USA Baseball vs Mustard
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
USA Baseball
This app offers resources for baseball coaches, parents, players, and umpires to improve their game. It includes tools for practice planning, educational materials, and information on athlete safety and development programs.
- Athlete Safety Resources
- Educational Materials
- Mobile Practice Planning
- Coaching Clinics Information
- American Development Model
- Blog Access
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The USA Baseball app is a revolutionary tool that aims to provide resources for coaches, parents, players, and umpires to enhance their baseball experience. The app includes access to information and resources on: • Athlete Safety • Education • Mobile Coach practice planning tool • Blog • Coaching clinics • American Development Model • Fun at Bat • And more! The USA Baseball app is free to all users, however, membership to USA Baseball is advised to use this application. By signing into the application with a USA Baseball username, users can save course completion status, complete background checks, save certifications, and more and are able to access them on any device. Visit USABDevelops.com to create a USA Baseball account and explore the desktop component of the USA Baseball app. This is the official application for USA Baseball. For more information, please visit USABDevelops.com.
Mustard
Analyze pitching mechanics with personalized 3D motion analysis and AI-driven drills. Improve your performance with detailed feedback on key metrics and receive tailored training recommendations. Track progress and access advanced features with a premium subscription.
- Personalized 3D motion analysis
- AI-driven drill recommendations
- Key metric review for single pitches
- Skeletal overlay of delivery
- Daily arm care and warm-up program
- Progression tracking
- Coaches & Parents Platform
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TRAIN LIKE THE BEST OF ALL TIME: Get a personalized 3D motion analysis. Get drills and exercises tailored to you, and catapult your performance. PERSONALIZED 3D MOTION ANALYSIS: Based on the teachings of Dr. Tom House, coach to numerous Hall of Famers and inventor of modern pitching mechanics. Videos are automatically edited for you — you can review your key metrics for a single pitch or review summaries of entire bullpens. Learn in-depth about the mechanical elements you do well and the movements you can improve. Take videos of others and tag and invite friends. Automatically view key still frames of your throwing motion: first movement, max leg lift, footstrike, and ball release. View a skeletal overlay of your delivery. Record from front view and from open side view. PERSONALIZED TRAINING RECOMMENDATIONS: Based on your 3D motion analysis, completed through computer vision and the most advanced AI in sports. Get personalized drills to work on the mechanical variables you specifically need to improve. Get the daily arm care and warm-up program. A Mustard Premium Subscription comes with Progression Tracking and our Coaches & Parents Platform. You may purchase an auto-renewing subscription through an In-App Purchase. If you do not maintain a subscription you can only use the free portions of the app. • Your subscription will be charged to your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase and will automatically renew at the duration selected unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. • Current subscription may not be cancelled during the active subscription period; however, you can manage your subscription and/or turn off auto-renewal by visiting your iTunes Account Settings after purchase. Privacy policy: https://teammstrd.com/privacy/ Terms of Use: https://teammstrd.com/terms/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Mustard at 4.7 against USA Baseball's 4.1. Mustard also leads on review sentiment (83% vs 44%) and ratings volume (216 vs 17). USA Baseball's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 10) and ads (none vs shown). On price, device support and iOS requirement 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. Mustard sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. USA Baseball asks for nothing beyond the download.
Mustard holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Mustard has 216 ratings behind it against 17, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 44% of USA Baseball's written reviews are positive against 83% of Mustard's.
USA Baseball ships an update every 3 months, Mustard every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | USA Baseball | Mustard |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (17 ratings) | 4.7 (216 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 44.1% of reviews | 83.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 17 | 216 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 17 MB | 180 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | United States Baseball Federation | QualiaOS, Inc. |
Customer experience
USA Baseball
Mustard
User reviews
USA Baseball
From 17 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Great content and resources
- 👍 Useful for coaching
- 👍 Helpful for practice planning
- 👍 Good for player development
- 👍 Informative drills and videos
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent freezing issues
- 🐛 Videos take a long time to load
- 🐛 Login problems
- 🐛 Registration unavailable/errors
- 🐛 App crashes frequently
Mustard
From 216 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 💡 Game-changer for pitching development
- 👍 Easy to use and navigate
- 🚀 Instant analytics and feedback
- 👍 Provides valuable drills
- 🤝 Great product and service
Room to improve
- 💰 Free version is worthless
- 👎 Expensive, not user-friendly
- 💸 Hidden costs for family plan
- 📉 App quality has degraded
- ⏳ Free version offers no value
Bugs and requests
USA Baseball
Reported bugs
19 issues- App freezes upon opening
- Videos take several minutes to load and then freeze
- Login issues, unable to log on with website credentials
- Registration errors
- Blank screens when clicking on topics
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- App hangs constantly
- Slow video playback (5-10 mins for 1 min video)
- Sound not working for videos
- Password reset not working
- White screen error on startup
- App shuts down when trying to set up a new account
- Cannot sign in, wrong username or password
- App crashes after initial use
- Error message on login, no way to correct
- No login screen appears after error
- App doesn't open
- Cannot create user account without crashing
- Pitch Smart portion won't function without internet
- Audio trouble with videos
Requested features
5 requests- Ability to share practice plans
- Ability to share drills with players
- Create individual improvement plans for players
- Export practice plans for printing/emailing
- Forgot username/password link in app
Mustard
Reported bugs
2 issues- Stats not loading
- Performance degraded
Requested features
3 requests- Provide more value in free version
- Improve user-friendliness
- Clarify family plan pricing
In-app purchases
USA Baseball
No in-app purchases
Mustard
- Monthly Premium Access$7.991 Month
- Sponsorship 1 Athlete Monthly$7.991 Month
- Mustard: Athlete$19.991 Month
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- Mustard: Family$22.991 Month
- 3 Athletes Monthly$23.991 Month
- 5 Athletes Monthly$39.991 Month
- Mustard: Team Lite$49.991 Month
- Mustard: Athlete$99.991 Year
- Mustard: Team$149.991 Month
- Mustard: Family$219.991 Year









