Comparison

Baseball Lineup Maker vs Stack the Lineup

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

Head to head
About

Baseball Lineup Maker

Easily create and share baseball batting orders and lineup cards. Input player details, visualize defensive positions, and export clean images for your team. Perfect for coaches and managers of youth, school, and recreational leagues.

Highlights
  • Create, edit, and save lineups
  • Enter batting order, positions, and numbers
  • Visualize defensive positions
  • Swap players easily
  • Supports DH, EH, and extended orders
  • Save and share lineup cards as images
  • Manage players, teams, and schedules
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Create baseball lineups, batting orders, and lineup cards in seconds. Baseball Lineup Maker helps coaches, managers, and teams build clear lineup cards on their phone. Enter batting order, fielding positions, and jersey numbers, check defensive positions on the field view, and share clean lineup images with your team. New voice lineup editing lets you speak entries such as "number one pitcher Skubal jersey number 29" or "number two DH Judge jersey number 99". The app turns them into candidate cards so you can check and apply them one by one. Applied players that are not in your roster yet can be saved right away. Uniform customization offers more than 20 presets across free and Premium designs. Apply a team uniform in one tap and carry it through to the field view and shared lineup images. Home also lets you filter lineups by team, while team editing makes it easy to add, remove, or transfer multiple members at once. Perfect for youth baseball, school teams, recreational leagues, and softball teams that want to prepare lineups faster before game day. Main Features • Voice input for batting order, position, player name, and jersey number • Save unregistered players from voice input to your roster • Choose from more than 20 free and Premium team uniform presets and use the selected design in field views and shared lineup images • Filter lineups by team and manage team members in bulk • Create, edit, and save starting lineups • Enter batting order, fielding positions, and jersey numbers • Check defensive positions on the field view • Swap players directly from the field screen • Supports DH and EH • Supports extended batting orders with 11 or more players • Save lineup cards as images and share them • Manage players and teams • Manage game schedules with the calendar • Add games to your device calendar • Auto-save while editing Premium Features • Voice lineup editing Speak lineup details, review candidate cards, and save players to your roster. Try it 5 times for free, then unlock Premium to keep using it. • Unlock special lineup card themes Create lineup cards with unique designs such as Sports Newspaper, Smart, and Formal. • Unlock more uniform designs Free designs are available, with additional uniform presets and jersey patterns included in Premium. • Create lineup announcement videos Generate animated lineup announcement videos to build excitement before the game. • Remove player and team limits Manage more players, bench members, and guest players. • One-time purchase Unlock premium features forever with a single purchase. No subscription required. Recommended For • Coaches and managers who need to create lineups quickly • Youth baseball, school baseball, recreational baseball, and softball teams • Teams that use DH, EH, or extended batting orders • Anyone who wants to replace paper lineup sheets with a digital lineup app • Teams that want to share clean lineup cards before the game More Use Cases • Prepare lineups for league games, tournaments, scrimmages, and practice games • Share one clear lineup image with players, parents, coaches, and scorekeepers • Keep guest players, bench members, and recurring roster details ready • Check defensive balance before the game by reviewing positions on the field view • Save opponent, date, and field information so past lineups are easy to review From first pitch preparation to post-game review, Baseball Lineup Maker keeps the details that often get scattered across paper notes, whiteboards, and chat messages in one practical lineup app.

About

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.

Highlights
  • Team roster management
  • Smart batting order creation
  • 7-inning position grid
  • Fair play rule enforcement
  • Professional PDF exports
  • iCloud sync
Features
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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.

Screenshots

Baseball Lineup Maker4 screens
Stack the Lineup4 screens

Verdict

The call

Baseball Lineup Maker and Stack the Lineup both sit at 5.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Stack the Lineup's written reviews are positive against 67% of Baseball Lineup Maker's. Stack the Lineup also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). Baseball Lineup Maker's advantage is ratings volume (10 vs 3) and iOS requirement (15.0 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Baseball Lineup Maker 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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Baseball Lineup Maker against 5.0 for Stack the Lineup. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 10 and 3 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 67% of Baseball Lineup Maker's written reviews are positive against 100% of Stack the Lineup's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Baseball Lineup Maker ships an update every 6 days, Stack the Lineup every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on September 27, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Baseball Lineup Maker versus Stack the Lineup: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBaseball Lineup MakerStack the Lineup
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (10 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings10 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 6 days — betterEvery 9 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size53 MB15 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperShuhei OtaNICHOLAS DAVIES

Customer experience

Baseball Lineup Maker

All ratings10 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%

Stack the Lineup

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Baseball Lineup Maker

One-time1
  • Premium Lifetime Unlock$9.99
1 purchases

Stack the Lineup

One-time1
  • Stack the Lineup Pro$4.99

Questions

Is Baseball Lineup Maker free?
Baseball Lineup Maker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Stack the Lineup free?
Stack the Lineup is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Baseball Lineup Maker or Stack the Lineup?
Baseball Lineup Maker and Stack the Lineup are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 10 and 3 ratings respectively.
Do Baseball Lineup Maker or Stack the Lineup have ads?
Neither Baseball Lineup Maker nor Stack the Lineup shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Baseball Lineup Maker or Stack the Lineup?
Baseball Lineup Maker ships an update every 6 days, and Stack the Lineup every 9 days. Most recently, Baseball Lineup Maker was updated on September 27, 2026 and Stack the Lineup on October 2, 2026.

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