NextPitch Analytics vs Pitch AI
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
NextPitch Analytics
This app provides instant pitching analytics for baseball and softball players, coaches, and families using just a smartphone. Track pitch location, type, outcome, and trends without any external hardware. Monitor player progress and team performance with detailed data insights.
- Instant pitching analytics
- No cameras or sensors required
- Strike rate and walk rate trends
- Pitch location patterns
- Arsenal breakdowns
- Bullpen command tracking
- Individual pitcher profiles
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Your data analyst, right in your pocket. NextPitch replaces the clipboard. Tap the pitch location, tap the result, get instant grading, for your pitchers, your hitters, and the team you're facing. Built for programs that can't justify a $10k analytics platform and a full-time analyst. JUCO, college, and high school baseball and softball programs who still deserve real data. WHAT YOU GET • Live pitch charting for games and bullpens, instant grading after every pitch • Full analytics history, command trends, tendencies, patterns that actually explain performance • Hitter analytics for your own lineup, every at-bat tracked • Opponent scouting, know what you're facing before you face it • Automatic email reports after every outing • Web portal analytics, accessible from anywhere WHY IT'S DIFFERENT ERA and batting average tell you what happened. NextPitch tells you why. The same level of insight teams pay analysts for, on a phone, in a couple taps. MY STORY I pitched at UC Riverside. Every outing, someone was stuck on a clipboard trying to chart pitches by hand, and the data went nowhere after the game ended. I built NextPitch myself, as a senior in college, because that didn't make sense to me anymore. I still run it myself today, so if you ever have a question, you're texting me, not a support queue. Free to start. Coach plan unlocks full history, hitter analytics, and opponent scouting. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Pitch AI
This app provides structured baseball throwing programs for pitchers, offering personalized plans based on individual goals, season phase, and recovery status. It includes features like biomechanics analysis, drill guidance, and pitch design to help athletes improve velocity, command, and durability.
- Personalized throwing programming
- Biomechanics video analysis
- Drill library with instructions
- Daily wellness check-ins
- Pitch design and analysis
- Throw reminders
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Pitch AI: Arm Care & Pitch Coach is a baseball pitching development app built to help athletes train with more structure, better intent, and smarter arm-care habits. The app gives pitchers a guided throwing & strength and conditioning plan based on their profile, goals, season phase, throwing schedule, recovery status, and readiness data. All programming logic is designed by a human being who has a degree in exercise science and years of experience working with pitchers from the youth level all the way up to the MLB. Whether your goal is to increase velocity, improve command, build durability, prepare for the season or return to throwing safely Pitch AI: Arm Care & Pitch Coach & strength and conditioning coach helps organize what to do today and how your workload should build over time, like having access to a pitch coach 24/7! It's like having a Pitch Lab in your pocket! Pitch AI: Arm Care & Pitch Coach features: • Personalized throwing programming based on athlete profile, season phase, goals, pain status, workload, and schedule • 6-week program preview so athletes can see how intent, throwing stress, recovery days, and off days are structured • Daily wellness check-ins that can influence that day’s throwing intensity and workload • Warm-up, throwing, and recovery guidance for each training day • Biomechanics video analysis with athlete-friendly report feedback, coaching language, and key focus areas to help users become ace pitchers! • Drill library with instructions, common mistakes, safety notes, and logging prompts • Throw reminders based on the athlete’s preferred throwing days • Session logging for drills, throws, effort, command work, and recovery notes • Clear distinction between recovery days and true off days so athletes can manage throwing stress responsibly • A PitchLab to help users understand their arsenal and design pitches to dominate hitters! Run Pitch Design within the app! It's like having a Pitch Lab in your pocket! Pitch AI: Arm Care & Pitch Coach is designed to help pitchers train hard without training carelessly. Instead of guessing when to push, when to back off, or how to structure the week, athletes get a clearer daily plan and a longer-range view of how training progresses. It's like having a Pitch Lab in your pocket! The app can support offseason development, preseason preparation, in-season workload management, and return-to-throw progressions. It is useful for pitchers, parents, coaches, and trainers who want a more responsible, transparent, and organized way to manage throwing development. It's like having a Pitch Lab in your pocket! Pitch AI: Arm Care & Pitch Coach can help athletes: • Throw harder • Improve command • Build throwing fitness • Track readiness and soreness • Manage throwing stress more responsibly • Stay more consistent with recovery • Prepare for upcoming games and events • Better understand how mechanics and daily readiness affect performance • Design Pitches to dominate hitters and become an ace pitcher in the PitchLab. Our Pitch Design feature is the best and only of it's kind! If you have ideas, questions, or concerns, please contact: globaldominancellc@proton.me Pitch AI: Arm Care & Pitch Coach requires a subscription. Auto-renewing subscription options: • Weekly subscription: $3.99/week • Monthly subscription: $9.99/month • Annual subscription: $99.99/year Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Payment will be charged to your App Store account at confirmation of purchase. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel your subscription at any time in your App Store account settings. EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.pitch-ai.app/Legal/privacy-policy.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: NextPitch Analytics at freemium against Pitch AI's subscription. NextPitch Analytics also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.5). Pitch AI's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs weekly) and ratings volume (83 vs 8). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. NextPitch Analytics sells 13 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Pitch AI sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
NextPitch Analytics holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pitch AI has 83 ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two.
NextPitch Analytics ships an update weekly, Pitch AI every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | NextPitch Analytics | Pitch AI |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (8 ratings) — better | 4.7 (83 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 87.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 8 | 83 — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium — better | Subscription |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 18.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 56 MB | 38 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | NextPitch Analytics, Inc. | Global Dominance LLC |
Customer experience
NextPitch Analytics
Pitch AI
In-app purchases
NextPitch Analytics
- Player Monthly$2.991 Month
- Player Monthly$4.991 Month
- Team Monthly$29.991 Month
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- Player Annual$29.991 Year
- Team Monthly3 Days trial$39.991 Month
- Player Annual$49.991 Year
- Organization Monthly$49.991 Month
- Program Monthly$69.991 Month
- Organization Monthly$99.991 Month
- Team Annual$299.991 Year
- Team Annual$499.991 Year
- Organization Annual3 Days trial$499.991 Year
- Program Annual$699.991 Year
Pitch AI
- Pitch AI Weekly Subscription$3.997 Days
- Pitch AI Monthly Subscription3 Days trial$9.991 Month
- Pitch AI Annual Subscription7 Days trial$99.991 Year
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- Pitch AI: Pitcher Development7 Days trial$299.991 Year
- Pitch AI: Pitcher Development7 Days trial$599.991 Year
- Pitch AI: Pitcher Development7 Days trial$1000.001 Year
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