Umpire Live vs Backside Stats
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Umpire Live
This app enhances the umpire's clicker by tracking balls, strikes, outs, game score, and inning runs. It can broadcast game status live to audiences via web display equipment or personal devices.
- Ball, strike, and out tracking
- Game score keeping
- Game clock
- Inning run tracking
- Live score broadcasting
- Audience web display
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Umpire Live adds the power of the internet to the umpire's "clicker". In addition to balls, strikes and outs, Umpire Live keeps the game score, provides a game clock, tracks inning runs and shows which team is batting. Through the live score feature, the umpire can choose to broadcast count changes, score changes or report only the game results. Fields equipped with web page display equipment can then display the game status to the audience, or the audience can follow along via their own web devices.
Backside Stats
Effortlessly track game scores and player statistics for slow-pitch softball. Designed for coaches and players to manage season-long performance and tournament data.
- Scorekeeping
- Player statistics tracking
- Season-long performance management
- Tournament data management
- Designed for coaches and players
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Backside stats - the app that makes score keeping easy. Specially designed for slow-pitch softball and baseball. Allows coaches and players an effortless way to keep track of game scores and players stats through the season and during tournaments. Terms of use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Backside Stats at 80% against Umpire Live's 33%. Backside Stats also leads on rating (4.7 vs 2.0) and update cadence (monthly vs every 6 months). Umpire Live's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and iOS requirement (7.0 vs 16.1). On price, ads, monetization model 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
Both are free to download. Backside Stats sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $49.99 per year. Umpire Live asks for nothing beyond the download.
Backside Stats holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Backside Stats has 76 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 33% of Umpire Live's written reviews are positive against 80% of Backside Stats's.
Umpire Live ships an update every 6 months, Backside Stats monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 8, 2026 and August 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Umpire Live | Backside Stats |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.0 (7 ratings) | 4.7 (76 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews | 80.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 7 | 76 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 7.0 — better | 16.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 18 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | SoftCP Inc. | Backside Stats LLC |
Customer experience
Umpire Live
Backside Stats
In-app purchases
Umpire Live
No in-app purchases
Backside Stats
- Plus$49.991 Year
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