Push-ups, accountability, and showing up. No fluff.
Most push-up trackers obsess over rep counting and forget the only thing that matters: whether you show up tomorrow. Here's what actually keeps people consistent, and how to pick a tracker that works.
Group chats are full of fitness talk and empty of fitness results. How to run a push-up challenge your friends will actually finish, and the app built for exactly that.
Version 2.0.0 is live on the App Store, and it is the biggest change to how PushCheck works since we added groups.
First, what Pro covers now. PushCheck Pro used to be one thing: joining public groups. It is now three. Joining public groups, creating your own public groups, and running challenge seasons. Still a one-time $6.99, still not a subscription, still no ads. And everything you already use is still free: private groups, check-ins, streaks, leaderboards, the shame timer. None of that moved.
Challenge seasons came from watching people use the app in a way it did not really support. Groups kept running month-long challenges, and they all hit the same wall at the end of the month. The all-time leaderboard never resets, so whoever logged the most reps since day one sits on top permanently, and the person who actually won the month has nothing to point at. A season fixes that. It is a start date and an end date on a group challenge. While it is running, the leaderboard gains a Season view that ranks everyone for that window only, and your all-time totals stay exactly where they are. Group creators need Pro to set a season up. Every member sees the standings for free.
When a season ends, the creator can generate a results card with the final standings. It is built to be posted in the group chat or on social, because that is where these challenges actually live.
Second, we now run official PushCheck groups. 25 A Day, 50 A Day, and 100 A Day. They sit at the top of Browse, and anyone can open them and look for free. Joining takes Pro. The reason they exist is simple: downloading a push-up app when none of your friends have it is a dead end, and telling someone to go recruit their friends first is a bad answer. Now there is always a challenge you can walk into.
That is 2.0.0. If you want the whole feature list, the FAQ covers it. Otherwise, keep checking in. Download PushCheck on the App Store.
Jon, PushCheck
PushCheck Pro is live in version 1.9. Before anyone panics, here is the first thing you need to know: everything you use today stays free. Groups, check-ins, streaks, leaderboards, the shame timer, all of it. Nothing moved behind a paywall.
Note: as of version 2.0.0, PushCheck Pro also covers creating your own public groups and running challenge seasons. See the 2.0.0 post above.
So what is Pro? It's a one-time $6.99 unlock that adds public groups. Until now, every group in PushCheck was private. You needed an invite code, which meant you needed friends already in the app. Public groups change that. Group admins can now choose to make their group public, and any Pro member can browse open challenges and join without an invite code. Admins can switch a group back to private anytime. Browsing is free for everyone; joining a public group requires Pro.
Why a one-time price instead of a subscription? Because I hate fitness app subscriptions. Paying $10 a month forever for an app you use for thirty seconds a day is exactly the kind of thing PushCheck was built against. You pay once, you own it. No renewal, no trial that quietly converts, no ads.
One more change in 1.9: group admins can now edit any member's check-in within the past 30 days, up from 7. Commissioners running monthly challenges kept hitting the old window when fixing missed logs, so we extended it. Members still edit their own check-ins within the past 7 days; that part hasn't changed.
That's the release. If public groups sound useful, the unlock is in the app. If they don't, keep doing what you're doing and nothing changes for you. Either way, the core promise holds: track push-ups, challenge friends, see who shows up. Download PushCheck on the App Store.
Jon, PushCheck
Version 1.8 is live, and almost everything in it came from users telling us what was broken or missing. Here's the honest version of how each feature happened.
Past check-in editing came from a 1-star review. Someone did their push-ups every single day, forgot to log one of them, watched their streak die, and left us a 1-star review that stung because they were right. Punishing someone for forgetting to open an app is not accountability, it's bookkeeping. So now you can tap any of the past 7 days and add or edit a check-in. If a backfilled day fills a gap, your streak recalculates automatically. Older than 7 days stays locked. Do the work, log it within a week, keep your streak. Skip the work and it still resets. That's the deal.
Streak rankings came from watching a real challenge play out. One of our users ran a month-long challenge with his group, showed up at or above goal every single day, and finished mid-pack on the leaderboard because a couple of guys stacked huge rep days whenever they felt like it. Total reps is a fine scoreboard, but it hides the person who never misses. So the leaderboard now has a Total and a Streak toggle. Total ranks by reps. Streak ranks by consecutive days at goal, ties broken by total reps. Consistency finally gets its own scoreboard.
The shame timer is exactly what it sounds like. Your group picks a time, 9 PM by default. When it hits, anyone who hasn't reached the daily goal gets called out in a notification the group receives. If everyone already hit their goal, nothing goes out. Silence means everyone showed up. It's optional, the admin controls it, and it works because nobody wants to be the name in that notification.
Group admins also got real controls in this release: the group creator gets a crown, can edit any member's check-in within the past 7 days, remove members, and change the group name, challenge, and daily goal. Monthly challenges basically run themselves now.
All of it is free, like everything else in PushCheck. Download it on the App Store and see who in your group actually shows up.
Jon, PushCheck
PushCheck exists because of a group chat. A few friends challenged each other to do push-ups every day. For two weeks it worked. Then someone missed a day, nobody noticed, and within a month the challenge was dead. Not because anyone got weaker. Because nobody could see who was still showing up.
Every fitness app we tried solved the wrong problem. They counted reps with the camera, generated 12-week training plans, and sent us motivational quotes. None of them answered the only question that kept the challenge alive: did my friends do their push-ups today?
So we built a push-up accountability app that does exactly one thing. You check in, your friends see it, and the leaderboard tells the truth. No AI rep counting. No workout programs. No subscriptions. Just visibility, streaks, and the mild social terror of your name sitting at the bottom of the board.
It turns out that's enough. Social pressure beats willpower every time.
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