Yes — Pushup RPG counts both pushups and squats, using the same phone front camera and on-device pose detection for both — though the two are judged by different rules: pushups on depth and body angle, squats on knee angle, with squats also requiring your feet to stay planted. It keeps a separate record for each movement rather than pooling them into one meaningless combined total. Squats were added in version 2.0.
Disclosure: we make Pushup RPG, so read this as the makers explaining what our app does rather than as a neutral review. We have tried to be specific about the limits below, including the ones that will send some readers elsewhere — that is the part most vendor pages leave out.
What "counts" actually means here
Plenty of apps say they count reps. The mechanism matters, because it decides what happens when you get tired and start cutting corners.
Pushup RPG watches you through the front camera and runs pose detection on the device — it tracks how far you actually descend and how fast you move, and credits a rep only when the movement completes through a full range. A shallow rep does not go on the board. That is deliberate: it is what makes a leaderboard number mean something, and it is also, honestly, occasionally annoying when you are tired and certain that one counted.
Nothing leaves your phone. No video, no images, no pose data is recorded, stored or transmitted, and there is no server anywhere in the counting loop. If you are going to prop a camera up and point it at yourself on the living-room floor, that seems like the minimum worth asking for.
Why the two movements stay separate
A combined "reps this week" number across two different exercises is close to useless — 40 squats and 40 pushups are not interchangeable, and averaging them hides which one you actually trained.
So squats have their own leaderboard, and pushup and squat records are never pooled. What the two do share is the game: squats run the whole adventure for the same XP, gold and loot, they keep your daily streak alive, and they damage your guild's weekly boss. Practically, that means a leg day still counts as showing up. You are not choosing between "train squats" and "keep the streak".
What it does not count
This is the part worth reading before you install anything.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Movements counted | Pushups and squats only. No pull-ups, sit-ups, burpees, lunges or planks. |
| Platform | iPhone and Android. iOS 17.0+ on the App Store, and free on Google Play. |
| Apple Watch | No watch app exists. Counting needs the phone camera with a view of you. |
| Price | Free to download. Camera counting and the campaign are free; an optional Vigil membership is an in-app purchase. |
| Apple Health | Opt-in and write-only — it adds workouts, and requests no permission to read anything. |
We are also not going to claim to be the only app that counts both movements. We cannot verify that, competitors ship features constantly, and any page that leans on being the only option is one update away from being wrong. What we can describe is the mechanism: camera pose detection, full-range-only credit, and one streak that either movement can feed.
When you should pick something else
Genuinely, and specifically:
- You are on Android. Pushup RPG is now on Google Play, so this one does run on your phone.
- You want to count from your wrist. We have no watch app. Push Up Counter & Tracker (Puuush) and CounterUps both list Apple Watch support, and Rep Up for Watch is a general wrist-based rep counter that names push-ups among its supported movements (App Store listings, checked July 2026).
- You want to log many exercises. Two movements is two movements. A general workout logger will serve you better.
- You want a plain counter with no game. The RPG is the whole design. If a fantasy campaign sounds like noise, it will be noise — a focused counter like Top Pushup (free, ad-supported per its listing, checked July 2026) is a calmer choice.
- You do not need an app at all. A notebook counts every variation perfectly and costs nothing. For a lot of people the bottleneck is showing up, not measurement.
Who it does suit
Someone on an iPhone who trains both movements at home, wants the count to be honest rather than self-reported, and finds that a streak plus a boss fight gets them onto the floor on the days when willpower alone would not. That is a narrow description on purpose.
If you are still building up to your first full rep, the counting-only-full-range behaviour will read as discouraging early on — our where to start when you can't do a pushup guide is more useful than any app at that stage, and our comparison of pushup counting apps covers the alternatives, including manual counters that handle wall and knee reps better than any camera does.
Whatever you use, build up gradually rather than chasing a number in the first week, and stop a set if you feel sharp joint pain rather than ordinary muscle fatigue — sharp pain is a reason to stop and, if it persists, to see a clinician.
