GameDay DJ. Press Resources
Everything an editor, blogger, podcaster, or league newsletter needs to cover GameDay DJ. No form required. Direct founder contact below.
Quick facts
| Product | GameDay DJ |
| Tagline | Your kid hears their name (and their song) when they step up. |
| Platform | iOS (iPhone), iOS 18.0+ |
| Launch date | May 2026 |
| Pricing | Free with one team. Season Pass $19.99 (one-time, full season). Pro Monthly $6.99. Coach Year-Round $39.99. Tournament Pass $2.99. |
| Categories | Sports, Music |
| Age rating | 12+ |
| Founder | Zach Bowman, Lancaster, OH |
| Press contact | zach@getgamedaydj.com (founder, same-day reply) |
| Support contact | support@getgamedaydj.com |
| App Store |
apps.apple.com/us/app/gameday-dj/id6770590355
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50-word version
GameDay DJ gives youth-sports coaches a stadium announcer on any iPhone. Scan the lineup card, AI generates announcer intros for every player, parents pick their own kid's walk-up song, the coach taps to play during the game. Works fully offline at the field.
200-word version
GameDay DJ is a free iOS app that brings stadium-grade walk-up music and AI announcer intros to youth-sports coaches. Built by Lancaster, Ohio coach Zach Bowman after years of fumbling with Bluetooth speakers and lineup-card text messages, the app turns a single iPhone into the team's entire game-day production.
Coaches scan their lineup card (handwritten or printed) and the app pulls every player's jersey number, name, and walk-up song in one pass. More than 25 AI announcer voices, including kid-friendly options and stadium-legend tributes, introduce each batter by name. Parents who join the team can claim their own player and pick the walk-up song themselves, removing the coach from the middle of every "can my kid have a different song" conversation, and turning the walk-up into a moment the whole family helped build.
A 30-second BallparkDJ migration imports an existing roster from a single screenshot. Once the coach taps "Lock In" before leaving for the field, every cue plays in airplane mode. No wifi required at the park. GameDay DJ launched May 2026 on the App Store; the free tier covers a single team's full season. Pro is priced for the way youth-sports actually runs: a $19.99 Season Pass for one season, no auto-renewal, plus monthly and annual options for multi-sport coaches.
Quotable lines
- "Every kid deserves a walk-up. We made it possible for any coach to give them one." (Zach Bowman, Founder)
- "The hardest part of coaching youth sports shouldn't be remembering which song which kid wanted. Now it's not."
- "Modern iOS, AI, and cloud sharing change what's possible at the field. We built the app the existing walk-up music tools never modernized into."
Notable competitive angle
For editors looking for a story hook beyond the product itself:
Youth-sports walk-up music has had one app for a decade, BallparkDJ (~24,000 ratings, App Store debut 2014). Its model is per-player one-time fees for pre-recorded MLB-announcer voices. $3.99 each, $6.98 for the top tier. A 12-player roster with the best voices runs about $91 in year one; for a coach who runs three teams with the realistic ~33% annual roster turnover, the cumulative cost reaches roughly $440 over three seasons.
GameDay DJ generates announcer intros with AI at $0 per player, included in a flat Pro tier. The same three-team coach pays roughly $60 over three seasons on the Season Pass. The structural difference: BallparkDJ charges per player, GameDay DJ per coach. The more kids and teams a family or league runs, the more lopsided the math gets.
The harder differentiator: GameDay DJ is built around the coach↔parent relationship, not the single-coach workflow. Each parent picks their own kid's walk-up song from their own phone; co-coaches edit the lineup alongside the head coach. None of the established walk-up apps or the dominant youth-sports platforms (GameChanger, TeamSnap) build for this. They treat the parent as a spectator or a wallet. GameDay DJ treats the song as the family's moment.
Full cost breakdown with assumptions and year-by-year math: getgamedaydj.com/ballparkdj#cost
Founder bio
100 words.
Zach Bowman is the founder of GameDay DJ and a longtime youth-sports coach in Lancaster, Ohio. For the past four years, he and his wife have coached T-ball and coach-pitch softball for their two kids' teams, with seasons across 8U through 12U. He built GameDay DJ solo over the spring of 2026 after years of frustration with existing walk-up music tools (fumbling with Bluetooth speakers, chasing parents for song picks, and watching every kid's at-bat lose its "moment"). The app is designed for the coach he is on weekends, not the engineer he is on weekdays.
App screenshots
All screenshots are 1284×2778 RGB PNG (iPhone 6.5" Display spec). Click any image to open full size, then right-click → Save Image As.
To editors: if you need a specific shot at a different size or in landscape, email zach@getgamedaydj.com.
Ordered to tell the product story. Start with how parents pick a song, end with multi-team setup. File numbers reflect the original asset order, not the suggested visual sequence.
Brand assets
Display name: GameDay DJ (with space)
Brand colors: primary #4B9EFF, accent #8B5CF6, background #07091A
Available for interview
Zach is available for interviews, podcasts, written features, and youth-sports community panels. Email support@getgamedaydj.com with subject line starting "Press inquiry" for same-day reply.
Particularly welcome: pieces about indie iOS development, AI in consumer apps, the youth-sports tech landscape, BallparkDJ-alternative coverage, founder-built products, or "coach-built tools" pieces.
Last updated May 2026. Subscribe to release notes