Guides

Push-up challenges with friends, what counts as a rep, fitness test standards, and how the rep counter apps compare.

Choose an app

• PushApp Alternative: Push-Up Duels With Friends — Looking for a PushApp alternative? Beastie counts push-ups, squats and jumping jacks with the camera and settles it with friends by link or live duel.
• Best Push-Up Counter Apps in 2026, Honestly Compared — Seven push-up counter apps compared from their own store listings: how each one counts, what it costs, and who it suits. Written by the makers of Beastie.
• Best Apps to Challenge Friends to a Workout (2026) — Apps for fitness challenges with friends, compared: camera-counted rep duels, step and ring competitions, and Strava group challenges. What each one counts.
• Beastie vs Cadence: Two Camera Rep Counters Compared — Beastie and Cadence both count reps with the phone camera and run 60-second duels. Here is where they differ: price, exercises, platforms and how friends join.

Challenges and games

• 15 Push-Up Challenge Ideas to Do With Friends — Fun push-up challenges for friends: 60-second sprints, ladders, deck of cards, handicaps, long-distance duels by link and rematch rules that end the arguments.
• 30-Day Push-Up Challenge With a Friend: Rules That Hold — Run a 30-day push-up challenge as a head-to-head with a friend: daily set or weekly max, camera-counted reps, missed days that pause, a score you both trust.