Mean errors (ΔSFR/SFR = (SFR−SFR_true) /SFR_true) on the recovering of the SFR of simulated MS galaxies (top panel), starbursts, and rapidly quenched galaxies (bottom panel) as a function of redshift using different SFH assumptions: exponentially-declining (green), exponentially-rising (pink), the delayed (purple), the log-normal (blue), and the delayed + flexibility SFH (black) that is described in Sect. 9, and at four redshifts. The points are slightly shifted horizontally with respect to each other for the sake of clarity.