Next Batter Up: Walk-Up Music

Crowd Fillers - BRAND NEW and RIDICULOUSLY FUN! Drop a Crowd Filler anywhere in your lineup and let the magic happen. Roll out a full-team introduction, pump music between innings, or unleash a goat scream and cowbell mash-up the next time someone steals a base or fouls the ball into the parking lot. If you can picture the moment, you can now create the Crowd Filler in Next Batter Up! Longer recordings, bigger moments: Audio Recording clip length jumps from 120 seconds to 300 seconds. Five full minutes for epic intros, rain-delay sing-alongs, or that inspirational speech you’ve been saving since tee-ball. Roomier AI scripts: AI Introductions now accept more characters, and Crowd Fillers get an even larger allowance, so every announcement can be as bold (or bizarre) as you like.

Fixed a mysterious bug where some player images would vanish mid-scroll like they were being drafted by a secret league. They’re back now, safe and sound, and ready to stare confidently from the Player tab once again.

Bug Fixes • Fixed a cloning glitch that made players a bit too loyal — they refused to join a new team. You can now clone your MVPs to other teams without resistance (or guilt).

Remember that awkward moment when you imported your coach's walk-up songs and the app proudly queued up… a completely different tune? We’ve straightened out our playlist paperwork so imported tracks now match the exact song you picked, no surprise karaoke, no accidental lullabies, just the right hype every time.

We’ve fine-tuned the playback engine to ensure your intros play through exactly as expected, every beat, every word, every time. No more surprise interruptions. Just flawless audio that gets the crowd hyped.

We fixed an issue where the intro wouldn’t lower the background music, even if you had the setting enabled. Your intros should now sound just right, with music turning down exactly when it should. Thanks for using the app and helping us make it better with every update.

New AI Voices Meet Brick Maddox and Landon Pierce! Two powerful new AI announcer voices to bring even more energy to your lineup introductions. Updated for iOS 26 Next Batter Up has been updated to support the latest iOS features and design.

New AI Voices Meet Brick Maddox and Landon Pierce! Two powerful new AI announcer voices to bring even more energy to your lineup introductions. Updated for iOS 26 Next Batter Up has been updated to support the latest iOS features and design.

Smoother tab transitions, improved Bluetooth audio reliability, UI refinements for a more consistent experience, and support for additional languages. We’ve enhanced navigation for a more seamless feel, improved Bluetooth performance for more reliable audio playback, refined visuals for greater consistency across the app, and added support for Japanese, Korean, and Traditional Chinese (Taiwan).

Choose from 40 built-in team mascots! Tap the + button when adding or editing a team image to browse and select a mascot for your team. We also made several improvements for a better experience!

- Quick Add Players: Add players to your roster with just a name. Fill in the details whenever you're ready. (user request) - Player Positions: Assign primary and secondary positions to each player for better roster organization. (user request) - iCloud Backup: Your teams are now automatically backed up to iCloud. Restore them anytime from Settings or when setting up a new device. (user request) - Bluetooth Keep Alive: Improvement around keeping your Bluetooth speaker awake and prevent audio dropouts between intros. (user request)

Improvements for editing a team Improved Bluetooth speaker reliability for speakers that want to sleep Smoother playback with faster song transitions

New search bar and redesigned playlists with album artwork.

Local Songs - Import audio files directly from your device as walk-up songs. Trim, set timing, and play them just like Apple Music tracks. Volume Enhancements - Smoother fade outs with a natural-sounding curve, and improved volume handling throughout playback. Performance Improvements - Faster song playback start times and gesture control.

Local Songs - Import audio files directly from your device as walk-up songs. Trim, set timing, and play them just like Apple Music tracks. Volume Enhancements - Smoother fade outs with a natural-sounding curve, and improved volume handling throughout playback. Performance Improvements - Faster song playback start times and gesture control.

Small improvements that make Next Batter Up even better.

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)

Thanks to everyone who wrote in asking to stop bouncing between apps on game day, this one's for you! • All your audio in one place: walk-up music, playlists, and stadium sound effects now share a single drawer on each player's card. Switch between them without closing the sheet. • Stadium sounds built in: 19 classic stadium effects (Charge, Sweet Caroline, Play Ball, and more) ship right with the app, ready to play. • Your recordings, everywhere: sounds you record or upload in Announcements now show up in Sound FX too. One library, two places. Plus performance optimizations and bug fixes across the board.

Thanks to everyone who wrote in asking to stop bouncing between apps on game day, this one's for you! • All your audio in one place: walk-up music, playlists, and stadium sound effects now share a single drawer on each player's card. Switch between them without closing the sheet. • Stadium sounds built in: 19 classic stadium effects (Charge, Sweet Caroline, Play Ball, and more) ship right with the app, ready to play. • Your recordings, everywhere: sounds you record or upload in Announcements now show up in Sound FX too. One library, two places. Plus performance optimizations and bug fixes across the board.

Now you can trim your announcement files right inside NBU (and again, no in-app purchases, this is just a freeeee extra, winky face). The whole trim screen got a glow-up too: bigger waveform, pinch to zoom, scrub by half-seconds, loop the selection while you nail the edit. Now you have way more control when cloning a team or a player. Got a travel team made up of half your regular squad? Clone the team, deselect the kids who aren't going, rename it, swap the team photo if you want, and WA-LA, head start baby! Same deal for cloning a player to another team: their intro audio and walk-up song come along for the ride. Now explicit songs on the player card playlist get that magical little "E" symbol, so you know which ones might be inappropriate (because the parents are here, ya know). We all live in dark mode, I know. But this update also fixes some light mode hiccups where titles looked missing when really they were just colored wrong. Sometimes you're popular, you forget to flip on Do Not Disturb, and a phone call or notification cancels the introduction of your ball-players. No other apps handle this, so we figured we'd be the first. NBU now recovers from interruptions gracefully and keeps the show going. Sometimes you're not sure if you accepted Apple Music permissions, or if you're even subscribed to Apple Music. No worries, we got that handled too. Head into Settings to see your subscription status and whether NBU has the access it needs. Importing a team from a friend used to fail sometimes, and you'd retry until eventually it'd stick. Fixed. Finally. We're talkin' first-try success now. The song title on the player card was a little weird-lookin'. We un-weirded it. Yup, that was the fix. Remember those text-to-speech intros you set up like six months ago that mysteriously never played at game time? Turns out they were saved in a format the playback engine quietly hated. The first time you open this update, you'll see a quick "tuning up your walk-up tracks" screen while we convert them in the background. Now they actually play. Better late than never, right? Walk-up announcement longer than the song clip? The song ending used to chop the announcer off mid-sentence. Rude. Now the song waits its turn like a polite young man and lets the announcer finish their thought. Fixed a tiny gremlin where the music's fade-out would sneak in one last little volume surge right at the end, like it was trying to steal the spotlight from your announcer. The gremlin has been evicted. "Delete all data" used to be a single tap away from regret. Now we make you type the word "delete" to confirm, because we've all had that "wait, did I just..." moment. Now you can't, unless you really meant to.