First, pick your role — Coach, Athlete, or Parent — right when you open the app. Everything below follows from that choice. No setup, no calibration, no expensive equipment either way.
Get the App →No coach. No parent holding the phone. Just your voice and your reps.
Choose the Athlete role (or switch to it anytime in Settings). Prop your phone somewhere it can see your full body — a fence, a bucket, a bag works fine. Tap "Start Practice Session." The first time, you'll see a short, plain-language screen explaining what the always-listening microphone does before it turns on.
On-device voice detection hears the phrase, starts the camera, and shows a large, impossible-to-miss "Recording…" indicator — visible from across the room, since you're not standing next to the phone. Take your rep. Recording stops itself automatically once it's captured.
No screen to read. The AI speaks one encouraging line and one specific correction based on your actual joint angles for that rep — under 25 words, short enough to act on before you even reset your stance.
The microphone re-arms itself automatically after feedback finishes playing. Say "Hey Coach, record" again for the next rep. Keep going until you're done, then end the session — every rep is grouped together and saved to Practice History.
Four steps. Most coaches complete their first session in under five minutes.
Select Pitching, Hitting, or Fielding at the top of the screen. Tell the app whether your athlete is left- or right-handed. That's it for setup — the AI automatically knows what to look for based on the sport you chose.
Point your phone at your athlete from a good angle — about 15–20 feet away, at waist height, facing their front side works best. Hit the red record button. You'll immediately see a skeleton overlay appear on your athlete's body in real-time.
Tap the stop button when you have the rep you want to analyze. The session is automatically saved to your library. Tap to open it — you'll see your video playing back with the pose skeleton overlaid. Scrub through frame by frame to see exactly what happened at each moment.
Tap "Generate AI Coaching Cue." The AI analyzes the pose data from your session and produces one specific, actionable cue — not a data report, not a list of numbers. A real coaching cue you can walk back to your athlete and say out loud.
One of the hardest parts of coaching is getting an athlete to trust the feedback. When you can show them the skeleton — "see how your elbow drops right here, at release?" — they stop arguing and start fixing. And when nobody's there to show it live, the overlay is waiting in Replay afterward.
Live pose overlay during recording session
"Nice rep — that back hip is driving well. Your elbow's dropping a little early, try keeping it up through release."
"Weight transfer is textbook — back hip drives through, front knee firms up at contact. Barrel path is slightly downward at approach."
Most analytics tools give you numbers. CoachPose AI gives you language. In a coach-led session it's a structured card built for reading together. In Athlete Mode it's a short spoken line built for hearing hands-free, mid-practice.
For pitching and hitting, film from 45° to the front side at waist height. For fielding, directly in front works best. Keep the full body in frame — this matters even more for solo sessions, since nobody's there to fix a bad angle mid-rep.
Bright, even lighting — outdoors or gym — gives the best skeleton tracking. Harsh backlight (sun directly behind the athlete) can reduce accuracy.
More reps give the AI more data to analyze. 5–10 reps gives you a better representation of actual mechanics than a single throw or swing — true whether it's a lesson or a solo session.
In Athlete Mode, say "Hey Coach, record" at a normal speaking volume from a reasonable distance. If it doesn't catch it the first time, the manual button is always right there as a backup.
First session takes under five minutes. No hardware to buy, no calibration to run.