What's new in Flapp

Your first report is the real one

The free tier showed a score and nothing else. That proves the thing runs; it does not tell you whether what's behind the blur is worth paying for, because you have never seen it. You were being asked to buy on trust.

Your first analysis now comes back as a real report. The findings — what we measured and what fired — and the coach's notes written about them, in full, with the numbers left on the frame. No card, no trial, nothing to cancel.

Two sections stay behind the blur: the joint-angle table and the corrective drills. Those are the ongoing product rather than the sample — the plan is what changes the next report, and one report has no next. The upgrade prompt now says exactly what it is holding back, counted: "3 corrective drills, all 7 joint angles we measured." Vague felt like a strange thing to follow a full report with.

After that, free analyses go back to the score-and-skeleton preview, three a month as before.

Some details, because the edges matter:

• A failed analysis doesn't burn it. Your first-ever clip is the one most

likely to be filmed from a bad angle, and it would have been the worst possible one to spend this on. If the run fails, the report is still waiting for you.

• Existing accounts get one too. You signed up when the free tier was a

score and a skeleton; it seemed fair to show you what we've been building rather than to quietly grandfather you out of it.

• The annotated overlay video isn't part of it — that stays a paid feature.

Your clip sticks around now

Until today, footage was deleted six hours after the analysis. That rule was written when a clip existed only long enough to be measured, and it quietly undermined the one thing on the pricing page with a human behind it: an Expert Review bought on Tuesday for Monday's ride had nothing left to watch. The report template literally opened by apologising for it.

Clips are now kept for 7 days on the free plan and 30 days on a paid one, and a clip with an Expert Review that has been paid for and not yet delivered is kept until the review ships, however long that takes. Your reviewer watches the movement now, not one frame of it.

Two things had to be fixed to make that work, and only one of them was storage. A saved analysis and the upload it came from were unrelated objects — your history entry had no idea which file produced it — so even footage that had survived would have been unfindable. Analyses record their upload from now on.

Deleting still means deleting. Because clips now live for weeks, "delete this analysis" had to start removing the footage too, not just the record of it. Deleting a single analysis, clearing your history, or deleting your account all take the video with them, immediately. The privacy policy has been rewritten with the real numbers rather than "within hours".

One honest limit: analyses from before today have no link to their footage, and that footage is long gone anyway. Reviews bought against them still work the way they always did — from the stored analysis and its annotated frame.

Unlock one report for $4

Flapp is used episodically. You change your saddle height, or your shoes, or come back from an injury — you film, you want that one answer, and you are gone for three months. A subscription is priced for a habit you don't have, so the honest read is that most people were never going to take one, and were being offered nothing else.

Any report you can't read now has a $4 button on it. That opens the joint angles and the corrective drills for that one analysis. No plan, no card kept, nothing to cancel.

What it doesn't open is everything that needs a second analysis to mean anything — trends, before / after, the overlay video. That isn't a paywall being coy: one report genuinely cannot be compared with anything. Comparison is what a plan is for, and we'd rather say so than pretend the two products are the same one at different prices.

Two other things changed with it:

• Ten free analyses a month, up from three. Uploading was never the

expensive part — a locked report runs no AI call and renders no video — and the second clip is the one you film after changing something, which is the interesting one. Reading is what costs money now, so the cap is just there to stop abuse.

• Subscribing opens everything you ever ran, including reports you looked

at through the blur months ago. If you've bought a couple of unlocks and then take a plan, you are not starting again.

And if you unlock two reports, we'll tell you plainly that a month costs about the same and comes with more — rather than letting you work that out on the third one and feel taken.

The Full plan means something now

For a while the Full card promised three things that did not exist: profiles for more than one bike, a branded PDF, and an Expert Review included with the plan. We took those claims off rather than leave them there. They are back, because they are now true.

Equipment profiles. Say which bike — or which pair of shoes — a clip was filmed on, right next to the clip. A road position and a TT position are both correct and differ on purpose, so averaging them into one history produces a trend line describing nobody.

Compare two setups, not just two weeks. Each setup averaged across everything filmed on it, side by side. This is the part a single bought report can never be: one setup cannot be compared with anything.

A report you can hand to a coach. Print or save as PDF, with the upgrade panels and the buttons taken out and a proper header put in — a document rather than a screenshot of a web page.

Your included Expert Review renews. It arrives when you subscribe and again each year. Previously the second year would have quietly arrived without it.

Two things that apply to everyone:

• The free plan keeps one equipment profile, and Enthusiast does too.

Keeping several is what makes the comparison possible, so that is where the line sits — rather than in an analysis quota nobody reaches.

• Expert Reviews are limited to a handful a week. Each one is about forty

minutes of a real person's attention, and selling more of them than that person can write would turn a premium thing into a queue and an apology. If a week is full, you will be told before you pay, not after.

One price list, and a Full plan that keeps its promise

Prices lived in four documents: the pricing screen, the billing toggle that rewrote the same three numbers, the landing page, and the Terms of Service. They drifted, and the drift landed somewhere it shouldn't have — the pricing footer said the amounts were in US dollars while the Terms said Canadian ones. That is a 37% gap between two documents you read before paying, and one of them is the agreement.

There is now one price list, and every page reads from it. The Terms table, the landing page and the pricing screen are all rendered from the same definition, so a price can no longer be updated in three places out of four. Everything is in USD, said the same way everywhere, and the Terms now explain what that means if your card is issued in another currency.

The Full plan now actually includes the Expert Review it advertises. It said "1 Expert Review included" while nothing in the product could grant one or let you claim it — you'd have had to email and ask, and nothing on our side would have agreed with you. The review is added to your account when you pay, the pricing screen offers to spend it instead of selling you another, and an unused one stays yours if you cancel: you paid for the term that included it.

At the same time, Full stopped claiming three things that don't exist yet (multi-bike profiles, a branded PDF, cross-profile comparison). They're being built, and each bullet comes back the day it's true rather than the day we hope it will be.

A few smaller corrections in the same pass:

• Expert Review is a card now, not a footnote. It was a thin strip under

the plans, which is a strange place for the only part of Flapp with a human behind it.

• The free plan admits to the cloud history it was already giving you. Sync

across devices has always worked on free accounts; the plan card said it didn't.

• Prices updated: Enthusiast is $9/month or $69/year, Full is $99/year, and

an Expert Review is $39.

Take your numbers to any AI

Your report has always had more in it than one screen can say. Now you can lift the whole thing out and keep the conversation going wherever you like.

Every analysis has an Export button. Copy it to the clipboard, or save it as .md or .json, and paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or whatever you use. One file, your numbers, your data.

It is written to be read correctly, which is the hard part. Hand a chatbot a bare list of angles and it fills the gaps from its own assumptions — and the assumptions are wrong. Our joint angles are internal: 180° means a straight limb, while the research literature reports flexion measured from straight. Get that backwards and a knee at 140° reads as almost the opposite position. Running trunk lean is measured from vertical; cycling trunk angle from horizontal. The export states all of it up front, before a single number.

It also says what it does not know. Which side of you was measured and which was not. That a side view sees one plane, so pelvic drop and knee valgus are simply absent. How well each joint was tracked, frame by frame. Whether the quality gate tripped. And, at the end, the context no video can supply — your volume, injuries, goal race, the pace of the clip — so the model asks you instead of guessing.

Your own coach's notes travel with it, framed as prior work, so the next model builds on them rather than repeating them.

Available on paid plans, on every new analysis.

The caveat now comes with the score

A number with no caveat reads as a fact. That was the problem with the free report: it showed a score and nothing else — no angles, no coaching, nothing to argue with — so if the analyzer had only half-tracked you, or you'd filmed from an awkward angle, you had no way to know. The score looked equally confident either way.

Free reports now carry the analyzer's own verdict on the footage. If the quality gate tripped, you see why. If tracking was poor, if more than one person was in frame, if the clip looked like slow motion — you see that too, along with the confidence tier. None of it is behind the paywall, because it isn't a feature: it's the difference between a measurement and a guess.

Long clips say so. Past a certain length we sample every second, third or fourth frame to keep the analysis tractable. Joint angles don't care, but cadence, ground contact and flight time are counted in frames — so they get coarser. The app now warns you when you pick a long clip, and the report repeats it with the actual numbers. 5–10 s is still the sweet spot.

Your results are yours. A job link used to be readable by anyone who had it. Results are now tied to the browser that uploaded them — or to your account, if you're signed in — so a pasted link no longer hands over your footage.

You can delete your account yourself. Dashboard → Delete account, confirmed with your password, erases the account, every saved analysis and its stills, your usage history, any feedback you sent, and your order history. Previously this meant emailing us and waiting.

Tell us when the analysis is wrong

You can't verify a pose estimate or a 0–100 score by looking at it — you can only tell whether it matches the athlete you know yourself to be. That verdict is the one thing we can't measure for ourselves, so we're now asking for it.

Every report ends with "Does this match what you see?"

• Looks right is one click and you're done.
• Something's off opens the reasons — didn't track me, angles look wrong, score too low or too high, coaching too generic, overlay broken — plus a box to say it in your own words.
• Optionally, attach the annotated still from that analysis. It's a photo of you, so it is never sent unless you tick the box. It is also the only way to see what the analyzer saw when it got you wrong.

Every rating arrives with the analyzer's own read of that clip — how well it tracked you, how confident it was, which quality warnings fired. That's what turns "the score felt low" into a fixable bug: we can see whether the complaints cluster on clips the analyzer already knew were marginal, or on clips it thought were perfect.

We read all of it. We don't reply to every message, but it decides what gets fixed next — and you'll see the result here.

Queues, receipts, and clips that don't linger

Housekeeping, mostly — the kind you only notice when it's missing.

Your clip now tells you where it is in line. Analysis is heavy work, and until now several clips arriving at once all pretended to be processing while they queued behind each other. The app now runs a fixed number at a time and says so plainly: "2 clips ahead of yours." If we're genuinely at capacity, the upload is refused up front, with your file kept ready for one-tap retry — instead of being accepted and left to time out.

Uploads are deleted on a schedule, not by luck. Your video and its overlay were always meant to be temporary, but the only thing that actually removed them was a server restart. They now expire on a timer, whether or not we deploy.

Expert Review leaves a receipt. A one-time review doesn't change your plan, so there was nowhere in the app that showed you'd bought one. Purchases now appear on the pricing page with their status, from payment received through to delivered.

No more accidental second subscription. Picking a different plan while already subscribed now opens billing so you can switch, rather than starting a second subscription alongside the first.

Fixed: free reports said the overlay video "couldn't be rendered" when it was simply a paid feature that had never been attempted. The progress read-out no longer stalls other people's while it's being written.

Plans, quotas and a free tier that's honest about it

Flapp now has paid plans, and a free tier that shows you exactly what it is rather than pretending to be the full product.

• Starter (free) — 3 analyses a month: your score, your grade and an annotated frame.
• Enthusiast — 30 analyses a month, with the measurements, AI coaching, training plan and the annotated overlay video unlocked.
• Full — 120 analyses a month.

The free tier is deliberately a teaser, not a crippled version: you get the skeleton and the score, and the report tells you plainly which sections a paid plan unlocks instead of showing you empty panels. Checkout and plan management run through Stripe, and you can cancel from your own billing portal at any time.

A share card actually worth posting

The share card was a wall of metric tiles that nobody would post to Strava. It's now built around the one thing that carries: your annotated photo, with the score ring sitting on the seam and your coach's one-line takeaway underneath.

• The photo is the hero, cropped by its actual content rather than a fixed guess, so you don't lose your head to the frame edge.
• Metric tiles are gone; the score and the takeaway carry the card.
• Generated entirely in your browser — the image never touches our server.

Also: the app shell is now served with revalidation headers, so a new release reaches you on the next load instead of whenever your browser feels like it.

A phone-first pass over the whole app

You film on a phone, so you read your results on a phone. This release tightened that path end to end:

• One-row tab bar at the bottom instead of a cramped wrapped nav.
• Saved-analysis cards are denser, so more of your history fits on screen.
• A back-to-Home button on every sub-view, so you're never stuck.
• Clear all in History now asks first — it used to wipe your history on a single mis-tap.

Plus a new Academy article on trunk lean (run tall, not folded), and the coach's knee verdict is now grounded in phase-specific optima instead of one average target for the whole stride.

Slow-motion clips no longer produce wrong numbers

If you filmed in slow motion, your phone's frame rate lies about time — and anything time-based (cadence, ground contact, flight time) came out wrong without saying so.

Now the analyzer detects it. When the time base can't be trusted, those metrics are withheld and explained rather than shown wrong, and the report tells you plainly that a normal-speed clip is needed for them. Your joint angles are unaffected — they don't depend on the clock.

A missing number you can see is worth more than a confident number that's wrong.

Your training plan lives on as a checklist

A drill list you read once and forget is worthless. The corrective drills from your analysis now follow you: they land in your dashboard as a checklist you tick off, so the plan survives past the page you read it on.

Also in this release:

• Pedal-phase picker on photo analysis. Hip and ankle angles mean completely different things at the top and bottom of the pedal stroke. If we can't tell which one your photo caught, you now tell us — and the score follows.
• Joints whose verdict depends on pedal phase are no longer judged blind.
• History loads faster: annotated frames are fetched as cards scroll into view instead of all at once.

Aero & watts: what your position actually costs you

Cycling analyses now open with an Aero & watts panel. Instead of just telling you your trunk angle, it translates your position into the thing you care about: watts of drag, and the time that costs you over a distance.

• A watt range rather than a single fake-precise number — the estimate comes from your trunk angle, so it deserves a range.
• A multi-lever breakdown: torso, head tuck and elbow position scored separately, so you know which one to work on first.
• Numbers personalised to your speed, framed as time saved.

This is a relative read, not a wind-tunnel measurement — it tells you whether a change helped, not your absolute CdA.