NextPitch Analytics vs Diamond Scout
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/
Diamond Scout
This app analyzes baseball play-by-play data to generate detailed scouting reports. It creates spray charts, batting lines, and defensive plans, offering insights into hitter tendencies and team strategies. Pocket cards for fielders and pitching reports are also included.
- Play-by-play analysis
- Spray charts
- Hitter tendencies
- Defensive plans
- Pitching reports
- Pocket fielding cards
- Team strategy insights
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Diamond Scout turns a game's play-by-play into the scouting report you want before the first pitch. Share or paste a game's play-by-play and Diamond Scout reads it line by line — who batted, where the ball went, how the at-bat ended — then builds spray charts, batting lines, and a plan for the team you face next. Everything it finds is shown to you for review before a game is saved. SPRAY CHARTS THAT READ AT A GLANCE Every batted ball is placed on the field and labelled with a two-letter code, so the shape of a hitter is obvious in one look. Green is a hit, red is an out, grey is a sacrifice. Filter any chart to hits, outs, sacrifices, ground balls, or balls in the air. HITTERS AND THEIR TENDENCIES Full batting lines with average, on-base, slugging, and OPS. Sort by any stat, set a minimum plate-appearance threshold so small samples stop topping the list, and open a hitter for a game-by-game log and an average trend. A DEFENSIVE PLAN, NOT JUST DATA Diamond Scout reads each hitter's spray and tells your fielders where to stand, in steps, scaled to the field you actually play on — 46/60, 50/70, or 60/90. When a hitter genuinely sprays the ball everywhere, it says so plainly instead of inventing a shift that opens both gaps. DIAMOND IQ: THE WHOLE OPPONENT AT ONCE Pick any team on your file and get the read before you see them — first-pitch tendencies, two-out damage, where in the order the damage sits, whether their starter fades the second time through, when in the game they score, who runs and who gets caught, and whether they will bunt. Every finding says how many trips it rests on, and nothing is said until a team has 25 plate appearances on file, because a rate built on fewer sounds confident and is wrong. POCKET CARDS FOR THE FIELDERS The scouting screen is organised by hitter — right for the coach preparing, wrong for the boy in right field. Printed fielding cards pivot the same plan: nine cards, one per position, each carrying the whole opposing order with that fielder's own instruction beside every hitter. Six to a landscape sheet with faint lines along every cut, each folding once into a back pocket. A full set — nine fielders plus three for the dugout — is two pages. PITCHING REPORTS Strike and ball rates, strikeouts looking and swinging, walks, hit batters, ground-ball rate, hits and extra-base hits allowed, innings, and the putaway pitch — whatever the play-by-play gives up. BUILT FOR THE DUGOUT A lineup card for the nine hitters you are about to face, count-leverage splits, speed profiles from baserunning, and a dugout mode read at arm's length. Every card notes how much data sits behind it, so you know when a number is a hint and when it is a pattern. A ROSTER THAT LEARNS Correct a name once and the original spelling is kept as an alias, so the same player is recognised next time you import. Merge duplicates, set handedness, and keep opponents separate from your own team. YOURS, AND YOURS ALONE Every game is read and every statistic computed on your own device, and the whole app works signed out — no account is required to scout, chart, or print. Sign in only to sync your games to your other devices or share them with your staff. Back up to a file whenever you like and restore it on a new phone. Share a player card or scouting report as an image. A demo season is built in, so every screen has real baseball in it before you import anything. Diamond Scout is free to install and includes five game imports. Diamond Scout Pro unlocks unlimited importing for $4.99 per month or $49.99 per year. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and can be managed in Settings. Games you have already imported stay readable whether or not you subscribe. Terms of Use: https://iw449vxbkefmwd9dilmne-web-diamond-scout.rork.live/terms Privacy Policy: https://iw449vxbkefmwd9dilmne-web-diamond-scout.rork.live/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Diamond Scout at free against NextPitch Analytics's freemium. NextPitch Analytics's advantage is ratings volume (8 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). 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. NextPitch Analytics sells 13 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Diamond Scout sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for NextPitch Analytics against 5.0 for Diamond Scout. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: NextPitch Analytics has 8 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | NextPitch Analytics | Diamond Scout |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (8 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 56 MB | 21 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | NextPitch Analytics, Inc. | MICHAEL PAUL BENDER |
Customer experience
NextPitch Analytics
Diamond Scout
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
Diamond Scout
- Diamond Scout Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
- Diamond Scout Pro Yearly$49.991 Year
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