Comparison

Push Up Reps vs StepMate

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

Head to head
About

Push Up Reps

Effortlessly track your push-up progress with automatic rep counting directly on your Apple Watch. Receive audio and haptic feedback to stay motivated and monitor your daily, weekly, and all-time totals. Set goals and visualize your achievements with customizable watch face complications.

Highlights
  • Automatic rep counting via Apple Watch sensors
  • Audio and haptic cues for feedback
  • Daily rep goal setting and notifications
  • Watch face complications for progress visualization
  • Personal best and lifetime statistics
  • Works with various push-up variations
  • Runs entirely on Apple Watch
Features
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Break up your day with quick sets of push-ups, and feel your progress as your watch keeps score. Push Up Reps auto-counts every rep right on your Apple Watch, gives you audio and haptic cues so you never lose track, and keeps a running tally of your progress. It's the easiest way to build a push-up habit between meetings, coding sessions, or TV shows. How it works: Start a session with a single tap. Drop down, push away. Push Up Reps detects each rep using your Watch's motion sensors. No phone needed, no screen-watching, no manual counting. Just you and your reps. Stay motivated: - Set a daily rep target and watch the numbers add up across sessions. - Keep a streak alive. Hit your goal and the day counts; miss it and you start over. Turn streaks to stay committed. - Challenge a friend. Cross your goal and fire off a scorecard by message: your total, your streak, and a motivating message. - Put Push Up Reps on your watch face with seven complications! Your count or streak is always one glance away. - After every set you get a scorecard: reps, duration, pace, and whether you just beat your personal best. Your data stays yours: Everything lives on your watch. When you want it somewhere else, export your full history as a plain CSV. Send it to yourself by mail or message and open it in any spreadsheet. No account, no cloud, no lock-in. Features: - Auto-counts reps using Apple Watch sensors - Works with any push-up variation (regular, wide, diamond, assisted) - Audio and haptic cues keep you locked in - Daily rep goal with a celebration the moment you cross it - Optional daily streak that a raised goal can't retroactively break - Challenge a friend with your stats - Seven watch face complications - Per-session history: every set, when you did it, and your best one - CSV export of your complete history - Personal best tracking and lifetime stats - Automatically log to Apple Health and Fitness (optional) - Runs entirely on Apple Watch, no iPhone required - No subscriptions, no account needed, and fully private One tap. Drop. Push. Beat your score.

About

StepMate

This app helps you monitor your daily steps and activity progress with a clear, simple interface. View your recent activity, track goal achievement, and stay motivated with visual progress indicators. It also offers Apple Watch integration for convenient wrist-based tracking.

Highlights
  • Daily step tracking
  • Clear daily goal progress
  • Last 7 days overview
  • Improved history view
  • Percentage progress above 100%
  • Apple Watch support
  • Light and dark mode
Features
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StepMate helps you keep your daily movement clear, simple, and easy to follow. Track your steps, complete your daily goals, and see how your activity develops over time. The app shows your current daily progress and now also displays the last 7 days directly on your phone screen. This gives you a quick overview of your recent activity, the days when you reached your goal, and how consistent you have been throughout the week. The history view has also been improved to make your past results easier to read and understand. StepMate also supports Apple Watch. With the watchOS app and new Apple Watch widgets, you can follow your progress directly from your wrist. A quick glance at your watch is all you need to see how close you are to reaching your daily step goal. The app is designed to be simple, fast, and pleasant to use every day. The refreshed design brings a cleaner look, better readability, and a more natural way to view your activity data. Percent values now also show progress above 100%, so you can clearly see when you have exceeded your daily goal. You can personalize StepMate in the settings. Choose light mode, dark mode, or follow your system appearance. You can also select the app language to make StepMate feel more comfortable for you. StepMate is ideal for anyone who wants to stay aware of their daily movement, build healthier habits, and stay motivated through simple progress tracking. Main features: - daily step tracking - clear daily goal progress - last 7 days overview - improved history view - percentage progress above 100% - Apple Watch support - new Apple Watch widgets - light and dark mode - app language selection - simple and clean design StepMate helps make movement a natural part of your day. Track your progress, reach your goals, and keep your steps always within reach.This version brings new features, a refreshed design, and several improvements to make tracking your daily movement clearer and more enjoyable.

Screenshots

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: StepMate at Free against Push Up Reps's $1.99. StepMate also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 6 weeks). Push Up Reps's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.2). On rating, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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

StepMate is free to download; Push Up Reps costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Push Up Reps against 5.0 for StepMate. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Push Up Reps ships an update every 6 weeks, StepMate weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 5 level
Push Up Reps versus StepMate: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPush Up RepsStepMate
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better26.2
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCody PumperPatrik Portes

Customer experience

Push Up Reps

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

StepMate

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Push Up Reps

No in-app purchases

None

StepMate

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Push Up Reps free?
Push Up Reps costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is StepMate free?
StepMate is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Push Up Reps or StepMate?
Push Up Reps and StepMate are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Push Up Reps or StepMate have ads?
Neither Push Up Reps nor StepMate shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Push Up Reps or StepMate?
Push Up Reps ships an update every 6 weeks, and StepMate weekly. Most recently, Push Up Reps was updated on October 17, 2026 and StepMate on October 15, 2026.

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