Comparison

Roster Blast vs Baseball Lineup Helper

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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!

About

Baseball Lineup Helper

This app helps youth baseball coaches create and manage team lineups and defensive positions. It allows coaches to track player availability, set pitching orders, and generate batting orders based on skill or fairness.

Highlights
  • Manage player rosters
  • Create batting orders
  • Set defensive positions
  • Track player availability
  • Print lineup cards
  • Share team files
  • Sync with iCloud
Features
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You’ve got a clipboard, a late scratch, and three parents asking who’s pitching. This app is for that. Baseball Lineup Manager helps youth coaches put together batting orders and defense without rebuilding everything from scratch every week. Keep your roster. Mark who’s actually missing the game up. Use rankings to best fill the open spots. Lock the positions you already promised. Works for any level from rec, to Little League, or select. Pick Fair if equal time is the whole point. Balanced when you want both. Competitive when the tournament bracket is staring at you. What you can do: • Rate kids with skill dials, or stack-rank positions • Set a pitching order and keep mound spots locked when you fill the rest • Drag the batting order, lock batters, or get a rating-based suggestion • Tweak innings in a table view or the diamond • Print lineup cards (two per page by default — one for you, one for the dugout) • Share a team file with an assistant so they don’t retype the whole roster • Sync with iCloud so your teams follow you across devices It’s simple, fast, and adjustable. Questions? walkupmusicapp@gmail.com

Screenshots

Roster Blast4 screens
Baseball Lineup Helper4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Roster Blast at 88% against Baseball Lineup Helper's 0%. Roster Blast also leads on rating (4.9 vs 3.0) and ratings volume (133 vs 2). Baseball Lineup Helper's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and update cadence (weekly vs fortnightly). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Roster Blast sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Baseball Lineup Helper asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Roster Blast holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Roster Blast has 133 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 88% of Roster Blast's written reviews are positive against 0% of Baseball Lineup Helper's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Roster Blast ships an update fortnightly, Baseball Lineup Helper weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Roster Blast versus Baseball Lineup Helper: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRoster BlastBaseball Lineup Helper
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (133 ratings) — better3.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews87.5% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings133 — better2
Update frequencyFortnightlyWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size14 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperWilliam FayJames Browning

Customer experience

Roster Blast

All ratings129 ratings
Positive98.4%
Neutral0.8%
Negative0.8%
Written reviews16 reviews
Positive87.5%
Neutral6.3%
Negative6.3%

Baseball Lineup Helper

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Roster Blast

One-time1
  • Unlock all slots (26 total)$1.99
None

Baseball Lineup Helper

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Roster Blast free?
Roster Blast is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Baseball Lineup Helper free?
Baseball Lineup Helper is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Roster Blast or Baseball Lineup Helper?
Roster Blast is rated higher. Roster Blast averages 4.9 out of 5 from 133 ratings, while Baseball Lineup Helper averages 3.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Roster Blast or Baseball Lineup Helper have ads?
Neither Roster Blast nor Baseball Lineup Helper shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Roster Blast or Baseball Lineup Helper?
Roster Blast ships an update fortnightly, and Baseball Lineup Helper weekly. Most recently, Roster Blast was updated on November 9, 2026 and Baseball Lineup Helper on October 31, 2026.

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