SlowMo vs Upper Hand APEX
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Slow-motion playback
- Frame-by-frame analysis
- Scrub wheel control
- Telestration tools
- Voiceover recording
- Remote coaching
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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
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.
- 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
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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
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Verdict
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
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.
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.
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.
| Parameter | SlowMo | Upper Hand APEX |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (1.7K ratings) — better | 4.4 (7 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 61.7% of reviews | 90.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.7K — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Subscription |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 38 MB | 39 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Pico Brothers | Upper Hand, Inc. |
Customer experience
SlowMo
Upper Hand APEX
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
SlowMo
- Professional$9.991 Year
- Coach$69.991 Year
- Edit / Remove watermark$5.99
- Precision Pack$5.99
- Slowmo Ultra$19.99
Upper Hand APEX
- 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
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