Bleacher Notes
Watch the game, not your phone.
A voice-first scorekeeping app for youth baseball and softball. Parent volunteers simply speak the plays and Bleacher Notes turns them into live game statistics. Full product design and development.
The challenge
Keeping score at a youth baseball or softball game means a parent volunteer spends the whole game heads-down in an app, tapping through menus and missing their own kid's at-bats. Tools like GameChanger make scorekeeping possible, but they chain you to the screen. Bleacher Notes set out to flip that: let a volunteer simply say what happened out loud and keep watching the game, while the app does the bookkeeping.
How we approached it
Voice-first capture
Instead of tapping through menus, a volunteer just speaks the play: “ground ball to short, out at first.” We designed the interaction so keeping the book is something you say, not something you stare at.
Speech to real stats
We built the pipeline that turns natural play-by-play into structured, accurate game statistics in real time, interpreting baseball and softball language into the right scoring outcomes.
Heads-up by design
Every decision serves one goal: let the parent watch the game. Fast, forgiving, and glanceable, so the phone leaves your hand and your eyes stay on the field.
“Watch the game, not your phone.”
Under the hood
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