The Best App for Long Jump, High Jump, and Triple Jump

What a jumper actually needs from an app

The best app for a jumper is one that understands the jump is decided before takeoff. Long jump, high jump, and triple jump all break into four phases, approach, takeoff, flight, and landing, and the most expensive mistakes happen in the approach, where a stuttering, decelerating run-up quietly caps your result. A generic video tool treats the jump as one moment in the air. The tool that helps you can separate a slow penultimate step from a poor takeoff angle and tell you which one is the real problem. That phase awareness is the whole reason to choose a track-specific app.

The four phases, and the events that bend them

• Approach: consistent acceleration to a controlled, fast penultimate step. Deceleration into the board is the most common silent killer in all three jumps.
• Takeoff: the plant and drive that convert speed into distance or height. Faults are about reaching, braking, and a poor takeoff angle.
• Flight: body position in the air. Long jump wants a hang or hitch-kick; high jump wants the arch over the bar.
• Landing: extending the legs and not sitting back in long and triple; clearing cleanly in high jump.
• Triple jump rhythm: the hop, step, and jump have to balance, and a hop that is too big wrecks the step. Generic tools cannot read that rhythm.

The options, compared

Video analysis apps for jumpers at a glance

Prices are entry-level and change; verify before you buy. The highlighted column is the pick for a solo jumper.

Track & Field AI: best for the solo jumper

If you film your own jumps and want to know what to fix, this is the one built for that job. It reads the jump by phase and tells you which part is costing you, whether that is a decelerating approach, a reaching takeoff, or a flight position that breaks down, in coaching language rather than raw angles. For the triple jump it reads the rhythm across the hop, step, and jump, which generic tools simply cannot do. And because your first analysis is free with no card, you can test it on your next runway session. It covers long, high, and triple jump natively, plus the rest of track and field.

• Phase reads for approach, takeoff, flight, and landing
• Triple jump rhythm across hop, step, and jump
• Names the phase costing you distance or height and the cue to fix it
• Works from a normal phone video filmed side-on to the runway or bar
• Honest by design: it flags a foul or out-of-frame jump rather than guessing

Onform and Dartfish: best when a coach reviews film

Onform is the polished manual choice if a coach actually watches your jumps, with drawing, slow motion, voiceover, and athlete-coach messaging, at around $100 a year for an individual and $200 to $600 a year for coach plans. Dartfish is the professional standard, from about $90 a year at entry into the hundreds for pro tiers. Both are excellent canvases, and both assume a knowledgeable person reads the jump. For a self-coached jumper, you are paying for tools you still have to point at the right phase yourself.

What to look for in a jump app

Judge any jump app on a short, specific list and ignore the rest of the feature sheet. The first thing that matters is whether it understands that the jump is decided in the approach, not just the air, because a tool that only grades the flight is grading the symptom. The second is whether it gives you a diagnosis or just a drawing canvas. The third is whether it handles the triple jump's hop-step-jump rhythm, which is where the event is uniquely won and lost. The fourth is phone-native filming, and the fifth is honesty about clips it cannot read. Most jumpers do not need more than this, and most apps fail at least one of them.

• Approach awareness: it reads the run-up and penultimate step, not just the takeoff and flight.
• Diagnosis over canvas: it names the fault rather than leaving you to measure it.
• Triple jump rhythm: it evaluates the balance across hop, step, and jump.
• Phone-native: it works from a normal side-on clip of the runway.
• Honest limits: it flags a foul or an out-of-frame jump instead of guessing.

Long, high, and triple jump are three different events

A jump app worth using treats your event as its own problem, because the three jumps reward different things. Long jump is a speed event with a board: the fault is almost always a decelerating approach or a braking, reaching takeoff that trades horizontal speed for nothing. High jump is a curve-and-rotation event: the approach speed matters less than the curve, the lean, and the timing of the arch over the bar, so the faults live in the plant and the back. Triple jump is a rhythm and durability event: a hop that is too big steals from the step, and the legs have to survive three landings, so balance across the phases beats raw power on any single one. An app that grades all three the same is missing what makes each hard. Track & Field AI reads them as distinct events, which is why one tool serves the long jumper, the high jumper, and the triple jumper without flattening their differences.

Where Track & Field AI is not the best fit

Honestly, the AI tool is not always the answer. If your coach already reviews film and wants to draw takeoff-angle lines, add voiceover, and compare two jumps side by side, a manual tool like Onform fits that habit more directly. If you are a program managing film across a whole jumps squad, that is a team platform's job. And if you work entirely on a desktop and want exact angle measurement for analysis, Kinovea's free tools are built for that. Track & Field AI is the best fit for the solo jumper who films on a phone and wants to be told which phase is costing distance or height, not for the coach who wants a canvas or the program that needs film exchange.

How to choose

1. You train alone and want answers: Track & Field AI.
2. Your coach reviews film and draws on it: Onform.
3. You coach from a desktop and want free measuring tools: Kinovea.
4. You are a program buying for a squad: Dartfish or a team platform.

Jumpers fall in love with what they do in the air. The distance was decided three steps before the board.

Track & Field AI coaching desk

Fix the approach before you touch the air

If you take one thing from this comparison, make it this: a jump app is most valuable for what it tells you about the approach, and that is where you should spend your fixes first. The instinct of almost every jumper is to tinker with the flight, the hang, the arch, the leg shoot, because that is the part that looks like the jump. But a phase-aware app will keep showing you the same thing the best coaches say constantly, which is that a decelerating or inconsistent run-up caps your result before you ever leave the ground. You cannot out-technique a bad approach in the air. So when the analysis flags both an approach issue and a flight issue, fix the approach first, get your run-up consistent and your penultimate step fast and low, and only then refine what you do once you are airborne. Working in that order is the difference between an app that entertains you with replay and one that actually adds distance, and it is exactly the priority an experienced jumps coach would enforce.

Film the jump so the app can read it

Every app here depends on the clip. For long and triple jump, film side-on to the runway from far enough back that the last few approach steps, the board, and the landing are all in frame, in landscape, with the phone level. For high jump, film side-on or at a slight angle that captures the curve and the bar. A head-on clip hides the approach and the takeoff angle that an analyzer needs. Get the framing right and even a free analysis will catch a decelerating run-up. For the full cross-event comparison, see the best track and field video analysis apps page.