WalkUpFire

WalkUpFire is for the person running the music at a youth or high school baseball or softball game. You build your roster, pick a walk-up clip for each kid, and on game day you tap one big button when the batter steps in. The app handles the fades, the announcements, and the fail-safes so you can watch the actual game.

Three ways to pick a song

Every player’s walk-up can come from one of three sources: the 15 built-in Ballpark Beats bundled with the app, Apple Music (search the catalog, browse your library, or pull from a playlist), or a local file you import from Files or iCloud Drive. A waveform editor lets you trim the clip to the exact 5–30 seconds you want, with haptic snapping on whole seconds and a per-player volume knob so a quiet acoustic intro sounds as loud over the PA as a metal track.

The game-day view

One screen, three cards: Now Batting, On Deck, In The Hole. Large touch targets for outdoor visibility. A single Play button triggers the walk-up clip with the fades and announcement mode you configured. A red kill switch sits above the safe area on every screen and cuts all audio within 100 milliseconds — for timeouts, injuries, or any moment the field needs to go quiet.

AI announcements, done ahead of time

You can have a stadium-style announcement generated for each player — either a neural voice (Kokoro, downloaded on demand) or the built-in Apple voice. A phonetic spelling field handles the names that don’t read right. Pick Stadium mode and the announcement plays over ducked music like a real PA; pick Classic and the voice lands first, then the music drops. Announcements are pre-rendered, not streamed, so they work without a signal.

Built for fields with no reception

Before you leave the house, tap the pre-game audit. It walks your lineup, verifies every Apple Music track is downloaded for offline play, confirms your local files are present, and flags anything that would fail at the field. Your teams, rosters, and song settings sync across your iPhone and iPad through your own iCloud account — audio files stay on the device they were imported to.

Yearly or lifetime

WalkUpFire is a yearly subscription. A lifetime tier is available if you’d rather pay once. Early users who downloaded during the free launch period keep full access under a Lifetime Founder grant — that’s automatic and doesn’t require a purchase.