordings are blocked in the app, to help keep your playbook yours Roots Playbook is for coaches, players, parents and team staff. Accounts are for ages 13 and up; everything else works without one. Free for a limited time.

Screenshots

Baseball Stats Scorekeeper Pro4 screens
Roots Playbook4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Roots Playbook at none against Baseball Stats Scorekeeper Pro's 2. Roots Playbook also leads on update cadence (weekly vs monthly). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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 Stats Scorekeeper Pro sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Roots Playbook asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Baseball Stats Scorekeeper Pro against 5.0 for Roots Playbook. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Baseball Stats Scorekeeper Pro ships an update monthly, Roots Playbook weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Baseball Stats Scorekeeper Pro versus Roots Playbook: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBaseball Stats Scorekeeper ProRoots Playbook
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews28.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings12 — better
Update frequencyMonthlyWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB15 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperVerosocial StudioAkeem Jones

Customer experience

Baseball Stats Scorekeeper Pro

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews14 reviews
Positive28.6%
Neutral0.0%
Negative71.4%

Roots Playbook

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Baseball Stats Scorekeeper Pro

Subscriptions1
  • Monthly Pro Unlock$1.991 Month
One-time1
  • Lifetime Pro Unlock$14.99
None

Roots Playbook

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Baseball Stats Scorekeeper Pro free?
Baseball Stats Scorekeeper Pro is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Roots Playbook free?
Roots Playbook is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Baseball Stats Scorekeeper Pro or Roots Playbook?
Baseball Stats Scorekeeper Pro and Roots Playbook are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do Baseball Stats Scorekeeper Pro or Roots Playbook have ads?
Neither Baseball Stats Scorekeeper Pro nor Roots Playbook shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Baseball Stats Scorekeeper Pro or Roots Playbook?
Baseball Stats Scorekeeper Pro ships an update monthly, and Roots Playbook weekly. Most recently, Baseball Stats Scorekeeper Pro was updated on November 1, 2026 and Roots Playbook on October 31, 2026.

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