Comparison

DugoutDesk 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

DugoutDesk

This app provides a comprehensive platform for youth baseball and softball teams, offering live scoring, game streaming, and season statistics. It facilitates communication between coaches, players, and families, with features for schedule management and performance tracking.

Highlights
  • Live game scoring
  • Live streaming from dugout
  • Season stats and summaries
  • Schedule and RSVP management
  • Team chat and announcements
  • Roster and leaderboard tracking
  • Video clip recording
Features
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DugoutDesk is the team desk for youth softball and baseball. Score games live, go live with sound from the dugout, share Watch and clips, keep the season schedule, and let families follow from one place. For families • Weekly player summaries and season stats • Upcoming games and practices with one-tap RSVP and add to calendar • Watch a live game with picture-in-picture • Team chat and coach announcements • Schedule change notifications For coaches • Dashboard with team record and rolling stats • Roster, season stats, and leaderboards • Game-day tools: live scoring, Go live with sound, lineup, defense, stat entry, and box scores • Record play clips and season gallery videos at the field • Practice planning and tournament management For league admins • Organization hub, divisions, and league standings • Org player pool and parent invites • Custom rulebooks and billing Tap Family demo or Coach demo on the login screen to explore with sample data, or sign in with email, Google, or Apple. Privacy policy: https://dugoutdesk.app/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Terms of service: https://dugoutdesk.app/terms

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

DugoutDesk4 screens
Stack the Lineup4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: Stack the Lineup at free against DugoutDesk's freemium. DugoutDesk's advantage is iOS requirement (16.4 vs 26.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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. DugoutDesk sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $12.00 per month 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 DugoutDesk against 5.0 for Stack the Lineup. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 5 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

DugoutDesk ships an update weekly, Stack the Lineup every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
DugoutDesk versus Stack the Lineup: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDugoutDeskStack the Lineup
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (5 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings25 — better
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 9 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.4 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size102 MB16 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJason SavageNICHOLAS DAVIES

Customer experience

DugoutDesk

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Stack the Lineup

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

7 purchases

DugoutDesk

Subscriptions7
  • Coach premium$12.001 Month
  • Org starter$49.001 Month
  • Org pro$99.001 Month
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  • Coach premium annual$119.991 Year
  • Org club$199.001 Month
  • Org starter annual$489.991 Year
  • Org pro annual$989.991 Year
1 purchases

Stack the Lineup

One-time1
  • Stack the Lineup Pro$4.99

Questions

Is DugoutDesk free?
DugoutDesk 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, DugoutDesk or Stack the Lineup?
DugoutDesk and Stack the Lineup are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 5 ratings respectively.
Do DugoutDesk or Stack the Lineup have ads?
Neither DugoutDesk nor Stack the Lineup shows ads.
Which is updated more often, DugoutDesk or Stack the Lineup?
DugoutDesk ships an update weekly, and Stack the Lineup every 9 days. Most recently, DugoutDesk was updated on October 19, 2026 and Stack the Lineup on October 28, 2026.

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