Tennis Evolution vs Tennis Cut
Short answer: Tennis Cut is the quickest way to trim dead time on an iPhone — it finds the rallies on the phone by itself. Tennis Evolution is for the next step: a reel of your longest rallies with the hit count, venue and clock time on each one, lossless clips, intact HDR, built on your computer or by an AI agent. Both keep your footage off the cloud.
| Tennis Cut | Tennis Evolution | |
|---|---|---|
| Finds rallies | Automatically, on-device AI | You supply the rally times |
| Runs on | iPhone | macOS, Linux; MCP-capable AI agents |
| Labels on the video | No | Hit count, venue, clock time, source timestamp |
| Sorting | Match order | Longest rallies first (or by start time) |
| Clips | Trimmed export | Lossless stream copies + one verified reel |
| iPhone HDR | See the app | BT.2020 / HLG passed through |
| Privacy | On the phone | On your computer, no account |
| Price | Free; Pro in-app purchase for longer matches, HD export, faster processing | Free (5 rallies, watermark); Pro $19 once |
Checked 2 November 2026 against each app's App Store listing or website. Prices change; follow the links for current ones.
Choose Tennis Cut if
- you want the dead time gone with no input at all, on the phone you recorded with.
Choose Tennis Evolution if
- you want each rally labelled with how many shots it lasted, where and when it was played;
- you want the longest rallies first, not the whole match in order;
- you want lossless original clips alongside the reel, and a self-check that the reel decodes cleanly with audio in sync;
- you work on a computer, in scripts, or through an AI agent.
More options: best apps to cut a tennis match into rallies · Tennis Evolution vs SwingVision.
FAQ
Can Tennis Evolution trim rallies automatically like Tennis Cut?
No. Tennis Evolution needs the rally times as input. It then cuts lossless clips, burns hit count, venue and time labels, builds one reel and verifies it.
Do Tennis Cut and Tennis Evolution upload my video?
Neither does: Tennis Cut processes on the iPhone, Tennis Evolution on your computer.