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Burpee Rep Counter

Skip the mental math. Point your phone at yourself and every full-range burpee counts itself — sets, reps, and PRs logged while you train your chest and quads, with shoulders, core and glutes assisting. Free in your browser today; coming to Google Play and the App Store.

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Live screen in miniature — the app’s real burpee demo (side view), with the rep counter, form bar, and phase dot. On-device.
Straight From The App

HOW TO DO A PROPER BURPEE

Setup  Turn side-on to the camera with room to drop down and kick back.

  1. Squat, plant your hands, and kick your feet back to a plank.
  2. Optional push-up, then jump your feet back in.
  3. Explode up into a jump, reaching overhead. Reset fully each rep.
Form cue: Full reset to standing

Same sheet as the ⓘ panel in the app — animated demo included.

How The Counting Works

HANDS-FREE IN THREE STEPS

1

Prop your phone and get in frame

Phone at roughly torso height, set up side-on to the camera. A quick camera test checks lighting, distance, and angle before you start.

2

The camera locks a 17-point skeleton on you

GOODREPS measures your knee angle (hip → knee → ankle) on-device — no wearables, no clickers. No equipment — just room to drop down and jump back up.

3

Just work — the counter does the counting

A rep banks at the bottom (~80°) and re-arms near ~165°. Half reps don’t count; after 3 clean reps it calibrates to your range.

Under The Hood

WHAT MAKES A REP COUNT

Form Still Matters

COMMON BURPEE MISTAKES

Skipping the plank

Kicking back halfway and bouncing forward again cuts the burpee's engine out. Hit a real plank — body straight — every rep.

Sagging through the middle

Flopping to the floor with a soft core is how lower backs get grumpy. Brace before you drop and keep the line.

Never standing tall

Hunching into the next rep shortchanges the reset. Finish upright — hips open, chest up — before you go again.

Redlining rep one

Burpees punish bad pacing like nothing else. Find a rhythm you could hold for twice your set and build from there.

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 count burpees?

No — just enough floor to drop into a plank and enough ceiling to jump. Your phone watches from the side.

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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