Keep the highlights. Skip the two-hour recording.

A two-hour 4K/60 recording can use about 53 GB*Estimate: 440 MB per minute for 4K/60 HEVC × 120 minutes = 52,800 MB, or about 53 GB. and take about 15 minutes*Estimate for a focused highlight pass: about 10 minutes to skim at high speed, plus 5 minutes to select, trim, and export a few clips. to review and trim. Sideline Save saves you 98% of that storage and time.*Illustrative estimate: about two minutes of highlights instead of 120 minutes of footage, and roughly 18 seconds of total tap-to-save interaction instead of a 15-minute editing pass. Actual savings vary. Your highlights are just 10–30 second clips, so no editing is required.

Every sport. Choose a built-in starting mode for Baseball, Basketball, Volleyball, Soccer, or Football, or use Custom for anything else. Baseball works well for softball.

No special equipment is required. Hold your iPhone and film as you normally would. Optional phone mounts and Bluetooth shutter remotes can make a hands-free setup easier. Check venue rules before mounting your phone. See optional equipment ideas.

While Sideline Save is open, it keeps a short, temporary rolling buffer of the most recent camera footage. When you tap Record, the app preserves the video already in that buffer and continues recording. When you tap again to stop, it combines the footage from before and after your tap into one saved clip. The temporary buffer is continuously overwritten and is never saved as a full game.

Sideline Save uses about the same amount of battery as the built-in Camera app. If you're just recording one player's at-bats, that's about 5% of your battery per game. Recording a whole 2-hour game takes about 50% of your battery. It really depends on how much time you leave the app open and recording.

For the best battery life, lower the screen brightness and shade the phone from direct sunlight.

No. Like a dash cam or doorbell camera, Sideline Save keeps a temporary rolling window. Only the moments you choose are finished and saved to Photos; closing the app stops capture.

Saved videos go into your Photos library, so Sideline Save does not keep a separate cloud copy. If you use iCloud Photos, Apple backs up and syncs those videos automatically through your normal Photos settings.

For an illustrative season, imagine 20 games with four at-bats per game and a 30-second saved clip for each at-bat. That is about 40 minutes of video—roughly 18 GB at the same 4K/60 estimate used above—instead of about 1.1 TB for recording all 20 two-hour games. That is roughly 1 TB saved. Actual storage depends on your capture quality, frame rate, clip length, and iCloud settings.

After the 15 included saves, Sideline Save stops you from taking new saved videos until you unlock Sideline Save Pro. Your existing videos stay available in Sideline Save and Photos, so you can always view the highlights you already saved.

GameChanger’s full-event video is limited to 720p, which can look soft when you crop or zoom. Sideline Save records using your chosen iPhone camera quality, so it can preserve much more detail. GameChanger only provides a full-event replay when the event was live streamed, and non-staff viewers need Premium or a Premium Team Pass. Read GameChanger’s documentation.