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 turns any iPhone into a stadium PA system for youth-sports coaches. 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