Comparison

Blast Baseball vs Swing Dr Baseball

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Blast Baseball

This app uses bat sensor technology to analyze baseball swings. It records video, overlays swing metrics, and provides 3D swing analysis. Coaches can use it for player development and recruitment.

Highlights
  • Bat sensor integration
  • Automatic swing detection and video clipping
  • Overlay of swing metrics (Bat Speed, Time to Contact, etc.)
  • 3D swing path analysis
  • Live mode for real-time feedback
  • Side-by-side swing comparison
  • Mobile video analysis with voice-over
Features
Currently charting
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Train smarter and get better with the bat sensor technology used by nearly all the MLB teams. Simply attach the Blast Baseball Swing Analyzer or Personal Swing Trainer*** to any standard bat and your iPad or iPhone will do the rest. Record video of your swings in the Blast Baseball app* and the patented Smart Video Capture ™ technology will automatically identify your swings, clip your video, and overlay your swing metrics, synchronized at impact. (Bat Speed, Time to Contact, Attack Angle, etc.) With the 3D Swing Tracer, you can replay and analyze your swing path instantly. Live mode provides real-time feedback, allowing you to visualize your swing, make adjustments, and see the results. Compare your swing videos side-by-side or send them to a coach for further analysis. Players and coaches with a membership or free trial can utilize the app’s advanced functionality to automatically assess every swing for swing quality, providing insights in three areas that all great hitters possess: plane, connection, and rotation. Insights make it simple for coaches to evaluate players for recruitment and player development, with recommendations and drills for improvement. Coaches can also streamline coaching feedback through Mobile Video Analysis with voice-over recording and video markup tools. The Blast Baseball Swing Analyzer and Personal Swing Trainer*** are highly accurate, advanced 3D motion capture systems that record your swings. They use Bluetooth® Smart technology to connect to your iPhone or iPad. There’s no need to alter your natural swing. The Swing Analyzer / Personal Swing Trainer know when to dynamically power-up the patented motion detection algorithms to capture your metrics in real-time. They even store data on the Swing Analyzer / Personal Swing Trainer when your mobile device is out of range and download your actions to the Blast app as soon as you reconnect. With the Blast Baseball app* coaches, parents, and players of all ages can gain the insights they need to improve their swing and gain the competitive edge. * The Blast Baseball app requires the Blast Baseball Swing Analyzer or Personal Swing Trainer and the Blast bat attachment to collect data. The app currently supports English language and Imperial measurements. ** Requires a Blast Connect and Premium Services account and Swing Analyzer to provide advanced app, player, and coaching functionality. Blast Connect is an information and player management platform that features data trending, advanced reporting, roster management, mobile video analysis, and more. *** The Blast Baseball Swing Analyzer / Personal Swing Trainer, charger, and bat attachment are sold as packages. Separate purchase required – available from blastmotion.com. Privacy Policy: https://blastmotion.com/privacy-policy/ Terms of Service: https://blastmotion.com/terms-of-service/ Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Swing Dr Baseball

This app helps baseball players improve their swing by breaking it down into seven phases. It provides drills, cue cards, and performance tracking without needing a camera or sensor. Log at-bats and get AI-powered swing analysis to refine your technique.

Highlights
  • Seven-phase swing breakdown
  • Bat path visualization
  • Consistency index tracking
  • Streak and goal tracking
  • Customizable drills and cue cards
  • Plate log for at-bats
  • AI swing reads
Features
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Swing Dr turns the time you spend away from the field into real work on your swing. No camera, no sensor, no coach — just your swing, one phase at a time. Built for hitters who want to get better between practices: high-school and college baseball players, and the parents and coaches who help them. Unlike video swing analyzers, it needs nothing but you and a bat. THE FRAME STRIP A swing is not one motion, it is seven: stance, load, stride, launch, contact, extension, finish. Swing Dr walks you through them in order, one screen at a time. Each frame asks you a question about that phase, shows you the cue you wrote for it last time, and takes a 1-5 score with both ends spelled out — so a 3 means the same thing this week as it did last week. THE SWING ARC Your bat path, drawn as one arc with the seven phases as nodes along it. Scored phases fill in; the ones you have not scored stay hollow rings, so an empty phase never looks like a bad one. It mirrors for a left-handed hitter. WHAT THE APP WORKS OUT FROM YOUR OWN REPS - A consistency index built from your cadence, how complete your reps are, and how repeatable your scores are — with all three parts shown, so the number is never a black box - Streaks, your longest run, a weekly goal ring and milestones - A drill for today, chosen from the phase you are weakest in When there is not enough data yet to say something honestly, the app says so and names the number it is waiting for. DRILLS AND CUE CARDS — FREE, ALWAYS Every drill in the library, with what it is for and how to run it. Write your own. Keep one cue per phase in your own words, and it comes back at the top of that frame on every later rep. THE PLATE LOG Log real at-bats — how many, how many you squared up, strikeouts, how well you saw the ball. WHAT IS FREE Unlimited mental reps and the whole Frame Strip, for ever. Every drill and every cue card. The last 14 days of history. Your consistency index, streaks, weekly goal and milestones. Reminders on the days you choose. Three AI Swing Reads a week with a free account. And a real CSV export of everything you have logged. No account is needed to start: everything is saved on your phone until you choose to make one. SWING DR PRO (optional subscription) - Your phase profile, and which phase is actually costing you - Twelve weeks of trend, not two, with the season chart - Whether it carries to the plate: your reps measured against your own at-bats - Your whole history, not just the last 14 days - Unlimited AI Swing Reads - The Season Report, twelve weeks written out Nothing is ever deleted to sell you a subscription. Every rep you log as a free member is kept, and the whole record is there the moment you subscribe. ABOUT THE AI SWING READ It is off until you turn it on. When you ask for a read, the seven descriptions you wrote for that rep and the averages this app already worked out from your own reps are sent to a text service, which writes a coaching note back. No images, no video and no audio are ever captured or sent — this app has no camera and no recording of any kind. It will not tell you your bat speed, exit velocity or launch angle, because it has no way to know them. SUBSCRIPTION TERMS Swing Dr Pro is billed monthly or yearly, with a 7-day free trial for eligible new subscribers. Payment is charged to your Apple account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription auto-renews unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and you can manage or cancel it any time in your Apple account settings. Mental reps work best alongside the swings you actually take — not instead of them. Privacy Policy: https://dch4sordp7.accountnotify.app/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://dch4sordp7.accountnotify.app/terms

Screenshots

Blast Baseball4 screens
Swing Dr Baseball4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Swing Dr Baseball at 100% against Blast Baseball's 29%. Swing Dr Baseball also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.1) and ads (none vs shown). Blast Baseball's advantage is ratings volume (694 vs 1) and chart position (#89 vs unranked). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Blast Baseball sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $14.99 per month and Swing Dr Baseball sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Swing Dr Baseball holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Blast Baseball has 694 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 29% of Blast Baseball's written reviews are positive against 100% of Swing Dr Baseball's.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
Blast Baseball versus Swing Dr Baseball: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBlast BaseballSwing Dr Baseball
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.1 (694 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews29.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings694 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 4 weeks—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
Best chart rank#89 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size363 MB39 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBlast Motion, Inc.David Nasser

Customer experience

Blast Baseball

All ratings323 ratings
Positive51.1%
Neutral4.6%
Negative44.3%
Written reviews155 reviews
Positive29.0%
Neutral6.5%
Negative64.5%

Swing Dr Baseball

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Blast Baseball

Reported bugs

17 issues
  • App crashes on startup or during use
  • Bluetooth connectivity drops frequently
  • Swings fail to record or sync to cloud
  • Video upload and processing failures
  • App freezes during live capture sessions
Show 12 more
  • Offline swings fail to download
  • Ball flight data tracking inconsistent (50-60% failure rate)
  • Video export loses metrics and slow-motion features
  • App force closes and requires reinstall
  • Disk space not freed after deleting videos
  • App incompatible with certain iPad models
  • Audio only works intermittently
  • Sensor connection unstable and requires repeated reconnection
  • Sensor stuck on red light and won't connect
  • Data loss when app crashes mid-session
  • Excessive pop-up notifications
  • App performance degradation over time

Requested features

14 requests
  • User-selectable difficulty levels (novice, intermediate, expert)
  • Ability to overlay biometrics on video
  • Separate tracking for multiple children
  • iPad landscape mode support
  • Integration with GoPro for video capture
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  • In-app infographics explaining metrics and mechanics
  • Ball flight data integrated into main app (not separate paid app)
  • CSV data export functionality
  • Ability to bookmark videos
  • Better bat database with more current models
  • Simplified free tier with basic metrics
  • Grandfather clause for existing device owners
  • Exit velocity and swing decision timing tracking
  • Comparison tools between practice and in-game swings

Swing Dr Baseball

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Blast Baseball

Subscriptions2
  • BlastMotion Monthly1 Month trial$14.991 Month
  • BlastMotion Annual1 Month trial$99.001 Year
2 purchases

Swing Dr Baseball

Subscriptions2
  • Swing Dr Pro Monthly7 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • Swing Dr Pro Yearly7 Days trial$79.991 Year

Questions

Is Blast Baseball free?
Blast Baseball is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Swing Dr Baseball free?
Swing Dr Baseball is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Blast Baseball or Swing Dr Baseball?
Swing Dr Baseball is rated higher. Blast Baseball averages 4.1 out of 5 from 694 ratings, while Swing Dr Baseball averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Blast Baseball or Swing Dr Baseball have ads?
Blast Baseball shows ads; Swing Dr Baseball does not.

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