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Native iOS camera capture — built and quality-assured with Uplift.

Uplift Labs needed a production-grade mobile capture platform: native iOS apps that turn iPhones into a field capture kit, a coaching tool with drawing over video, and QA that keeps every session reliable. We built the capture experience and the test coverage around it. We've been shipping it since Feb 8, 2020.

Client Uplift Labs · Palo Alto, CAPlatforms iOS · AndroidTimeline Feb 8, 2020 → present · 6+ years

Uplift Capture on iPhone — hitting session with primary device camera view

6+ yrs

Continuous partnership · since Feb 2020

iOS

Native camera capture on consumer iPhones

Android

Capture parity on consumer phones

Capture-quality automation on real devices

LinkedIn RecommendationsBoth co-founders · 6.5-year partnership and ongoing

Written for Ankish Jain's LinkedIn profile. Unfiltered endorsements from the CEO and CTO who shipped Uplift with us.

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Sukemasa Kabayama

Co-founder & CEO, Uplift Labs

Previously @ Tesla · Apple · LEGO

ClientAugust 5, 2026

6.5-year partnership and ongoing · AI-powered mobile engineering

“We have worked with Ankish and his team for the past six and a half years, and they have been instrumental in engineering, quality assurance, and continuous innovation across our mobile applications. As our products have evolved to incorporate AI-powered capabilities, they have consistently demonstrated the ability to adapt, solve complex technical challenges, and deliver reliable, high-quality solutions. They are one of the hardest-working, most talented, and collaborative teams we have had the pleasure of working with and continue to work with. Their ability to combine strong engineering fundamentals with emerging AI technologies makes them an exceptional partner, and I cannot recommend them highly enough.”

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Jonathan Wills

Co-Founder & CTO, Uplift Labs

Ex-GoPro · Lumific (acq.) · Building agentic AI for human performance

Managed Ankish directlyAugust 3, 2026

Embedded engineering partner · Hard problems & AI experiences

“Ankish and his team at Appmetry have been Uplift's mobile engineering partner for over six years, and during that time, they've operated more like an extension of our core engineering team. Uplift's iOS app isn't a typical CRUD app—it's a synchronized multi-camera capture pipeline feeding a 3D biomechanics system, and Appmetry has been deeply embedded in building it with us: camera setup and calibration UX, real-time capture, on-device AI pose estimation, automated testing infrastructure, release quality, and, most recently, taking single-camera capture from prototype to production. Ankish is proactive, technically sharp, and communicates across time zones as if he were sitting in our office. If you need an engineering team you can trust with genuinely hard problems and AI-powered experiences, Appmetry has my strongest recommendation.”

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★★★★★ 5.0 / 5.0 · Quality, Schedule, Cost, Willing to refer

Jonathan Wills · CTO, Uplift Labs — “Their attention to detail is impeccable, and they execute every project with great efficiency.”

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The problem

Marker-based biomechanics labs are expensive and immobile — a fixed cage of high-speed cameras, a calibration ritual, a technician, and a $250k+ install. The moment you want to capture an athlete somewhere that isn't the lab you can't.

Uplift Labs needed a field-ready capture product on consumer iPhones, and mobile engineering they didn't have on the team. The bar was high: a coach had to set up two phones, start a session, and trust that the recording would be usable — every time, on a field, not in a lab. That meant owning iOS camera capture end-to-end: pairing, setup, recording, and the QA that keeps it production-grade.

Why they picked us

Uplift needed a team whose centre of gravity is engineering, not UI — with a long track record of shipping high-grade native camera apps where performance and correctness matter as much as the pixels. Senior architects on every call from day one, no junior bait-and-switch; deep iOS camera and QA experience; and a willingness to own the whole vertical.

“Appmetry didn't act like a vendor. They built Uplift Capture and Uplift Coach with the depth of a senior in-house team — camera capture, video pipelines, real-time drawing tools, all of it.”
— Jonathan Wills, CTO, Uplift Labs

Uplift Capture — a field kit in two iPhones

Two iOS devices on tripods, paired in one quick handshake, recording from two angles into a shared session. Sessions queue locally if there's no signal.

The hard part was making that camera capture production-grade on consumer iPhones. We built the iOS capture app: session modes, setup and calibration UX, high-speed recording, clip tagging, and a resilient upload path. Coaches get a capture kit they can run on a field in minutes — without a lab, a technician, or a $250k install.

Step 01

Session mode

Sports performance · movement assessments

Step 02

Setup

Two iPhones, two tripods, sub-minute pairing

Step 03

Capture

High-speed video · session recording

Uplift Coach — drawing on live video

Capture answers “what happened.” Coach answers “what should I tell the athlete to change.” A live and recorded video tool with a drawing canvas layered on top — angles, lines, traces, frame-step, side-by-side — built over WebRTC. The Metal-backed canvas renders hundreds of strokes a second over 1080p video without dropping a frame; strokes persist with frame anchors so markup is exactly where a coach left it a year later.

In production

NCAA programs and professional baseball orgs. Every capture session goes through the iOS app and QA we own.

iOS QA — camera capture you can ship every other week

A production capture app can't be QA'd by hand on a simulator. We built the iOS camera-capture test suite on real devices: pairing two phones, walking session modes, recording clips, tagging makes and misses, ending a session, and proving the upload — including the offline queue when the field has no signal.

Step 01

Pair & setup

Two-device handshake on real iPhones

Step 02

Record

Session modes, clips, focus, exposure

Step 03

Ship

Upload, offline queue, capture-quality gate

Capture-quality checks sit on top of the UI flows: focus, exposure, dropped frames, incomplete sessions. A golden corpus of real capture sessions fails a build if a release regresses what a coach would see on the field.

Complete automation testing

iOS camera capture is the critical path; Android has to move with it. We stood up an end-to-end suite around that: XCUITest on real iPhones, Android capture flows, and capture-quality regressions against a 100+ session golden corpus.

Two outcomes: production releases moved from monthly to fortnightly without a regression, and the team can ship capture changes with confidence that a broken pairing, a dropped recording, or a failed upload is caught before a coach ever sees it.

The build

Feb 8, 2020

Engagement starts

iOS Capture v1 — pair, record, upload. The smallest thing that proved the core promise: two iPhones, a clean session, an athlete on screen.

2021

Capture quality

Hardened the iOS camera pipeline for field use — pairing, recording, and upload that coaches can trust on a field, not in a lab.

2022

Uplift Coach

Drawing canvas over WebRTC video. Metal-backed canvas, frame-anchored strokes, side-by-side comparison, async coach mode. Shipped to the first MLB org pilots.

2023

Android parity + iOS QA

Capture on Android, full automation suite. End-to-end iOS camera-capture tests on real devices go live — pairing, recording, upload, and capture-quality regressions.

2024–2025

Capture and QA at field scale

Kept shipping Capture and Coach on a fortnightly cadence. Camera-capture QA on real devices remains the release gate as the product spreads across more orgs.

2026

Capture QA at scale

Six years in. Capture and Coach still shipping on a fortnightly cadence, with iOS camera-capture QA as the release gate.

What changed

Uplift Capture now runs on a field, not in a $250k lab. A pre-season intake that used to take an hour per athlete now runs at one athlete per minute. Every one of those sessions is captured on the iOS and Android apps we built — and gated by the camera-capture QA we still run.

Where we are now

Six years in. We're the engineering and QA team behind Capture and Coach; Uplift's team owns the science, product, and customers; the on-call pager comes to us. The work has matured into the kind of partnership that doesn't generate press releases — just shipped releases, every other week, for years. If you're building a vertical mobile capture product and the gap between research and production is the constraint, this is the work we'd point you to first.

In their words

“They have been instrumental in engineering, quality assurance, and continuous innovation across our mobile applications.”

— Sukemasa Kabayama, CEO, Uplift Labs · 2026

Embedded iOS capture + QA pod

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Tell us what you'd ship if native camera capture and QA weren't the constraint. We'll write back with a two-page proposal and a pilot scope you can sign or walk away from.

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Product photography & UI screenshots © Uplift Labs, Inc. · sourced from uplift.ai/products/capture · published here as case-study material with permission.

← All case studies·Mobile · CameraiOS + AndroidiOS Capture · QA

Native iOS camera capture — built and quality-assured with Uplift.

Client Uplift Labs · Palo Alto, CAPlatforms iOS · AndroidTimeline Feb 8, 2020 → present · 6+ years

6+ yrs

Continuous partnership · since Feb 2020

iOS

Native camera capture on consumer iPhones

Android

Capture parity on consumer phones

Capture-quality automation on real devices

LinkedIn RecommendationsBoth co-founders · 6.5-year partnership and ongoing

Written for Ankish Jain's LinkedIn profile. Unfiltered endorsements from the CEO and CTO who shipped Uplift with us.

View on LinkedIn

Sukemasa Kabayama

Co-founder & CEO, Uplift Labs

Previously @ Tesla · Apple · LEGO

ClientAugust 5, 2026

6.5-year partnership and ongoing · AI-powered mobile engineering

“We have worked with Ankish and his team for the past six and a half years, and they have been instrumental in engineering, quality assurance, and continuous innovation across our mobile applications. As our products have evolved to incorporate AI-powered capabilities, they have consistently demonstrated the ability to adapt, solve complex technical challenges, and deliver reliable, high-quality solutions. They are one of the hardest-working, most talented, and collaborative teams we have had the pleasure of working with and continue to work with. Their ability to combine strong engineering fundamentals with emerging AI technologies makes them an exceptional partner, and I cannot recommend them highly enough.”

Verify on LinkedIn ↗

Jonathan Wills

Co-Founder & CTO, Uplift Labs

Ex-GoPro · Lumific (acq.) · Building agentic AI for human performance

Managed Ankish directlyAugust 3, 2026

Embedded engineering partner · Hard problems & AI experiences

“Ankish and his team at Appmetry have been Uplift's mobile engineering partner for over six years, and during that time, they've operated more like an extension of our core engineering team. Uplift's iOS app isn't a typical CRUD app—it's a synchronized multi-camera capture pipeline feeding a 3D biomechanics system, and Appmetry has been deeply embedded in building it with us: camera setup and calibration UX, real-time capture, on-device AI pose estimation, automated testing infrastructure, release quality, and, most recently, taking single-camera capture from prototype to production. Ankish is proactive, technically sharp, and communicates across time zones as if he were sitting in our office. If you need an engineering team you can trust with genuinely hard problems and AI-powered experiences, Appmetry has my strongest recommendation.”

Verify on LinkedIn ↗

★★★★★ 5.0 / 5.0 · Quality, Schedule, Cost, Willing to refer

Jonathan Wills · CTO, Uplift Labs — “Their attention to detail is impeccable, and they execute every project with great efficiency.”

Read on Clutch ↗

The problem

Why they picked us

“Appmetry didn't act like a vendor. They built Uplift Capture and Uplift Coach with the depth of a senior in-house team — camera capture, video pipelines, real-time drawing tools, all of it.”
— Jonathan Wills, CTO, Uplift Labs

Uplift Capture — a field kit in two iPhones

Two iOS devices on tripods, paired in one quick handshake, recording from two angles into a shared session. Sessions queue locally if there's no signal.

Step 01

Session mode

Sports performance · movement assessments

Step 02

Setup

Two iPhones, two tripods, sub-minute pairing

Step 03

Capture

High-speed video · session recording

Uplift Coach — drawing on live video

In production

NCAA programs and professional baseball orgs. Every capture session goes through the iOS app and QA we own.

iOS QA — camera capture you can ship every other week

Step 01

Pair & setup

Two-device handshake on real iPhones

Step 02

Record

Session modes, clips, focus, exposure

Step 03

Ship

Upload, offline queue, capture-quality gate

Complete automation testing

The build

Feb 8, 2020

Engagement starts

iOS Capture v1 — pair, record, upload. The smallest thing that proved the core promise: two iPhones, a clean session, an athlete on screen.

2021

Capture quality

Hardened the iOS camera pipeline for field use — pairing, recording, and upload that coaches can trust on a field, not in a lab.

2022

Uplift Coach

Drawing canvas over WebRTC video. Metal-backed canvas, frame-anchored strokes, side-by-side comparison, async coach mode. Shipped to the first MLB org pilots.

2023

Android parity + iOS QA

Capture on Android, full automation suite. End-to-end iOS camera-capture tests on real devices go live — pairing, recording, upload, and capture-quality regressions.

2024–2025

Capture and QA at field scale

Kept shipping Capture and Coach on a fortnightly cadence. Camera-capture QA on real devices remains the release gate as the product spreads across more orgs.

2026

Capture QA at scale

Six years in. Capture and Coach still shipping on a fortnightly cadence, with iOS camera-capture QA as the release gate.

What changed

Where we are now

In their words

“They have been instrumental in engineering, quality assurance, and continuous innovation across our mobile applications.”

— Sukemasa Kabayama, CEO, Uplift Labs · 2026

Embedded iOS capture + QA pod

Need a build like this?

Tell us what you'd ship if native camera capture and QA weren't the constraint. We'll write back with a two-page proposal and a pilot scope you can sign or walk away from.

Start the conversation See mobile services

Product photography & UI screenshots © Uplift Labs, Inc. · sourced from uplift.ai/products/capture · published here as case-study material with permission.