Built by a parent who came to watch.
Bleacher Notes started with a simple, annoying realization in the bleachers: the apps that score the game are the same apps that make you miss it. So we rebuilt scoring around how a parent actually calls a play, out loud, in one sentence.
- Founded
- 2026
- For
- Youth baseball & softball
- Based on
- Voice, not menus
I kept score for my kid's team because someone had to. The problem was that keeping score meant looking down. I'd be three taps deep entering the last batter's runner advancement when I'd hear the crack, look up, and my own kid was already standing on second. I was there. I just wasn't watching.
Every scoring app I tried had the same shape: a grid of buttons that demanded my eyes and both thumbs for the whole game. The better ones were more powerful, which mostly meant more taps. None of them solved the actual problem, which is that a parent in the stands wants to call the play the way they'd say it to the person next to them, not navigate a menu tree.
So that's what Bleacher Notes is. You hold a button and say “ground ball to short, runner scores from third, out at first,” and the app does the menus, the math, and the scorebook. The hard engineering, a speech model paired with a baseball-specific parser and a deterministic scoring engine, exists so the experience can be that simple. We obsess over getting the at-bat right precisely so you don't have to.
Three things we won't compromise on.
- 01
A wrong at-bat is worse than no at-bat.
Stat integrity is the whole job. Every number is computed by fixed baseball scoring rules, never guessed by an AI model. When a play is ambiguous, we flag it for a one-tap fix instead of quietly inventing an answer.
- 02
The free tier is the product, not the bait.
Voice scoring, season stats, and full at-bat history are free for every parent, forever. We don't cripple the free experience to push an upgrade. Coach analytics and replays are the paid add-ons; the scorebook never is.
- 03
The field is the hard part, so the app is the quiet part.
Sunlight, one hand on a phone, a kid yelling for a snack. The app is built to disappear into that: you talk, it scores, you keep watching. No dashboards to babysit, no menus to hunt through.
A small team that goes to a lot of games.
Bleacher Notes is built by a small group of parents and engineers, not a sports-tech conglomerate. That means we read every email and we ship fast. If something scores wrong, or you want a rule we don't support yet, write us at hello@bleachernotes.com and a real person will write back.
Come watch the game with us.
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