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About Rallytics
What is Rallytics?
Rallytics is a desktop app for macOS and Windows that finds every rally in a tennis recording and cuts out the time between points. A two-hour match becomes the points as individual clips, which you can review one by one or assemble into a highlight video.
What do I need to use it?
A computer running macOS or Windows, and a video file. There is no hardware to buy, no app to run while you play, and no particular camera — whatever recorded the match is fine.
Does it work on Windows, or only Mac?
Both. Rallytics is a native desktop app for macOS and Windows. There is no phone app and no web version — the footage stays on the computer it is already on.
How much does it cost?
New accounts get 2 hours of analysis free, without a card. After that you buy hours once: 3 hours for $4.99 or 8 hours for $11.99, or an Annual Pass at $89.99 that releases 8 hours every month for a year. Nothing auto-renews and there is nothing to cancel.
Will there be a phone app?
Not for now. Rallytics is built as a desktop app because that is where match footage ends up and where the files are large enough that moving them around is the slow part. Analysis and editing both happen on the computer holding the video.
Your footage
Can I use footage I recorded myself, on any camera?
Yes — that is the only kind Rallytics works with. There is nothing to run while you play. You record however you already do, on a phone, a camcorder, an action camera or a court system, then bring the file to the computer and import it.
Where do I have to put the camera?
Anywhere the court is visible. Rallytics analyses the footage rather than tracking the ball geometrically, so it does not need a fixed height, a specific end of the court, or a tripod. Phone footage from the fence works.
How rally detection worksWhat video formats and resolutions does it take?
Whatever your camera produced, including 4K. Rallytics makes its own low-resolution working copy locally, so there is nothing to convert or compress first.
Is there a limit on how long a video can be?
No. Longer recordings are split into segments automatically and analysed in order, so a full match is no different from a short practice session apart from the time it takes.
Analysis
How long does an hour of footage take to analyse?
Usually a few minutes, and the rallies appear as they are found rather than all at once at the end. One hour of footage costs one hour of analysis time from your balance.
How accurate is the detection?
It finds most of the points and it will not find all of them. That is true of every tool that does this, so Rallytics is built around correcting it rather than around being right first time — the Rally Editor is part of the app, not an add-on.
What if the analysis misses a point?
No rally detector catches every point, so Rallytics includes a Rally Editor for fixing it. It lists every rally and every gap between them, so you can sort the gaps by length, play the long ones, and add the rally that was missed. You can also split one entry into two, join two halves of the same point, or drag a start earlier when the serve was clipped.
Fixing missed rallies, step by stepWhat happens to my hours if an analysis fails?
Nothing — a failed analysis does not use up your hours. If a video fails part way, only the parts that actually completed are charged.
What you get
What do I get at the end?
Every rally as its own clip, with the start and end placed where a person would have put them. From there you pick the ones worth keeping, put them in order, and export a single video — either a quick stitch or one with an intro, outro and transitions.
Building a highlight reelHow do I share the result with someone who does not use Rallytics?
The export is an ordinary MP4 file on your computer. Send it, upload it, or drop it into whatever you already use — nobody needs an account or the app to watch it.
Where does the export happen?
On your own machine. Cutting and joining the clips reads your original full-quality file locally, so the finished video never depends on an upload or a server queue.
What it does not do
Does it keep score?
Not today. Scoring is in planning. What Rallytics gives you now is the points in order, which is the list a score would have to be built on.
Does it give shot statistics, ball speed or line calls?
No. Rallytics finds where each point starts and ends; it does not classify strokes, measure ball speed, or judge whether a ball was in. If those are what you are after, a tracking-based tool such as SwingVision is built for that and does it well.
Does it work on court, in real time?
No. Rallytics runs after you play, on footage you already have. There is nothing to set up before a match and nothing running while you are on court.
Does it work for pickleball or padel?
No — tennis only. The detection is tuned for what a tennis point looks like, and we would rather say so than have you spend an hour finding out.
Privacy and your account
Does my video get uploaded?
Your original recording never leaves your computer. To find the rallies, Rallytics makes a small low-resolution copy locally and sends only that for analysis. The cutting happens on your machine against the full-quality file, so what goes out is a description of your video rather than the video.
How rally detection worksWhy do you need my email address?
To hold your balance of analysis hours, which has to survive reinstalls and follow you to a second computer. Signing in is a code sent to that address — there is no password to manage. We do not ask for your age, your gender, or access to anything else on your machine.
Who can see my sessions?
Nobody. Projects, clips and exports live on your own drive; there is no profile, no feed, and no sharing built in. What you send anyone is a video file you exported yourself.