Roster Blast vs Stack the Lineup
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Roster Blast
Simplify baseball and softball coaching by quickly creating and managing player lineups and field positions. Easily activate/inactivate players, set batting orders, and generate printable lineups and diagrams. Say goodbye to spreadsheets and hello to an intuitive interface for game day management.
- Drag and drop player positions
- Drag and drop batting order
- Printable lineups and diagrams
- Quickly activate/inactivate players
- Load and save lineups
- Import/Export lineups
- Randomize player positions
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Are you a baseball or softball coach who is tired of spreadsheets, hours spent on lineups, and last-minute no-shows? Well, look no further! With this app, you can quickly activate or inactivate players, update their field positions, set the batting order, and print lineups and diagrams - in an easy-to-use interface! You will never go back to spreadsheets again! Features include: * Drag and drop player positions; * Drag and drop batting order; * Counts for positions played; * Print counts, lineups, and diagrams; * Load and save lineups; * Quickly activate or inactivate players from your roster; and * Autosave. * Game & Inning Notes with preselects. * Smart randomization - and unlock app to access even more advanced tools like unique, fairness, historic, and weighted positions. Added Features: * Printable Scoresheets - Generates an auto-populated Team Lineup, with a blank scoresheet for the opposing team; * Import / Export (available with existing Roster Unlock — an In-App Purchase) - Email, text, or Airdrop lineup - or even edit in a spreadsheet; * Multigame (Season) Stats - See position totals over more than one game; * Infield, Infield+, and Outfield columns are now part of the positioning tabulation; Additional features include: * Duplicate prior inning; * Clear the field; * Set innings (2-9 innings); and * Set 9 or 10 positions, and up to 14 positions with full roster unlock (i.e., extra outfield positions) - great for younger leagues! * Roster View — Import your roster from a photo or document scan. It can even recognize some handwriting and add parent email addresses. * Import / Export — You can now select multiple lineups. * Cloud — Pull saved rosters from the cloud with an in-app purchase, making it easy to move between your iPhone and iPad. * Season Stats — New season heat maps, diagrams and percentage views with an in-app purchase. * Notes — New Game and Inning Notes with convenient preselects. Add or edit preselects with an in-app purchase. Track in-game events for your next practice and easily email a parent-friendly version after the game. * Two-Team Switch — Add a quick team switch to the main screen with an in-app purchase. Great for coaches managing two teams or viewing home and away teams! Download today!
Stack the Lineup
This app helps youth baseball and softball coaches create fair lineups, ensuring all players get equal playing time in both infield and outfield positions. It offers roster management, smart batting order creation, and detailed position grids with customizable rules. Export professional PDFs of batting orders and coaching guides.
- Team roster management
- Smart batting order creation
- 7-inning position grid
- Fair play rule enforcement
- Professional PDF exports
- iCloud sync
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Stop building lineups on in Excel Youth baseball and softball coaches: set your batting order, fill every inning on defense, and know before first pitch that every kid got their innings. Stack the Lineup checks your league's fair play rules while you build. BATTING ORDER • Drag to reorder, mark players absent, save an order to reuse next week • Handle late arrivals and early departures without breaking your inning counts • Lock a lineup as Finalized so nobody edits it by accident POSITIONS, INNING BY INNING • Set your game length — 6 innings, 7, whatever your league plays • See the grid by player or by position: who's pitching, who's catching, all game • Four-outfielder support for younger divisions FAIR PLAY RULES — Set for your league • Set infield and outfield minimums per player • Warn on back-to-back bench innings • Restrict pitcher and catcher, set catcher-to-pitcher transition limits • Turn any rule off if your league doesn't run it AUTO-FILL (Pro) Fill one inning or the whole game in a tap, with your fair play rules applied. Tag each player's positions as Primary, Secondary, Emergency, or Never — Never is never assigned, which matters at catcher. Or just tell it what you want: "pitch Caleb the first two innings, bench the top of the order first." PITCH COUNTS (Pro) Weekly limits and required rest days by league age. Pitch counts are captured when you archive a game and checked against each player's eligibility as you assign. PDFs FOR THE DUGOUT • Batting Order PDF for the scorekeeper • Coaches Guide with the full inning grid and a pitch eligibility table (Pro) • Your team name and colors, ready to print SHARE THE WORK (Pro) Invite an assistant coach to build positions with you. You finalize; they get a notification when it's locked. THE SEASON, NOT JUST TODAY (Pro) Archive every game with notes and the final score. See each player's position breakdown and bench time across the season, and get insights on the patterns you'd otherwise miss. BRING WHAT YOU ALREADY HAVE Import your roster and your season schedule, then pick games straight from the Lineup tab. Resync when the schedule changes. EVERYWHERE YOU COACH • Home Screen widget with today's game • Ask Siri your team's rules, pitch limits, or how the last game went • Built for iPhone and iPad, synced over iCloud • Coach two teams from one app FREE Batting order, position grid, fair play warnings and configurable rules, roster and schedule import, one saved template, and the Batting Order PDF. No account, no trial clock. PRO Auto-Fill, position preferences, multiple templates, the Coaches Guide PDF, shared teams, game history, season insights, and pitch count tracking. Stack the Lineup Pro is an annual subscription at $9.99/year. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. It renews automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; manage or cancel in your Apple Account settings. Privacy Policy: www.stackthelineup.com/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Because every kid deserves their innings.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Stack the Lineup at free against Roster Blast's free with in-app purchases. Stack the Lineup also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 87%). Roster Blast's advantage is ratings volume (129 vs 3) and iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). 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. Roster Blast sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Stack the Lineup sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Roster Blast against 5.0 for Stack the Lineup. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Roster Blast has 129 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 87% of Roster Blast's written reviews are positive against 100% of Stack the Lineup's.
Roster Blast ships an update fortnightly, Stack the Lineup every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Roster Blast | Stack the Lineup |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (129 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 86.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 129 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 14 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | William Fay | NICHOLAS DAVIES |
Customer experience
Roster Blast
Stack the Lineup
In-app purchases
Roster Blast
- Unlock all slots (26 total)$1.99
Stack the Lineup
- Stack the Lineup Pro$4.99
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