Comparison

SlowMo vs Upper Hand APEX

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

Head to head
About

SlowMo

Analyze videos frame by frame with precise slow-motion playback and instant replay. Enhance your understanding with drawing tools, voiceovers, and remote coaching capabilities. Save and share your detailed video analysis easily.

Highlights
  • Slow-motion playback
  • Frame-by-frame analysis
  • Scrub wheel control
  • Telestration tools
  • Voiceover recording
  • Remote coaching
Features
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Watch, analyze, and save videos in slow motion with instant replay, just like on TV. Use the scrub wheel for precise control over playback speed. Review every moment, frame by frame, and share your videos with ease. Perfect for replaying goals, golf swings, martial arts techniques, dance moves, surveillance footage, and more. Scroll smoothly back and forth to catch every detail. Create telestrations with powerful drawing tools, add voiceovers, and coach remotely. Go further with a membership: Professional unlocks compare mode, the Precision tools (Angle, Angle Line, Timer, Text) and your own watermark. Coach adds everything in Professional plus a client list, so you can keep track of your students and share lessons with them. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.picobrothers.com/slowmo-privacy-policy.html

About

Upper Hand APEX

This platform streamlines video analysis for coaches and athletes, enabling efficient client training and personal performance review. It offers seamless video sharing, organization, and remote mentorship capabilities without relying on external services.

Highlights
  • Efficient video analysis for coaches and athletes
  • Seamless video sharing and review
  • Remote mentorship program support
  • Customizable video organization
  • Unlimited cloud storage
  • Personal iOS and web app access
Features
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Coach and Train Clients More, Edit Less! The most efficient and powerful video analysis platform ever developed for mobile devices. APEX is designed as a simple yet powerful tool for coaches, trainers and instructors who run teams and/or training facilities; that need to manage video in different environments, like games, practices, camps, privates, programs, showcases and remote online training. Or as an individual athlete that needs to organize and review their video, while seamlessly connecting to your coach. No more email links, Dropbox or YouTube videos. • Create a seamless connection to your athletes or coach to share and review video. • Start or improve a remote mentorship program. • Build custom lists to organize player video, pro footage, drills or anything else. • Every person in your ecosystem receives a personal APEX iOS app and web app. • Unlimited cloud storage for everyone. Use the most efficient sports video analysis tool for mobile today. Subscription The APEX app is free to download and trial for two weeks with full functionality, including unlimited storage, recording, and editing features. After the trial, continued access will be $3.99 a month (30 days). The subscription will renew automatically at the same rate each month. Your payment will be charged to your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase. Your subscription will automatically renew each month or year 24-hours before the end of the current period, and your credit card will be charged through your iTunes account unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. You can turn off auto-renew at any time from your iTunes account settings. Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when you purchase a subscription, where applicable. Questions Concerns? Please contact us at team@apex.upperhand.io. Privacy Policy: https://apex.upperhand.io/privacy Terms of Use: https://apex.upperhand.io/terms-of-service

Screenshots

SlowMo4 screens
Upper Hand APEX4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: SlowMo at free with in-app purchases against Upper Hand APEX's subscription. SlowMo also leads on ratings volume (1.7K vs 7). Upper Hand APEX's advantage is review sentiment (91% vs 62%) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 16.0). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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. SlowMo sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per year and Upper Hand APEX sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

SlowMo holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SlowMo has 1.7K ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 62% of SlowMo's written reviews are positive against 91% of Upper Hand APEX's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SlowMo ships an update weekly, Upper Hand APEX every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
SlowMo versus Upper Hand APEX: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSlowMoUpper Hand APEX
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (1.7K ratings) — better4.4 (7 ratings)
Positive reviews61.7% of reviews90.9% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1.7K — better7
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterSubscription
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS16.012.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size38 MB39 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPico BrothersUpper Hand, Inc.

Customer experience

SlowMo

All ratings1,678 ratings
Positive91.5%
Neutral3.2%
Negative5.2%
Written reviews141 reviews
Positive61.7%
Neutral11.3%
Negative27.0%

Upper Hand APEX

All ratings7 ratings
Positive85.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative14.3%
Written reviews11 reviews
Positive90.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative9.1%

Bugs and requests

SlowMo

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Videos not saving properly
  • App crashes during video rendering
  • Slow motion playback not working as expected
  • Annotations/drawings not behaving as intended
  • Compatibility issues with certain devices/cameras

Requested features

6 requests
  • Add pinch-to-zoom functionality
  • Allow adjusting position and size of drawn lines/annotations
  • Improve video rendering and saving reliability
  • Support higher frame rates (120fps, 240fps)
  • Add option to mute audio during playback
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  • Improve landscape mode support, especially for iPad

Upper Hand APEX

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

5 purchases

SlowMo

Subscriptions2
  • Professional$9.991 Year
  • Coach$69.991 Year
One-time3
  • Edit / Remove watermark$5.99
  • Precision Pack$5.99
  • Slowmo Ultra$19.99
5 purchases

Upper Hand APEX

Subscriptions5
  • Personal Use14 Days trial$3.991 Month
  • Subscription$3.991 Month
  • Coach and Athlete14 Days trial$6.991 Month
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  • Personal Use14 Days trial$34.991 Year
  • Coach and Athlete14 Days trial$69.991 Year

Questions

Is SlowMo free?
SlowMo is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Upper Hand APEX free?
Upper Hand APEX is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, SlowMo or Upper Hand APEX?
SlowMo is rated higher. SlowMo averages 4.6 out of 5 from 1.7K ratings, while Upper Hand APEX averages 4.4 from 7 ratings.
Do SlowMo or Upper Hand APEX have ads?
Neither SlowMo nor Upper Hand APEX shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SlowMo or Upper Hand APEX?
SlowMo ships an update weekly, and Upper Hand APEX every 2 weeks. Most recently, SlowMo was updated on October 29, 2026 and Upper Hand APEX on October 24, 2026.

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