Push For Better vs PushUps Smart
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Push For Better
Track your push-ups during a challenge event, learn daily mental health facts, and connect with your team. Earn achievement badges and work towards collective goals while staying informed about event resources.
- Bank daily push-ups
- Daily mental health facts
- Individual achievement badges
- Team goals and progress
- Event-wide progress overview
- Access event resources and FAQs
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Through The Push-Up Challenge event app you can bank your push-ups, learn about mental health and see how your mates are going too. Some features include: · See the daily mental health facts · Bank your push-ups on each day of the event · Receive individual achievement badges If you’re in a team, you can also: · Work towards team based goals · See how your team mates are going You can also see how the event is going as a whole and get easy access to event features, including FAQs, resources, tips and your event settings.
PushUps Smart
This app guides users through a personalized 6-week program to increase their push-up count. It creates custom workouts based on your current ability, helping you build upper body strength effectively at home or in the gym.
- Personalized 6-week push-up plan
- Customizable based on current push-up ability
- Builds upper body strength
- Workout tracking and guidance
- Rest period suggestions
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Push Ups Smart app is specifically designed to cater to fitness enthusiasts and those aspiring to achieve the remarkable feat of completing 100 push-ups within a span of just three months. This app is specifically designed to beginners and fitness users who are trying to strength their upper body by just doing push ups at home or even at the gym. By following this custom exercise program, you would be able to strength your upper body muscles and do multiple push ups in a very short period of time. Once you select the week and the day for your pushups program, you would need to enter a number in the require field which represent the amount of pushups that you can do at this moment. Once this number has been entered, the app would create a custom 6 weeks pushups program just for you. Example 5 sets with different amount of pushups to do per each set. Once you have completed one set of pushups, we would suggest you to rest the designated rest period of time 10 seconds, (however you can take your time to rest as much as you please) before proceeding to do the next set of pushups. After you have completed the 5 set of pushups repetitions, you should rest the next day since every 5 sets workout is equal to an upper body workout. We recommend to perform this exercise on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, so you can rest one day in between this workout. This program would last for a total of 6 weeks period and at the end of it, you would notice a huge increase in your upper body strength. @sweetestent
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: PushUps Smart at 5.0 against Push For Better's 4.4. PushUps Smart also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.6). Push For Better's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and update cadence (every 10 days vs every 2 months). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. PushUps Smart sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Push For Better asks for nothing beyond the download.
PushUps Smart holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Push For Better has 21 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Push For Better ships an update every 10 days, PushUps Smart every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on August 1, 2026 and June 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Push For Better | PushUps Smart |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (21 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 74.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 21 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 45 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | The Push for Better Foundation | Christian A. Castro |
Customer experience
Push For Better
PushUps Smart
Bugs and requests
Push For Better
Reported bugs
13 issues- Circle dial scrolling is inaccurate and unresponsive
- App crashes when reaching 100% daily push-ups
- White/blank screen on launch preventing app access
- Login errors despite correct credentials
- Password reset functionality not working
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- Team leaderboard scrolling locks up
- Cannot navigate away from certain pages (X button unresponsive)
- Glitch adding incorrect push-up counts (4100+ errors)
- App not recognizing challenge start date
- Freezing when banking push-ups
- Navigation issues jumping back to current day unexpectedly
- Donation error appearing on opening page
- Time zone not adjusting for international users
Requested features
15 requests- Quick buttons for common push-up amounts (10, 20, 30, 40, 50)
- Real-time team leaderboard updates
- Optional notifications when teammates log push-ups
- Widget support showing daily target and progress
- Ability to bank more push-ups than daily limit
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- Year-round app availability for continuous tracking
- In-app team messaging and chat functionality
- Apple Health integration for workout syncing
- Ability to donate directly through the app
- Time zone auto-detection and adjustment
- Overall challenge progress tracking (not just daily %)
- Flexible rest day scheduling
- Ability to view future challenge days in advance
- Source citations for mental health facts
- Secondary team tracking for different groups
PushUps Smart
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Push For Better
No in-app purchases
PushUps Smart
- PushUps Smart - No Ads$2.99
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