How CleanerReps Works

Upload a lift, get specific written form corrections from Claude's vision model - for $19/mo instead of hiring a coach.

It's upload-based, not a live camera feed

To be upfront about this: CleanerReps does not watch you lift in real time through your camera. You record or select a video clip of a set you already did, submit it, and get written feedback back in roughly a minute. There's no live pose overlay tracking your bar path rep-by-rep as it happens, and no promise of an in-set alert the instant your knee caves in.

That's a deliberate design choice, not a corner cut. Here's why it holds up:

• Form correction is applied on your next set anyway. Even coaches watching live mostly cue you after a rep or between sets, not mid-rep. The minute or two it takes to get a written breakdown doesn't change when you actually get to use the feedback.
• No special hardware or setup. A live pose-tracking feed generally needs a fixed camera angle, consistent lighting, and enough distance for a skeleton model to lock on. A phone clip you already took in a normal gym works fine here.
• Nothing to fail mid-set. Real-time video analysis means a live inference pipeline has to keep up with a video stream while you're under a bar. If it lags or drops a frame, that's a distraction at the worst possible moment. Upload-based analysis removes that failure mode entirely - the video already exists before the AI ever sees it.
• You get a permanent record. Every session is logged with the feedback attached, so you can look back at how your squat depth or bar path has changed over weeks, not just get a one-off alert you forget by your next workout.

What actually happens when you submit a set

1. Record a set on your phone, or select a clip you already have (any of the four lifts below).
2. Your browser pulls a handful of key frames straight out of the video - nothing uploads until this step is done.
3. Claude's vision model reviews those frames against a checklist specific to that lift (for a squat: depth, knee tracking, bar path, torso angle, heel contact - see the full breakdown per lift on the exercises page).
4. You get back specific corrections (not generic tips), each tagged by how serious it is, plus a suggestion for your next session that's grounded in your own logged history - not a canned response.

How the cost compares

Pricing for competitor apps is based on public research at the time this was written and can change - check their current pricing directly before comparing.

What it doesn't do

So there's no surprise after you sign up:

• No live camera feed or real-time rep-by-rep alerts while you're lifting.
• No skeleton overlay or joint-angle graphics - feedback comes back as specific written corrections, not a visual pose diagram.
• No medical or injury diagnosis. If something hurts, stop and see an actual professional.
• It won't replace a real coach for building a full program from scratch or fixing a complex technical fault that needs hands-on cueing.

What it does do: catch the specific, well-understood form mistakes that actually cause most lifting injuries and plateaus - depth, bar path, spinal position, joint tracking - at a fraction of the cost of a coach, using a phone clip you were probably already capable of recording anyway.