Moving to OnForm from Hudl Technique

I’ve been a long-time (since 2014) user of Hudl Technique (originally a software product called UberSense) for doing video analysis. With the quality camera systems now available on various Apple devices (and on Android devices as well) there is little need to use a separate camera system for on-ice or off-ice video analysis, and moreover using one’s personal device is decidedly more convenient.

Those of you who are Hudl Technique users should have received an in-app notification that Hudl Technique is being discontinued and, later this year, the back-end video storage for Hudl Technique will vanish. However, the good news is that Hudl Technique was acquired by partners Gear Fisher and Krishna Ramachandran, who was the original developer of the UberSense software, and their new product, called OnForm, is designed to offer better video analysis than Hudl Technique and in addition permit royalty-free sharing of video, images, files, and annotations to athletes on their own devices with integrated messaging.

With OnForm, one creates team or individual “workspaces” and once videos, images, or other files are placed in the workspace they can be shared. With a team, one can share a video with the entire team or any subset of the team, and the sharing is done to each athlete’s device – the athlete only needs to install the OnForm application on their device and can conveniently view the video right there. For athletes who only wish to view content, and message with their coach, the OnForm application is free; sharing is enabled by the coach purchasing a coach license (there are a number of options). OnForm is available on both Apple and Android devices. As with Hudl, video can be captured within the app, but OnForm goes one step further and also supports importing any kind of image, video, or file into a workspace to be shared, as seen here:

Now the best part. For existing Hudl Technique users, upon installing the OnForm app you can migrate your existing Hudl videos to the new platform, using the app’s migration tool located on the home menu. By default videos created in the past year will be migrated, but if you have additional videos you’d like migrated you can contact OnForm support to have them copied.

I had a delightful 60-minute conversation with Gear and Krishna late last week to talk about the app, discuss use cases and workflows, and convey some feedback. The latest version, 1.99.4.2, fixes a few glitches that I had discovered since I started using it and this new maintenance patch is so far working flawlessly. Pricing for the OnForm app is available here, with a number of different options. A single coach account, that supports unlimited athlete access, is US $299/yr. A single license permits multiple copies of the app on different platforms (I have OnForm on both my iPhone and my iPad) and the application’s functionality is seamless across the two.