EasySpeed vs Onform: numbers beat drawings.
Onform was built for the era before race intelligence existed. When the only way to coach off video was to slow it down and draw on it. That era is over.
Race-day reality
You don't need an arrow on the swimmer's elbow. You need to know their 75-85m speed dropped 0.3 m/s and their breakout was 0.4m short.
A drawing on a slow-motion replay tells you what the stroke looked like. It does not tell you what the race actually did. The questions that matter — was the second-half maintenance speed higher than last meet? Was the breakout faster than the PB? Did the swimmer fade where they always fade? — Onform cannot answer any of them. They are not in the file format.
What Onform was never built to do
Onform is a general-purpose video annotation app. It treats a swim race exactly like a baseball swing or a golf stroke. The architecture has no concept of what a race is.
- Cannot measure breakout speed off any wall. It just plays the video back slowly.
- Cannot count strokes, calculate DPS, or measure tempo. You count them yourself.
- Cannot overlay one race against a personal best. There is no PB inside the app.
- Cannot tell you which 10-meter segment lost the race. It can show it. It cannot measure it.
What race intelligence does instead
EasySpeed isn't a drawing surface. It's a measurement engine. The job is not to make the video easier to look at. The job is to make the race quantitative.
- Breakout speed (m/s) extracted automatically from the start and every turn.
- Distance per stroke and stroke rate computed per lap — no counting.
- PB race overlay shows exactly where time was gained or lost vs. the swimmer's best.
- 75-85m segment speed isolated — the single metric most predictive of 100m freestyle final time (see our research).
- Web-based, no install, no iPad required. Works on the phone you brought to the meet.
Onform vs EasySpeed at a glance
✓ supported · — partial / requires workaround · ✗ not supported
The cost of staying
Every race you don't measure is a race you can't beat.
When the swimmer's coach across the lane line is tracking DPS, breakout speed, and second-half maintenance race by race, and your only data is a slow-motion replay with an arrow on it, you are bringing observation to a measurement fight. Every season you don't quantify is a season your competition is. Drawing is not coaching. It's the placeholder coaches used before measurement was possible.
Stop annotating. Start measuring.
Upload one race. EasySpeed returns the full metric breakdown — segment speeds, DPS, breakout, turn analysis — in minutes. No app install. Free to start.
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