Comparison

Stack the Lineup vs InfieldHQ

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

InfieldHQ

This app simplifies youth sports team management, allowing coaches to easily create lineups, track player positions, and manage attendance. It ensures fair playing time and provides insights into player development. Parents can RSVP and view their child's game schedule.

Highlights
  • Create batting orders quickly
  • Assign and track player positions
  • Manage player attendance and RSVPs
  • Analyze player growth and playing time
  • Ask questions about team schedule and roster
  • Set custom walk-up songs and soundboard
  • Import player registrations for league admins
Features
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Set your lineup in two minutes, from the dugout. InfieldHQ is for the coaches and volunteers running youth recreational softball and baseball. It replaces the spreadsheets, group texts, and app juggling with one place to get a team ready for game day. GAME DAY, SORTED Build a full batting order by dragging names, or let the app rotate the order so that over a season every kid takes a turn batting first and batting last. Assign field positions inning by inning on a tappable diamond, with a bench panel that tracks who has been sitting so playing time stays fair. See who is coming. Parents RSVP for their own child, and the lineup flags anyone who is in the order but not showing up. Works on a weak dugout signal. Edits save on the phone and sync when you get bars back. PLAYING TIME YOU CAN DEFEND The Player Growth Report shows where every player has actually played this season: infield versus outfield, bench innings, batting slots, and the positions they prefer or want to avoid. Sorted least balanced first, so you know who to move next. ASK HQ Ask questions about your team in plain language and get answers from your real schedule, roster, attendance, and position history. It can also make changes for you, but only after you approve each one, and every change can be undone. WALK-UP SONGS AND SOUNDBOARD Pick a walk-up song from the Apple Music catalog, trim the clip, and record a voice intro. The DJ Booth plays them in batting order and shows which speaker the audio is coming out of. Upload your own air horns and rally chants to the soundboard. Playing an Apple Music song requires Apple Music on the phone doing the playing. FOR PARENTS Your child's schedule, their positions for each inning, RSVP for your own child, and their walk-up song. Parents only ever see display names and jersey numbers. FOR LEAGUE ADMINS Import registrations, form balanced teams, run tryouts and evaluations, and carry league state from one season to the next. The admin side is built for a laptop. GETTING STARTED No league admin required. Sign up, name your team, paste your roster one player per line, and you are ready to build a lineup.

Screenshots

Stack the Lineup4 screens
InfieldHQ4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: InfieldHQ at none against Stack the Lineup's 1. InfieldHQ also leads on 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. Stack the Lineup sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. InfieldHQ 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 Stack the Lineup against 5.0 for InfieldHQ. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 3 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Stack the Lineup ships an update every 9 days, InfieldHQ weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Stack the Lineup versus InfieldHQ: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStack the LineupInfieldHQ
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings33
Update frequencyEvery 9 daysWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS26.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size15 MB49 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNICHOLAS DAVIESArjan Dehar

Customer experience

Stack the Lineup

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

InfieldHQ

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

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Stack the Lineup

One-time1
  • Stack the Lineup Pro$4.99
None

InfieldHQ

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Stack the Lineup free?
Stack the Lineup is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is InfieldHQ free?
InfieldHQ is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Stack the Lineup or InfieldHQ?
Stack the Lineup and InfieldHQ are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 3 and 3 ratings respectively.
Do Stack the Lineup or InfieldHQ have ads?
Neither Stack the Lineup nor InfieldHQ shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Stack the Lineup or InfieldHQ?
Stack the Lineup ships an update every 9 days, and InfieldHQ weekly. Most recently, Stack the Lineup was updated on October 2, 2026 and InfieldHQ on October 14, 2026.

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