Comparison

PushLimit vs Kinetics

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

PushLimit

This app provides personalized calisthenics workout plans for beginners. It adapts to your fitness level, age, and goals with science-based guidance. Track your progress, earn rewards, and stay motivated with daily notifications and customizable themes.

Highlights
  • Personalized workout plans
  • Fitness assessment
  • Weekly goals and daily recommendations
  • XP and leveling system
  • Workout history tracking
  • Theme customization
Features
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PushLimit is your ultimate beginner-friendly calisthenics workout companion, designed to help you build strength, stay consistent, and track your progress. Get a personalized plan in minutes. Complete a quick fitness assessment, and our algorithm creates a custom workout plan with weekly goals, daily recommendations, and sets/reps tailored to your fitness level, age, and goals. No guessing—just science-based guidance that adapts to you. Whether you're just getting started with push-ups, sit-ups, or squats, or returning to fitness after a break, PushLimit gives you a clear, effective path to success. With clean visuals, smart tracking, and a smooth user experience, it's the perfect app for building a strong foundation. Stay motivated and engaged: - Earn XP and level up to unlock new titles and features - Daily workout notifications at 11 AM and 3 PM keep you on track - Monitor your streaks and track progress with detailed workout history - Unlock theme customization as you progress - Follow personalized daily recommendations with guided sets, reps, and rest periods Start building stronger habits, one workout at a time.

About

Kinetics

Features
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Open the app, press start, and do the workout in front of you. The exercise, the sets, the weight, and the rest timer are already decided. When the timer ends, the next set is queued. Your whole job is to lift. Kinetics writes that workout for the gym you train in, then runs the program in blocks so it has a shape. Phases, the same main lifts week to week, and a split that matches how often you get in. YOUR GYM, YOUR PLATES Tell it what you have once. A commercial gym, a rack and a few plates in the garage, or a pair of dumbbells. It only programs what you can load, and it will never give you a weight you don't own the plates for. Save more than one gym and switch when you travel. THE PROGRAM Every week has an overhead pull, a row and a hamstring movement in it. The app checks before it hands you the week. Main lifts stay put through a block so you can see whether they moved. Rest between sets comes from the phase you're in. Ask for 45 minutes and the session is 45 minutes, warm-up and rest between sets included. What you lifted, how hard the sessions were, the lifts you rated up or down and the weight bumps you approved all go into the brief for next week. A lift that has stopped moving gets flagged and pushed toward a change. Your equipment, your session length and anything you've cut are enforced afterwards, whatever else happens. IN THE SESSION One exercise at a time, with the weight, reps and rest already filled in. Your last numbers for that lift are on screen. The rest timer keeps running when you switch apps, stays on your Lock Screen and your wrist, and queues the next set when it ends. The phone stays in your pocket. The plate calculator tells you what to put on the bar. Change things while you're training. Ask the coach to swap a lift when the rack is busy, drop the weight, or turn it into a timed set. Tell it you're done with an exercise for good and it comes out of every session already on your schedule. AFTER THE SESSION Total volume, intensity, which muscles took the work, and any personal records with the estimated 1RM behind them. Volume and strength trends over weeks. Thumbs up or down on any lift, and two thumbs down retires it. If you wear an Apple Watch, the session shows up in Apple Health and your heart rate goes into the report. Sleep and resting heart rate from Health build a readiness score you can look at before you decide how hard to go. YOUR DATA STAYS ON YOUR PHONE No account and no sign-up. Your training history and profile live on the device. Generating a workout and talking to the coach send that request to Google's Gemini API to be processed, and nothing is kept there. Kinetics Pro unlocks workout generation and the coach. - Monthly — $4.99/month - Annual — $49.99/year - Includes a 7-day free trial Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. Your subscription auto-renews unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the period. Manage or cancel anytime in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://kinetics-app.netlify.app/privacy-policy.html

Screenshots

PushLimit4 screens
Kinetics4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: PushLimit at none against Kinetics's 2. PushLimit also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks) and ratings volume (5 vs 1). Kinetics's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.8). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Kinetics sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. PushLimit asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Kinetics holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: PushLimit has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

PushLimit ships an update weekly, Kinetics every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on November 5, 2026.

Scorecard5 real differences · 4 level
PushLimit versus Kinetics: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPushLimitKinetics
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (5 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings5 — better1
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS17.6 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB78 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRichard McKainIronside Labs LLC.

In-app purchases

None

PushLimit

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Kinetics

Subscriptions2
  • Kinetics Pro (Monthly)7 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Kinetics Pro (Annual)7 Days trial$49.991 Year

Questions

Is PushLimit free?
PushLimit is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Kinetics free?
Kinetics is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, PushLimit or Kinetics?
Kinetics is rated higher. PushLimit averages 4.8 out of 5 from 5 ratings, while Kinetics averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do PushLimit or Kinetics have ads?
Neither PushLimit nor Kinetics shows ads.
Which is updated more often, PushLimit or Kinetics?
PushLimit ships an update weekly, and Kinetics every 3 weeks. Most recently, PushLimit was updated on November 5, 2026 and Kinetics on November 5, 2026.

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