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BenchApp

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Sports team management app for scheduling, attendance tracking, and team messaging.

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BenchApp is porting its mobile team app to the web, one screen at a time

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◆Current state
BenchApp is a management app for rec-sports teams, covering scheduling, roster, finances, team chat, drinks duty and scorekeeping. Its work over the past year has been a systematic port of mobile screens to the web paired with a speed pass across the app. Monetization runs through a low-cost Plus tier that hides ads and the paid movr add-on.
◆Where it's heading
The roadmap is a screen-by-screen web rebuild — schedule, game details, roster, drinks, finances — layered on a steady push to make each view load near-instantly, and most recently a scorekeeper that now spans baseball, softball and soccer rather than a single sport. Each web release tends to be followed by a mobile rollout, so the two platforms are converging on feature parity. The pace is roughly one visible release every one to two months.
◆Prediction
Expect the newly web-shipped Media sidebar and multi-sport scorekeeper to reach iOS and Android next, since the latest note flags both as coming soon to mobile.

◆Recent moves

  1. 2mo ago

    Scorekeeper & Finances Fixes

    The scorekeeper moves beyond a single sport to cover baseball, softball and soccer, while a new Media sidebar surfaces every photo and link shared in team chat. Both fit the pattern of widening what each web screen can do ahead of the mobile rollout.

  2. 4mo ago

    New Roster and Drinks on Web

    The roster and drinks pages land on the web, continuing the methodical port of mobile screens. The Slack beta channel signals BenchApp is shipping web releases in staged waves rather than all at once.

  3. 4mo ago

    New Schedule and Game Details are live!

    Schedule and game-details views reach general availability on the web with filters, graduating from the earlier beta and advancing the mobile-to-web parity effort.

  4. 7mo ago

    New Schedule and Game Details on Web

    The same schedule and game-details rebuild first reaches beta users on the web here, three months ahead of its general release. It is an early milestone in the web parity push rather than a separate feature.

  5. 10mo ago

    New Chatter is Live!

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    The ground-up Chatter rebuild in version 3.2 replaces the app's core team-chat surface, adding replies, multi-image sharing and much faster loading after eighteen months of work. It resets the technical baseline the rest of the web port has to match.

  6. 11mo ago

    New Chatter coming to you soon!

    A pre-launch teaser for the Chatter rebuild; nothing ships here beyond setting expectations for the 3.2 release that landed roughly six weeks later.