SwingTool - Swing Weight app for iPhone and iPad
4.6 (
7856 ratings )
Utilities
Sports
Developer:
Sten Kaiser
1.99 USD
Current version:
2.1, last update: 6 years ago
First release : 14 Dec 2010
App size: 1.58 Mb
SwingTool can quickly and easily measure the swing weight of tennis racquets, golf clubs, baseball bats etc. Swing weight is the most important parameter when deciding how a racquet, club or bat feels when you swing it. Unfortunately measuring swing weight has been fairly complicated, until now. With SwingTool it is enough to just hang your equipment and let it swing like a pendulum. Place the iPhone close to the swinging end and it will automatically display the swing weight.
Characteristics
- Can be used for all types equipment
- Choose any point to calculate the swing weight at
- Choose any point to hang the equipment at (independent of the swing point)
- Faster and more accurate than the traditional way to measure swing weight
- Can be used to measure the swing time of any pendulum with 0.01 s accuracy
A demo video is available at appmaker.se/swingTool
To golfers: With this app you do MOI-matching i.e. it measures the real dynamic swing weight (moment of inertia). Not the static Lorythmic balance point (D9, C4 etc) that sometimes is called swing weight.
Pros and cons of SwingTool - Swing Weight app for iPhone and iPad
SwingTool - Swing Weight app good for
This tool sets a reference point. When things change, measure again and compare to benchmark. Start here to eliminate variables that could be the cause.
Just started to use the app. Think it may serve the purpose.
Wish there was more detailed info regarding golf club measurements. May just take time on my part-4 stars.
2nd post-spent a few hours with the Swingtool. Very repeatable and consistent. Contacted developer with questions regarding use and points of measure-received response next morning 5 stars.
This tool is much better than the what you have to go through on TW. I takes out the human error of counting precise seconds. ...very accurate.
Some bad moments
Amazing app. I compared the swingweight number I received on the app with the swingweight that the Babolat RDC machine registered and the difference was only 1pt, which is virtually the same. You have to know the racquets static weight and balance pt, but you can easily calculate those with a postal scale and an inexpensive balance board. Fantastic app...well done!
Great app. Hardest part is setting up a jig to swing the racquet. Once that is done, this app does the rest. Works very well and I use it to measure all my racquet swing weights. If you like raquetune, you will like this app too although it has not had a recent beautification like rt has.
Very cool app. Allowed me to bring my two tennis racquets into exact alignment. Im stickler for accuracy and this app is awesome. Tennis racquets dont come from the factory with the same weight or swing weight. This app helped me fix that.
This app is spot on and takes the guesswork out of matching any kind of racquets, golf clubs or bats.
I’ve compared the results to manually measuring my racquets, and it always nails my 6 attempt average, so it’s definitely accurate.
when I first downloaded the app, it kept crashing, so I emailed the developer, and he got back to me within minutes. Turns out the issue was on my end. After I re-installed it works perfectly!
