The pushup challenge you'll actually finish

A pushup (or press-up) counter, tracker and daily challenge app for iPhone and Android. You choose a daily rep target and a training schedule; the app counts every set you log, builds your streak, and ranks you against friends in leagues. Want structure? The premium Trainer adds a 12-level program from wall pushups to 100 a day. No ads, no clutter.

It counts reps by the set. Log a set with one tap and its reps are added to your daily total, or let the interval timer log each set for you as the alarm fires. Put the timer in fullscreen and it's readable from the floor — countdown on one side, sets done on the other, portrait or landscape. No camera or sensors involved, so it works face down on the floor, in a hotel room, or with your phone across the room. How the pushup counter works

Not with a camera — and that's deliberate. You don't tap per rep either: one tap logs a whole set, and the interval timer can log every set on its own as each alarm fires, so a session of 10 sets of 10 can be counted without touching your phone.

It depends what you want counted. Camera-based counters try to track each rep but need your phone propped up and pointed at you. PushUp Challenge takes the other approach: a rep counter that logs whole sets with one tap or automatically from an interval timer, plus a daily target, streaks that respect rest days, stats, and leagues with friends. The counter, tracker, timer and streaks are free.

Yes — PushUp Challenge works the same whatever you call them: press-ups, push-ups or pushups. Set a daily press-up target, log your sets, and the tracker keeps your total, streak and stats. It's free on iPhone and Android.

Yes. Tracking, targets, streaks, stats, the interval timer and joining leagues are all free. An optional premium subscription unlocks the Trainer program and the ability to create leagues for your crew.

Two things: the Trainer — the 12-level program from wall pushups to 100 full pushups a day — and creating leagues. It's an auto-renewing subscription billed through your App Store or Google Play account, with the price shown in the app before you buy. Cancel anytime in your store settings.

Pick a number you can hit on every training day rather than one that wipes you out. A common approach is to test your max in one set, then aim for roughly five to eight times that across the day in smaller sets — this is how the app suggests a starting target. Consistency matters more than the number: a target you hit five days a week beats a bigger one you miss. Build up to 100 pushups a day

Starting from zero, the Trainer is 12 levels of six sessions each, with a test at the end of every level — 72 sessions and 12 tests if you pass every test first time, at one session a day. Start higher on the placement test and it's shorter; repeat a level and it's longer. See the full 12-level program

Yes. The Trainer's placement test steps down through knee, incline and wall pushups until it finds a variant you can do, and level 1 starts with five sets of two or three wall pushups. The whole point of the program is climbing from exactly zero. Pushups for beginners

No. Your streak is measured against the schedule you chose. If you train weekdays, the weekend can't touch your flame.

Yes — it's on both the App Store and Google Play, with the same features and your history syncing between them when you sign in.

Yes. Every set saves to your phone instantly and syncs to the cloud when you're back online, so you can train with no signal.

No — tap “continue without account” and start pushing. Sign in later with email, Google or Apple and your history syncs to the cloud without losing a rep.