Seam Reader vs SwingPerfect
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Seam Reader
Improve your baseball or softball hitting skills by learning to recognize pitches based on their spin and appearance. This app offers modes to learn, practice, and test your ability to identify different pitch types and speeds, from little league to professional levels.
- Learn pitch "faces" from spin
- Real-life analytics (RPM, MPH)
- Learn Mode for 6 baseball/softball pitches
- Batting Cage for practice
- Career Mode with increasing difficulty
- Adjustable pitch speeds
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The ONLY WAY to actually get BETTER AT HITTING by playing on your phone. Seam Reading is the ability to recognize a pitch by how it looks. Each pitch has a different “face” that the spin creates. Knowing what each pitch looks like could be the difference between strike 3, or a home run. In Seam Reader all the balls and pitches use real life analytics in RPM as well as MPH. From a little league fastball all the way up to a major league heater, the app has it all. Discover what every pitch looks like in our one of a kind Learn Mode, that features 6 pitches for baseball and 6 for softball. Practice a variety of pitches and difficulties in the Batting Cage mode. Here speeds vary from your average little leaguer to your major league or Olympic level ace! Test your Seam Reading skills in Career Mode. With increasing variety of pitches and speeds, the accuracy is as real to life as it gets on a phone. Download now if you want to get better at “the hardest thing to do in sports” - hitting.
SwingPerfect
This app uses AI and your device's camera to analyze your athletic swings. It automatically records your movements, providing detailed statistics on performance and biomechanics to help you improve your technique.
- AI swing analysis
- Automatic swing recording
- Radar gun functionality
- Exit velocity tracking
- Launch angle measurement
- Biomechanical body analysis
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SwingPerfect uses the power of artificial intelligence to help you improve your swing. Set up your device in front of your swinging and then view stats based on the swing. With SwingPerfect, you can: - automatically record your swings, just by swinging in front of your camera. - act as a radar gun and see the exit velocity of each of your swings. - see the launch angle of the ball off the bat. - view biomechanics of various parts of your body during the swing. SwingPerfect helps you become a better hitter.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: SwingPerfect at none against Seam Reader's 4. SwingPerfect also leads on ads (none vs shown). Seam Reader's advantage is review sentiment (42% vs 29%) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Seam Reader sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. SwingPerfect asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 3.9 for Seam Reader against 3.8 for SwingPerfect. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 64 and 68 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 42% of Seam Reader's written reviews are positive against 29% of SwingPerfect's.
Seam Reader ships an update every 8 days, SwingPerfect every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on September 29, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Seam Reader | SwingPerfect |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (64 ratings) — better | 3.8 (68 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 41.7% of reviews — better | 28.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 64 | 68 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 164 MB | 393 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jared Tiefenthaler | Dito Technologies LLC |
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Seam Reader
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In-app purchases
Seam Reader
- 100 Seed Pack$0.99
- Season Pass$3.99
- 600 Seed Pack$4.99
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- 1000 Seed Pack$7.99
SwingPerfect
No in-app purchases
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