Umpire Live vs BT Baseball Controller
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.
BT Baseball Controller
Control compatible baseball scoreboards and camera devices remotely. Synchronize scores and stats across devices with an intuitive touch or button interface. Connect via WiFi or Bluetooth for seamless game management.
- Remote control for scoreboards and cameras
- Synchronizes scores and stats
- Intuitive tap and swipe controls
- Optional button interface
- WiFi and Bluetooth connectivity
- Customizable game settings
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The BT Baseball Controller app is a free app meant to be used to remotely control supported BT Baseball scoreboards and score camera devices. The app synchronizes the score and stats on all these supported devices. The interface is extremely clean and intuitive, everything is directly touch or swipe based. Clearly labeled controller buttons are also added for those that prefer a button interface. Controllable Devices: - Search on App Store "BT Baseball Camera" BT Baseball Controller App Features: - Clean design, no ads - Intuitive direct tap and swipe controls - Remotely control scoreboards, cameras, and other devices with WiFi or Bluetooth - Fully customizable game in the settings - Quick Start Documentation below For a full list of our other tutorials please visit: https://vimeo.com/channels/btstatsco The BT Baseball Controller app was created by The Basketball Temple Company. After the success of our basketball products, we have expanded into other sports. The Basketball Temple Company focuses on high quality basketball academies, basketball leagues, and technologies that are used to support those academies and leagues. We open our technology to the public so everyone in the basketball community can experience the same technologies that we use within our institutions. # Quick Start Documentation: All the actions below have corresponding controller buttons that may be used instead. Connect and Remote Control Settings: - Tap on top-left icon (or swipe left-to-right on the left edge) to open connect menu - Hit "Refresh" to find devices - Tap on WiFi or Bluetooth icon to connect, green icon indicates connected - If unable to connect or having connection errors try one of the following: 1) please ensure all devices are on the same WiFi network 2) please ensure bluetooth is turned ON on all devices 3) lastly, try to restart the app on all devices
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: BT Baseball Controller at 100% against Umpire Live's 33%. BT Baseball Controller also leads on rating (4.7 vs 2.0) and update cadence (every 8 days vs every 6 months). Umpire Live's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and iOS requirement (7.0 vs 12.0). 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. BT Baseball Controller sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $4.99 per year. Umpire Live asks for nothing beyond the download.
BT Baseball Controller holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: BT Baseball Controller has 37 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 100% of BT Baseball Controller's.
Umpire Live ships an update every 6 months, BT Baseball Controller every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on September 8, 2026 and August 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Umpire Live | BT Baseball Controller |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.0 (7 ratings) | 4.7 (37 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 7 | 37 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 8 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 7.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 117 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | SoftCP Inc. | The Basketball Temple LLC |
Customer experience
Umpire Live
BT Baseball Controller
In-app purchases
Umpire Live
No in-app purchases
BT Baseball Controller
- Annual$4.991 Year
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