Tryout Pro vs CoachSigns

Tryout Pro is the complete tryout management tool for youth baseball and softball coaches. Set up a tryout, register players, evaluate skills with your coaching staff, and instantly rank your results — all from your iPhone. COACHES — CREATE & MANAGE TRYOUTS Set up tryouts in minutes with customizable evaluation criteria. Choose from six skill categories — Hitting, Fielding, Throwing, Pitching, Bunting, and Speed — each with detailed sub-skills. Select your preferred grading scale (1-10, 1-5, or qualitative) and configure age groups, birthday cutoffs, and public or private registration. REGISTER PLAYERS WITH EASE Share a registration link via text or email. Players and parents register for free — no account needed. Coaches can also add walk-in players on the spot. Set birthday cutoffs to automatically enforce age eligibility. Past tryouts are automatically closed to new registrations. EVALUATE WITH YOUR FULL COACHING STAFF Invite assistant coaches and evaluators by email. Each evaluator grades players independently, and Tryout Pro automatically averages scores across your entire staff for fair, unbiased results. Evaluate by player (grade one player across all skills) or by skill (grade all players on one category at a time). RANK & EXPORT RESULTS View instant player rankings sorted by overall average, individual categories, or specific sub-skills. Expand any player to see a full skill breakdown with color-coded score bars. Export a complete CSV report with rankings, contact information, and every evaluation score — ready to share with your coaching staff or organization. A separate player roster export is also available with just contact information. BUILT FOR YOUTH SPORTS - Age groups from 7U through 18U, plus Minors, Majors, Freshman, JV, and Varsity - Birthday cutoff enforcement for age-appropriate registration - Bib number assignment for tryout day organization - Parent/guardian contact info collected for all players under 15 - Search and filter public tryouts by name, city, state, or age group - Archive past tryouts or cancel upcoming ones — auto-archived after 14 days PRICING The app is free to download. Creating a tryout is a one-time in-app purchase of $4.99 per tryout. Player registration and evaluator access are always free.

CoachSigns is the native coach app for the CoachSigns wireless sign-calling system — the base station and watch receivers that let baseball and softball coaches send pitch, defense, and offense signals to players on the field without visible hand signs. Call your game from anywhere in the dugout — every sign you tap reaches the whole team at once. A CALLING SURFACE BUILT AROUND HOW YOU COACH The Station page is fully customizable. Drag and resize the pitch, defense, offense, and location tiles to fit how you coach, and hide the ones you don't use. Layouts save per orientation, so your portrait setup is one rotation away from a landscape setup. Call locations your way — a strike-zone grid with off-the-plate cells, RED / GREEN / YELLOW color boxes, or labels you write yourself. Pitch count, balls, strikes and outs, a game timer, and a scoreboard keep the whole game on one screen. UP TO SIX BASES ON ONE TEAM Add a second CoachSigns base — up to six — and every one of them sends to the same watches. Keep a spare in the bag, or give each coach on your staff a base of their own. SAVE THE WATCHES BETWEEN GAMES Settings → Watches → Sleep all puts every player watch to sleep with one tap, so the batteries last through a tournament weekend. A tap of the side button wakes a watch right back up. EVERYTHING ELSE, FROM THE APP Pairing, signal libraries with per-signal vibration patterns, a theme picker (system, light, dark, or high-contrast), and over-the-air firmware updates for your entire watch fleet. Accessibility: high-contrast mode boosts dynamic type, locks to dark theme, and applies bold-weight strokes throughout — designed for coaches with low vision or sun-glare conditions. No hardware yet? Tap "Try Demo Mode" on the connect screen and explore every feature with a sample team. CoachSigns hardware sold separately at coachsigns.com.