Every app below is free to download and was checked on its live App Store listing on 1 September 2026. Store figures move daily, so treat the ratings as a snapshot rather than a score.
Disclosure before anything else: we make one of these. Pushup RPG is ours. We have tried to write the rest of this so that it is still useful to someone who ends up installing a competitor, which is why the table records what each listing actually claims rather than which one we would like you to pick.
The only distinction that matters
The useful question is not which has the best art. It is how your exercise reaches the game, because that determines whether the game can be fooled and whether it changes anything while you are actually training. Our guide to the genre sets out three shapes, and every app here falls into one of them.
- Played. The movement itself is the input, live. The game responds while you are mid-rep.
- Measured. A sensor supplies a number afterwards. Usually steps, sometimes Apple Health.
- Logged. You tell the app what you did and it takes your word for it.
None of these is dishonest, and a walking game reading step count is doing exactly what it should. But they answer different questions, and a store page rarely tells you which one you are buying.
Played: the movement drives the game
These three read your body while you move, so the game reacts during the set rather than after it.
| App | Maker | How the exercise reaches the game | What it counts | Rating | Released |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pushup RPG: Fitness Quest | Yerasyl Amanbek | Front camera, on-device pose detection. Pushups and squats land as attacks as you do them. | Pushups, squats, sit-ups, pull-ups, dips, plank | 4.84 from 751 ratings | 2026-06-25 |
| Conqr: Fitness Battle Game | Mesut Dincer Altun | Camera. Its listing says to point the iPhone camera at yourself and it “tracks every rep in real time”. | Push-ups, squats, jumping jacks, shadow-boxing | 4.51 from 250 ratings | 2026-04-16 |
| Stealth Fitness | Stealth Body Fitness LLC | The phone’s motion detector, calibrated against the maker’s own physical board, translated into gameplay actions. | Core and balance work on their equipment | 4.63 from 8,300 ratings | 2018-03-20 |
This is the smallest group, and it is the one where the exercise is genuinely load-bearing. Conqr: Fitness Battle Game is the closest thing to what we build: point the camera at yourself and reps land as attacks. Stealth Fitness is the outlier, because the movement it reads is balance and core work performed on a physical board it sells, so the phone is a screen rather than a sensor pointed at you.
Measured: a sensor supplies the number
Four walking and Health-driven games. The exercise is real; the game reads it afterwards.
| App | Maker | How the exercise reaches the game | What it counts | Rating | Released |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fantasy Hike | Forge7 AB | Walking. Steps become distance along a hike, read after the fact. | Walking | 4.83 from 14,832 ratings | 2021-10-02 |
| Walking RPG: Hero health game | Shikudo Co., Ltd. | Step count via the pedometer, with Apple Health. | Walking | 4.65 from 2,108 ratings | 2018-02-26 |
| Prado Traveler: Walking RPG | Prado Industries, Inc. | Step count via the pedometer. | Walking | 4.7 from 377 ratings | 2024-03-06 |
| Fitscape - Fitness RPG Quests | BitLark LLC | Apple Health. Its listing says workouts, steps, sleep and recovery arrive automatically “instead of manually entering data”. | Whatever Apple Health already holds | 4.12 from 69 ratings | 2022-07-01 |
Fantasy Hike is by a distance the most successful app in this roundup, on the rating count in the table above, built up since October 2021. It is worth understanding why. Walking is the one form of exercise almost everybody already does, and a step counter needs no setup, no floor space and no decision to start. Fitscape - Fitness RPG Quests takes the same idea wider by reading whatever Apple Health already holds.
The trade is that the game cannot see form, cannot see effort, and cannot respond to the rep you are in the middle of. It is a reward layer over work that happened somewhere else.
Logged: you tell it what you did
One app here is explicit that progression comes from recording your own workouts.
| App | Maker | How the exercise reaches the game | What it counts | Rating | Released |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ascended: Fitness RPG | Level Up Fitness Incorporated | You log the workout. Its listing describes completing missions “by logging workouts”. | Any workout you record | 4.63 from 71 ratings | 2026-06-15 |
Ascended: Fitness RPG is honest about this on its listing, which is more than some manage. The design suits anything a phone cannot watch, such as barbell work. Its integrity, however, rests entirely on yours, and typing a number you did not earn costs nothing.
Two listings that do not say
Both of these are marketed on the game rather than the mechanism.
| App | Maker | How the exercise reaches the game | What it counts | Rating | Released |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Push Up Arena - Fitness Game | Airix LLC | Not stated. Neither the App Store listing nor pushuparena.app says how a rep is detected. | Push-ups, squats, sit-ups, planks | 4.64 from 2,474 ratings | 2026-05-14 |
| LEVELING: Fitness | Tom Sasia | Not stated on its listing. | Not stated on its listing | 4.62 from 733 ratings | 2025-02-07 |
Push Up Arena - Fitness Game is the fastest-growing app in this roundup: it launched in May 2026 and the table above shows where that has taken it in three and a half months. We could not establish how it counts a rep. Its App Store description and its own site both describe the game at length and the input method nowhere. Its listing also states, in its own words, that the features it advertises require a subscription.
We are not suggesting anything is wrong with either app. We are saying that if the counting method matters to you, you will have to install them to find out, because the listing will not tell you.
Where Pushup RPG sits, and our bias
Pushup RPG: Fitness Quest is ours, so weigh this accordingly. It is in the played group: the front camera watches the set and each rep that reaches depth lands as an attack. It counts pushups, squats, sit-ups, pull-ups and dips and times the plank, it runs on iOS and Android, and the rep counting and the campaign are free.
The honest limits: there is no Apple Watch app, so nothing counts from your wrist. It needs floor space and somewhere to prop the phone, which a step counter does not. And if you want a game built around walking, Fantasy Hike is a better fit than anything we make, which is why it is in the table.
How to choose
- You want the game to react while you train. Look at the played group, and expect to give it floor space and a phone stand.
- You want progress without changing your day. A walking game reading step count asks the least of you, and Fantasy Hike has the most users behind it.
- You train with equipment a camera cannot read. A logging app is the only shape that fits.
- The counting method matters to you. Rule out anything whose listing will not say, or accept that you are installing to find out.
