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Push-up Challenge Tracker for iPhone

Track your push-up challenge total on iPhone. Log each session, build toward 1,000 or 10,000, no streaks required. Free to download.

You set a push-up challenge for yourself: 10,000 in a year, or 1,000 in a month. You started logging daily sets, watching the count build. Then a shoulder twinge forced a four-day break. The streak reset to zero.

The break was sensible — you were protecting your shoulder. But the app treated it like abandonment. It had no concept of accumulated reps. Its only metric was consecutive days, and that metric had failed.

Push-up challenges are rep-count goals. The number you care about is total reps completed, not days without missing. Whether you do 50 one day and 200 the next, they both add to the same running total.

A challenge tracker should show cumulative reps: 4,200 of 10,000. Every set adds to it. A rest day subtracts nothing.

Common targets

1,000 push-ups5,000 push-ups10,000 push-ups

Someone doing 100 push-ups daily reaches 1,000 in 10 days. Most people spread sets across the day and track weekly totals.

Why push-ups is a milestone goal

Push-up challenge goals are cumulative: you want to reach a total. 10,000 push-ups is a common challenge format. The count accumulates whether you do 50 in one go or spread them across sessions. A streak tracker can't represent rep counts: it only tracks whether you checked in each day.

The problem with streak trackers for push-ups

A missed day breaks the daily push-up streak even when you're 4,500 reps into a 10,000 challenge. The rep count is the real number. The streak is a proxy that resets when the real metric keeps accumulating.

What the math looks like

100 push-ups per day reaches 10,000 in 100 days. A rest day costs zero reps from the running total.

How Notch tracks push-ups

  1. 1
    Set a target. Enter how many push-ups you want to do. Notch knows where done is.
  2. 2
    Log each push-up. Tap to add one. Each tap adds a dot to the grid and moves the total closer to your target.
  3. 3
    Watch the grid fill. Every dot represents a real push-up you do. Nothing resets. Take a break and resume from exactly where you left off.
Pricing

Free to download. The full app unlocks with a one-time $9.99 purchase. No subscription.

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A milestone tracker for iPhone. Set a target for push-ups, log each push-up, and watch the dot grid fill. No streaks. No resets. No subscription.

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