What Is CadooVision?
CadooVision is Cadoo's proprietary AI-powered rep counting system. It uses your phone camera to watch you exercise, count your reps in real time, and verify that your form meets the standard. No wearable required. No manual logging. Just point your camera at yourself, start your set, and CadooVision handles the rest.
This is the technology that makes rep-based challenges on Cadoo — pushups, situps, squats — possible as real money competitions. Without accurate, cheat-resistant verification, fitness betting on bodyweight exercises would not work. CadooVision solves that problem.
How CadooVision Works
CadooVision combines two core technologies: computer vision and pose detection.
- Pose detection — CadooVision identifies your body position in each frame, mapping key joints (shoulders, elbows, hips, knees) to track your movement through each rep.
- Rep counting — The system detects the start and end of each rep based on joint angles and movement patterns. A pushup is not counted until you go down and come back up to the required depth.
- Form scoring — Each rep receives a form score. Half-reps, shallow squats, or incomplete situps are flagged. This prevents players from gaming the system with sloppy form.
Supported Exercises
CadooVision currently supports three exercises:
- Pushups — Full range of motion from arms extended to chest near the floor and back up
- Situps — From lying flat to torso raised past the threshold angle
- Squats — Standing to below-parallel hip depth and back to standing
Coming soon: Pullups and Dips. These exercises are currently in development and will be added to CadooVision in a future update.
Anti-Cheat Built Into the Camera
CadooVision is not just a rep counter — it is an anti-cheat system. Here is what it checks:
- Duplicate timestamp detection — If the same recorded video timestamp from the same user appears twice, the submission is rejected. You cannot reuse old videos.
- Video quality scoring — Low-quality or obscured video that prevents accurate pose detection is flagged for review.
- Form scoring — The AI evaluates each rep against the exercise standard. Reps that do not meet minimum form requirements are not counted toward your challenge total.
These protections ensure that when you compete in a pushup, situp, or squat challenge on Cadoo, every player is held to the same standard.
Tips for Best Results
- Set your phone 4-6 feet away at waist height
- Make sure your full body is visible in the frame
- Use good lighting — CadooVision needs to see your joints clearly
- Wear fitted clothing so the AI can track your body position accurately
Try CadooVision Today
Join any pushup, situp, or squat challenge on Cadoo and CadooVision will handle the verification. Download the app on the App Store or Google Play and see AI rep counting in action.
Cadoo works for everyone — whether you're a fitness brand looking to boost fitness brand marketing and engagement through branded fitness challenges, a corporate wellness program manager building employee wellness and workplace fitness challenge initiatives for team building fitness and employee engagement, a personal trainer or fitness professional motivating clients through group fitness and coaching, or a family looking for a family fitness challenge and community fitness experience. With real money on the line, Cadoo is the ultimate fitness motivation and workout accountability tool — the fitness challenge app where you get paid to exercise with money motivation fitness. Challenge your friends in a group fitness challenge, try fitness with friends, or start a neighborhood fitness movement. For brands, explore fitness sponsorship and fitness brand activation opportunities with fitness instructor partnerships.
Questions? Contact Tim Parsa, Co-Founder and CEO of Cadoo — the fitness gaming platform. Reach out at tim@cadoo.io
