Pair the watches
Players open Mitt Talk on their watch and tap Join while you tap Pair watches. Give each watch a position. After that they connect on their own, every game.
Pitch calling for baseball and softball · iPhone to Apple Watch
Call the pitch. It's already on their wrist.
Mitt Talk sends pitches, locations, plays and shifts from the coach's iPhone straight to your players' Apple Watches. Two taps, one buzz, no signs to steal. Every pitch is logged as you call it, so every game ends with a report.
No player phonesWatches talk to the coach directly
No signal neededWorks in airplane mode on Bluetooth
No hardware to buyRuns on watches your players own
EncryptedEvery call sealed with your team's key
How it works
Pair once. Then it's two taps a pitch.
There is nothing to type at the field and nothing to set up between innings. Players raise a wrist and the watch is already connected.
Pitch, then location
Tap the pitch, tap where you want it. The grid reads In and Out for the batter at the plate, with arrows around it for pitches you want wasted.
They feel it
Catcher and pitcher get a distinct buzz for fastball, breaking ball and off-speed, and see the pitch and location without touching the watch.
On the field
Everything you'd signal, without the signals.
Location the way you'd say it out loud.
Nine zones, labelled In, Mid and Out for the hitter who's actually up. Switch-hitter steps across the plate and the labels follow. The grid itself never flips, so your thumb and the catcher's wrist always agree.
- Waste pitches. Way in, way out, way high, way low, each with its own arrow on the watch.
- Any. One tap when you're calling the pitch and leaving location to the battery.
- Sequence mode. Call pitch only when you're working fast.
Plays, shifts, pickoffs and messages.
Build a call board of everything your team runs, up to 40 characters a call. Each one goes only to the watches that need it: Squeeze to the batter and runners, Infield in to the infield, Pick 1st to the battery.
- Hot list. Pin the handful of calls you use every inning.
- Groups. Battery, infield, outfield, offense, defense or everyone.
- Pickoffs sit beside pitches, because that's when you need them.
The game keeps itself.
Tap the result after each pitch and the rest follows: count, outs, batter, inning, and a running pitch count against each pitcher's daily limit, with a warning before you reach it.
- On wrist. A green check the moment each watch confirms the call.
- Watch strip. Every position's connection and battery at a glance.
- Undo takes back a call or a result without touching the log.
Built for a wrist, in the sun, mid-inning.
The call stays readable with the wrist down, a light mode holds up in direct sun, and the watch stays awake and connected for the whole game. If a player wanders out of range, the watch finds the coach again on its own.
- Distinct haptics for each pitch family, so a glance is optional.
- Always-On friendly. Drawn at full strength when the screen dims.
- A three-minute checklist in the app walks each watch through the right settings.
A report before the bus leaves.
Every call and result is already recorded, so the post-game report is waiting when the last out is made. Hand a pitcher their own numbers, or send the whole game to the staff.
- Game, pitchers, sequencing and catcher views in the app.
- Development card. Each pitcher's strengths and the one thing to work on, tracked game to game.
- Export as a PDF, a CSV, or a share card for the player.
The dashboard
Calling the game is how you collect the data.
Sign in on any browser and the season is there: who throws strikes on the first pitch, where each pitcher misses, which sequences get outs. While a game is on, it updates as you call it.
Strike %First-pitch strikeCSW %Whiff %Put-away %K / BBPitch mix by countCalled vs actual locationMiss directionSequencing pairsTop sequencesvs LHB / RHBBy inningCatcher framing proxyDelivery reliabilityCSV export
Two coaches, one team
One calls. One studies. Swap whenever.
Live
Watch the game from the bench
While one coach calls pitches, another follows the live game on the dashboard: pitch count, strike rate and mix, refreshed every few seconds.
Hand-off
Take over sending in one tap
Only one phone owns the watches at a time. A second coach taps Take over, or just starts a game, and the watches move across within seconds.
Roles
Coaches edit. Viewers read.
Invite assistants as coaches and everyone else as read-only viewers. Pitchers, catchers, the call board and the schedule are managed once on the web and appear on the phone.
Private by design
Nothing leaves the field unless you send it.
The link between the coach's phone and the watches is direct Bluetooth. No router, no cell tower, no server in the middle, so there is nothing to go down in the third inning.
- Encrypted calls. Every frame is sealed with a key derived from your team code. A watch without it sees noise.
- One-way in a game. Watches confirm delivery and nothing else. No chat, no player messages.
- Your data stays yours. Games live on the coach's phone. The cloud dashboard is optional.
Questions
The ones coaches ask first.
What do I need?
One iPhone for the coach, running iOS 18 or later, and an Apple Watch for each player you want to reach, running watchOS 11 or later. Most teams start with two watches, catcher and pitcher, and add fielders later.
Do players really not need a phone?
Not at the field. A player's iPhone is used once, at home, to install the app on their watch. During a game the watch talks straight to the coach's phone and the player's phone can stay in the bag or at home.
Does it need Wi-Fi or a cell signal?
No. Put the coach's phone in airplane mode, turn Bluetooth back on, and everything on the field works. A connection is only used afterwards, if you choose to sync games to the dashboard.
How far does it reach?
It's Bluetooth, built for dugout-to-plate distances, and it works best with a clear line of sight to the mound. The home screen shows each watch's connection before the first pitch, and the app has a link test that measures delivery on your own field.
Is this allowed in my league?
Rules on electronic communication differ by league, level and season, and some allow coach-to-catcher devices while restricting others. Check with your league before game day. Mitt Talk is one-way by design: players cannot send anything back.
Does it work for softball?
Yes. Pitches, labels, the call board and pitch limits are all yours to define, so it fits softball staffs as well as baseball.
What does it cost?
Mitt Talk is in private beta and free to the teams testing it. Request access below and we'll send you an invitation and a setup walkthrough.
Private beta
Put it on a wrist this week.
Tell us about your team and we'll send a TestFlight invitation for the iPhone and Apple Watch apps, plus a login for the dashboard.
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