Just say what happened.
Scoring a ballgame shouldn't cost you the ballgame. Hold the button, say the play out loud, let go. That's it. No menus, no math, no at-bat you missed because you were looking down at a phone.
- Free forever for parents.
- Free to host a tournament.
- Baseball and softball.
Somebody in the stands said
“Ground ball to short, runner scores from third, out at first.”
Bracket, standings, and the public page all move off this board. Nobody is sitting at a scoring table.
By the third inning, nobody's scoring.
It's not that people don't care. It's that tapping a box score for two hours is a job, and nobody drove out here to work. One scorekeeper is chasing a toddler. One got pulled to coach first. One never opened the app. Two fields go dark, and now somebody's texting around for a final so the semis can get seeded.
Three seconds a play instead of two hours a game. That's the whole difference between someone who quits in the second and someone who's still scoring in the sixth.
1 of 5 fields reporting · 2 finals still by text message
We didn't make this one.
Jordan Rifkin posts about youth sports and dad life. This clip isn't an ad, it isn't a review, and nobody paid for it. He has no connection to us at all. He just opened with the exact sentence we'd spent a month trying to write, then spent 28 seconds describing why we built this.
His caption: “Turns out I am not built for GameChanger.” Neither were we. That's the whole company.
Watch it on InstagramYou thought you were just keeping score.
Then it's the third inning, you've tapped forty times, and you look up to find your kid already standing on second. You said yes to keeping score. Somewhere along the way it turned into data entry, in the sun, with a toddler pulling on your leg.
That's the part we fixed. You talk. It keeps the book.
Say it once. That's the whole thing.
Three steps a play. You say it. An AI that speaks baseball works out what you meant. Then real scoring rules, not a guess, do the math. No menus, no scoring table, nothing to add up later.
You say the play out loud.
Hold the button and talk like you'd talk to the parent next to you. Run it all together if you want: "strike one, then a flyout to right, R3 tags."
Example
"Line drive single to right, runner on first to third."
It already speaks baseball.
"K looking." "6-4-3." "Passed ball." "Corners." It knows all of it. And if a call is genuinely unclear, it asks you. It never quietly guesses.
Becomes
Single, right fieldrunner on first → third
Everything else updates itself.
RBIs, average, ERA, fielding decisions: all of it runs through real scoring rules, never an AI's best guess. Game ends, the final posts itself, and the winner moves on without anybody reporting a score.
On your board
F4 final · Bandits 5, Sharks 3 Bandits → Semifinal 2
Run the tournament. The bracket runs itself.
Build the bracket, put games on fields and times, hand every team one link. Finals post themselves as they happen, so you're not refreshing a spreadsheet between innings or chasing coaches for a score you need to seed the semis.
- Cost to host
- $0
- Scorekeepers
- Zero
- Setup
- One afternoon
Every format you actually run
Single elim, double elim, round robin, pool play into a bracket, home run derby. Seed it or set it by hand.
Games across every field
Put every game on a field and a time. Teams only see what's next for them, so the texts stop.
Live records and tiebreakers
Records, run differential, and pool tiebreakers redo themselves the second a final lands. No recount at noon.
One URL anyone can follow
Bracket, schedule, and scores on one page that opens in any phone browser. Grandma doesn't have to download anything.
A whole field of teams at once
Invite every team at once. Each one gets their own slice of the event, and you never touch a password.
Works even with zero scoring
Nobody scored a game? Type the final and the bracket moves anyway. Scoring is the upgrade, never the requirement.
Same box score. About two hours less of your life.
Nearly everybody has GameChanger, and it makes a fine scorebook if somebody is willing to hand their whole game over to a phone. That's the part we changed. It also never ran your event, and it still needs a warm body at every field.
Score a game
The thing you're doing for two straight hours.
GameChanger
Tap the batter. Tap the result. Tap where it went. Tap each runner. Then do it again, every pitch, both teams, all game.
Bleacher Notes
Hold the button. "Ground ball to short, runner scores from third." Let go. Three seconds, and you never looked down.
Not miss the at-bat
The reason you came to the field.
GameChanger
Head down in the menus. You look up and your kid is already standing on second and everyone is cheering.
Bleacher Notes
Head up. The phone sits in your peripheral vision and your thumb rests on one button.
Get somebody to volunteer
Week after week, all season.
GameChanger
Whoever says yes is signing away the whole game. That's why the same tired parent does it every week, until they stop.
Bleacher Notes
Thirty seconds to explain, three seconds a play. Asking isn't really a favor anymore.
Run the bracket
Pool play, seeding, semis, a final.
GameChanger
It doesn't. You run the bracket somewhere else and re-key every score by hand.
Bleacher Notes
Bracket, pool play, seeding, standings, and a public page. Finals advance the winner on their own.
Pay for it
What you and your teams actually spend.
GameChanger
A free tier exists, but full season stats sit inside the paid subscription a family or club pays for each season.
Bleacher Notes
Free to host, free for every team you invite. Voice scoring, season stats, and watching live stay free for parents, forever.
Keep your history
Years of at-bats families care about.
GameChanger
Stays put.
Bleacher Notes
One-way CSV import. Your kid's career average doesn't reset because the team switched apps.
GameChanger has a decade of teams, a real video product, and season history families care about. If you've got someone who honestly doesn't mind the tapping, it's a good scorebook and we'll say so. We built this for everybody else. See the full comparison.
Stop tapping. Watch your kid.
If scoring takes your eyes off the field, you'll miss the at-bat you came for. That's the whole problem, and it's why the job keeps landing on the same person until they quit. Bleacher Notes stays out of the way: you talk, it keeps the book.
- One hand, one buttonHold it, say what happened, let go. Your other hand keeps the coffee.
- Every stat, no paywallAverage, OBP, OPS, spray chart, full at-bat history. All of it, free.
- Pitch counts without a clickerEvery pitcher, this inning and on the day, counted while you score.
- Barely touches your dataA couple seconds of audio per play. Nothing to upload, no video eating your plan.
- Fix it in one tapGot an at-bat wrong? Tap the line, change it, move on. You never rescore the inning.
Decisions, not dashboards.
Tap one link and you've got your games, your field, your lineup. The optional insights add-on turns the scoring your parents are already doing into one sentence you can actually act on between batters. Nobody is required to buy it.
- Pitcher fatigue, batter trends, and matchups, written in plain English.
- Swap lineups with a QR code or a 4-digit bump. No emailing spreadsheets at the plate meeting.
- Bring your GameChanger season with you. Parent scoring stays free either way.
Anderson is at 78 pitches. His K-rate dropped 31% after pitch 70 in his last 3 starts.
Consider Reyes warming up. River has two righties due in the 6th.
Reyes is 4-for-7 vs LHP in the last month. River just brought in Marquez (L).
Leave Reyes in. Drop the bunt sign for Chen.
Patel hits .420 on first-pitch fastballs. Marquez throws first-pitch FB 68% of the time.
Patel for Diaz at the bottom of the order.
Built by parents who spent a whole weekend chasing scores instead of watching baseball.
Hosting stays free.
No organizer tier, no per-team fee. Directors are how teams find us, so we'd rather run your event for nothing than charge you for bringing us 18 teams.
We don't let AI near the math.
Every stat comes out of fixed scoring rules, never a model. The AI's only job is working out what you said. The scorebook does the math, the way a scorebook should.
Nobody gets forced to pay.
Voice scoring, season stats, and at-bat history are free for every parent, forever. Coach insights are an upgrade, not a toll booth.
The stuff people actually ask us.
Don't see yours? Email hello@bleachernotes.com and one of us will write you back. Actual person, same day.
How is this different from GameChanger?
Mostly: you talk instead of tap. In GameChanger a box score only exists if somebody hands over two hours to their phone, tapping the batter, the result, where it went, and every runner. Here the scorekeeper says it out loud ("ground ball to short, runner scores from third") and the app does the menus and the math. GameChanger also doesn't run your event. No bracket, no pool standings, no public tournament page. We do all three.
Is voice scoring actually accurate?
Yes, and we are picky about this. Speech-to-text runs into a parser built specifically for baseball, so it knows "K looking," "6-4-3," "passed ball," and "runner stretches it into a double." If a call is genuinely ambiguous it asks you to confirm instead of quietly guessing. And no stat is ever computed by AI. The math runs on fixed scoring rules, so the scorebook is right even when the transcript is messy.
Is it really free for parents?
Yes, and the free tier isn't a crippled trial. Voice scoring, season stats, full at-bat history, broadcasting, and watching live are free forever for every parent. The optional add-ons are Dugout insights ($59.99/year for your own kid, $99.99/year for a coach's whole roster), which include game replays all season, or a $29.99/year Bleacher Pass if replays are all you want.
Do I have to pay to watch games?
No. Broadcasting is free, watching live is free and unlimited, and any clip someone shares is free to watch. The Bleacher Pass ($29.99/year) is only for afterwards: replays of finished games kept all season, and saving your own clips from them. Scoring, season stats, and box scores are always free.
Can I bring my GameChanger history over?
Yes. Export from GameChanger, import here, done. It's a one-way CSV import, so your kid's career average doesn't reset just because the team switched apps.
Does it work for softball?
Yes. Baseball and softball, travel ball, rec, middle school, and high school. The parser handles softball patterns like slap hits and illegal pitches, and the ruleset (including age-specific dropped-third-strike rules) switches automatically by league.
Do I need cell service at the field?
A basic signal, yes. Each play sends a couple seconds of audio, so it works on a weak bar and barely touches your data. There's no video to upload. Scoring fully offline and syncing later is on the roadmap, not in the app yet.
How long does it take to learn?
About thirty seconds. Hold the button, say what happened, let go. That's the whole thing. Most people score their first at-bat before they've finished reading this answer, and the first correction they make teaches them everything else.
Can I run my tournament on this?
Yes, and hosting is free. Build the bracket (single or double elimination, round robin, pool play into a bracket, or a home run derby), put games on fields and times, and hand every team one link. Because parents in the stands are already scoring by voice, the public bracket and standings stay live without a scorekeeper at any field.
What does it cost to host?
Nothing. No organizer tier, no per-team fee, no charge for the public bracket page. That's on purpose: organizers are how teams find us. We make money downstream on optional coach and parent add-ons nobody at your event is required to buy.
What if nobody on a team is scoring?
The event still runs. Any parent or the coach can cover a game, and if nobody scored pitch by pitch you type the final and the bracket advances. Scoring is the upgrade, never the requirement, so one quiet team never blocks your weekend.
Go watch the game.
Free for parents, free to host, and the beta is open. Drop your email and we'll get you scoring before your next first pitch.