Hooper
Officially listedAI basketball app that turns one phone recording into game stats and automatic highlights.
Hooper
Hooper is an AI basketball analytics app from Built Different AI Inc. (San Francisco, founded 2024) built around a single-phone record → auto-analyze → auto-highlight workflow, with no wearables, multi-camera rigs, or court markers required. Its proprietary Sports Vision computer vision model identifies players and shot attempts, giving pickup players technical stats once reserved for professionals. Founders Steven Kang (Yale) and Mike Wu (Stanford PhD), backed by the a16z Speedrun 004 accelerator.
Core Capabilities
- Shot charts and stats: automatically outputs shot distribution, makes/misses, points, and field goal percentage; three-point percentage appears only when the arc can be marked
- AI highlights: automatically strips dead-ball time and cuts per-player highlights into vertical videos sized for Reels/TikTok/YouTube
- Player profiles and tracking: accumulates individual stats across games, with friend and group leaderboards and group highlights
- Teams and leagues: per-player stats and group chat; the Team plan adds the web-based Hooper Hub (full-game footage and per-possession data)
- Full-court tracking: two phones each film one half and merge into a complete full-court session (two accounts required)
- Hooper API: open to a limited set of partners, no public documentation, apply by email
Pricing Three freemium tiers: Free $0/month (2 hours of recording, 5 saved clips), Pro $11.99/month (10 hours, unlimited clips, priority processing), Team $29.99/month (10 hours shared, unlimited seats, web team dashboard included). Subscriptions run through App Store/Google Play in-app purchase. Note: third-party directory sites still circulate the old '$9.99/month' pricing — that is outdated information; defer to the official site.
Company Background Built Different AI Inc. was founded in San Francisco in 2024, joined the a16z Speedrun 004 accelerator, and officially reports 38% day-30 retention in beta (versus an 8% industry average); it has presented at the Sloan sports analytics conference and partnered with Jeremy Lin's JLIN NextGen Camp. The rumored $2.0M Seed round traces to a single source and remains unverified.
Risk Notes Officially claimed accuracy is about 92% under the recommended setup, but results vary with lighting, camera height, and occlusion; a floor-level camera loses the shot chart and the two-/three-point distinction. Full-court requires two phones, which weakens the single-phone selling point. App Store US has only 5 ratings and Google Play roughly 3k installs — a small public feedback base for an early-stage product, and the data is not suitable as official game records. The app's privacy collection is broad (location, contacts, photos/videos, and more), so privacy-sensitive users should take note.
Pricing
### 💰 定价模式：免费增值 **起步价**：$0（Free 每月 2 小时录制额度） #### 主要方案 - **Free**：$0/月 - 2 小时录制/月、投篮追踪与热区图、可保存 5 条剪辑 - **Pro**：$11.99/月 - 10 小时录制/月、高质量剪辑推理、优先处理、剪辑不限量 - **Team**：$29.99/月 - 10 小时共享/月、不限席位、Web 端 Hooper Hub 团队后台、带时间戳音频批注 #### 试用/其他信息 订阅经 App Store / Google Play 内购完成，退款遵循应用商店政策。注意：第三方目录站流传的旧版 "$9.99/月" 定价已过时，应以官网为准。 — Visit website
FAQ
Is Hooper free?
Hooper has a free tier with 2 hours of monthly recording and 5 saved clips. Pro is $11.99/month (10 hours) and Team $29.99/month (10 hours shared), both via in-app purchases.
What can Hooper do?
Record games or training sessions with one phone and the AI automatically generates shot charts, field goal percentage, and other stats, then auto-edits vertical highlight reels; it also supports player profiles, group leaderboards, and team data.
How accurate is Hooper's shot tracking?
Officially about 92% accuracy under the recommended setup (tripod, half-court height, fixed 1080p); a co-founder stated on Product Hunt that both metrics tested above 90% internally, though lighting, camera angle, and occlusion affect results.
How does Hooper differ from HomeCourt?
HomeCourt focuses on individual shooting-form training (release angle, release time); Hooper focuses on full-court/pickup game stats and automatic highlights and supports both iOS and Android — the two are complementary rather than competing.
Is Hooper's price $9.99/month or $11.99/month?
Per the official site, Pro is $11.99/month. The '$9.99/month, 1 free hour' figures circulating on many third-party directory sites are outdated information superseded by the official new pricing (Free/Pro/Team tiers).
Who is Hooper for?
Pickup and half-court amateur players, parents filming their kids, small training camps and community league organizers, and basketball short-video creators; not suitable for official scoring scenarios that require 100% accurate records.
What are Hooper's risks or limitations?
Full-court tracking needs two phones and two accounts; a floor-level camera loses the shot chart and the two-/three-point distinction; data is not guaranteed 100% accurate; App Store and Google Play public ratings have small samples, it is an early product, and the app's privacy collection is broad.