EasySpeed vs Dartfish: the federation playbook is over.
Dartfish was built when only national teams could afford race analysis. Then the smartphone happened. EasySpeed is what race intelligence looks like when it's not gated behind a sales call and a hardware budget.
Race-day reality
You are a swim coach, not a video department. You don't have an analyst on staff and you don't have two days to learn enterprise software.
Dartfish was the right tool in 2005 — for the people who had a video analyst, a multi-camera rig, and a federation budget. For the 99% of coaches who don't have any of that, Dartfish is the wrong shape. You don't need a generalist video lab. You need swimming, measured, in five minutes, on the phone in your pocket.
What Dartfish was never built to do
Dartfish is enterprise legacy software priced for federations. The architecture and the business model both assume there is an analyst on the other end of the screen.
- Requires a sales call to learn the price. If you can't see it on the website, you can't budget for it.
- No free tier. Try-before-you-buy is not in the model.
- Not specifically built for swimming. The race zones, the 15m rule, the stroke structure — none of it is encoded.
- Designed for desktop and analyst workflows. Not for a coach on a phone in the stands.
What modern race intelligence looks like
EasySpeed is what video analysis looks like rebuilt for the actual coach — not the federation analyst the legacy software was designed for.
- Automated race metric extraction. No analyst required.
- Transparent public pricing. Read the plan, pick one, go.
- Free tier — three analyses on signup. No commitment, no sales call.
- Web-based, works on the phone in your pocket. No iPad, no hardware.
- Built specifically for swimming. The race zones, the 15m rule, the stroke-by-stroke structure — already encoded.
Dartfish vs EasySpeed at a glance
✓ supported · — partial / requires workaround · ✗ not supported
The cost of staying
Enterprise software has a price you can't see and a complexity you don't need.
While you are waiting for a Dartfish demo and a quote, the coach who switched to EasySpeed is already three races into their season-long data set. Every meet you don't measure is a meet your competition is measuring. And every dollar of an enterprise license is a dollar you are not spending on the swimmers.
Skip the sales call. Measure a race.
Upload one race. EasySpeed returns the full swim-specific metric breakdown in minutes. No sales call, no hardware. Free to start.
Analyze a raceThree free analyses on signup. No credit card.