Pocket Radar Reviews

I’ve had a couple of Pocket Radars in the past and they’ve all been great, but this latest version coupled with PocketRadar is on a level of its own. Being able to improve your game requires being able to track and analyze data. While previous versions of the Pocket Radar were accurate, compact, and generally quite useful, the application is a game changer.

You can now record your swing or throw from any angle and record your progress through a variety of easy to navigate menu options. The audio call out allows you to know ball velocity without having to constantly look at the screen of the device, and the history feature will store your data for that day in way that’s easy to retrieve.

Bottom line, PocketRadar is an incredibly useful training tool. You need it.

Have been using my Smart Coach pocket Radar for a few weeks and could not be more pleased with its simplicity in use. PocketRadar has everything one needs to improve in their area. Knowing your velocity is like knowing your timed running speed. It elevates your intent. The audio feedback is great in our bullpens.
On the recruiting side, it allows for better communication with my fellow members of the coaching staff. It helps on our end and the prospective student athlete as well. It is one thing to say you throw 88, hit exit speed of 95, it is another to show you throw 88 or hit 95!
Great tool for coaches, athletes and parents alike.
Thx Pocket Radar! Great work as always!

Over past 20 years Ive bought/used radar guns for sports applications buying top of the line guns at over $1300 and then less expensive models for a few hundred dollars. Pocket radar has made everything so much easier to handle, carry and use since its so much smaller/compact. The ability to use it with the ipad app for audio and visual display is significant to provide athletes with real-time and immediate feedback. Their customer service is of great value to get a real, friendly and very helpful person on a phone call vs just email. They have gone out of their way to help.

As an instructor who works with hundreds of players annually, it’s simple, it’s arguably one of the top tools that every coach, trainer, instructor and player must have! I wish I would have had one when I was playing, not only to be able to keep tabs on my Velo but to create a program based off of my Velo. Set the gun up and go to work! How easy can it be to hold yourself accountable!
Every coach, parent, instructor and player should go out and get a Pocket Radar today!
I’m lucky enough to have 2! I would recommend this to anyone searching for a Velo gun as the #1 Velo gun out there!!

As a college baseball coach, PocketRadar and product is a game changer. The features of PocketRadar and product really help in the development, as well as the promotion of our young ball players. Pitchers and hitters are able to get live feedback; they are then able to look back at their video, seeing differences between the results in the numbers. Young players are capable of showcasing their numbers(hitting and/or pitching) with a live MPH feed incorporated into the video. This allows potential college coaches to get a true read on a recruit. Definitely a game changer product/app from Pocket Radar!!

As a coach of a highly competitive select baseball program, I can’t say enough good things about the pocket radar smart coach and app. The accuracy is equal to professional radar guns that cost thousands of dollars. I use it at practice to clock individuals and also use it at games by simply mounting it on the backstop and automatically clocking each pitch. The Bluetooth connection lets me see the velo of each pitch while sitting in the dugout. I also love the auto video clipping when throwing bullpen sessions.

The new pocket radar and PocketRadar are hands down the best investment a coach, player, dad, etc. can make in player development. Easily being able to track throws tagged for different drills or weights makes tracking progress super easy. Easily exporting into Excel for individual players is nice if you’re a team coach. My favorite feature, BY FAR, is the auto-edit video feature. If you haven’t gotten PocketRadar and the new radar, and you’re a coach, you’re missing out.

This application is truly incredible. I had the Pocket Radar originally and loved it until it got smashed by a baseball :)

I then upgraded to the Smart Coach and I’m blown away by how simple and effective it is. I use it for our son’s whole baseball team to track pitching speeds and even exit velocity.

The best feature is the video with radar overlay. It allows you to capture the speed overlaid on top of the video of your pitching or hitting. This is truly a game changer and our kids love sharing it.

Oh and sick of taking hour long videos then trying to track back to find a pitch? No problem anymore - they actually cut up each pitch into individual clips that you can jump to for review.

Kudos to the Pocket Radar team for an amazing product!

Great product but iPhone records video in 1080P (1920x1080) but PocketRadar only records in 720P (1280x720)....that is 1Million pixel resolution loss...becomes significant in standard shot and especially zoom of an amount. Come on guys....fix this !!!!!

UPDATE: They are working on this and I will agree PocketRadar & the Smart Coach Radar are terrific....the 720P is “ok” but obviously 1080P better....but I’m not returning mine and happy to wait for the rez upgrade.

This companion app works with the Smart Coach radar detector. It has made a world of difference coaching and tracking players. I can now marry pitching/hitting velocities with video and report on a bullpen or game worth of data with ease.
The company provides amazing support for their products and they are always looking for ways to enhance the user experience.

We used the Ball Coach from 2018 through 2020, and now we are using the Smart Coach and PocketRadar . The information we receive helps us as we practice and we have a record over time to analyze. We are enormously grateful for this devise. Thank you!

Accuracy is great. App needs to be updated to be able to adjust settings on new iPhone. Part of the settings gets cut off.

I called this morning and was VERY well treated by two workers . Grade “A” Customer Service and an amazing product. I use it every day with my college team. I recommend it to everyone from Youth on up...

I got the new Apple iPhone 12 with iOS 14 and the radar app doesn't see the phone to give the number to sync up. My Apple work phone is on iOS 13 and works perfect. Plus my Apple iPad with iOS work perfect. When it work it pretty good.

I use the video with speed feature with my team for hitting and pitching drills. I highly recommend PocketRadar for baseball coaches.

Great app. Desperately needs an Apple Watch app. Both to received readings, and to remotely press the main go button.

You all need to provide an update to PocketRadar . The screen does not fit properly on the phone and part of the screen gets cut off.

Love PocketRadar , problem is after every pitch it crashes and I have to reset it.

Can you connect ball coach to PocketRadar

Would love to use PocketRadar but it keeps crashing upon any attempt to open it.

Good app and interface especially with the Smart Coach. Wish they would change the white background to black or have white text. The bright white drains battery with the bright screen.

I’m a big fan of the new pocket radar smart coach and it’s app, and I’m recommending it to my softball and baseball friends!

I’ve used the ball coach radar product for a few years, and it has worked great for getting pitching speeds and ball exit speeds off the Tee. But the new pocket radar smart coach takes it to a new level, AND it’s relatively cheap and easy to use! We use it mainly for hitting and getting ball exit speeds, but I think it would be great for pitching as well.

As a part of our daily hitting routine, after we have worked on specific body movements (i.e., the mirror) or hitting drills, we will hit off the Tee and measure ball exit speed. We also use it for front toss as well. Here’s what I love about the new pocket radar smart coach: It syncs up to my iPad, and has audio that calls out the speed, and/or it displays the speed (big and easy to read) on the actual iPad. As a result, my daughter gets instant feedback on the ball exit speed. It also tracks these speeds for the session, and I can easily download the speeds after each session. It also tracks them over time in PocketRadar . Here’s the cool part, when they hit a personal best or meet their session goal, we can celebrate right then and there with high fives and ice cream. She says hitting practice is much more fun this way!

After only 2 weeks, the results are improving dramatically. Her average ball exit speed for a practice session has improved by 6 mph and her personal best exit speed by 3 mph. Instant feedback + fun energy + goals = Big Improvements.

It gets better, because the iPad app also allows me to videotape her swings for later analysis, which I can then import into Coach’s eye. What’s cool, is that the speed gets overlaid onto the actual video. I like comparing her best swings to her slower swings, looking for differences in technique. For example, in her best swings, she definitely has the “hips before hands” working, and in her slower swings, she gets a little “handsy” or leading with her hands. I’m just bummed I didn’t capture her latest personal best on video!

We actually just came up with a new hitting game that also includes launch angles, and my daughter and her friends had a blast playing it (full credit to Greg Jones who is the originator of this game!). In my batting cage, we have launch angle markers (ropes) in the cage, so we know if a hit is a 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 or 30+ degree launch angle. If the player hits their goal speed at a 15 to 25 degree launch angle, they get 5 points. If they hit their goal speed but miss the 15 to 25 degree launch angle, they only get 1 or 2 points. As a result, you guessed it, they started routinely hitting their goal speeds at a 15 to 25 degree launch angle.

The bottom line is that the new pocket radar smart coach and it’s app are fun to use, easy to use, and its making hitting practice more fun and productive!

Mike Garver

PS – I’ve called the company for help for 2 times, and both times they were very helpful and I was treated like a MLB coach!