What's My Vertical? User Reviews

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Good

Best app ever.Can you shout me out in your next YouTube video

Very confusing

It says landing and takeoff. Very confusing

Response from developer

Press the HelpButton on the top and check out the screenshots along with the explanation on how it works. It's really not that difficult!

Very good๐Ÿ‘Œ๐Ÿ‘Œ๐Ÿ‘Œ

Works quite well to measure your vertical leap and I love the dunk calculator

Beautiful App

App is perfect for its purpose canโ€™t recommend it any more!

Buggy, probably inaccurate too

The video frame feature is buggy, doesnโ€™t let you fwd-rew through each frame very well. Sometimes skips A LOT of frames!

Also, nowhere in this app does it ask for weight. Iโ€™m no expert in physics but common sense would indicate that a heavier person would spend less time in the air than a lighter person jumping the same height. For example (using an extremity) if you threw a balloon 20 feet into the air and a Basketball 20 feet air, we would expect the Basketball to return to the ground a lot quicker due to the gravitational force being applied to the heavier object being much greater....however they both went the same height!
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Response from developer

About the buggy frame selection: Yes, sometimes there are problems in very short videos with skipping between frames. Unfortunately, this is a problem of the video codex used by the iPhone, as it seems to use a variable frame rate and takes 2-3 seconds to run stable at a higher frame rate. If you shoot a video that is longer than 5 seconds, there should be no problems. About the weight: This is not very intuitive, but weight does really NOT influence hang time. The reason why the balloon in your example is a lot slower is air resistance. In a vacuum, a feather and a piece of lead will fall exactly at the same speed which is determined by gravity. As the difference in air resistance is negligible between two athletes (and impossible to compute anyway) it doesn't make any difference in this use case. You can try this yourself by letting a basketball and medicine ball fall from the same height, they have the same shape but different weights - but will fall to the ground at the same speed.

Great App

The app is easy to use and accurate. It allows you to slow videos down from frame to frame and get your vertical measured as accurately as possible. Also it allows you to measure your vertical if you don't have the resources to measure it otherwise. 10/10 would recommend.

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