FieldHype vs Next Inning
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
FieldHype
Elevate youth sports with a platform that transforms game days into stadium experiences. Create team identities, personalize player introductions with music and announcements, and manage the game day atmosphere from a single control screen. Share the excitement with families and make every athlete feel like a star.
- Custom team anthems and logos
- Team merch store creation
- Player walk-up music and announcements
- Game day DJ and audio control
- Parent Mode for family engagement
- Collectible player HypeCards
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Turn Every Game Into a Stadium Experience FieldHype gives youth sports teams the tools to create a professional, personalized game day from one platform. Build your roster, logo, jersey and merch store (automatic build), choose each athlete's walk-up music, create stadium-style introductions, and run the action from a simple game day control screen. BUILD A TEAM IDENTITY Create a complete team experience: • Generate a custom team anthem • Create team logos, banners, and jerseys • Launch a Team Merch store with team apparel and gear • Turn player photos into collectible HypeCards (Trading Cards) • Share the team experience with families through Parent Mode MAKE EVERY PLAYER FEEL LIKE A STAR Give each athlete a custom entrance with: • Apple Music walk-up songs • Original custom walk-up songs generated for the player • Professional player announcements • Personalized names, numbers, positions, nicknames, and pronunciation guidance CONTROL THE ENERGY Use Game Day DJ to keep the crowd engaged with FieldHype Exclusive Songs, Curated Apple Music Playlists, and custom stingers for key moments. Trigger the right audio quickly without digging through playlists between plays. TEAM AND PARENT EXPERIENCES Team Mode gives coaches, team managers, and organizers control of the roster, team identity, and game day experience. Parent Mode gives families a dedicated way to manage their athlete, review permissions, create approved content, access HypeCards, and connect with their team. BUILT FOR REAL GAME DAYS FieldHype is designed for fast, one-tap control when the game is moving. Preloaded audio, clear player cards, and simple playback controls help coaches, team managers, and game day volunteers stay ready. From the first introduction to the final out, whistle, or buzzer, FieldHype helps teams create the kind of moments players remember! End User License Agreement/Terms of Use: https://fieldhype.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://fieldhype.com/privacy
Next Inning
This app helps youth baseball coaches manage player lineups, fielding rotations, and playing time. It simplifies game planning, tracks player stats, and ensures fair distribution of innings and positions. The app works offline and can sync with assistant coaches.
- Dynamic fielding rotation grid
- Generated lineup plans
- Continuous batting order
- Pitch count tracking
- Offline functionality
- Season fairness reports
- Assistant coach invites
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Next Inning is a lineup, fielding, and playing-time app for youth baseball and softball coaches. It is the top of the third. Your left fielder wants to pitch, a parent is asking why their kid sat two innings in a row, and you are holding a dry-erase board in one hand and a lineup card in the other. Next Inning replaces both. It is built for the innings you are coaching, not the recap afterward. PLAN THE GAME Build the fielding rotation in a grid: players down the side, innings across the top, tap a cell to set a position. Or start from a generated plan: Next Inning fills every inning of fielding around your rules, each player's position preferences, and who has been sitting. You set the batting order yourself, by dragging it into shape (in continuous batting order) or copying it from a prior game, fielding plan too if you like. Enter your limits once (minimum field innings, consecutive bench innings, pitcher innings, pitch caps, rest days) or start from a league preset, with a per-game override for tournaments. Enter pitch counts after an outing and Next Inning helps you track them: it flags a plan that breaks one of your rules and still lets you make the call. SOFTBALL Bat 9, 10, 11, 12 or the whole roster, per team or per game. Mark the DP, FLEX and EP for fastpitch; a pinch hitter keeps the same batting spot, and the Re-enter once setting warns before an illegal re-entry. RUN THE DUGOUT The dugout view is the point of the app: one screen, big type, high contrast, readable at a glance in direct sun from a few feet away. Tap a position to pick a player, or drag a player onto another. One tap steps to the next inning and the positions redraw. Mark a player unavailable, mark an injury from an inning, or sub a player out; the batting order and fielding plan route around them. Position changes, swaps, and sub-outs have an undo, so a mis-tap costs you a second, not an inning. On a tablet in landscape the batting order sits beside the field; on a phone you switch between the two, so the tablet can stay in the dugout while you coach from the baseline. Super-bright mode holds the screen at full brightness for noon games, and it stays awake between pitches. WORKS OFFLINE Ball fields have bad service. Sign in once with your email; after that the dugout runs on the device. Every tap saves on the device first and syncs when signal comes back. SHOW YOUR WORK Season totals per player: innings played, innings at each position, bench innings, pitch counts, games played, and a fairness score that rises when innings and infield time are spread evenly and nobody sits two innings in a row. Export the season fairness report as a PDF to print or bring to the playing-time conversation. YOU AND YOUR ASSISTANTS Invite an assistant coach with a short code. They sign in on their own phone and see the same lineup, fielding plan, and inning, usually within seconds when you both have signal. ALSO IN THE APP - Multiple teams; copy roster instead of retyping names each season - Roster with jersey numbers, preferred positions, and positions to avoid - Bullpen and on-deck planning, plus the pitching order - Per-game availability (one tap on Home), designated hitter, game summary with the score - Schedule with opponent, home or away, field on a map, and game-time forecast - Printable lineup card as a PDF for the umpire and scorekeeper - Coaching-staff chat per team and per game, with mute and report WHAT IT DOES NOT DO Next Inning does not score the game, stream video, or broadcast to families. Other apps do that well and you can keep using them. This one helps you decide who plays where, and shows your work when someone asks. Free to use. No ads. We never sell or rent player data, and a roster is visible only to the coaches you invite. Next Inning is built for coaches. Head coaches and assistant coaches use it, and it stores roster information, so it is not designed for players to use. Support: support@nextinning.app nextinning.app
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Next Inning at none against FieldHype's 11. FieldHype's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs fortnightly). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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
Both are free to download. FieldHype sells 11 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Next Inning asks for nothing beyond the download.
FieldHype holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 6 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
FieldHype ships an update every 5 days, Next Inning fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | FieldHype | Next Inning |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (6 ratings) — better | 4.8 (6 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 6 | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 52 MB | 55 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | FieldHype, LLC | EMJAY747 Enterprises LLC |
Customer experience
FieldHype
Next Inning
In-app purchases
FieldHype
- FieldHype Rookie7 Days trial$1.991 Month
- 50 Announcement Credits$1.99
- 150 Announcement Credits$4.99
- 10 Image Generation Credits$4.99
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- All-Star Upgrade$5.00
- 20 Image Generation Credits$8.99
- 10 Music Generation Credits$9.99
- All-Star Full Subscription$11.99
- 30 Image Generation Credits$12.99
- 20 Music Generation Credits$17.99
- 30 Music Generation Credits$24.99
Next Inning
No in-app purchases








