Rep

Your handstands, found and timed.

Rep reads through the videos already in your camera roll, finds the handstands, cuts each rep out of the clip it is buried in, and tells you how long you stayed on your hands.

Everything happens on your phone. Nothing is uploaded.

How it works

  1. It looks through your library You give Rep access to your photos once. It works through your videos looking for someone upside down — the long ones, the ones from three years ago, the ones you forgot you filmed.
  2. It cuts out the reps A single long video can hold a whole practice's worth of handstands. Rep finds where each one starts and ends and shows it as its own clip, grouped into the session you filmed it in.
  3. It times the hold For every rep, the seconds you were actually on your hands — marked on the scrub bar, totalled per session. Free, against a wall and held by a spotter all count; feet resting on a box do not.
  4. It tags the shape Straight, tuck, straddle, press, wall, spotter, box. Enough to find the four presses you landed last spring without scrubbing through everything.
  5. You share the ones you like Rep renders just that rep and hands it to the normal iOS share sheet. The original video in your library is never touched — a rep is only a start and end time until the moment you share it.

What Rep is not

  • Not a service. There is no Rep server, no account to make, no sign-in. The app contains no networking code at all, so nothing it works out goes anywhere unless you share it.
  • Not a coach. Rep measures what you already did. It does not score you, correct you or tell you what to train.
  • Not a camera. You film however you already film. Rep only reads what is there.
  • Not a backup. Rep keeps its findings on the phone, not on any server; the only other copy is whatever backup of the phone iOS makes. Delete the app and they are gone from the phone; your videos stay exactly where they were.

Honestly, what it is like

The first scan is the slow part. Finding handstands means actually looking at every video, and on a library built up over years that is a lot of footage — hours of it while the app is open, then months of chipping away in the background while the phone charges. On the one large library this has been measured on, eleven thousand videos, catching up fully works out at months rather than weeks, and some days the background scan gets nowhere at all; the support page gives the measured numbers. After that it is quick: new videos are picked up as you film them.

It does not catch everything. Reps it is unsure about go into a Possible handstands strip for you to confirm or dismiss, and things that are not handstands do occasionally turn up there. The support page lists the known limits rather than hiding them.

Privacy, in one line

Rep cannot send your videos anywhere on its own, because there is no code in it that can send anything anywhere: a clip leaves your phone only when you tap Share and choose where it goes. The privacy policy explains exactly what it works out, where that is kept and how to delete it.