A FREE Golf Launch Monitor On YOUR PHONE (but is it any good?)

okay so I've tested reviewed and continued to use launch monitors from all price ranges couple hundred bucks 500 bucks 800 bucks $3,000 $4,000 there's a lot of great launch monitors out there but in today's video I'm going to dive into a free launch monitor that only uses the camera on your iPhone so the app is called golf boy it's I'm not bluffing it's free to download and if you have an iPhone 12 or newer this app will unlock the camera in your phone and turn your phone into a launch monitor so breaking down a little bit about it it's free I'll reiterate that again and then for $6.99 a month you unlock all of the capabilities all of the software all of the simulation yeah you could play golf courses like you can play simulator golf on your phone you unlock swing Vision where it's going to analyze your golf swing putt Vision all the data in in the the launch monitor for $7 a month it's it's pretty wild when you truly think about it but I'm not bluffing it's legit this is this is something that exists that is a f it's hard to it's hard to Fathom I'm I'm being brutally honest and you may be going well there's probably plus plus plus plus no there's no plus plus plus the only Plus+ would be a compatible tripod they want you to use a short-legged tripod so like the tripod I have the camera on right now is not compatible so you can get a shortle tripod from Amazon and you would have to measure it and make markings on it if you're going to go that route or for $70 70 bucks you can get the golf boy tripod cuz this thing has the necessary markings on it you extend it to here and then you have low medium high and those lines matter for the shot distance that you are preparing to hit so if it's under 200 yard low if it's 200 to 250 y medium and if it's over 250 yards high so it's just kind of placing the camera at at enough of a height above the golfball to truly capture enough frames of impact to give you your data in the launch monitor and yeah these are the these are the short legs so our total investment even with a free trial month is basically 775 bucks but is it good that's the that's the number one question and oh an Android users I'm sorry it's not for you and it's because there's just so much different firmwares Hardwares the cameras and Android phones are so different it'd be very difficult for an app developer to make one that would be suited for all the different cameras and all the different Hardware software whereas with iPhones it's uniform so that is why it's an iPhone only app so enough talking about it let's just move all this stuff away and show you my very first straight from the box testing of this phone launch monitor here in the garage wow okay that's pretty [Music] awesome yeah I'd say that was pretty accurate wow wow wow that's cool what's this oh a little [Music] metronome oh that throws me off a little bit that metronome is a nice little touch actually it tells me a little bit where I am turn that off so what can I see here history last couple shots okay questions proove [Music] ball this is very cool so it could I could do this oh it's going to tell me that's pretty cool 136 I mean that's pretty like what I would expect out of a pitching wedge like a smooth not quite full pitching wedge start report wedge oh so if I select a club now it knows what club I'm using so it can give me a data report interesting that's [Music] good settings I have basically a coarse ball okay change that so you can change the ball in there custom ball I have watched a video on this I know you kind of have to maybe mess around to find because [Music] that seems more let's see so we go into Co [Music] ball like I'm probably wanting to carry this 1 you know 130 to 135 yeah 122 that's a little I caught it a little off the toe but if I change the ball setting little more accurate I watched um the let's play through video and he said he had to kind of mess around to find the right ball or like calibration I don't like this club speed in meters per second though how do I change [Music] that might have to mess around with that [Music] [Applause] okay I mean it's pretty straightforward it's pretty awesome like it's so easy to use obviously you can kind of sit around and really fine-tune the numbers in there your settings but I literally just opened this up and went that was uh not a challenging process we got to take it outside we got to hit some drivers see how it handles that pretty impressive stuff I got to be honest there is a bit of like learning curve like I definitely would need to play around with getting the right ball amplification right range ball at 1.05 was probably a little bit up but coar ball in here was probably a little bit down but you can mess around with that you can change those things but what I experienced here in the garage was very very impressive for a $7 a month launch monitor on something you already own well we are set up we're in there so I was able to change the setting to yards and feet but we're set up see what it got off the heel Club head speed maybe is a little elevated ball speed seems pretty accurate launch pretty accurate smash 1.27 I did neck it oh there we go yeah 258 that makes more sense carry 284 total for how poor I hit that yeah that makes more [Music] sense I mean ball speed that's yeah it's Club head speed I mean we saw a big 10 miles difference between drives but generally speaking this data is pretty dang [Music] good yeah that club head speed's a little low but the ball speed is probably pretty accurate I mean it's cold day whoops but see launch Direction was that stuff's really [Music] good uh I wonder if you would see different numbers with driver with different finishes cuz I wonder if like a glossy finish like Q the Q I10 has versus like a matte finish because we're seeing I mean apparently the Club head speed was 125 there and it wasn't but ball speed is pretty pretty accurate carry was it's like launch and ball speed are are pretty good club head speed's a little inconsistent but I feel like that could be a limitation of a phone camera and what the uh the crown of your driver is I don't think I was in the thing there [Music] whoops whereas that was all pretty spot-on little low carry was down that one was all pretty pretty dang good for a free launch monitor in your phone that if you want all the data it's $7 a month that's pretty cool that's pretty cool that was awesome yeah that was I mean that's pretty a little here and there like a percent or two but still man Color Me surprised and impressed I mean honestly we see a little bit of variance with Club head speed but that could really come down to the gloss finish on that driver versus a matte finish like the camera is going to reflect light but still you're getting very very good data out of your phone and you paid seven bucks to unlock it like it's remarkable to think how much some of these units that I had earlier how much they cost onetime purchase or to maintain month over month then you look at this and you're looking at the data I'm getting and the data is is pretty good few Hang-Ups obviously like I live in Florida it's cold right now but if I was doing this on an 85 95° day phone sitting out in the sun that could be a bit of a problem it could overheat very very quickly it's running an app and it's being baked on by Sun another little hang-up is like if you like to listen to music when you practice or those type of things your phone becomes a little bit inoperable but that could be good because rather than having your phone in your pocket maybe playing music and then a text comes your phone's up there you're hitting shots you're not swiping in and out of apps between shots so it's one of those things that actually could narrow your focus when you practice because it essentially just turns your phone only into a launch monitor and not to a communication device so there's there's good and there's bad with that and yeah a bit of the elephant in the room there is no spin but with a lot of these more value launch monitors spin is harder to come by and if you are using range balls spin is a kind of arbitrary number at that you need to unlock specific golf balls to get the best spin readings on some of these things so having no spin H it could bother some people but it's $7 you're getting very good data to keep you in check with your practice for seven bucks the simulator stuff all that that's just fun that's just novelty but for practicers this is a really good tool like a really good app especially if you're indoors like I've said the heat there could be some limitations Outdoors but if you have a net you have a little bit of an indoor setup you can get some good efficient data out of this app on your phone and I think back to when I was playing when money was tight and it was hard to come by getting my hands on a launch monitor something like this could just help keep me in check get me aligned with what I'm carrying shots start line launch angles launch directions like there's good data in there the club head speed with driver we could kind of but you shouldn't you should generally know your Club head speed to a degree to an extent but the data that you get from this if you are a practicer and you want to refine a little bit especially narrowing down your carry yardage your gapping for seven bucks I have to kind of remind myself like I want to hold it to like well if we compare to Mio plus and MLM and d d it's not a $500 unit that you're Buy and you have to unlock it's a $7 a month subscription on a phone app it's really good like I went into this somewhat skeptical thinking it'd be like all right we're going to see a couple good numbers here or there and it's going to be all over the place but the consistency is quite good the accuracy is quite good we saw a few few limitations but man if you want to unlock some data especially in this cold off season and you have an an indoor facility or range you go to and you don't want to pay for time on a bay or uh buy a $500 unit or an $800 unit you can download an app for free and pay seven bucks a month to unlock lots of data so check it out golf boy really really cool it's going to keep developing it's going to keep advancing so yeah well done golf boy go check it out let me know have you used it do you use it let's talk about it in the comments and we'll uh we'll see you in the next video