Comparison

SaberSwing vs Bleacher Notes

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

Head to head
About

SaberSwing

Track your baseball, fastpitch, or slow pitch batting performance with advanced sabermetrics and visual data. Log at-bats quickly, analyze pitch locations, and review spray charts, all offline and without an account. Supports multiple players and leagues, with optional iCloud sync.

Highlights
  • One-tap quick entry for at-bats
  • Pitch-by-pitch tracking with visual strike zone
  • Advanced sabermetric calculations
  • Interactive spray charts
  • Multi-player and multi-league support
  • Fully offline functionality
  • Export stats to CSV
Features
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Your batting stats. No account. No paywall. Just baseball. SaberSwing is the offline batting tracker built for serious players — from youth leagues to rec softball to competitive baseball. Log at-bats in one tap, track every pitch on a visual strike zone, and review your performance with advanced sabermetrics. Everything stays on your device. ONE-TAP QUICK ENTRY In Quick Entry mode, record any result — single, walk, strikeout, ground out — in a single tap. No fumbling during games. PITCH-BY-PITCH TRACKING Switch to Pitch-by-Pitch mode to log every pitch with its location on a visual strike zone. See your weaknesses and strengths rendered as a heat map. ADVANCED SABERMETRICS SaberSwing calculates the stats that matter: BA, OBP, SLG, OPS, wOBA, wRC+, BABIP, ISO, K%, BB%, and situational splits like RISP and count-based performance — all computed from your actual at-bats. SPRAY CHARTS Plot every contact point on an interactive field view. Identify pull tendencies, gap-to-gap patterns, and how your spray chart shifts by count or pitch location. MULTI-PLAYER & MULTI-LEAGUE Track multiple players on one device. Assign games to leagues, tournaments, or pick-up play. Filter stats and history by any context. FULLY OFFLINE All data lives on your device. No account required. Optional iCloud Sync keeps your stats in step across your devices. EXPORT YOUR STATS Share a CSV of your stats to any app — spreadsheets, email, or AirDrop. BASEBALL, FASTPITCH & SLOW PITCH Each sport adjusts the default strike zone and rules. Slow pitch defaults to a mat strike zone, with an optional standard zone. REMOVE ADS The app is free and ad-supported. A yearly Remove Ads subscription removes banner ads — all stats and features remain free forever. ——— SaberSwing is not affiliated with MLB, any sports league, or organization. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Bleacher Notes

Features
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Bleacher Notes is a scorekeeping app you talk to. Say the play out loud, "ground ball to short, runner scores from third, out at first," and it keeps the scorebook. No menus, no tapping through five screens while the next pitch is thrown. It was built for the volunteer parent in the stands who came to watch their kid, not their phone. WHAT IT DOES Say what happened. A baseball/softball-specific parser turns your words into a real at-bat: the play, where it went, every runner, the count. Scoring rules then compute the box score. The stats are calculated by scoring logic, Bleacher Notes understand your sentences, the scorebook does the math. Anything ambiguous gets flagged for a one-tap fix instead of being silently wrong. FREE, AND NOT CRIPPLED Everything below costs nothing, with no trial and no card: • Voice scoring and manual scoring • Full season stats: average, on-base, slugging, OPS, hit charts • Live play-by-play and box score • Teams, rosters, and your team logo • Per-game lineups: batting order and field positions • Lineup exchange by QR code or 4-digit code • Shared team schedule, reminders, and team messaging • Follow your player across every team they play on • Live video from any phone, unlimited • Watching live: free and unlimited, for anyone with the link • Making and sharing clips • One-way CSV import, so career stats come with you RUN A TOURNAMENT, FREE Build a bracket: single elimination, double elimination, round robin, pool play into a bracket, or a home run derby. Publish a schedule across every field. Standings, run differential, and pool tiebreakers recompute the moment a game goes final. Teams and families get one link that opens in any phone browser. No app, no account, nothing for grandparents to download. Because parents are already scoring from the stands, the bracket updates itself. Nobody scored a game? Type the final and it advances anyway. Scoring is the upgrade, never the requirement. Leagues work the same way: season schedule, standings, and playoffs in one place. DUGOUT INSIGHTS (OPTIONAL) AI reads of what is actually happening, in plain sentences rather than charts. Parents: hitting and pitching reads for your own player, on any team they play, plus post-game analysis and a season recap. Coaches: the same for every player on the roster, plus team matchup intelligence between innings, pitcher fatigue, and lineup advantage. BLEACHER PASS (OPTIONAL) Broadcasting is free. Watching live is free and unlimited. Clips are free to make and share. The Pass is for afterwards, full replays of finished games, kept all season. COMMON QUESTIONS Do I need to be good at scorekeeping? No. If you can describe the play to the person next to you, you can score the game. Does it work for softball? Yes, youth baseball and softball, rec through travel and school ball. Is scoring really free? Yes, including full season stats. We do not put your kid's stats behind a subscription. Do I need an account to watch? No. Public event pages and streams open in any browser. PRICING Scorekeeping, stats, team tools, and tournament hosting: free, forever. Dugout Insights — Parent: $59/year, with a 7-day free trial. Dugout Insights — Coach: $99/year, with a 7-day free trial. Bleacher Pass: $29.99/year. Subscriptions are auto-renewable and billed annually to your Apple Account. Renewal is charged within 24 hours of the end of the current period unless auto-renew is turned off first. Manage or cancel in your Apple Account settings at any time. Terms: https://bleachernotes.com/terms Privacy: https://bleachernotes.com/privacy

Screenshots

SaberSwing4 screens
Bleacher Notes4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: SaberSwing at none against Bleacher Notes's 3. Bleacher Notes's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price and device support 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. Bleacher Notes sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $29.99 per year. SaberSwing asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
SaberSwing versus Bleacher Notes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSaberSwingBleacher Notes
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size13 MB50 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMatthew MastersNick Wichert

In-app purchases

None

SaberSwing

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Bleacher Notes

Subscriptions3
  • Bleacher Pass$29.991 Year
  • Dugout Parent$59.991 Year
  • Dugout Coach$99.991 Year

Questions

Is SaberSwing free?
SaberSwing is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Bleacher Notes free?
Bleacher Notes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do SaberSwing or Bleacher Notes have ads?
SaberSwing shows ads; Bleacher Notes does not.

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