Comparison

Cornish Reps vs Pushbuddy

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

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Cornish Reps

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Cornish Reps counts your reps with the motion sensors in your earbuds and says every number in your ear. The phone lies on the floor, you just do the work. Free, no account, no subscription, no ads, no network. HOW IT WORKS Put in your earbuds, start a set and go. The app reads the motion of your head, counts each rep and calls it out. A set ends when you tap the screen, say stop, or simply hold still. If a number slips, fix it out loud: plus one, minus two. The voice commands are start, stop, pause, resume, plus and minus. No earbuds on you? Everything else still works. The program, the rest timers, the stats and the streak are all there, and you set the numbers by hand after each set. EXERCISES Push-ups, knee push-ups, sit-ups, squats, pull-ups, assisted pull-ups, and the plank on a timer. THE PROGRAM It starts with one test: do as many as you can in a single set. From that number the app lays out six weeks of sets, three workouts a week. Push-ups run on the classic hundred push-ups table, the other exercises have their own tables of the same shape. Retests after week two and week four rebuild the rest of the plan around what you actually did. Every exercise except the plank gets its own program and its own test, and the plank is sets and seconds you pick yourself. Come back after a long break and the plan steps back with you instead of pretending nothing happened. WHAT ELSE IS INSIDE A daily streak: any one exercise closes the day and keeps the pixel cat fed. A home screen widget with the streak and whether the day is closed. Stats: totals per exercise, growth charts, a calendar of every day you trained, and a full workout log. A rest timer between sets. Tap the water during rest to add fifteen seconds. An optional evening reminder, only on days you have not trained yet. It is a local notification, nothing is sent anywhere. CSV export of the raw sensor recordings, and a JSON backup of the whole history. Light and dark themes. English and Russian, switched in settings. PRIVACY The app makes no network requests of its own. There is no account, no analytics, no advertising identifier. Your history sits on your iPhone, and it leaves only when you share the file yourself. Voice commands go through Apple's own speech recognition: the app asks iOS to keep it on the iPhone, and if the on-device model will not run, iOS may pass the audio to Apple's speech recognition service. It never reaches me. WHAT YOU NEED An iPhone on iOS 18 or later. Automatic counting needs headphones with a motion sensor: it works with AirPods Pro, AirPods 3 and AirPods 4. Without them the app works with manual input. This is a training app, not medical advice. Talk to a doctor before you start a training program. AirPods is a trademark of Apple Inc. Cornish Reps is not affiliated with, sponsored or endorsed by Apple Inc.

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Pushbuddy

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Pushbuddy blocks the apps that eat your day. To get them back, you do something real. Pick what you lose hours to. Pushbuddy shields it. The shield lifts only when you have earned minutes — and minutes come from push-ups, squats, jumping jacks, a walk, or focused work. HOW IT WORKS 1. Choose what to block — any app, any category, any website. 2. Earn minutes with a habit. Your camera counts the reps on device. 3. Spend them: 15, 30 or 60 minutes. The shield returns when time is up. WHAT A HABIT BUYS • 10 push-ups — 15 minutes • 15 squats — 15 minutes • 30 jumping jacks — 15 minutes • 1,000 steps — 10 minutes • 25 minutes of focus — 25 minutes, one to one. Work never buys more scrolling than it cost. • 240 minutes a day, hard cap. You cannot bank a whole day and defeat the point. Lock early and the unused minutes come back to you. Changing your mind is not punished. SEE WHERE YOUR TIME GOES • Time in locked apps, today by the hour and this week by the day — tap any bar for the exact time. • How often you reached for a locked app this month, and whether it is falling. • Every push-up, squat, step and focused minute you have put in. REPS ARE COUNTED, NOT CLAIMED On-device pose detection watches you move, so the phone has to actually see the work. No video is recorded, saved or uploaded. Steps come from your iPhone's own motion sensor. YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS No account, ever. Camera frames are processed live and never recorded or uploaded. Pushbuddy never learns which apps you picked. The only thing that leaves is anonymous usage counts — no advertising ID, no profile. PRICE Free for 7 days with everything unlocked. Then one payment, once. No subscription, nothing to cancel. Pushbuddy uses Screen Time permission to shield your apps, and hands them back on your terms.

Screenshots

Cornish Reps4 screens
Pushbuddy4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Cornish Reps at none against Pushbuddy's 1. On price, update cadence, 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. Pushbuddy sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Cornish Reps asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Cornish Reps ships an update every 2 days, Pushbuddy every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 7 level
Cornish Reps versus Pushbuddy: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCornish RepsPushbuddy
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 days — betterEvery 4 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS18.018.0
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperOleksandra StryhunovaDhruwang Jariwala

In-app purchases

None

Cornish Reps

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Pushbuddy

One-time1
  • Pushbuddy Lifetime$9.99

Questions

Is Cornish Reps free?
Cornish Reps is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Pushbuddy free?
Pushbuddy is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Cornish Reps or Pushbuddy have ads?
Neither Cornish Reps nor Pushbuddy shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Cornish Reps or Pushbuddy?
Cornish Reps ships an update every 2 days, and Pushbuddy every 4 days. Most recently, Cornish Reps was updated on October 25, 2026 and Pushbuddy on October 29, 2026.

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