How it works
From the sideline to a shareable highlight
Your phone does the recording. You do the one thing a camera can't: notice the moment. Here is everything that happens in between.
Set up and start recording
Put your phone on a tripod or a steady spot with a view of the court. Before you start, a live preview lets you pick the phone's real lenses (wide, main, telephoto) to frame the court, so no quality is lost to digital zoom.
Press start and leave it. The phone keeps a continuous recording of the game while the screen dims behind the controls to save battery. Battery and heat stay on screen so you know it will last the game.
What you need
- An Android phone (Android 10 or newer)
- Optional: a Wear OS watch (Wear OS 3 or newer) to tap from your wrist
- A tripod or phone clamp helps
iPhone is planned, not available yet.
Tap the stat. That saves the play.
When your player makes a play, tap it: 2PT, 3PT, block, steal or assist. Use the buttons on the phone or, without looking away from the game, on your Wear OS watch.
The tap saves what just happened, because the recording was already rolling. You are never too late. Each tap is also a stat, so you build your player's box score as you go.
Why a tap and not a record button
By the time you realise a play was special, it's over. Tapping after the fact means you watch the game instead of watching a screen, and only the moments that matter are kept.
Fast sequences become one clip
Basketball runs in bursts: a shot, a rebound, an assist, another shot, all in a few seconds. If you tap several stats close together, StandoutReelz waits until the action settles, then cuts one clip from just before the first tap to just after the last.
Every play inside that clip keeps its own label and time, so your box score is still right and the highlight can be captioned play by play.
Auto framing into a vertical highlight
The phone records wide, in 4K. For each saved play it suggests where the clip should start and stop, and moves a vertical 1080 × 1920 frame to follow the action. That frame is the highlight, in the shape Instagram Reels, TikTok and YouTube Shorts expect.
Because the frame is cut from real 4K pixels, a normal highlight is full quality without any AI guessing.
You have the last word: edit on your phone
Open any saved play and you see the whole wide shot with the frame on top. Drag the frame as the video plays, pinch to zoom in, set the start and the end, and save. Plays you don't want never leave your phone.
Where the work happens
- Recording, tagging, framing and editing: on your phone
- Phones that can't render a highlight themselves can use the cloud, for 1 credit
- Finished highlights are kept in your account so you can share them
Pro Zoom: closer than the camera can get
Sometimes you want to zoom in tighter than the 4K frame allows, like a close-up of a block or a dunk. Pro Zoom crops in further and uses AI upscaling to bring the clip back to full 1080 × 1920. It costs 5 credits per clip.
Be aware: AI upscaling fills in detail the camera never captured. It can soften or change small things like a jersey number. Normal highlights don't use it, and you choose when to.
Finding your player: jersey only
To keep the frame on your player, StandoutReelz matches jersey colour, jersey number and approximate size. That's all.
- No face recognition
- No biometric data: no face prints or other biometric identifiers
- Nothing that identifies the other children on the court
It also works better: on a court, a jersey number is visible from behind and from far away, where a face usually isn't.
Which sports?
Basketball is where we start, and what everything above is tuned for. Volleyball and Soccer are next: players there tend to hold an area of the court or field, which suits tracking. We'll say so here when they work as well as basketball does.
Start with a free account
25 free credits, no card. Then get the Android app and sign in with the same account.