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Squat Rep Counter

Stop counting in your head. Point your phone at yourself and every full-range squat counts itself — sets, reps, and PRs logged automatically while you train your quads and glutes, with hamstrings and core assisting. Free, in your browser, no account needed.

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The live screen, in miniature — the moving skeleton is the app’s real squat demo pose (front view), with the rep counter, form bar, and phase dot exactly as they run in a session. All processed on-device.
Straight From The App

HOW TO DO A PROPER SQUAT

Setup  Stand facing the camera, feet shoulder-width, toes slightly out.

  1. Push your hips back and bend your knees, lowering until your thighs break parallel.
  2. Keep your chest up and your weight in your heels.
  3. Drive up through your heels to stand tall.
Form cue: Break parallel

This is the same instruction sheet you’ll find on the ⓘ panel inside the app — with an animated demo next to it.

How The Counting Works

HANDS-FREE IN THREE STEPS

1

Prop your phone and get in frame

Set your phone at roughly torso height and stand facing the camera. The built-in camera test confirms your lighting, distance, and angle with live green checks before you start.

2

The AI locks a 17-point skeleton on you

GoodReps measures your knee angle (hip → knee → ankle) in real time, entirely on your device. No wearables, no clickers. Bodyweight, goblet, or barbell — log weights and the app tracks your PRs.

3

Just work — the counter does the counting

A rep banks at the bottom (~95°) and re-arms when you return toward ~160°. Half reps don’t count, and after 3 clean reps it calibrates to your personal range of motion.

Under The Hood

WHAT MAKES A REP COUNT

Form Still Matters

COMMON SQUAT MISTAKES

Stopping above parallel

The most common miss — quarter squats feel productive but shortchange your quads and glutes. GoodReps catches this one automatically: no depth, no rep.

Knees caving inward

Under fatigue the knees drift toward each other. Think "spread the floor" and keep knees tracking over toes.

Heels lifting off the floor

Weight creeping onto your toes tips you forward. Keep your weight in your heels and drive up through them.

Chest collapsing forward

A folded torso turns a squat into a bad good-morning. Keep your chest up and eyes forward through the whole rep.

Your Data

PRIVATE BY DESIGN

Rep counting runs entirely on your device — your camera feed is never uploaded.

Pose detection runs in your browser via TensorFlow.js. Camera frames are analyzed in real time and immediately discarded — nothing is recorded, nothing leaves your phone, and we never see them. Sign-in is optional; skip it and everything stays local.

FAQ

QUESTIONS, ANSWERED

Do I need any equipment to check my squat form?

Just your phone. Bodyweight squats work out of the box, and if you squat with a barbell or dumbbells you can log the weight and track PRs. No wearables or sensors.

Does it work in a home gym or low light?

Run the built-in camera test first — it checks your lighting, distance, and angle with live green checks before you start. If a rep still slips through, manual counting is always one tap away.

Is my camera feed uploaded anywhere?

No. Pose detection runs entirely on your phone, in your browser. Frames are analyzed in real time and immediately discarded — nothing is recorded, nothing is uploaded.

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