EasySpeed vs Kinovea: free is not the same as fast.
Kinovea costs you zero dollars and many hours. EasySpeed costs you a few dollars and zero hours. Coaches who measure races for a living do not have many hours.
Race-day reality
You don't have time to sit at a Windows desktop and draw frame-by-frame lines on 40 swimmers' races after a weekend meet.
Kinovea's pitch is that it's free. But free desktop software that requires you to manually scrub through video, draw your own lines, and calculate your own velocities is not free — you are paying with the most expensive thing you have, which is your time. A head coach with a 40-swimmer roster cannot do this. It does not scale past one analysis.
What Kinovea was never built to do
Kinovea is a general-purpose desktop video lab written for biomechanics researchers. It has no idea what a swim race is.
- Doesn't know the 15-meter rule, breakout, or the 5 race zones. You map them yourself, every video.
- Has no concept of DPS, stroke rate, or maintenance speed. You calculate them yourself.
- Cannot compare a race against the swimmer's PB. It has no swimmer, no PB, no history.
- Runs on Windows desktop only. Doesn't run on the phone you bring to the pool.
What sport-aware automation does instead
EasySpeed is the opposite philosophy. Don't build a flexible tool the coach has to teach. Build a tool that already knows swimming — and let the coach get to the answer.
- Knows the 5 race zones, the 15m breakout rule, the lap structure, and stroke-specific markers. Out of the box.
- Place a few markers, get DPS, speed, tempo, turn time, and breakout speed back. No frame counting.
- Full multi-race personal-best history. Every race compared automatically against the swimmer's best.
- Web and mobile. No Windows install. No learning curve.
- A head coach can process 40 swimmers' races in the time it takes to do one in Kinovea.
Kinovea vs EasySpeed at a glance
✓ supported · — partial / requires workaround · ✗ not supported
The cost of staying
Free software that consumes your weekend is the most expensive software on the pool deck.
If you coach 30 swimmers and Kinovea takes 20 minutes per race, that is 10 hours after every meet — and you still don't have a comparable, automated history across the season. EasySpeed gives you the same answer in 3 minutes per race, with every metric tracked across every race the swimmer has ever logged. Your time is not free. Charge yourself for it.
Stop scrubbing frames. Start measuring races.
Upload one race. EasySpeed returns the same metric depth Kinovea makes you compute by hand — in a few minutes, on your phone. Free to start.
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