Seam Reader vs VELOREACT
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.
VELOREACT
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How fast does a 70 mph pitch feel from 42 feet away? Try 101 mph. We're not just guessing: VELOREACT does the math and shows you the proof. You already know that you can move a pitching machine to shorten a hitter's reaction window, VELOREACT tells you exactly how short a window becomes. Enter a pitching speed and distance from the hitter, and you get the reaction-time equivalent: the velocity a pitch would need from the regulation 60'6" mound to arrive in the same time. You do not need a pitcher who throws 100 mph to train against 100 mph. ONE SCREEN, ONE ANSWER Set the speed. Drag the release marker anywhere from the rubber at 60'6" in to 10 feet. The equivalent velocity, the flight time, and the pressure band move as you drag. Nothing scrolls. Nothing to configure. RACE IT Your pitch, and its equivalent twin, launch from different distances and land at the same instant. This is the fastest way to show a player what equivalence means without giving a lecture. WORK BACKWARDS Name the speed you want to train against and the app solves the setup. "My machine throws 70 and I want it to feel like 95". Answer: set it at 44.6 feet. Fixed distance instead? It gives you the machine speed. A CHART FOR THE CLIPBOARD The app gives you the full speed-by-distance grid, with pinned headers and every cell tappable. See graphs for equivalent velocity and reaction time. Finally, get a landscape PDF built to print" 20 to 90 mph against 20 feet to the rubber, with alternate rows shaded so you can track one speed straight across the page. INTUITIVE BREAKDOWN The app answers why training the reaction window beats chasing radar-gun numbers. The hitter's decision chain, which shows that ball-flight time, is not decision time. We put 409 milliseconds in terms anyone gets: less than half a second, about a blink. EASY TO USE No account. No sign-up. Nothing to connect and nothing to collect: no analytics, no ads, no tracking, no identifiers. Your settings stay on your device. No pitch log, no history, no database: VELOREACT is a calculator, not a record keeper. THE PART THAT MATTERS MOST Shortening the pitching distance shortens everyone's reaction time, not just the hitter's. Be sure to use a protective screen; keep an adult running every session; match the distance to the hitter in front of you; and back up the moment they cannot track the ball. The app only knows a speed and a distance, not your machine, your field, or who else is standing nearby. HOW THE MATH WORKS Flight time is distance divided by speed, in a straight line, with constant velocity. It ignores drag, movement, extension and biomechanics, and the fact that a real baseball loses roughly ten percent of its speed on the way to the plate. Treat the equivalent as a training comparison, not a measurement of how fast the ball is going, and never as a medical or injury-risk assessment. The Learn tab explains all of it. From The Bullpen Training.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: VELOREACT at none against Seam Reader's 4. VELOREACT also leads on ads (none vs shown). Seam Reader's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 18.0). On price and device support 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. VELOREACT asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Seam Reader | VELOREACT |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (64 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 41.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 64 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days | — |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 164 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jared Tiefenthaler | The Bullpen Training LLC |
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
VELOREACT
No in-app purchases









