Now on the App Store
Hold a handstand.
For real.
The iPhone app that teaches you to balance on your hands. A 2-minute level test, 15 to 20-minute sessions, and a path that runs from your first hold at the wall to a freestanding handstand.
iPhone, iOS 18 or later. 14-day free trial on the yearly plan, and no account to create.
How it works
An app and a structured program for fast progress
01
Two minutes to find out where you are
The test assesses your base: wrists, core, balance. By the end the app knows exactly which drills to give you, and more importantly which ones to leave out. Never too hard, never useless.
02
A path, not a playlist
A skill tree takes you from your very first hold at the wall to freestanding, then further into the figures. You unlock what is next by clearing the step you are on, against measured criteria. Since 2024, the path built into the app has been reworked from the feedback of more than 180 users.
03
Guided sessions, minute by minute
Timer, spoken countdown, coaching cues. You put the phone down and follow. Every session opens with the wrist warm-up, five minutes that prevent the vast majority of pain, and the app times your best holds along the way.
04
Every drill demonstrated on video
The main complaint about the 2024 prototype was the missing demos: some positions were simply impossible to understand in writing. Every movement now has its video and its steps.
Who wrote this method
The method I follow myself
I did club gymnastics from the age of 8, about six years across three separate stints, and in all that time the handstand was never a skill we trained for the hold, it was a position you passed through in a routine. It became a subject of its own around 2016, during a trip to Thailand, and since then I have practised in a very scattered way, stretches of two to six months and long gaps in between.
My best is 1 min 01 in a full hold, feet together, on 15 February 2023, at 36. It took roughly three months of four or five sessions a week focused on the shoulders.
I started training daily again in mid-June 2026, the same month I picked the app back up (the two go together, that is what keeps me honest). Three weeks later I held 20 seconds. As of 13 August 2026 I am at 57 seconds freestanding and 30 seconds in a full hold, and the app I am building is the one I use every day, for myself.
Stéphane PerrinThe full journey
The first blocker
What stops you is not knowing how to come down
Strength is almost never the problem for an adult. Until your body has a plan for getting out of the position, it refuses to go up, and you stay stuck at the wall for months without understanding why.
Handstand Pro treats the cartwheel bail out as a skill in its own right, with its own module, and you learn it before you attempt freestanding balance. It is the number one blocker for adults, and it is solved in two sessions. The technique is spelled out in the guide, free, whether you install the app or not.
What it replaces
A private coach
Around $60 an hour, and you still have to find the slot, the place, and someone who actually knows handstands.
YouTube tutorials
Free, and often very good taken one at a time. But nothing tells you what order to do them in, or when you are ready for the next thing.
Handstand Pro
A program that knows where you are and what you should do today, for about the price of a coffee a month.
Questions that keep coming up
When is it coming to my country?
It went live in August 2026 and has been opening country by country since. The United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada, Australia and New Zealand are open, along with most of Europe. The quickest check is the App Store button above: if it opens the listing, you can install it.
How long before I hold my first seconds?
It depends on where you start and how regular you are. For an adult training three to five times a week, the first seconds of freestanding balance usually land somewhere between six weeks and six months. Timelines by profile are here.
I have never done gymnastics. Can I start?
Yes. That is exactly what the level test is for: it looks at your wrists, your core and your balance, then builds the progression from there. If you have never left the floor, the path starts on the floor.
Is 40 too late?
No. The app was built by an adult who rebuilt his balance after 35. What changes with age is warm-up time and recovery, not your ability to learn the movement. What actually changes after 30 or 40.
Is there an Android version?
No, and none is planned for now. Handstand Pro needs an iPhone running iOS 18 or later.
Take the test, and start today
Two minutes to find out where you are, then your first session. The rest is showing up.
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