Rapsodo Mobile Launch Monitor Golf Simulator | MLM iPhone & iPad Only

I did quite a bit of research on launch monitors. I compared the Rapsodo to the following; Swing Caddie SC300i, Swing Caddie SC4, Garmin R10, Rapsodo MLM2Pro and the FlightScope Mevo. Both Swing Caddies have positive features, but users complain that the associated app is terrible. The Flight Scope Mevo has limited data on it's app. The Garmin R10 probably has the most features but Costs twice as much and several of the appealing features of the Garmin require a subscription. The Rapsodo MLM2 Pro, is new to the market and most of the reviews were for pre-production (not fully functioning) units. It two is more than double the price of the MLM. I had a hard time deciding as all the units have pros and cons. The amount of data available on the MLM and the integrated flight tracing was appealing. In the end I decided to give it a go. If I thought it wasn't user friendly I could always return it to AMAZON. What was it like to live with the MLM? The Rapsodo MLM was a little finicky to initially setup, but that seems fairly normal for integrating hardware with cell phones (some of this I'm sure was operator error). After setting it up at home I went to the range and it worked as advertised. It picked up all my shots (77). I changed my clubs 8 times and only once did it not pickup the right club with the iphone camera (perhaps I didn't hold the club still enough). My phone is 3 years old and had about a 95% charge at the beginning at the end it was down to 46%. But it did take 77 short videos so not surprising. First time out, I think it worked very well. I was pleasantly surprised. I would recommend you give it a try. update 6/15/23 I've now used the MLM 14 times. Occasionally, I have trouble setting it up where it doesn't pick up my shots. I think this mostly getting the alignment right, but once you get it lined up it works great. The feedback you get on every stroke is unbelievable. By the time the ball hits the ground the MLM is already telling me how far it went, side carry and club head speed. You have a choice of 10 different data points. While on the range it only reads off 3 of your choosing. One note, it can burn up a lot of data (ask me how I know!!), the simple solution is go into profile/upload options and select only use wifi. Once I figured that out no problems. I have to say I don't know why everybody that wants to improve their game doesn't get one of these. Go for it. 7/4/23 TIP Still loving it. I have been going to the range every day and it is a great help. Some of the one star reviewers complained about lining the MLM up. When you set it up there is a camera view on your phone that shows ball area, alignment, player area. On my Iphone, this didn't work out well. The ball needed to be closer to the player than what was indicated. Now, I set up the mlm and iphone in line with where the ball is and this seems to work well.

For an entry level launch monitor it’s very good. For me all I needed was to know my distance on my clubs. Using my iPhone along with the Rapsodo you can see all the important data needed to improve. I’ve used it in my back yard with a net and on the golf course. Golf ball tracking works good. I watched the videos good hits and bad hits and could see what I was doing wrong on the bad hits. Correcting then into good hits. Club speed and carry distance on every shot helps on learning. Good value compared to the $8,000.00 - $20,000.00 launch monitors. small enough to hook it on the side of my bag to take along with me on the course. Just leave the Rapsodo on and it stays connected to the phone. Voice data once you hit the ball works great. Some say the phone over heats but I have not had that problem, I put the phone back in the cart after hitting.

Overall a good device. The setup instructions are bit vague. A couple a things I learned along the way regarding setup. The instructions say hold the device 4.3” from the phone to calibrate. I thought 4.3” seems very precise and must have some impact on calibration. I tried over and over to calibrate the device at close to 4.3” and could not. Finally I reached out to customer service and they told me I could go more than 4.3”. This made Calibration a bit easier. Still a bit of a pain. I also struggled to include my swing in the video when setting the device the recommended 8’ behind the ball. Customer service said I can move the device further back without impacting accuracy. I also learned the heading setting has no impact on the device’s measurement of distance. It’s a little tricky setting the heading. Once set up, the device does a nice job of capturing the data and allowing you to sort it in several ways. Compared to Flight Scope’s Mevo... Rapsodo shows you balls fight path using a red fracking line. It identifies each swing as a fade, draw, straight etc. Mevo does not. Rapsodo provides a google map type image of your range or course and the gps locations of where you hit your balls. You can see patterns clearly. Mevo does not. Mevo provides spin rate and height. Rapsodo does not. Rapsodo’s software allows you to sort data by column and tracks your average distance for each club in a user friendly interface. Mevo does not. Rapsodo only provide video of your swing from directly behind the ball. Your phone must be placed on the Rapsodo device. Video playback is limited. No slow motion or ability overlay video with lines and circles. With Mevo, your phone can be placed in any location and video play back can marked up and played in slow motion. The video feature is one Mevo’s stronger points. However, Mevo saves all the video on your phone in your camera role. 6s clips. Rapsodo will save up to 100 clips on their cloud service. For annual fee of $100 it will save unlimited clips. Overall I think the Rapsodo is the superior device. The only real advantages Mevo offers are the ability to obtain video from different angles, video play back options and the ability to measure spin rate(although you have install a small silver sticker on each ball to track spin rate). Mevo’s software is far better. More than seeing your distance, you can see how you hit the ball, fade, draw etc. The ability to see your average distance by club is easily accomplished. You can sort all your stats various ways including by week, month and year. You can sort by distance, club speed, launch angle, etc. While Mevo’s video is better, Rapsodo’s cloud service is big plus. You don’t have to load up your phone with all the videos. You can track data only with Mevo and not capture video. Apologies for cryptic typing. Typing review from my phone...

I have had the Rapsodo MLM for about a week now and I have to say that I LOVE this thing! I had tried the Garmin G80 but as a launch monitor, it just didn't do enough. I use Arccos for tech and tracking on the course, but I wanted something for practice, and the Rapsodo has been just awesome. I live about 5 minutes from a TopGolf so I go there quite often to practice. I have only taken the MLM there up to this point, but it's been great. SETUP Setup really is a breeze. The MLM only works on iOS right now, but from what I'm hearing, Android is in the works. You simply download the app, link it to your phone and you're good to go. The MLM device is already pre-calibrated, so it's as easy as connecting it to the phone, setting it up behind you (about 8 ft away, make sure that the phone can see you completely in the screen) and you're off and running! USING THE MLM Be sure to read the manual so you know what each light color means. In order to change your club in the software, you wave it in front of the camera and then turn over so the camera can see the number on the bottom of the club. The software easily recognized my irons and changes the club accordingly. It did not recognize my woods or my wedges well, however. It saw my PW, but not my 52, 56 or 60 degree wedges. In cases where the system doesn't recognize the club, simply select it in the software. Once you have the correct club selected, hit away! The MLM takes a video of your shot and gives you the carry distance, launch angle, club speed, ball speed and smash factor of every shot. It also uses the camera to give you a trajectory of your ball in the video. This worked about 95% of the time for me. I think it only missed trajectory once or twice. (See video for trajectory) The software also tracks how your shots land and distance of clubs. I put pictures of both my woods session and my irons session so you can see what the software tracks. It's great to see shot dispersion and distance of the different clubs. Totally gives me more confidence in my distances and placements. (You have to setup your GPS location as well as direction you're hitting to...I messed that up a bit as the map had me close to the right position, but the map picture was of the area before TopGolf was completed.) The system comes with a great case and is very protective. I love the ability to scrub the video of my swing. I can see my swing frame by frame to see what is going on...I can even share with others if I decide to take lessons. My only issue was for about 30 minutes I couldn't get the system to see my shots. It looked like it was working but wouldn't do anything. It was more than likely user error. I had grabbed my phone and ran to the bathroom so it lost bluetooth connection. Once I shut down the system/app then re-connected, all was fine. All in all, this is exactly what I'm looking for. Right now, it cannot be used indoors, but I did get an email from a Rapsodo rep stating that functionality just might be coming in the near future. I'm sure there won't be any trajectory tracking but we may be able to get the ball statistics and swing scrubbing. This has been a GREAT Christmas present! Looking forward to see how this will continue to help me in practice and lower my scores.

Sets up quickly indoors and provides a clear picture of your swing and basic information ball sleep swing speed and distance. On the range in bright sunlight it is difficult to set up to see your swing. Still provides the same basic information but if you want the information and see what your swing looks like this is not the monitor. Additionally after the session I tried to review each shot. I was able only to review the last shot.

Purchased a new driver and bought the Rapsodo MLM to test my swing with the new club after having surgery. I uploaded thd free app and I am pleased although I plan to upgrade to premium. Device recorded all my swing data and provided all the visual data to evaluate each swing. On a hot 97* afternoon in the sun, it did shutdown due to overheating, I wanted to shutdown myself.

Honestly I didn't think any of these types of devices would be worth the money they cost, oh how I was wrong!! I bought the Rapsodo MLM in December and have since then hit over 1200 golf balls with it. The majority of the balls were hit into the net in my garage and a few on the range. It's winter so fairly cold in the midwest. This thing is amazing to say the least. I can walk into my garage, turn it on, load the app and will be hitting balls within minutes. I am lucky enough to have just over the recommended distances in my garage for the device and the net. It seems like 95% of the time it registers the shot, there are a few here and there that it won't pick up, but usually those are super high with my lob wedge or a hosel rocket that I probably don't want it picking up anyways. As for accuracy, it seems pretty good. Having played golf for 25 years, I have a very good idea of how far my clubs go depending on the swing I make. I do kinda wish it had spin rate, but from what I understand about the same priced launch monitors they are just trying to extrapolate the data and aren't really true spin rate anyways. I guess I'm ok not knowing a guess at what the spin was and it could be completely wrong. The Rapsodo MLM picks up the good and the bad shots, even the ones where I miss the net entirely and have to duck and cover with the ball hitting the garage door, ricocheting back at me. They make for some quite hilarious videos to send friends and family. Plus the ones where I absolutely blast a shot and want to brag. The beauty of the video is I can see exactly what my swing looks like on a good or bad shot, shows me what works and doesn't, how the shot shape is based on the swing I make. Doesn't get much better than that. How else do you improve if you can't see the data along with the video evidence? Not to say there aren't some things they can improve. The first would be to add Android support. I am lucky enough to have an iPhone laying around the house I can use for this, but others are not and could be a huge drawback or a reason to not buy it. The other is spin rate like I said before, but I want true spin rate, if possible. I guess I would probably settle for some extrapolation if I knew that it was a "good guess" so I know if a driver is flaring because of spin. All in all, this thing is great and will continue to use it even when it does get warm enough for me to go to the actual range, it will just come with me.

I've taken this to the range 5 times now and been back and forth with support several times. For lob wedge no shots ever register. My guess is loft is too high and it loses the ball. SW - 8 iron is pretty close on accuracy but it begins to lose accuracy on a gradual scale from there. 9 iron was about 5 yards shorter than I hit and 4 iron was about 10 yards shorter. Now the woods and driver. This is where support went back and forth with me. They have a setting that you can select between total or carry distance. I hit several drives where the ball carried about 220 yards and then rolled to the fence for a total of 260. The device only showed about 210 total distance and then when switching to carry it showed I hit the ball about 200. Accuracy way off. This was with an iPhone 7. I used an iPhone 11 on my last session and numbers improved for total versus carry but not accurate still. I purposely hit draws to get them to roll more and total distance was still lacking reality. I hit one bomb that carried to the net at the far end of the range and hit about 25 feet up and it registered 260 total distance which is how far far net is... that drive would have rolled past 300 on the course.. I'm giving it 3 stars for accuracy on short irons which is where it is really needed most, shows accurate loft and launch angle which I was looking for and support was good despite they doubted my feedback. The launch angle is where I need improvement and this device has helped in 5 sessions to improve my smash factor and swing plane so it is a helpful tool for those finer details. Just don't expect it to be super accurate. I'm hoping it will soon have android support and maybe they could consider using the rear camera on devices which is a far superior camera to the front facing ones on devices. That alone might help the accuracy. I'll raise my rating if it improves. Have yet to test in a net since I'm an android user and only have my wife's old iPhone 7 to use for now which isn't supported for indoors yet. I'd recommend it if you need to work on finer details of your swing and dial in those launch angles and smash factor.

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Once I had downloaded the app and connected to the device it worked immediately. I found it extremely easy to use, and missed only 2 shots in my first three sessions, both of which were semi-shanks by me that I wouldn’t want in the dataset anyway. Carry distances quoted were close to those I use on the course, so I believe it to be accurate. I will now use the device to practice half and three-quarter shots with my wedges so that I can control my distances better. As others have stated, the display is not easy to read in sunlight while you are standing several feet from it, but on a quiet range I had the Rapsodo calling out the details so I didn’t need to refer to the screen until I was changing clubs.

Cet appareil léger et simple d’utilisation marie la puissance d’un iPhone ou iPad avec un radar intégré. Ceci permet d’avoir un système performant à prix très raisonnable. Je l’utilise avec un practice dans le jardin (filet de 4x3m) et me donne entière satisfaction. Il détecte automatiquement les coups et permet de revisionner son swing, de faire des statistiques pour chaque club, … Quant à la précision, je me réfère aux essais comparatifs consultable sur la toile.

Product as described and quick delivery

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