Baseball Brains vs Seam Reader
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Baseball Brains
This app helps young baseball players develop their game intelligence and decision-making skills. It offers situational training to improve mental aspects of baseball, allowing users to test and compare their Baseball IQ globally.
- Situational training for youth baseball
- Develops mental game of baseball
- Measures and compares Baseball IQ
- Learn the game at home
- Global player comparison
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Baseball Brains is the ULTIMATE Youth Baseball Situational Training Tool! Let your kids learn the game at home, instead of spending countless hours on the field. Baseball Brains is the only app that teaches you the mental game of baseball. Baseball Brains allows you to find out your Baseball IQ, and to compare it with other players around the world. Baseball Brains - Don't Just Play It Know It!
Seam Reader
Improve your baseball or softball hitting skills by learning to recognize pitches based on their spin and appearance. This app offers modes to learn, practice, and test your ability to identify different pitch types and speeds, from little league to professional levels.
- Learn pitch "faces" from spin
- Real-life analytics (RPM, MPH)
- Learn Mode for 6 baseball/softball pitches
- Batting Cage for practice
- Career Mode with increasing difficulty
- Adjustable pitch speeds
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The ONLY WAY to actually get BETTER AT HITTING by playing on your phone. Seam Reading is the ability to recognize a pitch by how it looks. Each pitch has a different “face” that the spin creates. Knowing what each pitch looks like could be the difference between strike 3, or a home run. In Seam Reader all the balls and pitches use real life analytics in RPM as well as MPH. From a little league fastball all the way up to a major league heater, the app has it all. Discover what every pitch looks like in our one of a kind Learn Mode, that features 6 pitches for baseball and 6 for softball. Practice a variety of pitches and difficulties in the Batting Cage mode. Here speeds vary from your average little leaguer to your major league or Olympic level ace! Test your Seam Reading skills in Career Mode. With increasing variety of pitches and speeds, the accuracy is as real to life as it gets on a phone. Download now if you want to get better at “the hardest thing to do in sports” - hitting.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Seam Reader at 42% against Baseball Brains's 0%. Seam Reader also leads on update cadence (every 8 days vs every 63 months) and rating (3.9 vs 3.5). Baseball Brains's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4) and ads (none vs shown). On price 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. Seam Reader sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Baseball Brains asks for nothing beyond the download.
Seam Reader holds the better App Store score, 3.9 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Seam Reader has 64 ratings behind it against 12, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Baseball Brains's written reviews are positive against 42% of Seam Reader's.
Baseball Brains ships an update every 63 months, Seam Reader every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on September 12, 2026 and September 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Baseball Brains | Seam Reader |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.5 (12 ratings) | 3.9 (64 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 41.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 12 | 64 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 63 months | Every 8 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 27 MB | 164 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | GameDay Edge, LLC | Jared Tiefenthaler |
Customer experience
Baseball Brains
Seam Reader
In-app purchases
Baseball Brains
No in-app purchases
Seam Reader
- 100 Seed Pack$0.99
- Season Pass$3.99
- 600 Seed Pack$4.99
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- 1000 Seed Pack$7.99
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