Onform: Video Analysis App 4+

Game Changer

Adding to our review from a year ago:
OnForm just keeps getting better. It was great before, it’s better now.
The developers keep upgrading and improving the product, so your experience and your capabilities are constantly growing. They know their product and their users and are passionate about helping coaches get the job done easily and effectively. None of the products out there can hold a candle to it. It makes the job of analysis fun again. If you haven’t tried it you’re really missing out. Thanks again OnForm making such an exceptional product!

This is an amazing app in so many ways. I have been a professional analyst for high performance swimming over the past 35 years First the video is high-quality HD and the analysis tools are excellent, user-friendly and accurate. What I love most about it is the video and file sharing. It’s a powerful and easy to use content delivery system, which allows you to combine videos to create original content for your audience and deliver it in seconds. The unique communication system is beyond anything I have experienced for sports analysis. I love the private messaging and broadcast lists features. The support team is easy to get a hold of, innovative, and only too glad to help. Get this app - it will totally change your ability to connect, provide insightful feedback and develop your athletes. Way to go OnForm!

Developer Response ,

Thanks for the amazing and thorough review. We greatly appreciate it and we’re so happy you are finding the app useful!

Simply the Best

OnForm is the best coaching app I’ve used. It has every feature I need in a coaching app, and is being continually improved. I can group players by the location at which they take lessons. I can create a PDF lesson plan for my students and load it into their folder, or add instructional materials. We can text back and forth within the app between lessons, giving me a record of those exchanges, and they can send me videos taken in the app to get my feedback.

The two video analysis capability really helps the students visualize how the changes have improved the swing. The voiceover capability makes it easy to record an analysis for a virtual lesson.

I love the feature to keep private notes from each lesson. This helps me remember the details of the instruction I gave them during the lesson.

The ability to add a parent or another coach is a feature I haven’t seen in another app. It’s imperative for parents to know everything a coach sends to students under 18, and this feature makes it seamless to do so. I also like to communicate with their youth coaches, and with this app I can easily bring them into the loop to see what I am teaching the student.

Finally, they are very responsive when you have a question, usually getting back to you in a day or less. Since I’ve been using this product I haven’t for a minute considered going to anything else.

Decent but some annoyances

I started using OnForm as a previous Hudl user. Getting onboarded to using OnForm was okay, but the navigation was confusing at first. It is weird that you have to go into Library of videos, from the Home screen, to simply start recording a new video. Seems like an unnecessary step. I like the way the app automatically optimizes the camera settings to the specific lighting in which you are filming. But, the biggest negative to the app, is the flywheel. It’s a major downgrade from Hudl. In order to replay your videos frame-by-frame, you use the flywheel to scroll. But if your finger lets off the flywheel for just a moment, the flywheel disengages, the drawing button engages, and you have to move scroll with your finger again to-reengage the flywheel. It’s annoying because I am often watching videos closely and exclusively using the flywheel to make the video progress, amd I keep having to “recapture” the flywheel to make it engage again. You have so much space on your phone to scroll, so by the time I get the flywheel responding to my scrolling, I have to let off to reposition. It’s just not very gold for people who don’t use the “play” function to play the video and instead want to use the fly wheel so they can constantly go forwards and backwards as the need to as they watch the replay.

Developer Response ,

Hi Jimmy,

That’s good feedback. We’ll look to improve that experience.

Best