Comparison

Handstand Timer MJ vs Skip Lab

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

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About

Handstand Timer MJ

This app uses your device's camera to automatically detect and time handstands and other poses. It's ideal for tracking progress in disciplines like yoga, calisthenics, and hand balancing.

Highlights
  • Automatic pose detection
  • Camera-based timing
  • Records handstand times
  • Supports yoga and calisthenics
  • Tracks progress
Features
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Automatically time your handstands and other poses using your camera. The app will detect and record your times for hand balancing, yoga, calisthenics, and other disciplines.

About

Skip Lab

Features
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Prop your phone against a wall, start a session, and skip. Skip Lab watches through the camera and counts every skip — set by set, on its own. Nothing to wear, nothing to tap, nothing to count in your head. WHAT IT DOES • Counts from the camera. No wearable, no rope sensor, no beaded handle. Put the phone across the room and jump. Every skip is counted on the phone itself, as you do it. • Finds your sets for you. Stop to catch your breath and the set closes on its own; start again and the next one opens. You never tell the app you are starting or stopping — you just skip. • Measures the set, not just the count. Every set carries its duration, pace in skips per minute, how even your rhythm was, how high you bounced, and how it ended — including when the rope caught you. • Films every set. Each set is saved as its own trimmed clip, so a forty-minute session becomes the eleven pieces you actually did instead of forty minutes of footage. Save them to Photos or share them. • Intervals. Work, rest and rounds on one screen. Spoken and audible cues at every change, plus a flashlight pulse for the last three seconds, so you can run the whole thing from across the room without looking at the phone. • Battle. Two people, one phone, one target. Both are counted live, side by side, and the first to the number wins — then the race becomes a shareable highlight reel. • Apple Watch. The count, your pace and your heart rate on your wrist while the phone films from across the room — which is the one screen you can actually read mid-set. End the session from the watch. The workout is saved to Apple Health, so your rings close. • Records that ratchet. Most consecutive skips, longest unbroken run, best session, lifetime total — plus a trend line for every session you have done. ON YOUR PHONE, NOT IN THE CLOUD Every frame is analysed on your iPhone. Your footage and your counts never leave the device. There is no account, no sign-up, and no internet connection required to use any part of the app. Skip Lab sends a small number of anonymous product events so we can see which parts get used — counts and durations only, never your footage and never anything you typed. WHO IT IS FOR Anyone who skips and wants to know the number: boxers and martial artists, CrossFit and HIIT athletes, runners warming up, and anyone using a rope as their conditioning. If you have ever lost count at ninety and started again, this is the app. WHAT YOU NEED An iPhone you can prop up, a rope, and about two metres of room. Portrait, front or back camera, indoors or out. Good light helps; a plain wall behind you helps more.

Screenshots

Handstand Timer MJ4 screens
Skip Lab4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Skip Lab at none against Handstand Timer MJ's shown. Handstand Timer MJ's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). On price, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Handstand Timer MJ versus Skip Lab: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHandstand Timer MJSkip Lab
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supported—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size121 MB39 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperGilroy DigitalMichael Mac Donald

In-app purchases

None

Handstand Timer MJ

No in-app purchases

None

Skip Lab

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Handstand Timer MJ free?
Handstand Timer MJ is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Skip Lab free?
Skip Lab is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Handstand Timer MJ or Skip Lab have ads?
Handstand Timer MJ shows ads; Skip Lab does not.

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