Next Batter Up: Walk-Up Music

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 I gotta say, Next Batter Up is already a massive upgrade over the horribly outdated UIs and atrocious customer experience of the more established apps.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.

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.

**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.