That's an original Now Batting track — the record labels' lawyers won't let us pipe the real hits through a webpage. In the app, you get Apple Music too.
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SIMPLE OR ALL-OUT
Either way, you look like a walk-up song genius extraordinaire.
Keep it simple with an Apple Music walk-up song, or wow everyone with fully custom songs: a 1 of 1 for every player, and a team anthem for the whole squad. Your call.
A WALK-UP SONG BUILT FOR ONE PLAYER
Give every kid their own original walk-up song.
Drop three details — it writes them an original, with their name and number right in the lyrics. Watch the kid light up when they hear it.
Mikey Moonshot · Demo
THE WHOLE SQUAD'S ANTHEM
Give the whole squad its own original anthem.
Name a vibe — every player lands in the lyrics. Watch heads turn when they realize it's their team.
Blue Dragons team song
WE TAKE THE BUSY WORK, YOU TAKE THE BOW
Get your whole team in before the coffee gets cold.
Switching from another app or starting from scratch, you're CHO ready in minutes.
LET THE PARENTS DO IT
Text one link. Watch the roster build itself.
Drop a link in the group chat. Each parent fills in their own kid — name, number, song, drop point. You just review and go.
BRING YOUR LIST
Already have a roster? Import it.
Paste a list or import a CSV. Your whole lineup, in one shot.
OR DO IT YOURSELF
Add players by hand.
Old-school? Add players one by one in a few taps.
Super easy to figure out how to use it. The kids absolutely loved it.
*On Headliner it's 60 a year. Player walk-ups and team anthems draw from the same yearly pool.
Need more songs? Headliner is 60 a year for $24.99 — one tap in the app. Subscriptions auto-renew yearly through your Apple ID unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel anytime in your Apple ID settings. An Apple Music subscription is needed for full-song Apple Music walk-ups; the songs Now Batting composes need no Apple Music. Terms · Privacy
Every player gets their moment.
Take the job officially — free for 7 days, then $9.99/year.
Now Batting is an iOS app for youth baseball and softball coaches and parents. It creates a walk-up song for each player — including original, AI-composed songs with the player's name and number in the lyrics — generates spoken stadium announcer calls and full pre-game lineup announcements (the Roll Call), composes a team hype song that names every player on the roster, and runs game-day audio (walk-ups, announcer, soundboard, and live score calls) from one phone. Unlike walk-up apps that only play existing tracks, Now Batting can compose original music for a team. It's iOS-only, $9.99/year with a 7-day free trial, and made for baseball, softball, and any team with a lineup.
Just an iPhone. An Apple Music subscription is needed only if you want full-length Apple Music songs as walk-ups — everything else (the AI-composed walk-up songs, announcer calls, Roll Call, soundboard) works without it. For everyone at the field to hear it, connect your phone to a Bluetooth speaker or aux cord. That's the whole setup.
Yes — sharing is part of a paid plan, and it takes about 30 seconds.
1. Get your roster ready. Make sure every player has their walk-up song set and announcement generated — what you have is exactly what they'll get.
2. Tap ••• next to your team name, then Share roster. The app uploads everything and opens your phone's share sheet. Send the link however you want.
3. They tap the link. Whoever you send it to can view and play your whole roster on game day — songs, timestamps, announcements, all of it — free, no subscription needed. To make it their own and edit it, they start their own subscription (free trial included).
Yes. Once someone imports your roster, they're connected to the same shared link. Anytime you make changes — new player, updated song, regenerated announcement — just share the roster again. It updates the same link.
They tap ••• next to the team name and choose "Get latest version" to pull your changes down to their phone.
Playing what you set up is free. To edit it themselves — add players, change songs, regenerate announcements — they start their own subscription (the free trial counts). At that point the roster becomes their own copy that they fully control.
One thing to know: once they edit, it's a separate roster, not a live shared one. For a single source of truth, have one person own and edit the roster and share it out for everyone else to play.
Yes — but you need to do three things before you get to the field:
1. Generate each player's announcement. Open each player card in the app and tap the microphone button to generate their announcement. Once it's generated, it's saved to your phone forever.
2. Set your song timestamps. On each player's song screen, drag the marker to the exact moment you want the music to kick in, then save. That's what makes the song hit your drop point the instant you tap a player — no scrubbing on game day.
3. Download your songs in Apple Music. Open the Apple Music app, find each walk-up song, tap the three-dot menu, and select Download. Downloaded songs play back with no signal needed.
Once those three things are done, Now Batting™ runs completely offline. No WiFi, no cell signal, no problem.
You pick the song, drag a marker to the exact moment you want it to kick in, and record or generate a personalized player announcement. On game day: tap the player's card → song starts at your mark → the announcer calls their name → song roars back → fades out. The fade defaults to about 15 seconds and is fully customizable per player.
Each player gets a personalized stadium-style call — "Now batting, number seven, Jake Miller!" You pick how it sounds:
— Quick and Easy: Tap once. The app writes the intro and generates a stadium-style announcer call in seconds.
— Fully Custom: Write the intro you want, your way. Because your kids deserve the absolute most.
— BYO Announcer: Maybe you have a talent for announcing players — or you already paid for a voice. Upload your own.
Generate once. Plays instantly every game after.
Two of the things that make Now Batting more than a walk-up song app.
Team Song generates a full hype song for your whole team — every player's name woven into the lyrics. Tell us the team name, pick a genre, tap Generate. Done in seconds.
Player Walk-Up Song generates a custom walk-up song built around one specific player. Share three facts about them — anything that makes that kid that kid — and Now Batting composes a song that name drops them and those three things. In seconds, your kid can hear themselves in their own walk-up song. No Apple Music needed.
Both are in the Music Hub and song editor.
Yes to all of the above. Now Batting works for any sport with a batting order — baseball, softball, T-ball, and more. Softball's covered down to the four-outfielder lineup: left center and right center are positions you can set, and they're called by name in the Roll Call. It supports multiple rosters in one app, so if you coach Rec League, Travel, and Fall Ball, you can switch between teams instantly by tapping your team name at the top. There's no limit on the number of rosters — run as many teams as you need from one app.
Not yet — Now Batting is iOS only. Android is on the roadmap; email cho@nowbattingapp.com to tell us you'd want it.
There's a 7-day free trial, then one annual subscription: $9.99/year for the Dedicated plan — everything included, with 15 AI-generated songs a year. Want more AI songs? Headliner is $24.99/year for 60. Start, manage, or cancel anytime in your Apple ID settings.
You can still use almost everything. Apple Music is only needed for two things: playing full-length Apple Music songs as walk-ups, and the Music Hub's between-innings hype music, which streams from Apple Music. Without it, you can still create AI-composed walk-up songs (with the player's name in the lyrics), the team hype song, announcer calls, the Roll Call, Game Update, and the soundboard — all of which play right in the app, no subscription needed. Apple Music is the streaming service we support right now because at Field 2 on a Saturday morning, reliability beats options. Questions? cho@nowbattingapp.com
Short version: Spotify doesn't give apps the controls a walk-up actually needs.
Here's the plain-English reason. Spotify's developer tools don't let another app play Spotify songs directly. They only let you remote-control the regular Spotify app — which has to be installed, already running in the background, and signed into Spotify Premium. Even then, that remote control is loose: you can't reliably start a song on the exact drop point, duck it under the announcer, or fade it out on cue. Those split-second moves are the whole job of a walk-up, and handing them off to a separate app means dropped timing, lag, and the song stumbling at the worst possible moment — a kid stepping to the plate.
Apple Music is built differently. It plays inside Now Batting, so the app controls the song down to the second — hit the drop, duck for the announcer, blast it, fade it — cleanly, every time, even with a Bluetooth speaker cranked at Field 2. That reliability is the entire reason we run on Apple Music and don't offer Spotify. We'd rather do one thing flawlessly than two things that flake on game day.
Worth knowing: the original walk-up songs and team anthem Now Batting composes need no music service at all. If Spotify support matters to you, tell us — cho@nowbattingapp.com
