Amazon / Sports / SCOREBOARD BASEBALL
REVIEW
Scoreboard Baseball turns a Fire tablet into a dugout scoreboard.
A free utility from Solutech Panama that does one job — keep score for a baseball game — and asks nothing more of the device than to stay propped up where the bench can see it.
BY THE APP COMRADE DESK · MAY 10, 2026 · 3 MIN READ
Scoreboard Baseball
SOLUTECH PANAMA
OUR SCORE
6.6
AMAZON
★ 5.0
PRICE
Free
A baseball scoreboard is one of the simplest pieces of stadium infrastructure in any sport. Two team names, a count of innings, runs per inning, balls, strikes, outs. That is all. Most Little League diamonds and weekend rec fields manage it with a hand-flipped board and a kid on a folding chair.
Scoreboard Baseball is the digital version of that folding-chair job. It runs on a Fire tablet, it costs nothing, and it does exactly one thing. Solutech Panama — a small Panama City shop that ships a matching family of single-sport scoreboards across the Amazon Appstore — is not trying to build a coaching platform here. They are trying to turn the $50 tablet a club already owns into the board nobody had budget for.
That is a real niche, and at zero dollars it is an easy sell. The harder question is what the app refuses to do, and whether the next version starts saying yes to any of it.
It is not a stats engine and it is not a league management platform. It is a scoreboard that runs on a Fire tablet, and at its price that is enough.
FEATURES
Scoreboard Baseball is a single-screen utility. Innings, runs per inning, total runs, balls, strikes, and outs — the numbers you would see on a small-school outfield board, rendered large enough to read from a third-base coaching box. Tap to increment, hold to reset. Home and away are colour-coded. The display stays awake while the app is in the foreground.
There are no rosters, no batting orders, no pitch counts, no per-batter stats, no export. The app does not connect to a league management service and does not sync between devices. Whatever you enter lives on the tablet for the duration of the game.
Solutech Panama also publishes scoreboard apps for basketball, soccer, and volleyball on the Amazon Appstore in the same visual template. The family is consistent — the same large numerals, the same tap-to-score model, the same absence of analytics.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
The app picks a clear target and hits it. A coach at a Little League diamond, a rec-league umpire, or a parent running a backyard wiffleball tournament gets a working scoreboard on a Fire 7 or Fire HD 10 without paying anything and without registering an account. The numerals are big, the controls are obvious, and the colour separation between home and away is unambiguous from the bench.
Free with no in-app purchases and no ad-supported flag in Amazon's metadata is the right pricing for what this is. It removes the need for the cheap LED scoreboards that show up at $40 on Amazon for the same job, and it works fine on the $50 Fire tablet that half of these clubs already own.
ROOM TO IMPROVE
A scoreboard utility that never saves state is one accidental backgrounding away from disaster. Persistence across an app switch — a phone call, a quick check of a weather radar — would turn this from a tournament risk into a genuine bench tool. The same is true of a simple undo: a coach who mis-taps an out cannot easily walk the count back.
Beyond persistence, the absence of a pitch counter is the largest omission in a sport where youth-league pitch counts are mandated and parents track them on paper. A counter for each team's current pitcher, with a soft alert at the league limit, would justify a small one-time upgrade fee. As shipped, the app is a digital chalkboard rather than a coaching tool.
CONCLUSION
Scoreboard Baseball is the right shape of free utility — narrow, legible, and honest about what it is not. Coaches running 6U through 12U games who already have a Fire tablet should keep it on the bench. Anyone who needs pitch counts, lineup cards, or post-game stats should look at a paid league-management app on iOS or Android instead. Worth watching whether Solutech Panama ever ships state persistence and a pitch counter — those two additions alone would move the score up.