Serve Course: Table Tennis

Practice your serves solo. Your coach calls the shot.

Stand your phone next to the table. Serve Course calls out a target on your opponent's side and the spin to use, so all you need is a ball and a paddle. It is built so training keeps going without you looking at or touching the screen.

■ Target zones and spins, called by voice
• The opponent's half is split into 9 zones: 3 depths (short, half-long, long) by 3 directions (backhand, middle, forehand).
• Mix in only the spins you want: backspin, side-backspin, side-topspin, no-spin and topspin.
• Callouts sound like "Short, Backhand, Backspin". Pick a voice speed of 0.8x, 1.0x or 1.2x, use beeps only, or turn sound off.
• Tap zones on the table to switch them on or off, or use presets like "Short only" and "Long only".

■ Record results hands-free
• Volume up means success, volume down means miss. Pair a Bluetooth selfie remote and log every serve with one button from across the room.
• Big success and miss buttons fill the lower half of the screen, with short vibrations that feel different for each result.
• The screen stays on while you train, in portrait or landscape.

■ Four training modes
• Random Course: calls random zones and spins from the ones you turned on, with an option to avoid the same zone twice in a row.
• Challenge: go for your personal record with 20 serves or a 5 minute time limit, scored by successful serves.
• Weakness Focus: zones with a lower success rate come up more often.
• Sequence: tap the table to build your own order of zones and spins, then repeat it. Each sequence holds up to 20 steps.

■ Train your way
• Auto mode calls the next target every 3 to 15 seconds and plays a ready beep one second before.
• Manual mode moves on shortly after you enter a result.
• Set the session to 10, 20, 30 or 50 serves, or unlimited.
• Flip the court for right or left handed opponents, and use doubles mode to serve only to the diagonal half court.
• "Recording off" mode just calls the course without keeping score.
• Pause and resume anytime. Training pauses automatically when the app goes to the background.

■ See your serve in the numbers
• Zone heatmap: success rate for each of the 9 zones, shown in color on the table.
• Success rate by spin, plus your weekly trend over the last 8 weeks.
• Weakness summary: your weakest zone and spin combination and how it changed over the last 7 days.
• Look back at every serve from past sessions.

■ More
• Get a daily practice reminder at the time you choose.
• Light, dark and system themes, plus a high contrast mode.

■ Pro (one-time purchase, no subscription)
• No ads
• Weakness Focus mode
• Unlimited sequences (1 on the free version)
• Stats for your full history (last 30 days on the free version)
• Export your serve records to CSV

The free version shows ads, but never on the training screen. The app does not use microphone, camera or location permissions, and your training records stay on your device.

One accurate serve at a time. Start practicing with Serve Course.