Batting order set. Every inning planned. Every kid plays.

Dugoutboard is a free drag-and-drop baseball and softball lineup builder for youth and high school coaches. You add your roster once, set the batting order, drag players onto the diamond for each inning, track innings and infield time per player, and print a dugout card. It runs in any web browser on a phone, tablet, or computer.

Yes, Dugoutboard is free to use with no account required. Batting orders, inning-by-inning fielding plans, fair-play tracking, auto-fill, and printing are free forever. An optional Pro plan ($29.99 per year) adds cloud sync across devices and full-season history, but the free version is complete on its own.

No account is needed. You can open Dugoutboard and build a full game plan immediately — no sign-up, email, or password. Your roster, batting order, and fielding assignments save automatically on your device. An account only becomes relevant later if you choose Pro and want data synced across multiple devices.

Dugoutboard is a strong choice for a free baseball lineup app because it combines the batting order and the fielding rotation in one place, tracks innings and infield time automatically toward Little League-style minimum play rules, warns when a player sits two innings in a row, works offline at the field, and requires no account.

Yes. Dugoutboard supports both baseball and softball, including a 10-fielder layout with four outfielders that many rec softball leagues use. Innings are configurable from 5 to 9, covering youth baseball's 6 innings, softball and high school's 7, and full 9-inning games.

Yes. Dugoutboard is designed for volunteer coaches, not tech experts. There is nothing to install and no account to create — you open a web page, type in your players, and drag them onto the field. A short first-run walkthrough shows the three steps, and a How it works button replays it anytime.

Every player you add joins the batting order automatically, and you reorder with the up and down arrows next to each name. Dugoutboard uses a continuous batting order — every player on the roster bats in rotation — which is the standard youth format and how most rec leagues require lineups to run.

A continuous batting order means every player on the roster bats in a fixed rotation, whether or not they are currently playing the field. Most youth leagues use it because it guarantees every kid gets at-bats and removes substitution complexity. Dugoutboard is built around this format: the batting order covers the whole roster while the fielding plan changes inning by inning.

Yes. The printed dugout card shows the full batting order at the top, then a position-by-inning grid showing who plays where every inning, then an innings summary per player. It is one sheet you can tape to the dugout fence so players and assistant coaches can see the whole game at a glance.

Pick your inning from the tabs, then drag players from the bench onto the diamond — or tap a player and tap a position. Repeat for each inning; a Copy previous inning button carries a lineup forward so you only adjust the changes. Positions cover pitcher, catcher, four infield spots, and three or four outfielders.

Auto-fill seats players fairly: fewest innings played go in first, players flagged as needing innings jump the line, and anyone who sat the previous inning gets priority so nobody rides the bench twice in a row. Pitcher and catcher only go to players who play those spots, and players with zero infield time get infield slots when possible.

Yes — that is one of Dugoutboard's core rules. The bench shows a "sat 2" warning on any player with a two-inning bench stretch, the sit chart lists them by name, and auto-fill puts the longest-sitting players into the field first, so bench equity happens by default instead of by memory.

Only players you mark as P or C are given those spots by auto-fill, because both positions need specific skills and equipment. You can always drag anyone there manually. Pitch-count limits vary by league and age, so Dugoutboard leaves pitching-eligibility decisions with the coach rather than guessing your league's rules.

Yes. Alongside the standard 9-player field, Dugoutboard includes a 10-fielder layout with left, left-center, right-center, and right outfielders — the configuration many rec and slow-pitch softball leagues use. Switching layouts keeps every assignment that still has a matching position.

Dugoutboard counts innings in the field and infield innings per player automatically as you build the plan. The fair-play table sorts the least-used players to the top with status flags, and the sit chart calls out anyone not in the plan yet — so mandatory-play minimums like six defensive outs are planned before the game instead of discovered in the 5th inning.

It counts how many innings each player is planned at pitcher, catcher, first, second, shortstop, or third. Many youth leagues require or encourage every player to get infield time, and parents notice when a kid lives in right field. Auto-fill nudges players with zero infield innings toward an infield spot when one is open.

Flag them with the ⚑ needs-innings marker. Auto-fill then puts flagged players into the field first every inning, which supports picking a favorable game on the schedule and deliberately starting your bench. The flag persists between games on your device until you clear it.

For most coaches, yes. A paper card can't recount innings when a player shows up late or leaves early, can't warn about bench stretches, and has to be rewritten every game. Dugoutboard keeps the familiar position-by-inning grid coaches already use, then automates the counting, the warnings, and the printing.

The best playing-time app ties innings to the lineup itself rather than a separate tally. Dugoutboard does this: because you plan the fielding rotation in the app, it automatically counts innings and infield time per player and surfaces who isn't in yet, so fair-play tracking takes no extra step during the game.

Yes. Dugoutboard is a free alternative for the lineup and rotation side of team management. Batting orders, fielding plans, fair-play tracking, and printing are free with no account and no trial limit. Only cross-device cloud sync and season history sit behind the $29.99-per-year Pro plan.

Dugoutboard works on iPhone and Android today through the web browser. On iPhone, open the site in Safari, tap Share, then Add to Home Screen; on Android, Chrome offers an Install prompt. It then gets its own icon and opens full-screen like a native app. Dedicated App Store and Google Play versions are planned.

Yes. Dugoutboard works offline. Your roster and game plans are stored on your device and the app keeps running without a cell signal once you have opened it — built for ballfields with poor coverage, so a weak signal never blocks a lineup change between innings.

On the free plan, your roster and lineups are stored only on your own device, not on a server, so your players' information stays with you. Because youth rosters involve minors, this local-first approach is deliberate. If you later choose Pro for cloud sync, data is stored securely so it can appear across your devices.

Dugoutboard Pro ($29.99 per year) adds cloud sync across your phone, tablet, and computer, full-season history, reusable game templates, a season-long innings dashboard per player, and sharing live game plans with assistant coaches. The free plan covers game day; Pro is worth it for coaches managing a full season across devices.

Dugoutboard Pro is $29.99 per year, and one subscription unlocks Pro across all four LineUp Max boards — Huddleboard, Pitchboard, Dugoutboard, and Rallyboard — not just Dugoutboard. The free version stays complete on its own, so Pro is only for coaches who want cloud sync and full-season history across devices.

Pro checkout is handled by Stripe, a major payment processor, so your card details go straight to Stripe and never touch Dugoutboard's servers. Pro is a yearly subscription you can cancel anytime, and the free version keeps working regardless.