Bleacher Notes vs DugoutHQ

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

DugoutHQ is the app for running a youth or travel baseball team — and, as of 2.2.0, for scoring and broadcasting the game too. It was built by a coach who was tired of running a club out of a spreadsheet, a group text, and three different apps. Call the play, and DugoutHQ scores it: DugoutHQ's voice scoring turns what you say into a box score in real time, no tapping between pitches. Go live in true 1080p, and DugoutHQ keeps a full-quality copy of the whole broadcast recorded right on your phone while you stream — it survives a dropped signal or a crash, and it can become the game's official replay with every play already lined up. Families and the fans a team approves can watch live or catch the replay, follow the score on their Lock Screen while it plays, and send the game to the TV with AirPlay. Save and share a clip of any play. Keep your whole program on the same page, too. Post the schedule once and every family sees it. Track who's paid dues and who hasn't, without a shared spreadsheet anyone can edit. Build a lineup and batting order in minutes — or scan an opponent's lineup QR code and skip typing it in. Message your team directly in the app — no separate group chat app, no lost texts. Fan Zone gives every family and fan one home for the teams they follow: pin and reorder the teams that matter most, star the games you don't want to miss, subscribe to a team's schedule in your own calendar app, and search back through every saved video. DugoutHQ's team-management tools — schedules, dues, lineups, chat, scoring — are free to start, no credit card required. Watching game video takes a Viewer Pass; buy or manage one right from the app's Settings, or on the web at dugout-hq.com.