Comparison

NextPitch Analytics vs 643 Pitch Tracking

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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/

About

643 Pitch Tracking

Log baseball pitches, game outcomes, and player performance data pitch by pitch. Analyze insights from games, bullpens, and freestyle sessions. Share session reports as PDFs and sync data across devices.

Highlights
  • Pitch logging with outcome and type
  • Player lineup management
  • Bullpen session tracking
  • Performance insights and charts
  • Session PDF sharing
  • Offline data queuing
Features
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6-4-3 Charts Pitch Tracking puts a full charting workflow in your pocket. Log a game, a bullpen, or a freestyle session pitch by pitch from the dugout, and read the numbers back the same day. Built for travel, high school, and JUCO programs that chart their own games. What you log on the phone is in your 643 account on the desktop, and what is already there opens here. CHART A GAME Tap the strike zone to place the pitch, then the outcome: ball, called strike, swinging strike, foul, in play, or hit by pitch. Add pitch type, velocity, contact type, spray location, the fielder, and the baserunners. Choose Full for the whole picture, or Lite to get through a game in four taps a pitch. LINEUPS THAT FIT THE DAY Build a batting order from your roster. When you do not have the other team's names, chart against handedness instead and keep your platoon splits honest. Add a player without leaving the lineup. BULLPENS Pick the intent zone, then the pitch. Balls and strikes are counted per pitcher from where the ball actually finished, so the tally matches what you watched. INSIGHTS Every session a player appears in, as pitch locations, contact allowed, arsenal, and velocity. Read the charts raw, a dot per pitch, or zonal, in the same zone illustration and spray buckets your 643 reports use. Open a game down to the inning, the at bat, and the pitches inside it. SHARE A SESSION Turn any session into a PDF on the device and send it from your phone. WORKS WHERE THE FIELD IS Pitches queue on the device when the signal drops and send themselves when it returns. A field with no bars does not cost you an inning. An active 6-4-3 Charts account is required to sign in.

Screenshots

NextPitch Analytics4 screens
643 Pitch Tracking4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: 643 Pitch Tracking at none against NextPitch Analytics's 13. 643 Pitch Tracking also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs weekly). NextPitch Analytics's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, rating, ratings volume 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. NextPitch Analytics sells 13 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. 643 Pitch Tracking asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for NextPitch Analytics against 5.0 for 643 Pitch Tracking. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8 and 3 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

NextPitch Analytics ships an update weekly, 643 Pitch Tracking every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 5 level
NextPitch Analytics versus 643 Pitch Tracking: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNextPitch Analytics643 Pitch Tracking
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (8 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings)
Number of ratings8 — better3
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size56 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNextPitch Analytics, Inc.643 Charts, LLC

Customer experience

NextPitch Analytics

All ratings8 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

643 Pitch Tracking

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

13 purchases

NextPitch Analytics

Subscriptions13
  • 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
None

643 Pitch Tracking

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is NextPitch Analytics free?
NextPitch Analytics is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is 643 Pitch Tracking free?
643 Pitch Tracking is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, NextPitch Analytics or 643 Pitch Tracking?
NextPitch Analytics and 643 Pitch Tracking are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 8 and 3 ratings respectively.
Do NextPitch Analytics or 643 Pitch Tracking have ads?
Neither NextPitch Analytics nor 643 Pitch Tracking shows ads.
Which is updated more often, NextPitch Analytics or 643 Pitch Tracking?
NextPitch Analytics ships an update weekly, and 643 Pitch Tracking every 3 days. Most recently, NextPitch Analytics was updated on October 10, 2026 and 643 Pitch Tracking on October 15, 2026.

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