Why a radar-gun app grew a coach portal
The Baseball Tracker mobile app reads one clip at a time, for one player. A coach works in whole games. The web portal is the same product, sized for that job.
We list Baseball Tracker, our app for iPhone and Android, as a baseball radar gun app. Strictly, it is not a radar gun. It reads video, and every speed it reports is an AI estimate. What it shares with a radar gun is the question it answers: how fast was that?
What the phone is good at
On the phone, the basic unit is a clip: one pitch, one swing, or one sprint to first. A player films it, and the app estimates the speed from the video, with no radar gun or other hardware. The readings build into a player's own stat history.
That suits a player. The phone is already at the field, the clip is short, and the answer is one number.
What a coach needs instead
A coach is not asking about one pitch. A coach wants the pitch chart: every pitch of the game in order, who threw it, what it was, and what the count was. The portal is meant to replace the chart kept by hand.
The mobile app can analyze a full game too, on its Pro Max plan. But a whole game is a large file and a long review, and both are easier on a laptop. So the full-game side of the product now also lives on the web, at baseballtracker.app, the coach portal. It differs from the phone in three ways.
- It takes big files. An MP4 or MOV up to 30 GB, uploaded from a laptop in small chunks, with an upload that resumes on its own if the connection drops.
- It reviews on a big screen. The video sits on the left and the pitch log on the right. Click a pitch and the video jumps to it.
- It rolls up by pitcher. Filter by pitcher or by inning, and the pitch counts, average velocity and max velocity for each pitcher follow the filter.
The analysis itself is the same one the mobile app uses. What changed is where the game goes in and where the coach reads it.
One account, two screens
The portal is not a separate product with a separate login. A coach signs in with the Baseball Tracker account they already have, and a game uploaded on either device shows up on both.
The plans line up like this. Web access is included with the mobile app's Pro Max plan. The mobile Pro plan covers clip analysis only, so it does not include full games on either screen. A coach with no mobile subscription can take the Coach plan on the web, which is $39.99 a month or $129.99 a year with a 7-day free trial. Every new coach account also gets its first full game free, with no card. The Coach plan pricing page sets this out.
The portal is built for coaches. Players and scouts stay in the mobile app, which is where their side of the product is.
What stayed the same
How the numbers are described. On the phone and on the web, velocities are AI estimates from video, not radar readings. The portal replaces the pitch chart kept by hand. It does not replace velocity hardware.
The Baseball Tracker for Coaches product page has the facts in one place. Charting a whole game from one video walks through what you film and what comes back. And the sample game with a full pitch log shows the review screen on demonstration data, with made-up players, before you upload anything.