Seam Reader vs POPTime
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.
POPTime
Easily mark and analyze specific moments in your sports videos. Precisely identify catch and release points, even when the action is obscured, to calculate pop times. Save and share your marked videos with coaches and friends.
- Load videos from device
- Mark catch and release points
- Scroll across video frames
- Mark obscured reception points
- Calculate exchange times
- Save and share marked videos
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Turn your phone into a pop-time radar. POPTime measures catcher pop time, exchange time, and throwing velocity straight from your own video — no showcase, no radar gun, no extra gear. Shoot from the bleachers, tap two frames, and get the numbers coaches and scouts actually look at. HOW IT WORKS 1. Record or import a clip of the play. 2. Tap the frame of the catch and the frame the ball reaches the bag. 3. POPTime calculates pop time, exchange, and velocity instantly. 4. Export the clip with clean on-video overlays to share. BUILT FOR THE PLAY • Catcher pop time & exchange time • Pitcher timing: first move, release, time to plate • Throwing & glove velocity • Frame-by-frame scrubbing with a precision jog wheel and audio waveform • Strike zone and glove-path overlays for receiving work • Save your overlay layout once and reuse it on every video FOR PARENTS See your kid's real numbers the way a showcase would — right from the stands, on your own phone. FOR COACHES Measure every catcher and pitcher on the team with one phone. Compare, track, and send players clips with the numbers right on the video. Baseball and softball. No account or sign-up — measuring and export are part of the POPTime subscription. Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: POPTime at none against Seam Reader's shown. POPTime also leads on review sentiment (73% vs 42%). Seam Reader's advantage is update cadence (every 8 days vs every 5 weeks) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and in-app purchases 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 and POPTime sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 3.9 for Seam Reader against 3.9 for POPTime. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 64 and 104 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 42% of Seam Reader's written reviews are positive against 73% of POPTime's.
Seam Reader ships an update every 8 days, POPTime every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Seam Reader | POPTime |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (64 ratings) | 3.9 (104 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 41.7% of reviews | 72.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 64 | 104 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 164 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jared Tiefenthaler | Gerard Meyers |
Customer experience
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
POPTime
- POPtime pro features14 Days trial$2.991 Month
- coach subscription$7.991 Month
- POPtime pro features$14.991 Year
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