Comparison

JPEL Manager vs Widget Baseball

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

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About

JPEL Manager

Manage a Hakone Ekiden team as a general manager. Scout, contract, and train athletes from 20 real-world clubs. Strategize race day orders and navigate the transfer market to aim for the national championship.

Highlights
  • Manage 20 real-world Ekiden teams
  • Scout, contract, and train athletes
  • Strategic race day order and section placement
  • Transfer market negotiations
  • Player development with training cards
Features
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JPEL Manager — 日本プロ駅伝リーグ GMシミュレーター あなたはプロ駅伝チームのゼネラルマネージャー。選手の獲得・育成・契約交渉から、区間配置の采配まで、すべてを采配してチームを頂点へ導きましょう。 ■ 采配で勝つ駅伝シミュレーション 区間ごとの適性・コース・コンディションを読み、最適なオーダーを組んでライバルと競います。 ■ 移籍市場とチーム経営 ドラフト・FA・トレード・レンタルで戦力を補強。予算とサラリーを管理しながら、常勝軍団を築きます。 ■ 選手を育て、記録に刻む 練習カードで選手を鍛え、記録会で自己ベストに挑戦。歴代記録は「記録室」に残ります。 ■ 選手との対話 契約更新や出場機会の相談はチャットで対応。あなたの判断がチームの士気を左右します。 さあ、あなたの采配で日本一の駅伝チームを作り上げてください。

About

Widget Baseball

Simulate a baseball player's career from youth leagues to the pros. Track progress, games, and achievements through an interactive widget on your home screen. Offers deep statistical tracking and multiple career paths.

Highlights
  • Player career simulation
  • Home screen widget integration
  • Youth and professional career paths
  • Detailed statistics and awards
  • Automatic game progression
  • Dual language support (English/Japanese)
Features
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Your player’s baseball career keeps moving, even when the app is closed. Widget Baseball is a single-player career simulation built around your Home Screen. Create a fictional player, choose how they train and compete, then follow every game, promotion, award, and turning point from the app or widget. TWO WAYS TO BEGIN • Start as a Pro Create a hitter or pitcher, complete five initial training sessions, enter the draft, and begin your first 143-game season the next morning. • Start in Youth Baseball Begin in first grade and progress through 12 in-game days. Choose training priorities, schools, and career paths; face rivals and injuries; chase regional titles and Koshien; then carry the same history and abilities into the pro draft. A CAREER THAT MOVES WITH THE CLOCK Games progress automatically from 6:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. One real day is one pro season—or one school year in the youth career. Open the app whenever you like to review every result and decision. FOLLOW THE ACTION FROM YOUR HOME SCREEN The medium widget shows your player, club, current level, season progress, recent results, key stats, goals, and major career events. With two player slots unlocked, place two widgets and choose a different player for each. BUILD A COMPLETE BASEBALL STORY • Hitters, starters, relievers, and closers • Fictional Japanese and North American clubs • First Team, Farm Team, Major, and Minor careers • Trades, free agency, contract decisions, promotions, and demotions • Postseason series and the World Series • Detailed season and career statistics • Awards, records, milestones, rivals, and retirement stories • Optional Game Center rankings for season, career, amateur, and individual-stat records • iCloud backup through Game Center Saved Games, plus manual save export and import LANGUAGE SUPPORT Switch between Japanese and English on the title screen or at any time in Settings. The selected language is also used by the widget. FULL ACCESS — ONE-TIME PURCHASE The free version includes one professional player and the youth career through elementary school. The non-consumable Full Access purchase permanently unlocks junior-high and high-school play, a second simultaneous player, and overseas free agency for all current and future players. Full Access is not an ad-removal product. Optional special-training sessions require one rewarded video each for both free and paid players. Regular games, statistics, widgets, and normal career progress do not show ads. No account is required. All teams and players are fictional.

Screenshots

JPEL Manager4 screens
Widget Baseball4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Widget Baseball at 89% against JPEL Manager's 67%. JPEL Manager's advantage is monetization model (ad-supported vs free with in-app purchases) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. JPEL Manager sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Widget Baseball sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

JPEL Manager ships an update every 3 days, Widget Baseball every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 5 level
JPEL Manager versus Widget Baseball: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterJPEL ManagerWidget Baseball
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews88.6% of reviews — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 5 days
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationAd-supported — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size40 MB26 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperTSUBASA IHIRAn11

Customer experience

JPEL Manager

Written reviews27 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral7.4%
Negative25.9%

Widget Baseball

Written reviews35 reviews
Positive88.6%
Neutral2.9%
Negative8.6%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

JPEL Manager

One-time1
  • 広告削除$3.99
1 purchases

Widget Baseball

One-time1
  • 本格プレイ$2.99

Questions

Is JPEL Manager free?
JPEL Manager is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Widget Baseball free?
Widget Baseball is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do JPEL Manager or Widget Baseball have ads?
Both JPEL Manager and Widget Baseball show ads.
Which is updated more often, JPEL Manager or Widget Baseball?
JPEL Manager ships an update every 3 days, and Widget Baseball every 5 days. Most recently, JPEL Manager was updated on October 12, 2026 and Widget Baseball on October 16, 2026.

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