MiLB vs MLB Ballpark
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MiLB
Your official guide to Minor League Baseball, covering all 120 clubs. Access live game updates, news, highlights, and purchase tickets and merchandise. Enhance your ballpark experience with digital tickets and personalized notifications.
- Follow local teams and events
- Buy tickets and merchandise
- Digital tickets and check-ins
- Live game updates and news
- MiLB news, highlights, and prospect info
- Pitch-by-pitch updates and live scores
- Access to live games with subscription
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The MiLB app is your official companion for Minor League Baseball, including all 120 clubs, from Triple-A to Single-A. • Follow your local team and never miss a game or event. • Buy tickets, browse merchandise, and find promotions from your team tab. • Enjoy a seamless ballpark experience with digital tickets and check-ins. • Personalize your app experience with live game updates and breaking news. • Explore MiLB news and highlights, catch the latest on top prospects, or search teams and players across the league. • Follow the action with pitch-by-pitch updates on Gameday, along with live scores, stats, video highlights and notifications for all 120 teams. SUBSCRIBE & GET EVEN MORE More than 7,000 live MiLB games and complete archives are available with your MLB+ subscription. Your MLB+ subscription now includes audio streams for all MLB games & other live programming, available with log-in on MLB App and MLB.com. Terms of Use: https://www.milb.com/about/terms Copyright © 2026 Minor League Baseball. Minor League Baseball trademarks and copyrights are the property of Minor League Baseball. All Rights Reserved.
MLB Ballpark
Your official mobile guide for attending Major League Baseball games. Access digital tickets, manage your account, explore ballpark amenities with interactive maps, and earn rewards through check-ins and social engagement.
- Digital ticketing
- Mobile check-in
- Offers and rewards
- Interactive ballpark map
- Team schedule
- Exclusive content
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The MLB Ballpark app is your mobile companion when visiting your favorite Major League Baseball ballparks. The official MLB Ballpark application perfectly complements and personalizes your trip with digital ticketing functionality, mobile check-in, offers, rewards and exclusive content. **** Ballpark Features (iPhone) **** • Access and manage your tickets (MLB account required; select clubs) • Team schedule, ticket information and sales and promotional event listings • Interactive map with directory of food, beverage, merchandise and other amenities • Check In for offers and rewards • View scores and photos from all your ballpark visits • Social media clubhouse, including social rewards for select clubs • Directions and parking information © 2022 MLB Advanced Media, L.P. All Major League Baseball trademarks and copyrights used herein are the property of the applicable MLB entity. All rights reserved.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: MLB Ballpark at none against MiLB's 2. MLB Ballpark also leads on ratings volume (1.4M vs 41K) and chart position (#72 vs unranked). MiLB's advantage is review sentiment (36% vs 16%). On price, rating, update cadence 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
Both are free to download. MiLB sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. MLB Ballpark asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for MiLB against 4.6 for MLB Ballpark. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: MLB Ballpark has 1.4M ratings behind it against 41K, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 36% of MiLB's written reviews are positive against 16% of MLB Ballpark's.
MiLB ships an update fortnightly, MLB Ballpark every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MiLB | MLB Ballpark |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (41K ratings) — better | 4.6 (1.4M ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 35.7% of reviews — better | 16.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 41K | 1.4M — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | — | #72 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 85 MB | 179 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | MLB | MLB |
Customer experience
MiLB
MLB Ballpark
User reviews
MiLB
From 41K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Smooth streaming
- 👍 Easy to navigate
- 🚀 Convenient way to follow minor league teams
- 👍 Helpful for fans living far away
- 👍 Great app for betting on Triple-A games
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent crashes and bugs
- 🔒 Login issues and inconsistent authentication
- 👎 Difficult to find and access other teams
- 👎 Lack of landscape mode support on iPad
- 👎 Cluttered and confusing user interface
MLB Ballpark
From 1.4M App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Convenient ticket access
- 🌍 Works internationally
- 📸 Ability to log game attendance and photos
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent app crashes and bugs
- 🔍 Poor search and navigation functionality
- 🔒 Unreliable email verification process
- 💻 Requires frequent app updates to access tickets
- 🤔 Confusing multi-app setup (Ballpark, Ticketmaster, etc.)
Bugs and requests
MiLB
Reported bugs
5 issues- Inability to access purchased tickets
- Standings and scores not updating correctly
- Gameday feature not working consistently
- App crashing on launch for some users
- Incompatibility with newer iOS devices
Requested features
6 requests- Picture-in-picture support
- Ability to track minor league stadiums visited
- More detailed player stats and profiles
- Improved integration with MLB app
- Notifications for game updates and live scores
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- Apple TV app support
MLB Ballpark
Reported bugs
3 issues- Tickets not appearing in app after purchase
- Login and password reset issues
- Inability to access tickets on older devices
Requested features
4 requests- Allow printing or emailing of tickets
- Provide backup options if app fails
- Improve stadium maps and information
- Enable adding past game attendance manually
In-app purchases
MiLB
- MLB+ Monthly$5.991 Month
- MLB+ Yearly$59.991 Year
MLB Ballpark
No in-app purchases
Questions
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