WL Analysis

Does what it is supposed to do… measures the velocity of the barbell going up and down. If you focus it on the pulley, it will work on pulley machines too, or use an old cd on the weight stack for it to focus on. NOW, if there could be a way to have it keep playing iTunes in my Airpods while taking a video… LOL

I’ve decided to record all of my barbell lifts through this app now. I briefly considered a standalone velocity tracking device, but I would actually miss so many of the features of this little app. An absolute bargain for the price and I’m super stoked that it continues to be updated.

This is the best bar tracker app I have found. Automatically detects plates and can handle slightly angled shots. Can also tolerate my red bar clip without getting confused. Much better for me than Iron Path, which seems to be the most popular competitor app. What would make this app 5 stars for me is the addition of lbs support at the weight input screen. I don’t like having to convert lbs to kgs for the input and all the plates at my gym are in lbs, i.e. 45 lb Olympic bar and 45 lb plates are standard around here. If putting up the bar and 2 plates I would like to enter the weight as 135 lbs.

It’s been a great tool to analyze my lifts, but iOS 15 probably broke a few things for the app. Now any lift does not register weight so some statistics like power are not available.

Hopefully the developer responds to my email. I didn’t not purchase anything yet as I wanted to see how it works. So far, not good.

Awesome app but it does not allow you to save the video description. This makes it’s very hard to reference past videos for comparison.

Would be 5 stars except the play button doesn't consistently work. As this is literally the most important part of the app --> 1 star...

I’m always recording myself at my CrossFit box doing various Olympic lifts. I review them and try to improve upon my form. However, I’ve always wished there was a way to track the bar path and do analysis on it. Then I found this app! I love that it can detect barbell plates and determine the center accurately. I love that there are graphs that show velocity, power, horizontal and vertical displacement, acceleration, etc etc! I love that you can export this data as a csv file. This app is deff worth it for anyone wanting to improve their lifts, regardless if they’re starting or have been doing it for awhile.

Wasted a bunch of gym time trying to get this to work. After trying multiple angles and heights, the auto detection focused on the box behind me. I was trying to setup a overhead press, so the plate wasn’t visible in the first frame. And there’s no way to have it rescan or scan after the first image. Trying to do a set of 5 with this took longer than my normal workout.

I love the ability to track the path of the bar and there are so many helpful graphs and statistics I immediately bought the pro version, however, my only gripes are associated with quality of life things. The app will not allow me to save any tags associated with the videos nor does it allow me to save the weight of each lift even after clicking save. I also have issues of the app not allowing me to crop the videos the way I want to even after adjusting the slider on the top. However, I think my issues are more of a one off thing and I still highly recommend this app especially if you’re not too worried about keeping each one of your videos and just care about it on a per lift basis.