Rapsodo "Affordable" Mobile Launch Monitor Review
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 มี.ค. 2021
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0:00
0:21.00 Introduction to the Rapsodo Launch monitor
1:01.00 Unboxing
1:46.00 How to use
3:54.00 What information does it give you
4:38.00 Range mode with GPS Tracking
8:23.00 Shot tracer
9:21.00 Down sides
11:12.00 In action
13:16.00 Trackman Comparison
13:36.00 Conclusion
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Love your sound effects Stu! Great review as always!
Thanks for noticing Jim, it’s real fun to do and often overlooked. 👍👍
Great Video, looking for a launch monitor and this is a great review, Thanks. PS nearly fell of my seat at 5:07 LOL
Thanks Gary, glad it was useful. Nice piece of kit. Lots of good qualities. 👍👍
THX great overview of the device.
Your welcome. Thanks for stopping by. 🙏👍
Great review!
Thanks pal.
I’ve had the mevo for a few years now and it’s great, especially for dialing in those awkward
Another brilliant unit. It’s so great these companies are making these “affordable” units for us all to improve. Good choice. 👍
Good video Stuart, you might make a tech geek out of me yet 😂 I'm sure all the statisticians will really go for this 👍
I find it fun to look at what may be around the corner. Thanks tor watching pal, hope your well.
great video .Thank you
Thanks Scott. 🙏🙏👍
Excellent video, I just bought one yesterday and came across your vid which is timely. For the placement, did you set the alignment line pointing midway between your toes and the ball? Or directly behind the ball? When I did the latter, I needed to rotate the unit a bit to get my body and the ball in the proper rectangles on the iPhone screen. Thanks!
Hi Daniel, yeah I know what you mean about the alignment. I just made sure I got my full swing in and the ball. Worked great. In an ideal world I would have the unit a couple of feet further back as in my studio I only have slightly less than 6 feet behind. I’m going to do another vid on the range when our courses reopen over here. Thanks for watching and hope you have fun with your Rapsodo.
Hi. Noted in your video at the end the camera seemed to be swapped or mirrored. Is there a setting where you can avoid this? Thanks and great review super helpful!
Hi Leigh, this is only because I was screen recording the live recording. As a user you would never see this left handed video as at this point you would be hitting the shot if that makes sense. The actual recorded version is always right handed. Sorry for this confusion.
Thanks for the great info. Do you by chance know if this will give you the shot shape if you are hitting into a net in your backyard?
Hi, yes this will give you the launch direction and angle in a net etc. Thanks for watching and glad you enjoyed it. 👍👍🙏
Hello- Great review. I am seriously considering this MLM. I was curious whether you had purchased the $99 "Rapsodo Premium Subscription". And is it this feature that gives you the shot video? Thanks!
Hi Jason, I hadn’t (but they did send it to me). The premium feature is as below
10k swing storage
Shot apex on playback
Slow motion swing replays
Full access to coach connect
The shot feature comes at no cost. 👍👍
Good video. Did not see Clubhead speed on the Trackman comparison. How is Clubhead speed measured against Trackman?
Thanks Joakim, my tests proved a -3% to plus 3% discrepancy. I haven’t been able to fully text this as we are still unable to get outside but indoor tests where really good considering the obvious price difference. Thanks for watching. 🙏
Also to the battery power if your outside your brightness is higher which causes it to die quicker
Yes I guess so. I don’t use for long periods tbh.
Great Video!! I like the video of the swing so I can see my path away and towards the ball for an inside-out impact. I was wondering how difficult it is to send swing videos to my coach? Does the person receiving the video need to install a proprietary player to view the video? Also I read someplace that it stores only 100 videos locally unless you have a premium account for cloud storage. is this true? Last question. Does it record ball spin? Thanks for taking the time to answer these.
Hi Stephen, good questions. Very easy to send the videos and no the coach doesn’t need an app (it goes as a standard video file). Yes it will need an account (small monthly payment to store more than 100 vids) at the moment it’s free with the unit on their website until 21st March. You then have all the features and 10k swings. It doesn’t record spin rates (as I said in the video that is really only accurate from the much more expensive units). Thanks for watching and hope that helps. 👍🙏
Great video. Is it easy to use with iPads?
Thanks pal I’m glad you enjoyed it. I haven’t tried it with a Pad tbh. Sorry that’s no help at all. 🙏🙏👍
Hi mate, is there any subscriptions you have to buy into when buying this? Or are the features you use the ones that come with the purchase price?
Many thanks
I didn’t but you can buy a subscription that enables you to use the coaching and share features. Not essential I’d say. 👍
Stu it’s Bubby. How did u find this ? Great review on it. Was it good with ur actual distances and did u try them on the course at all. Have you tried standard mevo ? This seams really good.
Hey mate, hope you are well. It’s a great little device and accurate enough. There is a newer model that I will get my hands on soon that looks even better.
@@cartersmithgolf I will wait till u review new one and go from there
Hi Stuart, great review. Is there a minimum distance required before the ball makes impact? I'm a bit tight for space. Thanks
Hi Alan, I’ve had it as close as 6 feet, tbh much closer than this and you’ll be touching the net. It seems to like 6-8 feet behind if you have that room. This could change with better lighting (mine is pretty low for filming). Hope that helps, thanks for watching and your comment. 👍👍
How long did the units battery last? I’ve read mixed reviews on its length?
The batteries on the unit where good (I did 3 2 hour sessions without charging) but I found that it drained my iPhone pretty fast (like I said, I have an older iPhone 8 so maybe this didn’t help).
I’m waiting for an affordable device that shows club path . I guess I’ll be waiting a long time lol
I actually think it’s not far away but until then you can go for a strike mat (my next review). It obviously won’t give angle of attack but all the rest is there and for cheap money.
Great review. I'm in the market for launch monitor and hadn't considered this. How would you rate it against the garmin g80 you reviewed a while ago? Possible comparison video 🙏🏻
Great idea, will do. Quick spoiler, I’d would definitely go with the Rapsodo because I feel the G80 is kinda a jack of all trades master of none. For me, I didn’t think the GPS was any better than a free one and the launch monitor wasn’t as accurate as I’d like for this outlay. I’d say it depends on what you want it for but if it’s primarily as a launch monitor my money is on the Rapsodo. Hope that helps. Will get started on that vid. Thanks 🙏👍
Can it be used outside
Is there any way that it can give you yards of left to right dispersion?
It does give you a visual graph style view of dispersion which is usually good enough to work with.
In this price range which LM would you suggest please? Thank you
If it’s purely for a launch monitor I would definitely go with the Rapsodo. I did a comparison with the G80 Garmin if you haven’t seen it check that out. Rapsodo is a classy unit that has all the features I would want and a few more. 👍👍
@@cartersmithgolf thank you.
Nice review, but when they target merely just over 20% of market share with iOS worldwide they miss out on the biggest group with over 70% Android market share. 🤘🏻😎🤘🏻
For sure Eric, they contacted me to say Android is close to completion. That makes sense. Again I think the delay it due to the inconsistency of the cameras on all the android phones, some are amazing some are terrible. 👍👍
@@cartersmithgolf 🤘🏻😎🤘🏻
Will it do the shot tracer if hitting into a net?
Sadly not but still my favourite device in this genre. Thanks for watching
Can you play games or do longest drive when indoors and in net mode?
I don't believe you can. If this was an option I would look more heavily at the Rapsodo rather than the Garmin R10
How much data does this consume? When I use my phone for navigation it rips through the gigabytes rather quickly.
It doesn’t used data in that way. It connects through Bluetooth.
I see the camera is not really down the line. Is there a way you can get down the line?
This is the best angle as suggested. I’m sure you can vary is a little. 👍
How accurate is this if you are on the range and like most ranges use limited flight balls. Wouldn't your distances be at least 10% shorter compared to a real golf ball?
As it’s doplar radar it takes the actual speed the ball flys so whatever ball you use will be your numbers. Bad balls=bad numbers. You can however test your decent ball numbers and then make a quick calculation maybe like you said -10% etc. Would be the same as trackman or any other devices calculations. 👍👍
how long does the iphone battery last?
I played with it pretty solidly tor a few hours and the battery was then on 50%. Hope that helps.
I didnt even know Rapsodo were available in the UK yet Stu.
Their video and shot tracer functions are awesome.
I looked into getting one sent over by my Brother but went with the SC300 instead. As they had better back up in the UK a couple of years ago. But, of course, Im not an iSheep user either, so would have needed to use one of the girls old phones so thats more to carry too...
MyGolfSpy reviewed the Rapsodo and they, like you, rated it very highly 👍
Great, full review again Stu👍👍👍
For us geeks or guys that just like to dig into our swings the launch monitors are invaluable...Id certainly not be without mine. However, if I was buying now Id go with the Mevo + as thats a stunning bit of kit. Four times the price of the SC300 though...
SC300, I haven’t had a look at that yet. I guess they all have their upsides and down sides (Android is about to be released btw). I really thought this was super stable and no “faff” which puts me off more than anything. Agreed, we tinkerers need numbers as it’s only that which keeps us on the right track. Thanks and in for the comment and for watching. 🙏🙏
@@cartersmithgolf The SC300 has been overtaken now Stu 😟
As with everything electronic, they improve apace...Voice Caddie aren't putting anymore research or development into the SC300. Ive spoken with them directly about improvements they planned on doing following their last update, which was over 12months ago now 😭😭😭 and there's nothing planned at all. Spin on the wedges isn't covered and that's a major flaw in my eyes. Their data capture and storage has been great for me though.
Perhaps the best thing for us though is...they (launch monitors) encourage you to practise, the more you put in, the more data you get out and therefore the more accurate that data then becomes. I wouldnt be without mine 👍👍👍
Did you say how much these are? They're a nice toy to have if you have the cash to splash but they're not really a necessity. I'd rather spend the money on a nice weekend away playing a couple of rounds and having a nice meal in the evenings.
Totally agree, if your in the market for one I think it’s a good one and at (£550 I did mention it) it’s not a full on bank breaker. Saying this if it’s a choice between getting one or playing real rounds there’s no decision there. As always, Thanks for watching and your comments. 👍👍
Nice Review. AS you mentioned they Said " android is close to completion". I wonder what that could mean... 1 month. 3 months?:D
I am a big statistic guy as I think it definitely improves your game. You see your lengths and weaknesses.
Yeah I tried to pin them down but I guess it’s difficult as when you work with Apple you have a known quality of camera (which this uses). The Android setup has a lot of variant in camera quality from fantastic to very poor. Glad you liked the review and thanks for watching. 🙏🙏👍
@@cartersmithgolf yeah I wonder how they'd do it and what minimum requirement they give.
@@cartersmithgolf Update: To a german reviewer they said the expected date would be somewhere in April. Damn that would be awesome!
@@sandafoks7056 this is exciting news! - I've been following these reviews for a long time, and it has always been 'coming soon'.
@@daniellarn4877 Let's hope they can keep their schedule :D
Man I guess all of these of affordable launch monitors should say affordable compared to trackman. Haaa. My wife is going to kill me if I spend 500 on something I use for practice ha. I’m probably still going to stash a Hundo each month tho At least have one by next off season. Either rapsodo or Mevo haven’t decided
$1000 AUD. Hmm. Launch monitor or an AC15? Which hobby wins?
Impossible to choose that one mate. Couldn’t live without either. 😩😩😩😩