On your own

Keep track of your own progress.

A course teaches a new figure every week, and by the last week the first ones have faded. Film each figure while it's fresh, add the teacher's tips, and keep a reference you can come back to long after the course ends.

The List tab of a West Coast Swing course: basic, basket, behind-the-back and hustle whips, left side pass, sugar push, sugar tuck, tuck turn and underarm turn, each with its type and level, and the List, Map and Reels tabs at the bottom

Start with what you learned this week

Start a list for your dance

Pick a template with a few starter figures, or a blank list. Not sure yet? Open the example: a West Coast Swing group's list after two beginner courses and a festival.
Add each figure as it comes

Name, type, counts and rhythm, level, notes, your videos from class, and the figures it builds on. Tag it with the course or the festival weekend you learned it at.
Look back before the next class

Find a figure in the list, see where it fits on the map, or flick through your videos as reels.

One list, three ways to see it

Open a list and the bar at the bottom switches between three views of the same figures. The menu holds everything else: your other lists, and Settings.

List Every figure with its type and level. Sort it, filter it, open one for the details.
Map Which figure builds on which, as a timeline or a network.
Reels The videos of your figures, one per screen.

Open a figure and you get its counts and rhythm (1 2 3&4 5&6 for a six-count West Coast Swing pattern), its notes, its videos and its variations.

The timeline view: one lane per pattern type, flowing left to right from the foundations, such as the basic whip leading to the basket, behind-the-back and hustle whips

Two views of one map

On the Map tab, the timeline gives each pattern type its own lane and flows left to right by how far a pattern is from the foundations. The network is a zoomable graph you can pan, pinch and arrange by hand.

Colours show the pattern type, shading shows the level
Badges show which patterns have videos or variations
Drag nodes into your own arrangement. DPM remembers it for each list
Tap any pattern to open its details and videos

DPM showing a West Coast Swing course as a network on its Map tab: the sugar push leads to the sugar tuck, the left side pass to the tuck turn, and the basic whip to the basket, behind-the-back and hustle whips

Back from a festival weekend

More figures than you can remember? Tag them with the festival, filter for the tag in the weeks after, and you see each new figure together with the ones it builds on.

Filter by name, type, level, counts or tags. On the map, the filter doesn't just hide what doesn't match. It can keep the path that leads to a match, or everything connected to it, in view. The matches stay bright and the rest fades back.

The same filter works on the list, alongside sorting by name, type, level, counts or date added.

The timeline filtered to a festival tag: the behind-the-back and hustle whips stand out, with the basic whip they build on faded behind them

Variations without duplicates

"With an inside turn", "with a free spin", "hesitation": modifiers change how a pattern is danced without making it a new pattern. Each one comes before, after or within the pattern it's attached to.

Universal modifiers apply to every pattern in the list and can carry demo videos of their own
Others attach to individual patterns and can carry their own demo videos per pattern: that pattern danced that way
A modifier's page lists every pattern it's used with

The modifiers of a course list: with Inside Turn, with Outside Turn and with Free Spin change a pattern, with Duck comes after it, and Hesitation and with Hand Change are universal

Reels: your figures, one video at a time

The Reels tab gathers every pattern that has a video. The overview shows a still of each; tap one to watch them one per screen. Swipe up or down to the next pattern, and sideways through its videos: its own first, then those of it danced with a modifier.

Reels from the list you have open, or from every list on your phone
The phone's own video controls, with fullscreen in landscape
Back to the overview with the grid button, or with Android's back

Before class or a social, flick through what you've learned so far.

A reel of the basic whip, the first of its three videos: an anonymized clip in which the two dancers are coloured silhouettes

The Reels overview for this list: stills of the basic whip, marked as having three videos, and of the left side pass — The overview: this list or all lists, a still for each pattern.

On your phone, not in the cloud

Your class videos, put to work

Attach videos to any pattern: a clip from your gallery, a new recording, or a link that starts at the right second. Then let DPM help with the tedious part:

Shorten a long recording to just the pattern
Anonymize a clip of up to 30 seconds: turn the dancers into coloured silhouettes, or keep them as filmed with their faces covered, so everyone in it can be comfortable with it being shared
Transcribe what the teacher says, then tap a line to jump to it, correct it, or copy the lines you want to your notes
Suggest a name and description from that transcript. You decide whether to use it

All of it runs on the phone. The speech and language models download once, and your videos never leave the device. All four tools are available on Android first. DPM doesn't come with videos: every clip is one you recorded, or a link you added.

Checking an anonymized clip of a basic whip: the two dancers are coloured silhouettes, tags say it is anonymized, 20 seconds and without sound, a switch adds the whole transcript to the description, and the sheet offers to replace the original, keep both, discard or decide later

The Edit video sheet on its Shorten tab, with tabs for Anonymize and Speech: 20 seconds of the basic whip clip are selected as the part to keep, above a button to shorten it to 20 seconds — Pick the part that shows the figure.

The Anonymize tab: a couple is chosen as who to hide, the two dancers are marked 1 and 2 on a frame of the video, and a button anonymizes the 20 seconds — Tap the dancers, and the phone does the rest.

The pattern list with a banner: the basic whip's transcript is ready, and its anonymizing is under way — The work runs in the background, and you get a notification when it's done.

The transcript of the basic whip clip, line by line with timestamps, each with a box to copy it into the description and a pencil to correct it, below a button to suggest a name and description with AI — Read what was said, jump to a line, correct it, or copy it to your notes.

Questions

How should I use tags?

One tag per course, such as "Beginners 2", or per festival weekend. A course teaches about one figure a week, so a tag per week would hold a single figure. With a tag per course, one list can keep growing over years of classes.

Where do my videos go?

Nowhere, unless you send them. Videos stay on your device, and an export includes them only if you choose.

Does the AI send my videos to a server?

No. Anonymizing, transcribing and suggesting all run on the phone. The models download once (Wi-Fi recommended), and you can delete them in Settings.

How do I keep a backup?

Your lists live on your phone, so export them now and then, with or without their videos. Importing the file brings them back, and imports are checked before anything is written, so a damaged file can't half-overwrite your data.

Read on

With classmates

Keep track of your own progress.

Start with what you learned this week

Start a list for your dance

Add each figure as it comes

Look back before the next class