🦵 Squats

• •Prop your phone upright and step back until your WHOLE body is in frame — head to ankles. Ankles matter: they're half the measurement.
• •Face the camera. Front-on is the designed view.
• •Clear floor, decent light, nothing covering your hips, knees or feet.

The camera feed never leaves your phone — the counting happens on-device.

1. 1Stand tall, feet under you, and be still for a moment — that standing height is your baseline.
2. 2Step out to any stance you like — wide stances count exactly as well as narrow ones.
3. 3Sit down and back until your thighs reach at least parallel — deep is what registers.
4. 4Drive back up to fully standing. The rep completes at the top, not the bottom.

• •While you stand still for about half a second, the referee measures your standing leg — hip to ankle. Every rep after that is judged against it.
• •Down registers when that leg measurement folds below about two-thirds of standing; the rep completes when you recover past four-fifths. Quarter-squats never reach the gate.
• •The measurement follows your leg's own direction, so wide stances, drifting across the frame, and camera distance all cancel out.
• •Your first rep only counts if it starts more than about a second after arming — stepping back from the phone and adjusting your stance looks like tiny squats, and the referee deliberately ignores that settling window.
• •Arm it standing TALL. If it arms while you're crouched, the baseline self-corrects the moment you stand fully — but you'll save yourself confusion by standing first.

Nothing counts at all

Almost always the ankles are out of frame or the counter armed while you were crouched. Reframe so your feet are visible, stand fully upright, let it re-arm.

Deep squats not counting

Make sure hips, knees and ankles are all clearly visible — leg joints in shadow or cut off at the frame edge starve the measurement.

First squat ignored

It began inside the settling window. Stand a beat after arming, then descend.