Pushups Coach vs Retainer Timer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pushups Coach
This app guides you through a structured plan to increase your pushup count, aiming for 100 consecutive reps. It tracks your progress, offers various pushup types, and allows for custom plans and reminders. Achieve your fitness goals in about 30 minutes per week.
- Structured pushup training plan
- Progress tracking and calorie burn
- Graphical training log
- Customizable reminders
- Introduction to pushup postures
- Customizable exercise plans
- Apple Watch support
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Pushups is a great upper body and easy to do exercise, it will train your muscles in the chest, shoulders, triceps, back, abs and the legs. If you make your decision to increase your strength, if you want to break your records of pushups, if you want to do 100 consecutive pushups, follow Pushups Coach, this app is to help you achieving the goal. No matter what level you are in at this moment, just follow Pushups Coach’s plan, do step by step, and only take about 30 minutes a week, you will become the hero of yourself after six weeks. Key Features: ⁃ Well designed pushups plan. ⁃ Track your pushups trainings and calories burned. ⁃ Graphical log of your each pushups and calorie burnt. ⁃ Music plays, make it more fun when you are doing pushups. ⁃ Ten types of pushups postures introduction by words and pictures. ⁃ Custom pushups reminder. ⁃ Support backstage running. ⁃ Passcode function. ⁃ Supports Face ID passcode. ⁃ Share your trainings with your friends. ⁃ Make your own exercise plan if you have finished the default plan or think they are too easy or too hard. ⁃ Supports WiFi backup & restore. ⁃ Supports Dropbox backup and restore. ⁃ Supports Apple Watch version. ⁃ Supports universal version. If you have any question or suggestion, please send email to our support userfeed@vip.tom.com.
Retainer Timer
This app helps users remember to put in their dental retainers or clear aligners after eating. It provides notifications and tracks daily statistics for wear time, with cloud storage for seamless device switching.
- Wear time reminders
- Daily statistics
- Cloud data storage
- Device switching
- Progress tracking
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Do you have a product like Invisalign, a retainer or a clear aligner? Do you forget to put them back in after eating? Well, the solution is here! Retainer Timer will make sure you remember with notifications while also allowing you to view your statistics for previous days. During the day you can check your current grade for the day or look at the final grade for previous days. All of this data is stored in the cloud allowing you to switch devices freely and keep your progress and stats.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Pushups Coach at 4.0 against Retainer Timer's 1.0. Pushups Coach also leads on ratings volume (128 vs 2). Retainer Timer's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 6 months). On price, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Pushups Coach holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pushups Coach has 128 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Pushups Coach ships an update every 6 months, Retainer Timer fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pushups Coach | Retainer Timer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (128 ratings) — better | 1.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 82.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 128 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 37 MB | 42 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 倩 赵 | Lachlan Maxwell |
Bugs and requests
Pushups Coach
Reported bugs
3 issues- App freezes at loading screen
- App not compatible with latest iOS updates
- App resets progress during workouts
Requested features
3 requests- Add camera to count push-ups automatically
- Provide more guidance on how to use the app
- Allow adjusting difficulty level more easily
Retainer Timer
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Pushups Coach
No in-app purchases
Retainer Timer
No in-app purchases









