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Next Batter Up: Walk-Up Music
AI Voice Intros for Teams
Create custom walk-up and walkout song intros for every player on your baseball or softball team. Whether you're managing a Little League lineup, a travel team, or just running the show at a backyard game, Next Batter Up makes it fast and easy to hype up your players with music and voice intros, just like the pros.
Perfect for parents, coaches, and team DJs looking for powerful tools without the hassle.
Key Features:
Walk-up and walkout songs for baseball and softball teams
Use songs from Apple Music or import your own audio files directly from your device
Organize multiple teams with saved lineups
Add players and trim music with precision using scrubbing tools or manual time entry
Record custom voice intros or use AI-powered Text-to-Speech with 5 natural-sounding voices
Mix announcements with music using fade-out options
Upload your own intros and pair them with songs
Share intros and lineups with other coaches, parents, or team organizers
Save multiple lineup configurations and bench inactive players
Record and organize game-day announcements and reminders
Create playlists for warmups, post-game celebrations, or themed events
Who It's For:
Little League and T-ball teams
Travel ball, school teams, and adult leagues
Youth sports organizers, announcers, and DJs
Parents who want to create memorable moments at the plate
Coaches who want to stay organized and sound professional
Apple Music songs require an active Apple Music subscription and the Apple Music app. Songs must be downloaded to your device for use in the app. Alternatively, you can import your own audio files without a subscription.
Third-party music services such as Spotify, Amazon Music, and YouTube Music are not supported due to licensing restrictions.
I rolled the dice on this app after experiencing endless frustration with some of the other popular walk-up music apps for iOS. I gotta say, Next Batter Up is already a massive upgrade over the horribly outdated UIs and atrocious customer experience of the more established apps. The developer seems to be really engaged with his customers and the frequent cadence of updates gives me confidence that he’s committed to ongoing bug fixes and feature enhancements. I’ve encountered some bugs that I’ll be passing along, but I look forward to making Next Batter Up a core part of our team’s gameday experience.
Great App and Great Customer Service
Grateful Team DJ
I was having some issues while setting up my team. I emailed support and received a response almost immediately. The issue was determined to be an app issue and they worked with me as they resolved it. Keeping me informed along the way. The creator was very apologetic for my issues and went above and beyond to rectify the situation. In less than 24 they pushed out two updates to correct the issue and I was able to complete my team with name announcements. Look no further for a great app for walkup songs and amazing customer service. It’s super easy to use and you can create multiple teams and copy players between them. It’s easy to reorder your lineup and bench players who aren’t playing. It’s easy to switch between players as well. Thank you for a great app and customer service. I will surely recommend the app to others.
Developer Response
Grateful Team DJ,This review absolutely made my week!!! I’m doing a happy dance over here! I’m so pumped the app is hitting the mark for you and that setting up your teams has been a breeze.Hearing that you’re enjoying the lineup tools, name announcements, and cloning players makes me so proud of what this app has become. It’s wild to think this all started with me tinkering on my laptop at my daughter’s softball game.Huge thanks for the shoutout and for recommending the app. Maybe one day this small time app will blow up and become huge! Keep rockin it,Josh
Bluetooth playback is buggy
HugoEnder
**UPDATE3**Brought the rating back down to 1 star since the latest updates seem to have broken it again. The developer keeps blaming the Bluetooth speakers but I’ve tried plenty of high quality speakers ($400+) and they all have the same issue. The first player will play fine but subsequent player walk up songs will not output any sound. Other apps handle this fine so it’s not a speaker or Bluetooth issue but instead an issue with this app. As it stands, I have to force close the app after playing one walk up song in order to then open the app back up and play the next song. Extremely frustrating. **UPDATE2** Updated my review to five stars after developer responded to the issues raised in my review and fixed the Bluetooth bug. This is now officially the best baseball DJ app in the App Store (and I have them all). I commend the developer for his responsiveness and willingness to accept constructive criticism and make his app better. **END UPDATE2** *UPDATE* While I appreciate the developers detailed response to my review and understand the limitations with the Bluetooth protocol, there are two other competing apps that don’t have this same issue. I tried them and they work just fine so they must be doing something to get around the Bluetooth limitations the developer mentioned. While this app is the best of the three apps I’ve tried in terms of UI and features, the fact that it can consistently play over Bluetooth with speakers that the other two competing apps have no problems with means that this app is unusable for me. I recommend that the developer research what the competition is doing and implement a fix. *END UPDATE* Regular playback works fine. However, Bluetooth playback is very buggy and will not play back the names and only unmute halfway through the song. Other times it will not play back half a second of intro. All the other baseball DJ apps work fine so it’s definitely an issue with this app.
Developer Response
Thank you for standing firm! I believe we have it completely fixed now in version 4.0.0! Let us know and thank you again for providing valuable feedback that kept us honest! Joshua Hart
Great app, easy to use, quick support
kep47
We began using this app after a tough tournament for our 10u softball team. It immediately boosted morale and turned our season around. The kids and parents all love it and other teams’ coaches have asked us about it. This app helps bring some additional FUN to the game for the kids. The app is easy to use if you have basic tech knowledge. The support provided is fantastic. I actually inadvertently found a big and the support team for the app credited my Apple wallet account for helping them improve the app. They also had the bug fixed within an hour or two after I used their text support line - fantastic! Highly recommend!
Fixed an issue on iPad where sometimes navigation bar buttons weren't updating after adding a player on iOS 26 (user feedback)
Fixed volume issues when playing walk-up songs (user feedback)
Version 5.4.6
The developer, Joshua Hart, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Information
Seller
Joshua Hart
Size
111.2 MB
Category
Sports
Compatibility
Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 18.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 15.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
Apple Vision Requires visionOS 2.0 or later.
Languages
English and 4 more
English, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Traditional Chinese
