One-time purchase. No ads, no accounts, no tracking. Built for the sideline.
Coming soon to the App Store $2.99 · one-time · no subscriptionsYouth sports apps are a crowded category. Here's what we do differently.
No subscriptions. No in-app purchases. No upgrade nags halfway through the season. You pay once, the app is yours.
No accounts to create. No data to breach. Your team's names, positions, and playing time stay on your iPhone or iPad — we never see any of it.
Full offline support. Use it in a cell dead zone, under the lights, or in a school gym with zero signal.
Fair Ball doesn't ask you to be a spreadsheet wizard. The setup wizard walks you through once; the app does the rest.
Enter player names and jersey numbers. Mark the kid who always pitches, the kid who never plays catcher, the kid who bats third. Fair Ball respects all of it.
Tap a date, pick the opponent, set the innings. Fair Ball builds the defensive grid and the batting order in the background.
Swipe between innings on the full-screen sideline view. Mark a kid absent mid-game — the rest of the lineup reshuffles instantly to stay fair.
Most youth baseball apps are free because they make money somewhere else. Here's the trade.
| Fair Ball | Typical free app | |
|---|---|---|
| One-time purchase | $2.99 forever | Free, or subscription |
| Requires account signup | No | Usually yes |
| Shows ads | Never | Often |
| Collects analytics | Never | Often |
| Works fully offline | Yes | Partial |
| Per-player constraints | Opener, locked, banned, batting slot | Limited |
| Balances bench time | Automatically | Some |
We'll update this section when real coaches weigh in. Fair Ball is about to launch publicly — if you want to be one of the first to shape it, email fairball@fair-ball.com.
For every inning, Fair Ball looks at who's played what position and for how many innings total, and picks the player with the lowest imbalance for each open position. It respects any constraints you set (opener pitcher, locked positions, banned positions, preferred batting slot). Manual overrides are always preserved when the schedule regenerates.
Yes — from the Game Card view, tap the Share button and pick "Share as Text" (drops into any group chat) or "Export PDF" (a one-page landscape PDF you can print or AirDrop). Multi-coach shared editing is on the roadmap for v1.1.
Not yet. For v1, you enter players once per season through the setup wizard. CSV import and "copy from last season" are planned for a future update based on feedback.
None. Zero. Fair Ball doesn't contain any analytics or tracking SDKs. No data is sent to us. Your roster, games, and lineups live on your device — we never see any of it. See our full privacy policy.
Tap the cell for that kid in the next inning and choose "Left after this inning." Fair Ball locks everything they've already played, marks them absent for the rest, and reshuffles the remaining innings to keep things fair.
Yes, through the standard App Store refund process at reportaproblem.apple.com. We'd rather you got your money back than felt stuck.
Multi-coach shared rosters, CSV import, a "copy from last season" shortcut, and iCloud sync between your devices. Email fairball@fair-ball.com with what you want to see.