Getting Started with MotionEdge
This is MotionEdge 2.1 and later. It is the same app on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Layouts adjust to each screen. The features, and how they work, do not.
If you have MotionEdge Pro, your content replicates across those devices on its own. Film on an iPhone at the range, then review the swings later on an iPad or a Mac — the big screen is for the work after you hit.
What are the main tabs?
Four tabs at the bottom of the screen:
- Home — where you land. Camera, Import, recent swings.
- Collections — your folders. Sessions live in a collection. Swings live in a session.
- All Swings — every swing, by day, when you remember the swing and not the folder.
- AI Coach — where you talk to your AI golf coach: golf topics, or a swing you want reviewed.
Do I need to set up a collection first?
No. Record or import. My Swings appears when you save the first clip. That is the default collection. Empty before then is expected.
You can make more collections later from +. You can share a collection — that is under sync and sharing, below.
How do I record a swing?
Put the phone on a tripod — face-on or down-the-line. From Home, tap the camera. In the top bar, tap the eye (Camera). That is auto-detect: it watches how fast your hands move, so a real swing saves a clip and a waggle does not. Keep hitting. You do not start and stop for each ball.
Or pick another icon in that same bar:
- Voice (microphone) — start and stop by voice. Works with AirPods, so the phone can stay on the stick.
- Watch (Apple Watch) — trigger from your wrist.
- Manual (hand) — you tap record.
- TrackMan (scope) — a shot on the radar starts the clip. Pro; more below.
A basic phone tripod is enough. Auto-detect and Shaft Check both get better when the phone does not move.
After a swing you either get a short replay (Quick Review — Save or dismiss) or you review the pile when you stop (Full Review). Change that in the camera gear. The longer version: Quick Review vs Full Review. Camera controls: The Camera Screen.
How do I review my swing?
Tap the swing. That opens Video Review — a page of panels. Each panel header is an icon. Tap the icon to change what is in that slot. One panel, a split, or a quad.
Start with these three.
Video Player (play)
Scrub frame by frame. Pinch to zoom.
Open AI Overlays on the video:
- Skeleton — joints and bones through the swing
- Shaft Tracking and Clubhead Tracking — the club the analysis found, not a guessed line. Club Positions puts shaft and clubhead on each key frame
- Setup overlays — your address stays on the frame as you scrub. Where address and now diverge is where posture left
Draw on the video if you want a plane or an angle. Those marks stay on the swing. Tools: Drawing Tools.
Filmstrip (stacked frames)
Ten positions — address through finish. The fastest way to see where a position went missing.
Shaft Check (burst)
The club on your frames — setup, lag, impact, and release. Face-on and down-the-line. If you do not see this icon yet, the club is still being found.
Other icons show up when this swing has the data — Posture Check, Hand Path, Shoulder Tilt, TrackMan, Watch, and the rest. If an icon is missing, that swing does not have that yet.
Send what you are looking at
You do not export a whole session to text a picture. Focus the panel → ⋯ → Share Image, Share Report, Share Video, or Share this frame. The other person does not need MotionEdge. See Share this frame.
How do I get AI coaching feedback?
This is a MotionEdge Pro feature. The 7-day free trial turns it on. No API key. No provider to pick.
Worth 20 seconds first: on the AI Coach tab, tap the profile (handicap, handedness, age, skill) so the language fits you. You can start that from Home if it is still empty.
Then two ways in — same coach, same tab.
A swing you just filmed
- Open AI Coach, or from the filmstrip tap Discuss with AI Coach
- Attach this swing
- Ask what you actually want: What's causing the miss right? or How does the hip look at impact?
The coach sees the video, the pose, the numbers — and TrackMan when that swing has it.
Golf Topics — when you want the idea first
On the same AI Coach tab, open Golf Topics. These are short, guided conversations on one subject — tempo, rotation, short game, and the rest — written so the coach stays on that idea instead of giving you a generic “how’s my swing?”
Use them when you are not ready to pick a clip, or when you want a concept explained before you look at video. Start the topic, ask your question, then attach a swing when you want that same idea applied to your motion. A topic without a swing is still useful: it is the range conversation before you hit.
Browse Golf Topics from the empty AI Coach screen, or tap Start from a topic when you begin a chat.
How do I import a video I already have?
Tap Import on Home. Pick Photos or Files. The app asks Where should this go? The default is today's session in My Swings. Pick another session or collection before it lands.
If a session is already open, ⋯ → Import puts the video in that session.
The app trims to the swing. Use this for a lesson clip, a friend's video, or an old camera-roll swing.
How do I sync between my devices?
Only if you want the same library on more than one device. One iPhone at the range does not need this.
How do I sign in?
Home → Settings → Account → Sign in with Apple on each device. No password to invent. Sign-in itself is free.
With MotionEdge Pro, film on the phone, open the iPad or Mac later — the swings are already there. Status lives under Settings → Sync & Sharing. Without Pro you can still hand a session across as a .mef file (below).
How do I share with a coach or a partner?
Invite them into a collection. New sessions you add there are already shared. Private work stays in My Swings.
Collection Options… (the ⋯ on the collection) → Share Collection. Apple's share sheet opens; choose whether they can view or add swings, and send the invite, usually as a text. Sync has to be on to share.
You need MotionEdge Pro to share. They need Pro to join (paid, trial, or Apple Family Sharing). If they are not Pro, the app shows the Pro sheet and does not join yet. The full walkthrough: Collections — How Sharing Works.
A .mef file is a session in a package — for someone who is not joining the live collection. ⋯ → Export Session (.mef), then they import it.
What else can I do?
Remote Camera — Pro
An iPhone on a tripod, an iPad or Mac in front of you — or more than one iPhone (face-on and down-the-line). You hit, glance at the big screen, no walk back to the stick.
On each filming iPhone: camera → lens selector → Go Remote (this device). On the iPad or Mac: camera → Manage Cameras... → Connect.
TrackMan — Pro
Three ways in: a .tms file, a TrackMan Report link, or live on the same network as the unit. In review, switch a panel to TrackMan Data. The AI Coach can use those numbers too.
Compare swings
In a session, tap Compare Swings. Pick two or more. Filmstrip, posture, or video side by side. Import a reference swing and put it next to yours.
Session Stats
In a session, tap Session Stats. Posture and hand-path numbers across every swing, grouped face-on and down-the-line. Green / yellow / red on cards come from Settings → Posture Grading.
How do I get MotionEdge?
Free on the App Store for iPhone and iPad, and the Mac App Store for Mac.
The free tier is capture, overlays, drawing, metrics, comparison, and Apple Watch. MotionEdge Pro adds the AI Coach, TrackMan, Remote Camera, sync across your devices, sharing a collection, and a library without free-tier caps. The 7-day free trial turns all of that on. See MotionEdge Pro.
Quick tips
- Tripod first. Auto-detect and Shaft Check both get better.
- Name the session for the job ("Driver path", "Wednesday wedges").
- Share the panel, not the whole session, when you want a filmstrip or a still in a text thread.