PenScore is a digital baseball scorekeeping utility for iOS and Android that mimics traditional pen-and-paper notation.
Product velocity
Dormant
Daily rank 🇺🇸
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Sports
Sentiment
2.6
83 reviews
Nemesis
Batting STATS Manager:Baseball
The App DNA
What makes this app unique?
Users hire PenScore to digitize baseball game records without the complexity of professional statistical suites, serving the need for a familiar, tactile scoring experience.
For Baseball fans, scorekeepers, and parents of youth league players who prefer digital alternatives to traditional paper scorebooks.
What does it look like?
Key features
Text-based lineup entry and swipe-based runner advancement mimicking traditional pen and paper scorekeeping
Tracks pitches, hits, stolen bases, putouts, and lineup changes with per-batter and per-pitcher stats
How much does it cost?
The app operates as a free utility with no functional IAP, as users report paid ad-removal fails to execute.
Velocity
Dormant developmentnew contentUX improvementsShow more...
The development history shows a significant lack of consistent activity, with a nearly nine-year gap between the 2017 release and the most recent update in April 2026. Given the extreme duration of inactivity, the app is classified as a zombie project despite the single recent update. The latest release appears to be a sporadic maintenance effort rather than a sign of ongoing, active development. There is no evidence of a recurring release cadence or operational service model.
Who built it?
User Sentiment
What do users think recently?
Fresh user feedback skews upset. Users appreciate paper-like scoring interface allows baseball enthusiasts to record games using their preferred personal notation systems.
How are ratings & reviews evolving?
What users say, by theme
- Paper-like scoring interface allows baseball enthusiasts to record games using their preferred personal notation systems
- Aggressive ad insertion after every batter disrupts the scoring flow and makes the app unusable
47 of 47 recent reviews analyzed · high confidence · Upset overall
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Competitive landscape for PenScore : Baseball Scorecard / Scorekeeping
How's the Sports market?
PenScore holds a #99 Free position in the Sports category, but its 2.6-star rating across 83 total ratings indicates severe market validation issues. The gap between its niche utility and its aggressive ad-insertion model limits long-term retention.
Read the market outlookThe rivals identified
By Bowya
This app directly competes for the baseball scorekeeping market by offering a digital alternative to traditional paper scorebooks, mirroring PenScore's core value proposition.
- Offers condition-based analysis tools that provide deeper insights than PenScore's manual tracking approach.
- Includes sample data integration, allowing new users to test functionality without manual entry effort.
- Features a more intuitive data entry flow designed to reduce the friction of live game logging.
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Key takeaways for PenScore : Baseball Scorecard / Scorekeeping
Where is it heading?
The baseball utility market is consolidating around stable, data-driven alternatives that prioritize reliability over ad-inventory. PenScore's current trajectory is unsustainable, as the combination of stability regressions and monetization friction will likely lead to a complete loss of the active user base by next season.
- Broken IAP ad-removal functionality leads to refund requests, which erodes user trust and accelerates the deletion rate.
- Frequent crashes during roster entry prevent consistent data collection, forcing users to abandon the app for more stable alternatives.
The SWOT
- Tactile paper-like interface mimics traditional scorekeeping workflows
- Minimal setup requirement reduces barrier to entry for casual users
- Launch stable paid ad-free version to capture frustrated users
- Implement offline-first architecture to improve reliability in remote fields
Next best moves
Audit and fix IAP ad-removal logic because users report paid removal fails → restore revenue trust
+ 1 more prioritized moveThe counter-intuitive read
The app's #99 chart position is a liability rather than a success…
Read the full takeFeature gaps
Condition-based analysis tools (available in Batting STATS Manager) +1
Since the last report: The app's feature documentation was significantly pruned, and the SWOT analysis was updated to more clearly link monetization failures to specific user behaviors like refund requests.
Bottom line
PenScore provides a unique tactile scoring experience, but its aggressive ad-insertion and broken monetization logic actively destroy user trust, so the PM must prioritize stabilizing the core scoring flow to prevent total churn.
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