A camera, a practice diary and a video editor for dancers
Film your practice, and your calendar fills with frames of you dancing. Open any day to loop the hard eight-count, slow it down, or set it beside your first try.
For any routine set to counts or music, from exam pieces to class choreography. It works for floor routines in figure skating and gymnastics too.
How it works
Three steps you'll repeat after every class, rehearsal and practice at home.
Set the tempo, tap record and walk to your mark while it counts you in: 5, 6, 7, 8.
Each take lands on its day as a frame of your own dancing. Several takes stack like prints.
Loop the eight-count you keep missing, slow it to a quarter speed, trim the take, or put it next to your first try.
Rec · Follow
Recording yourself shouldn't mean running back and forth to the phone. Dancify's camera counts you in, keeps you in focus and stays out of the way.
A musical 5, 6, 7, 8 with a click and haptics, so you're on your mark when recording starts.
Tap a dancer and focus and exposure stay on them as they move. Keep in frame zooms gently to hold them.
With a DockKit stand, the stand itself turns to follow you across the room.
0.5×, 1×, 2×, pinch or the zoom dial. Tap to focus, hold to lock focus and exposure.
HD or 4K at 30 or 60 fps, and slow motion at 120 or 240 fps for turns and jumps.
Start with the volume buttons or Camera Control; auto-stop ends the take. Mirror, torch, grid and level are there too.
Hands-free
Filming yourself means a lot of walking back to the phone. With Hands-free on, hold a hand up beside your head for a moment, right from your mark.
The take is saved and the next count-in starts, so you never leave your mark.
Ready and in place? The same hand starts the first take.
Each take goes to the piece and kind you filmed last, so the diary stays in order.
The camera watches for the hand on the device. Nothing is uploaded.
Practise with a reference
Play a reference while you film: your own earlier take, a class video, or anything from Photos or Files. Picture-in-picture or side by side, it starts on the count-in's downbeat, so you're together from the first count.
Keep the reference small in a corner, or give it half the screen.
The reference waits for the count-in and starts on the downbeat.
Muted while you film so it stays out of your recording, unless headphones are connected.
Each piece keeps its reference and tempo ready for next time.
October · Your journal
Over weeks and months the calendar fills with your own dancing: a visual diary of the work you put in. Log a class without filming, add a note while it's fresh, and find any take again in seconds.
Notes, tags and favouritesClasses and rehearsals without videoMilestonesMonth reviewSiri and Shortcuts
Loop · 100 BPM
Set an A–B loop around the tricky phrase, slow it down, mirror it and count it. The player is made for drilling, not just watching.
Mark A and B and it repeats, with an optional eight-count pause between reps to reset.
1 to 8 in time with the music. Tap the tempo, then jump forward or back by an eight-count.
And frame by frame, to check a landing, a line, or where the arm really goes.
Flip the picture to see it the way you'd see it in the studio mirror.
Full screen, AirPlay or an external display, for the whole class to see.
Dancify listens to a take's music for its tempo and its 1, ready when you turn counts on. Tap your own whenever you like.
Editor · Speed ramp
Trim the take, cut the talking, ramp into slow motion and put the music back. Every edit becomes a new take; your original is never changed.
Share it, save it to Photos, or keep it in your diary.
Frame-accurate, with reorder and duplicate.
0.25× to 2×, fine control to 4×, with smooth ramps.
Hold the moment the line is perfect.
Crop, rotate, straighten and mirror.
Adjustments and looks for studio light.
Captions, a date stamp and a count overlay.
Add a track from Files, with fades in and out.
Mark the moments and change your mind freely.
Day 1 → Day 84Premium
Day to day, progress is hard to see. Put the first try next to today's and it's obvious.
Privacy
Practice videos are personal. Dancify keeps them on your device, and in your own iCloud if you want them on all your devices.
Open the app and film. No sign-up, no email, no password.
No analytics and no ad networks following you around.
Optional sync uses your private iCloud, videos included. We can't see it.
Follow and the pose guide run on your iPhone. Nothing is uploaded for processing.
Free and Premium
Everything you need to practise with video is free. Premium adds the tools for seeing progress over time.
FreeNo account, no ads, no time limit.
Yearly, with a one-week free trial, or monthlyPrices in your currency are in the App Store.
Dancify Premium renews automatically unless it's cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel it any time in your App Store account settings.
Yes. Recording, the calendar, timeline, notes, the player, the editor and iCloud sync are free, with no ads and no account. Dancify Premium adds progress reel export, side-by-side compare and the pose guide; it's yearly with a one-week free trial, or monthly.
iPhone and iPad with iOS or iPadOS 26 or later, iPhone Duo included. There's no Android or web version.
No. There's no sign-up at all. Your diary lives on your device, and in your own iCloud if you turn sync on.
Your videos stay on your device. With iCloud sync on, they're also kept in your private iCloud so your other iPhone or iPad can show them. We can't see them, and nothing is uploaded to a server of ours.
Set a tempo, tap record, and Dancify counts you in with a click and haptics, “5, 6, 7, 8”, while you walk to your mark, so you're in place when it starts.
Tap a dancer in the camera and Dancify keeps focus and exposure on them as they move, holding on if they're briefly hidden. Turn on Keep in frame to zoom gently with them, or use a DockKit motorised stand that turns to follow.
Turn it on in the camera, then raise a hand beside your head, palm open, and hold it still for about a second and a half. The take is saved and the next count-in starts. Standing ready, the same hand starts a take.
Yes. Pick a reference, your own earlier take or a video from Photos or Files, and it plays picture-in-picture or side by side while you film, starting with the count-in. It's muted in your recording unless headphones are connected.
Yes. The player goes down to 0.25× and steps frame by frame. Set an A–B loop around a phrase, with an optional eight-count pause between reps, and turn on counts to see 1 to 8 in time with the music.
No. Every edit exports as a new take, so the original stays exactly as you filmed it. Share the result or save it to Photos.
Yes. When two takes share their music, Compare lines them up on open and keeps them in step, and side-by-side and grid reels start every take on the same moment of the song.
Yes. Reels come in 9:16 for TikTok, Reels and Shorts, or 4:5, 1:1 and 16:9. Dancify saves the file to Photos, copies your caption and opens the app, so you post it yourself. Progress reel export is part of Dancify Premium.
Any style you practise with counts or music: ballet, contemporary, jazz, hip-hop, heels, K-pop covers, salsa and bachata, ballroom, tap, Irish dance, commercial and cheer.
No generative AI, and nothing is sent to a server. Follow and the pose guide use Apple's on-device frameworks, so they run entirely on your iPhone or iPad.
English, German, Finnish, Spanish, French and Japanese.
From the blog
How to film yourself dancing with a phone: camera height and distance for each style, the best angle, light, sound, phone stands and six mistakes to avoid.
How to learn choreography faster: map the piece, learn in eight-counts, mark it, use the mirror wisely, slow the video down, loop hard parts and film to check.
How to make a dance progress video: film the same combo the same way, how often, what to compare, sequence vs side-by-side vs grid, dates and sharing.
How to count music in dance: beats, bars and eight-counts, what "5, 6, 7, 8" means, finding the one, "and" counts, waltz in 3/4 and BPM by dance style.
How to keep a dance practice journal: what to track after each class, a five-minute entry, journaling prompts for dancers and a weekly look back.
How to practise dance at home: a safe space and floor, shoes or socks, warm-up, a 30-minute session, weekly plans for beginners and intermediates, rest.
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