Lineup Card vs Backside Stats
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Lineup Card
This app helps baseball and softball coaches, parents, and fans manage team lineups and defensive positions. It allows for tracking rotating positions per inning and creating custom position values. Users can quickly generate and share lineups and rosters with others.
- Track lineup and defensive position
- Manage rotating positions per inning
- Create custom position values
- Quickly create lineups and rosters
- Share lineups with followers
- Share rosters with approved followers
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Lineup Card is for baseball and softball coaches, parents, and fans. Track lineup and defensive position. Manage rotating positions per inning. Create position values or use built-in defaults. Quickly create Lineups and Rosters by adding from Followers. Share Lineups with Followers. Share Rosters with Approved Followers.
Backside Stats
Effortlessly track game scores and player statistics for slow-pitch softball. Designed for coaches and players to manage season-long performance and tournament data.
- Scorekeeping
- Player statistics tracking
- Season-long performance management
- Tournament data management
- Designed for coaches and players
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Backside stats - the app that makes score keeping easy. Specially designed for slow-pitch softball and baseball. Allows coaches and players an effortless way to keep track of game scores and players stats through the season and during tournaments. Terms of use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Backside Stats at free against Lineup Card's free with in-app purchases. Backside Stats also leads on rating (4.7 vs 4.4) and review sentiment (80% vs 65%). Lineup Card's advantage is iOS requirement (13.2 vs 16.1). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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. Lineup Card sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and Backside Stats sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $49.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Backside Stats holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 34 and 78 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 65% of Lineup Card's written reviews are positive against 80% of Backside Stats's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Lineup Card | Backside Stats |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (34 ratings) | 4.7 (78 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 64.7% of reviews | 80.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 34 | 78 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.2 — better | 16.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 18 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kevin Hammond | Backside Stats LLC |
Customer experience
Lineup Card
Backside Stats
In-app purchases
Lineup Card
- Unlimited Lineups$4.99
- Unlimited Rosters$4.99
Backside Stats
- Plus$49.991 Year
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