FencingVault
Your fencing videos, finally organized. This quick guide walks you through your first few minutes in the app — set up your profile, add your bouts, and start building a record of your career.
FencingVault takes the pile of look-alike bout clips in your camera roll and turns them into a searchable archive — automatically grouped by tournament, event, and fencer. There are two places your videos can live:
Videos that stay on your device. Import them from your photo library and FencingVault matches each one to the tournament and event it came from — no manual labeling. Included on every plan.
Videos you upload to share. Anything in your Cloud Vault can be seen by your linked parent or fencer and by coaches you've allowed. Available on higher plans.
Fencers, parents, and coaches each get a view that fits them. Link a parent and fencer together, and let your club coach in — everyone sees the right bouts without texting giant files.
When you sign up you'll choose a profile type. They work the same way — the difference is whose videos you're organizing and how many fencers you track. (Coaches have their own guide — see the bottom of this page.)
For the competitor organizing their own bouts. You track a single fencer — yourself — with your USA Fencing name, weapon, and gender. Add your videos, keep opponent notes, request AI Quick Prep, and share your bouts up to a parent or coach.
For a parent or supporter following their fencer(s). You can track more than one fencer — add each child's name, weapon, and gender — and a video is matched to whichever of them competed. Everything else (Phone Vault, Cloud Vault, coaches, linking) is identical.
Five tabs run along the bottom of the screen. Here's what each one does.
Do these in order the first time you open the app. Steps 1 and 2 are all you need to get value right away — the rest unlock sharing and AI features.
Sign up with Apple, Google, or email. Choose whether you're a fencer, a parent, or a coach — this tailors what you see. You can always change details later in Settings.
Open Settings and add your first and last name so the USA Fencing name is exactly as it appears in your tournament registrations, plus your weapon and club / team. This is the single most important step: FencingVault uses your name, weapon, and club to automatically match your videos to the right tournament, event, and bout.
Parents can add more than one fencer here — each child's name, weapon, and gender — so a video is matched to whichever of your fencers competed.
Tap Add Videos and pick the bout clips from your photo library. FencingVault reads each video's date, time, and location and matches it to the tournament and event you were at — then groups everything chronologically so you can find any bout in seconds.
The originals stay in your photo library; the Phone Vault just organizes them. Give the app permission to access Photos when it asks, so it can read that date and location info.
Tap any video to confirm or edit its tournament, event, and the fencer(s) in it. Mark a bout as a favorite (the ⭐ on the player) to keep your best touches, key DEs, or video you'll revisit one tap away.
On a Cloud-enabled plan, upload a bout to your Cloud Vault to share it and unlock coaching. Cloud videos are what your linked parent/fencer and your coaches can see — and what you can request an AI Quick Prep analysis on.
Some videos are on the parent's phone, some on the fencer's. In Settings, share your 6-character Share Code (or enter someone else's) to link accounts. Once linked, every Cloud Vault bout tagged to the fencer shows up on both sides automatically.
Then, under Coaches, flip your club coach to Can See so they can review your Cloud Vault videos and leave notes. Coaches can't see anything until you allow them.
Use the lock icon to mark any Cloud Video private to prevent coaches and linked accounts from seeing the video.
Everything below lives in Settings. Getting these right makes the automatic matching and sharing "just work."
Two quick toggles on every video player let you organize and protect your bouts.
Tap the star to flag your standout bouts — a clean DE win, a tactical point worth re-watching, recruiting-reel material. Favorites are easy to surface later so the best video is never buried.
Tap the lock on a Cloud Vault video to make it private — it stays in your vault but is hidden from coaches and linked viewers, so only you can see it. Unlock it any time to share again.
FencingVault is private by default. Here's exactly what each connected person can and can't see.
A fencer and a parent can connect their separate FencingVault accounts so a bout filmed and uploaded on either phone shows up for both. No texting giant video files, and it doesn't matter who was holding the camera.
Open Settings → Link with a fencer or parent. Every account has its own 6-character Share Code. Send yours to the person you want to link with, or ask them for theirs.
Type their 6-character code into that same setting and confirm. The link is mutual — once one side enters the other's code, both accounts are connected. You don't both need to enter a code.
From then on, every Cloud Vault video tagged to the fencer appears in both accounts — whether it was uploaded from the parent's phone or the fencer's. Nothing else to do.
Once your bouts are in, a few features turn FencingVault into a coaching tool.
Search by tournament, fencer, date, or event. Pull up that bout from last season in two seconds instead of scrolling your camera roll.
Keep notes on opponents you may face again. Combined with your coach's notes, they feed the AI's pre-bout game plan.
Use AI to summarize and combine all notes to help prepare for an upcoming bout. More AI features to come over time.
Set your name and club, add a few bouts, and FencingVault does the rest.
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