# OpenerLab — Audience-tested video hooks

> Audience-tested video hooks (iPhone/iPad app by Robert Corbin.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/openerlab/id6771377201 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Robert Corbin](https://appshunter.io/developer/1890247992)
- Category: Photo & Video
- Price: $1.99 (on sale, was $3.99)
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 33 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-05-21
- Data updated: 2026-09-10
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/openerlab/id6771377201/reviews.md

## What is OpenerLab?

OpenerLab helps creators test opening lines, hooks, and short-form intro ideas before publishing.

Version 1.2 adds a Hook Test Lab with interactive scoring for first-second clarity, curiosity, pacing, and audience fit. The Pro workspace includes checklists, scenario prompts, and offline references to make hook review faster and more structured.

Key features:
- Hook Test Lab with live score and recommendations
- Checklist for clarity, curiosity, pacing, and audience fit
- Scenario playbooks for videos, posts, and launches
- Offline workflow and reference pack
- Local-first idea testing


## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.5.2 — 2026-08-20

Adds Hook Test Lab with live scoring for first-second clarity, curiosity, pacing, and audience fit. New checklists, scenario playbooks, and offline references make opening-line review more structured.

### 1.5.1 — 2026-06-26

This update sharpens the interface: the iPad layout now uses a centered, comfortable reading width instead of stretching edge to edge, plus small display fixes. iPhone is unchanged.

### 1.5 — 2026-06-23

Voter Feedback Panel: The Results tab now surfaces all comments and "would rewatch" signals your poll voters left on each take. A colour-coded badge shows the rewatch ratio per take so you can see at a glance which opening actually hooked your audience - not just which one won.

Self-Rating for Takes: Give each take a 1-5 star gut-feel rating from the project detail screen. When two takes are neck-and-neck on votes, OpenerLab uses the star rating as the tie-breaker, so your instinct gets a vote alongside your audience's.

Hook Score Trend Chart: A new Trend tab in Hook Wins shows your composite hook score across every project you have ever created, plotted in chronological order. A rolling three-project average line reveals whether your openers are improving over time, and a stat row shows your latest, average, and all-time peak score at a glance.

### 1.4 — 2026-06-15

Hook Prompt Workshop: 46 fill-in-the-blank sentence starters for every hook framework in the library. Pick a template — Curiosity Gap, Contrarian, Pattern Interrupt, Problem Agitate Solve, Before/After, What If, List Teaser, Story Cold Open, or Platform Native — and get ready-to-say openers with blanks to fill in. Each prompt includes a one-line coaching tip and a one-tap Copy button. Accessible from the recording screen and from any template detail view.

PDF project report: export a complete A4 report from the Results tab covering the vote breakdown, per-take Hook Scores across all five axes, coaching tips for the winning take, and your creator notes — all in one shareable PDF via the standard iOS share sheet.

Settings now shows the correct version number read from the app bundle.

### 1.3 — 2026-06-14

OpenerLab 1.3 adds per-platform guidance, a Hook Score Engine (five-axis scoring with coaching tips), a Hook Wins analytics tab, CSV export, and an expanded 38-framework hook library. Fully offline — no account, no ads, no tracking.

## More apps by Robert Corbin

- [Daily Word Journey](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/daily-word-journey/id6761548266)
- [Hush Secret Text](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/hush-secret-text/id6761658175)
- [Renew Guard](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/renew-guard/id6761755447)
- [Receipt to PDF](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/receipt-to-pdf/id6761782025)
- [Route Your Pay](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/route-your-pay/id6761783719)
- [Tip Arbiter](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/tip-arbiter/id6761786879)

All apps by Robert Corbin: https://appshunter.io/developer/1890247992

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