What a score did to a set
A form score sounds like the honest option. In practice it did two bad things. It turned every rep into an argument between the athlete and the phone, and it punished the camera's blind spots as if they were the athlete's fault. A push-up whose feet slipped out of frame for a second could lose points for something nobody did wrong.
That is the design problem we chose to address. A missed landmark should not become a verdict about the athlete.
The rule now
A completed physical cycle counts. Stand, squat, stand: one rep. A rep is refused only for a reason you can check on screen.
- A twitch too fast to be a movement.
- A rep that misses the movement's own rule: a squat above parallel, a jump with no flight, the same leg twice on a lunge.
- A rep the camera could not see from start to finish.
What the camera cannot see
If you step out of view or the phone moves, the counter waits for you to come back. A rep it could not follow from start to finish is refused rather than guessed, and the message tells you what to fix, such as getting fully in frame.
Where the detail went
Range, tempo and camera angle beyond each movement's rule are still measured. They live in the recap after the set: how many counted, how long it took, the pace, the pauses, whether the second half held up. Facts you can use on the next set, not a verdict you have to defend.