# CaliCam

> CaliCam is an iPhone and iPad calisthenics app whose camera counts your reps on the phone itself. It builds a daily circuit of squats, jumping jacks and push-ups at your level, 10, 15 or 20 minutes at home, counts only full reps, and keeps you going with days in a row, shields, live rooms with friends and live races.

CaliCam is an independent app made in Italy. It is on the App Store for iPhone and iPad (iOS 18 or later) in English, Italian, German, Spanish, French and Portuguese. The daily circuit is built on squats, jumping jacks and push-ups, each from an easier version up; only full reps move the counter, and the app explains why a rep did not count. Coach Lens can keep a temporary silent replay locally; opt-in movement diagnostics can upload landmark traces retained for seven days. The separate Replays feature can upload your own set videos when enabled. See the privacy policy for each choice.

## Start here

- [Home](https://getcalicam.com/): how the camera counts, anti-cheat counting, the daily circuit, training together, privacy, FAQ
- [Help and support](https://getcalicam.com/support): contact, account deletion, subscriptions, a rep that was not counted
- [FAQ](https://getcalicam.com/#faq): 8 short answers about devices, counting, privacy, cost
- [About](https://getcalicam.com/about): who makes CaliCam and the rules it is built on
- [Changelog](https://getcalicam.com/changelog): what shipped, release by release
- [AI coach preview](https://getcalicam.com/coach): how the planned voice, camera, and tracker experience works
- [Full text for assistants](https://getcalicam.com/llms-full.txt)

## Movement guides

- [Air Squats](https://getcalicam.com/movements/air-squats): Bodyweight squat, best read facing the camera
- [Push-Ups](https://getcalicam.com/movements/push-ups): Bodyweight horizontal press, best read facing the camera
- [Reverse Lunges](https://getcalicam.com/movements/reverse-lunges): Step-back split squat, best read facing the camera
- [Jump Squats](https://getcalicam.com/movements/jump-squats): Explosive plyo squat, best read facing the camera
- [Forward Lunges](https://getcalicam.com/movements/forward-lunges): Step-forward split squat, best read facing the camera
- [Wall Sit](https://getcalicam.com/movements/wall-sit): Isometric quad hold, best read facing the camera
- [Good Mornings](https://getcalicam.com/movements/good-mornings): Standing hip hinge, best read facing the camera
- [Plank](https://getcalicam.com/movements/plank): Isometric core hold, best read facing the camera
- [Jumping Jacks](https://getcalicam.com/movements/jumping-jacks): Arm + leg abduction, best read facing the camera

## In development

A real-time AI coach is in an admin-only pilot. With permission, it can hear voice, see sampled camera frames, and use on-device tracker counts and training context. This coach is not in the public app yet.

## Comparisons

- [CaliCam vs Freeletics](https://getcalicam.com/compare/freeletics): Freeletics plans your training. CaliCam counts it with the camera and builds your day around energy and small breaks. Here is the honest distinction.
- [CaliCam vs Strava](https://getcalicam.com/compare/strava): Strava records and shares activities, including indoor workouts. CaliCam counts supported bodyweight sets with your iPhone camera. Choose around the record you want to keep.
- [CaliCam vs Apple Fitness+](https://getcalicam.com/compare/apple-fitness-plus): Fitness+ offers trainer-led workouts and meditations. Apple Watch is optional. CaliCam uses the iPhone camera to count the bodyweight sets you do.

## Journal

- [Does a workout have to be uninterrupted?](https://getcalicam.com/notes/does-a-workout-have-to-be-uninterrupted): A call, a child, or a doorbell can split a session in two. What still counts as movement, and what to keep clear when you return.
- [Does a workout need to leave you exhausted?](https://getcalicam.com/notes/does-a-workout-need-to-leave-you-exhausted): Feeling spent is not a universal score for a useful session. Learn what to notice instead, and when easing off is the sensible call.
- [Do you need a cool-down after a workout?](https://getcalicam.com/notes/do-you-need-a-cool-down-after-a-workout): What a gradual finish is for, why it cannot promise soreness-free legs, and how to leave room for it without adding another workout.
- [Do you still need movement breaks if you work out?](https://getcalicam.com/notes/do-you-need-movement-breaks-if-you-work-out): A workout and a day spent sitting can coexist. What brief walking breaks can add, what the research measured, and how to make room for them.
- [Can you trust your smartwatch’s calorie count?](https://getcalicam.com/notes/can-you-trust-your-smartwatch-calorie-count): What a workout calorie estimate can tell you, where validation studies found limits, and what to track when your goal is strength.
- [Does fasted exercise lead to more fat loss?](https://getcalicam.com/notes/does-fasted-exercise-lead-to-more-fat-loss): Before breakfast or after? What small trials tell us about fat loss, strength, and choosing a meal schedule that works for your training.
- [After 65, is strength training enough for balance?](https://getcalicam.com/notes/after-65-is-strength-training-enough-for-balance): Stronger legs can help, but a rep total does not measure balance. What guidelines and a home exercise trial suggest for planning activity after 65.
- [How long until exercise feels like a habit?](https://getcalicam.com/notes/how-long-until-exercise-feels-like-a-habit): Still negotiating with yourself before a workout? What a corrected study of gym attendance can tell you, and what to notice beyond the calendar.
- [Should you change your workout after poor sleep?](https://getcalicam.com/notes/should-you-change-your-workout-after-poor-sleep): A bad night can affect a workout without making every measure worse. What a controlled study found, and how to approach the next session without chasing a record.
- [Do you need full-range reps?](https://getcalicam.com/notes/do-you-need-full-range-reps): A shorter repetition is not automatically useless. What research on movement range can tell you, and why a deliberate partial rep differs from cutting a set short.
- [Do you need a protein shake after a workout?](https://getcalicam.com/notes/do-you-need-a-protein-shake-after-a-workout): A protein shake can be convenient. Whether you need one depends on your food intake, not simply on finishing a workout. Here is how to separate those questions.
- [Two or three strength sessions a week?](https://getcalicam.com/notes/two-or-three-strength-sessions-a-week): A third training day is not automatically better. Count how often each muscle group works, what you do across the week, and which schedule you can keep.
- [Can one set per exercise be useful?](https://getcalicam.com/notes/can-one-set-per-exercise-be-useful): One set can improve strength, but that does not make it equivalent to several. How to think about a shorter session without promising the same results.
- [If you walk every day, do you still need strength training?](https://getcalicam.com/notes/does-walking-replace-strength-training): Walking can cover part of your aerobic activity. Learn what strength work adds and how to spot the missing piece in your week.
- [Do you need to sweat for a workout to count?](https://getcalicam.com/notes/do-you-need-to-sweat-for-a-workout-to-count): Sweat helps you cool down. Here is how to judge a strength session or a brisk walk without using a wet shirt as your scorecard.
- [Does music help your workout?](https://getcalicam.com/notes/does-music-help-your-workout): Your favorite music may change how a session feels. What resistance-training studies show, what they do not, and how to decide whether a playlist helps you.
- [Are slower reps better?](https://getcalicam.com/notes/are-slower-reps-better): Slowing down a repetition changes the task. What two training studies show, and how to give tempo a purpose without treating longer sets as better sets.
- [Does a week off erase your training progress?](https://getcalicam.com/notes/does-a-week-off-erase-your-progress): What research on training breaks can tell you about strength and muscle size, and how to plan your return without treating missed sessions as a debt.
- [Do you need to stretch before a workout?](https://getcalicam.com/notes/do-you-need-to-stretch-before-a-workout): Stretching and warming up serve different purposes. How to prepare for a bodyweight session without turning the warm-up into another workout.
- [Should you work out in the morning or evening?](https://getcalicam.com/notes/should-you-work-out-morning-or-evening): How to choose a training time that fits your day, and what small studies can tell us about strength and muscle growth.
- [Should you change exercises every workout?](https://getcalicam.com/notes/should-you-change-exercises-every-workout): How to choose between a familiar routine and more variety, without treating novelty as proof of progress.
- [Do you need weights to build strength?](https://getcalicam.com/notes/do-you-need-weights-to-build-strength): Bodyweight training can build strength. What a push-up study shows, where the comparison stops, and how to decide whether equipment solves a real problem.
- [Do you have to train to failure?](https://getcalicam.com/notes/do-you-have-to-train-to-failure): A demanding set does not have to end with a failed repetition. What the evidence says, and how to decide why you are stopping.
- [Which exercise should you do first?](https://getcalicam.com/notes/which-exercise-should-you-do-first): Choose your exercise order, decide where cardio fits, and compare sessions without confusing immediate fatigue with long-term progress.
- [More reps: are you actually making progress?](https://getcalicam.com/notes/more-reps-are-you-making-progress): How to compare bodyweight workouts when the variation, rest periods, or effort changes. A practical way to keep a useful training log.
- [How long should you rest between sets?](https://getcalicam.com/notes/how-long-to-rest-between-sets): Shorter pauses do not automatically make a better workout. How to give rest a purpose, and what the research can actually tell you.
- [Can you work out when you are sore?](https://getcalicam.com/notes/no-soreness-did-your-workout-count): How to treat post-workout soreness as useful information without using it as a diagnosis or a reason to force the same session.
- [Only ten minutes: is a short workout worth it?](https://getcalicam.com/notes/is-a-ten-minute-workout-worth-it): What a short session can add to your week, what it cannot replace, and how to use the time without turning it into a punishment.
- [The seven-day show-up experiment](https://getcalicam.com/notes/the-seven-day-show-up-experiment): For one week, notice what makes starting easier. A small experiment in showing up, with no streak to protect and no personal best to chase.
- [Why CaliCam counts your reps and refuses to grade them](https://getcalicam.com/notes/count-dont-grade): Earlier versions scored every rep from 0 to 100 and explained what went wrong. We removed it. A completed cycle is a rep, and the recap tells the rest.
- [Why camera-first training changes the rep](https://getcalicam.com/notes/camera-first-training): A workout log records what you say happened. A camera can observe what actually happened. That difference changes the feedback loop.
- [What the camera cannot see, and what we do about it](https://getcalicam.com/notes/what-the-camera-cannot-see): Occlusion, distance, bad light, a phone at the wrong height. The honest list of things that break a count, and how the counter behaves when they happen.
- [How Energy reads your day](https://getcalicam.com/notes/how-energy-reads-your-day): How CaliCam estimates training readiness from your check-in and recent activity, what Apple Health adds, and what the number cannot tell you.
- [Three breaks a day, and why they are timed the way they are](https://getcalicam.com/notes/three-breaks-a-day): Movement breaks are tiny sets between sessions. Here is the schedule and the eleven movements in the current App Store version's break menu.
- [The tracking we refuse](https://getcalicam.com/notes/the-tracking-we-refuse): A camera app has to be explicit about what it keeps. This is the list of what leaves the phone, what never does, and what we deliberately do not collect.
- [When CaliCam is the wrong tool](https://getcalicam.com/notes/when-not-to-use-calicam): Not every workout needs a camera, a count, or an app. These are the cases where CaliCam should stay in your pocket.
- [How to count push-ups with your iPhone camera](https://getcalicam.com/notes/count-push-ups-with-your-iphone-camera): Where to put the phone, how to get in frame, and what the counter needs to close a push-up. Four steps, no wearable.
- [Do you need an Apple Watch to track bodyweight training?](https://getcalicam.com/notes/no-wearable-needed): No. A watch counts heartbeats and steps; it cannot see a squat. CaliCam uses the iPhone camera as the sensor and treats Apple Health as optional.
- [Is CaliCam a HYROX app?](https://getcalicam.com/notes/calicam-for-hyrox): CaliCam is built for functional fitness and hybrid race preparation, and it counts the bodyweight work between the stations. It does not track the stations themselves.
- [What CaliCam Pro unlocks, and what stays free](https://getcalicam.com/notes/what-calicam-pro-unlocks): The download is free. Regular use needs CaliCam Pro, a monthly or annual subscription with a free trial on the annual plan. Here is exactly what that means.

## Legal

- [Privacy policy](https://getcalicam.com/privacy)
- [Terms](https://getcalicam.com/terms)
- [Delete your CaliCam account](https://getcalicam.com/delete-account)