MotionEdge Pro — What's in the Free Tier and What You Unlock with Pro

MotionEdge is free out of the box, and the free tier is a real coaching tool — not a hollow demo. You can capture swings, review them frame by frame with the full pose skeleton, draw lines and angles on the video, compare swings side by side, track tempo and hand path, use your Apple Watch as a swing trigger and tempo trainer, and a lot more. Most of the app is free.

Six features sit behind MotionEdge Pro. They're the ones that connect to outside hardware (TrackMan, paired iPhones), keep your data in the cloud across your devices, or talk to an AI coach about your swing. Going Pro turns the app from a single-device practice tool into the full multi-device, AI-coached, launch-monitor-connected setup it's designed to be.

A 7-day free trial is included so you can try every Pro feature before you decide.

What's in the free tier

Almost everything in MotionEdge is free, including:

• Capture — auto-detect swing recording, manual recording, Quick Review, Full Review, screen recording, all camera lens controls, manual shutter and ISO, cinematic stabilization
• Apple Watch — full Watch integration: camera trigger, swing detection, Tempo Training haptics, per-swing environmental data (altitude, temperature, conditions)
• Pose & overlays — full 33-landmark pose skeleton, setup overlay, posture check, hand path check, training profiles
• Drawing tools — line, arrow, angle, h-angle, circle, freehand — all colors, all widths, saved with each swing
• Metrics — tempo ratio, hand path grade, spine tilt and hip depth measurements
• Filmstrip — 10-key-position swing breakdown, frame nudging, side-by-side comparison filmstrips
• Multi-panel review — single, split, and quad panel layouts across video, filmstrip, metrics, and overlays
• Swing comparison — compare up to 10 swings in single-frame, filmstrip, posture, or video layouts
• Sessions & organization — sessions, tags, swing groups, GHIN handicap lookup, recycle bin
• Sharing via .mef file — export a complete session as a MotionEdge File and share it with anyone via AirDrop, email, or any file-sharing service

A lot of things competitors put behind their paid tier — drawing tools, comparison, multi-panel review, all metrics, Apple Watch — are free in MotionEdge. The free tier is the real product.

What Pro unlocks

1. Unlimited swing library

Free tier: You can keep up to 25 swings active in MotionEdge at any one time. When you go to save the 26th, you'll see a prompt to either upgrade or delete a swing to make room. Swings in your Recycle Bin don't count toward the limit — only active swings do.

With Pro: No cap. Keep every swing you've ever recorded.

This matters once you start building a real practice history. Tracking tempo across 30 sessions, comparing today's swing to one from three months ago, building up a library of pro reference swings to study against your own — all of that needs more than 25 swings.

2. Unlimited daily saves

Free tier: You can save up to 10 swings per day from live capture (camera on iPhone, iPad, or Mac, plus Apple Watch swings). Imports from your Photo Library, Files, or other sources don't count toward this daily limit — they're separate. The daily counter resets at midnight in your local time zone.

With Pro: Save as many swings per day as you want.

If you're at the range hitting a full bucket, ten captures fills up quickly. Pro lets you record a full session without watching the count.

3. TrackMan integration

Free tier: TrackMan integration is Pro-only. The buttons for it are visible in the Import menu and on the camera screen — tapping any of them shows the Pro upgrade prompt.

With Pro: All three TrackMan flows unlock:

• Import a TrackMan stroke file (.tms) — export from TrackMan Performance Studio, import into MotionEdge. Every shot in the file becomes a swing with full radar data attached.
• Import a TrackMan Report link — paste a shared TrackMan report URL and pull in the shot data with no file transfer.
• Connect live to a TrackMan — pair your device with a TrackMan unit on the same network and capture video plus radar data in real time, every swing automatically paired.

Once TrackMan data is attached to a swing, the TrackMan Data panel in the Swing Viewer shows ball speed, launch angle, spin, club path, face angle, carry, and the full radar set. Combined with the pose skeleton and overlays, this is what turns "I think I came over the top" into "I came 4° over the top with the face 2° open — that's why it went right."

4. Remote Camera (multi-device capture)

Free tier: Remote Camera is Pro-only. The "Manage Cameras…" and "Go Remote (this device)" menu items are visible on the camera screen — tapping either shows the Pro upgrade prompt.

With Pro: Pair iPhones as remote cameras controlled from an iPad or Mac:

• Put an iPhone on a tripod down-the-line, hold the iPad in front of you — start, stop, and review swings from the iPad without ever walking back to the tripod
• Pair two remote cameras for simultaneous face-on and down-the-line capture, automatically grouped on the same swing
• Use a Mac as the director for the largest review canvas

This sounds incremental until you use it. Solo range sessions stop being a constant walk to and from the tripod.

5. iCloud sync and shared sessions

Free tier: The iCloud Sync toggle is visible in Settings → iCloud — tapping it shows the Pro upgrade prompt. You can still move sessions between your own devices using the free .mef export and import.

With Pro: Automatic background sync of every session, swing, video, comment, and AI conversation across all of your devices on the same iCloud account — iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Plus the ability to share a session with another person — your coach, a playing partner, a friend — and exchange comments on individual swings. Their comments appear on your device, yours appear on theirs.

Sync uses Apple's CloudKit, so there's no MotionEdge account to create — your iCloud sign-in is the whole thing.

6. The AI Coach

Free tier: AI Coach is Pro-only. New users get a 7-day free trial of MotionEdge Pro to try the full AI Coach experience. After the trial ends, AI Coach access ends unless you continue with a paid subscription.

With Pro: A working AI coaching conversation that has access to:

• Frames from your swing video — the filmstrip's 10 key positions plus context frames
• Your pose data — joint positions through the entire swing
• Your measured metrics — tempo, hand path, posture, all of it
• Your TrackMan data when present
• Your Apple Watch data when present
• Your golfer profile (handicap, handedness, age range, skill level)
• Your active training profile (what you're working on)
• Your recent swing history

That combined picture is what makes AI coaching genuinely useful rather than generic. The AI can say "your hips moved 3 inches forward by impact, which is causing the face to open" because it can actually see the hip position frame by frame — not just read your video the way a phone reads a photo.

How to start the 7-day free trial

The free trial unlocks every Pro feature for 7 days. You can start it from any of the Pro upgrade prompts that appear when you tap a gated feature, or from Settings → MotionEdge Pro.

On day 7, the trial converts to a paid subscription unless you cancel before then. You can manage or cancel anytime from Settings → Apple ID → Subscriptions on iPhone or iPad, or System Settings → Apple ID → Subscriptions on Mac.

The 7-day trial is a one-time offer per Apple ID.

What happens to my data if my trial ends or I cancel?

Nothing disappears. You keep:

• All your swings — every video, all pose data, all metrics, all drawings, all overlays
• All your TrackMan data — radar data attached to your swings stays attached and visible (new TrackMan imports are paused)
• All synced data — anything that landed on this device before trial end stays on this device
• All shared session content — sessions other people shared with you stay accessible (no new shares can be created or accepted)

The only things that change when Pro ends:

• New iCloud sync stops — no new uploads to or downloads from iCloud
• New TrackMan imports and live connections are paused
• New Remote Camera pairings are paused
• AI Coach access ends
• The 25-active-swing limit and 10-saves-per-day live capture limit come back

You're never locked out of the app or your data. The free tier is the default; Pro adds on top of it. If you re-subscribe later, the Pro features turn back on instantly with all of your data intact.

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