Home Field ScorebooK vs Backside Stats
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Home Field ScorebooK
This app provides an intuitive way to score baseball and softball games, mimicking a traditional scorecard. It allows users to quickly record plays, generate scorecards, game logs, and box scores for printing and sharing, with offline functionality and data ownership.
- Intuitive scorekeeping
- Create scorecards, game logs, and box scores
- Print and share game data
- Online and offline functionality
- Player To Be Named Later™ feature
- Home Field Advantage™ feature
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The baseball and softball scorekeeping app for iPhone and iPod touch that works like a pen-and-paper scorecard and looks and feels like a built-in app with Home Field Advantage™ and Player To Be Named Later™ features to let you sit down and start scoring right away to create scorecards, game logs and box scores to print and share! Use it online or offline -- no online accounts or hidden fees needed to score games at any level from Little League to Major League Baseball. Don't worry, you own your own data (unlike some of the "free" scoring apps.) The focus of Home Field ScorebooK is to capture all of the plays, as quickly and as intuitively as possible. Player and team stats are recorded, but not yet displayed. Don't worry: they'll be there in a future release! IN FUTURE RELEASES: • View, save and share player and team statistics • Share game updates on social media • Make changes to completed games • Use advanced rules for softball, youth and recreational leagues • And many more features...
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 price: Backside Stats at Free against Home Field ScorebooK's $4.99. Backside Stats also leads on rating (4.7 vs 4.2) and review sentiment (80% vs 63%). Home Field ScorebooK's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and chart position (#196 vs unranked). On ratings volume, update cadence, ads 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
Backside Stats is free to download; Home Field ScorebooK costs $4.99 up front. Backside Stats sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $49.99 per year. Home Field ScorebooK asks for nothing beyond the download.
Backside Stats holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 47 and 78 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 63% of Home Field ScorebooK's written reviews are positive against 80% of Backside Stats's.
Home Field ScorebooK ships an update every 6 weeks, Backside Stats monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Home Field ScorebooK | Backside Stats |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.2 (47 ratings) | 4.7 (78 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 63.3% of reviews | 80.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 47 | 78 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #196 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 16.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 18 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | whitney-ross software | Backside Stats LLC |
Customer experience
Home Field ScorebooK
Backside Stats
Bugs and requests
Home Field ScorebooK
Reported bugs
12 issues- Crashes when trying to score a game (iOS 18)
- Crashes when viewing PDF of scoresheet
- Crashes mid-game, losing progress
- App changes team names mid-game
- App subtracts runs from total score
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- Players missing from lineups after setting them
- App crashes when pressing 'Play Ball'
- Lineups change unexpectedly mid-game
- Difficulty scoring unusual plays (e.g., dropped third strike)
- Inability to score plays like batter singles and advances on error
- Game crashes when run rule is triggered
- Game crashes when trying to score Little League with specific rules
Requested features
17 requests- Update with new rules (e.g., pitch clock)
- Add clock violations for balls and strikes
- Upload rosters
- Enter historical game dates
- Ability to go back to previous innings for corrections
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- Differentiate force out from fielder's choice
- Option for pitch clock violations for balls and strikes
- Add pitch type tracking
- Download roster from the internet
- Advanced softball settings
- Easier stat sharing
- Support for iPads
- Ability to delete players/teams
- More granular player/team count settings
- Ability to add players to the end of the lineup during a game
- Support for leagues with unlimited runs per inning or run limits
- Edit game after completion
Backside Stats
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Home Field ScorebooK
No in-app purchases
Backside Stats
- Plus$49.991 Year
Questions
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