KettleForge

KettleForge

Kettlebell timer that counts

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  • Released
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  • September 1, 2026
  • September 9, 2026

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KettleForge is an interval timer for kettlebell sport that counts your reps while you lift. Set your rounds of work and rest, prop the phone against a wall, and start. The front camera watches the movement pattern and counts — no wearable, no sensor on the bell, no tapping between sets. COUNTS THE COMPETITION LIFTS Long cycle, jerk and snatch are recognised by the shape of the movement itself, not by a shake or a buzz. Each one has been counted in front of the camera against a real set and checked rep for rep. More lifts are on the way and they are listed in the app, greyed out, so you can see what is coming rather than wondering. Camera missed one? Tap the count and it goes in. START WITHOUT TOUCHING THE PHONE Raise either hand above your head for two seconds and the set begins. The count box pulses and ticks once a second so you know you have been seen — which matters three metres away with a bell in each hand. BUILT TO BE RUN BY EAR Your back is to the phone for most of a set, so the phases are told apart by the shape of the sound and not only by pitch: one soft note into Get Ready, two hard strikes when work begins, a triad left ringing at the end. It sounds through the silent switch, and it ducks your music rather than shouting over it. READ THE SET BACK Every rep is stored with the second it was counted, so a workout is more than a total. Read your pace minute by minute and round by round — because 120 reps in ten minutes can be twelve a minute all the way down, or twenty for five minutes and then nothing, and that difference is the thing you actually train. WHAT YOU SET • Get Ready, work and rest durations, per round • How many rounds • Bell weight and whether you are lifting one or two • How much of the camera feed shows through the phase colour • Whether the camera counts, and whether a raised hand starts the set PRIVACY The camera is read frame by frame and never recorded. Nothing is uploaded, there is no account and no sign-in, and every workout stays on your phone. The privacy label says Data Not Collected because that is the truth. IPHONE AND IPAD One universal app. On iPad the counting works in any orientation, so you can stand it sideways on a bench and it still reads the lift.
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What's New in KettleForge

1.3

September 9, 2026

Every round is now read against the last time you lifted it. Open a workout in History and each round says what it did and what it did last time — "Last time 36 over 3 min" — with that earlier round drawn over the minute-by-minute bars as a dashed line. A set that went out fast and faded and a set that held its pace can finish on the same total, and only the shape says which of the two happened. Rounds are compared over the whole minutes they share, not by their totals. Ten minutes last week against three minutes today is not a comparison, it is a subtraction describing the clock; and a pace is not an effort either, because fifteen a minute for two minutes is a warm-up while fifteen for ten is a competition set. Where a round is too short to share a whole minute with anything, it says so rather than inventing a number. A workout now lists its rounds. It used to be one row naming the session after its first lift, with a count beside it admitting there had been others — so three rounds of long cycle and then two of jerk looked exactly like two of jerk and then three of long cycle. Each round is its own row now, with the lift it was, the bells it used and what it counted. Rounds can be moved. Move one up or down, insert a round below any other, and delete any round rather than only the last. The numbering closes up behind you, so there is no round 1 and round 3 with nothing in between, and a workout that already had a gap in it is put right on the next launch. Inserting below a round copies its lift, its work and its rest, which is also how a round is duplicated. Smaller things: a rep is called a lift now in English too — the sport's own word, and what the Russian has said all along. And a session's length no longer counts the walk back to the bells: Get Ready is not training, so it is left out of the total.

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