Pushups Coach vs Push Up Counter
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.
Push Up Counter
This app guides users through progressive push-up training programs, from beginner to advanced levels. It offers automatic tracking of sets, reps, pace, and calories, with seamless integration across Apple devices. Users can also train freely with a freestyle mode.
- Progressive push-up programs
- Freestyle training mode
- Automatic set and rep tracking
- Heart rate and calorie monitoring
- Apple Health integration
- iPhone and Apple Watch sync
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Pushanova is a push-up training app for iPhone, Apple Watch, and iPad. Follow a progressive program to reach 100 push-ups at your own pace. Or train freely with Freestyle mode. Do your own sets and repetitions without a fixed plan. Track your push-ups automatically and see your sets, pace, calories, heart rate, and workout history. Save your workouts to Apple Health. iPhone and Apple Watch work together during your workout. Start on either device and train with a seamless experience across your Apple devices. Pushanova is simple to use and designed for everyone, from beginners to experienced athletes.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Push Up Counter at 4.6 against Pushups Coach's 4.0. Push Up Counter also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (weekly vs every 6 months). Pushups Coach's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and review sentiment (82% vs 56%). On price, ratings volume, device support and iOS requirement 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. Push Up Counter sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per year. Pushups Coach asks for nothing beyond the download.
Push Up Counter holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 128 and 154 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 82% of Pushups Coach's written reviews are positive against 56% of Push Up Counter's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Pushups Coach ships an update every 6 months, Push Up Counter weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pushups Coach | Push Up Counter |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (128 ratings) | 4.6 (154 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 82.2% of reviews — better | 56.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 128 | 154 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 37 MB | 51 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 倩 赵 | Yauhen Bahdanovich |
Customer experience
Pushups Coach
Push Up Counter
User reviews
Pushups Coach
From 128 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Quality results
- 👍 Motivating and effective
- 📈 Tracks progress well
- ⏱️ Easy to use timer
- 🔍 Customizable difficulty
Room to improve
- 🙄 Too many ads
- 🐛 App not working/loading
- 🔍 Difficulty increases too fast
Push Up Counter
From 154 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Clean and simple interface
- 💰 One-time purchase option
- 🚀 Helps increase push-ups
- 💡 Motivating for users
- 👍 Free version available
Room to improve
- 🐛 Inaccurate rep counting
- 🐛 Auto-counter not working
- 🐛 Face recognition issues
- 🐛 Last rep not ending
- 🐛 Detection issues (centered, angle)
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
Push Up Counter
Reported bugs
8 issues- Counts 2 reps for every push-up
- Auto-counter not working on iPhone 16
- Records only one rep for multiple push-ups
- Counter only works on tap, not camera
- Automatic tracking not working
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- Push-up detection not great, triggers when close to phone
- Screen goes black during sets
- Last rep never ends
Requested features
3 requests- Advice on form and motivation
- Cool-down period after reps
- Longer rest period option
In-app purchases
Pushups Coach
No in-app purchases
Push Up Counter
- Yearly3 Days trial$5.991 Year
- Lifetime$12.99
Questions
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