Comparison

Stack the Lineup vs Sideline Score

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

Head to head
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.

About

Sideline Score

Easily keep score for youth sports games and share live updates with family. Track individual player achievements and access game recaps and history. Supports 11 youth sports with customizable team colors.

Highlights
  • One-tap scoring
  • Live game sharing
  • Player stat tracking
  • Game recaps and history
  • Supports 11 youth sports
  • Lock Screen scoreboard
  • Customizable team colors
Features
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Most youth games don't have a scoreboard, and Grandma can't always make it. Sideline Score fixes both: keep score with one tap, and let family follow every play live from wherever they are. SHARE THE GAME LIVE • Send family a private link. Every score shows up on their Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, live. • No app needed to watch. Family tap the link and follow along, and watching is always free. • Your first live game is on us. YOUR KID'S BIG PLAYS • A lot of kids play positions that don't score points. Credit yours with one tap for a sack, a save, a steal, a big catch, or a touchdown. • Family watching live get a heads-up the moment it happens. • Every play adds up in your kid's game stats. THE SCOREBOARD IN YOUR POCKET • Tap to score. The score is the biggest thing on screen. • Start a game in seconds: pick the sport and go. • Built for 11 youth sports: tackle football, flag football, 7-on-7, baseball, softball, tee ball, basketball, soccer, hockey, lacrosse and volleyball, plus Other for everything else. • Periods, halves and innings tracked for you, with outs for baseball and softball. • Keep score from your Lock Screen, too. Your own Live Activity has score buttons. • The app is themed to match your team's colors. EVERY GAME, REMEMBERED • A recap after every game: the final, every scoring play, and your kid's stats. • History for every team, sorted by season, with the win-loss record. • Ask Siri to add a score or tell you the score, or put it on the Action button. FREE • Unlimited games • 2 kids, with 2 teams each • Every sport, team colors, recaps, history and stats • Your own Lock Screen scoreboard • Your first live game PREMIUM ($2.99 a month or $29.99 a year) • Launch offer: your first year for $19.99 when you subscribe yearly by December 31 • Sideline Live: share every game live with up to 50 family members • Big Play alerts for family watching • Unlimited kids and teams • iCloud sync across your devices Payment is charged to your Apple ID. The subscription renews automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the period. Manage or cancel it in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://digitalsandbox.net/sideline-score/privacy.html YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS No accounts and no ads. Your family's games live on your device, and in your private iCloud with Premium. When you share a game live, only that game's score and plays go to the people with your link, and the share ends when the game does. The app sends us anonymous usage statistics, never names, teams or scores. Built for parents, by a parent.

Screenshots

Stack the Lineup4 screens
Sideline Score4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: Stack the Lineup at free against Sideline Score's free with in-app purchases. Stack the Lineup also leads on update cadence (every 9 days vs every 4 weeks) and ratings volume (5 vs 1). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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. Stack the Lineup sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Sideline Score sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. 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 Stack the Lineup against 5.0 for Sideline Score. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Stack the Lineup has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Stack the Lineup ships an update every 9 days, Sideline Score every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Stack the Lineup versus Sideline Score: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStack the LineupSideline Score
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (5 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings5 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 9 days — betterEvery 4 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS26.0 — better26.4
Further details — not scored
Size16 MB10 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNICHOLAS DAVIESDigitalSandbox

Customer experience

Stack the Lineup

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

Sideline Score

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Stack the Lineup

One-time1
  • Stack the Lineup Pro$4.99
2 purchases

Sideline Score

Subscriptions2
  • Premium (Monthly)$2.991 Month
  • Premium (Yearly)1 Year trial$29.991 Year

Questions

Is Stack the Lineup free?
Stack the Lineup is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Sideline Score free?
Sideline Score is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Stack the Lineup or Sideline Score?
Stack the Lineup and Sideline Score are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 5 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Stack the Lineup or Sideline Score have ads?
Neither Stack the Lineup nor Sideline Score shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Stack the Lineup or Sideline Score?
Stack the Lineup ships an update every 9 days, and Sideline Score every 4 weeks. Most recently, Stack the Lineup was updated on October 31, 2026 and Sideline Score on November 13, 2026.

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