The Name Promises Less Than the App Can Do

When this app was created, it counted push-ups. Nothing else. The name was back then a description, not a brand: Pushup Tracker, because it said exactly what the thing did.

That's no longer true. If you turn on the camera today, you can also count squats, pull-ups, and sit-ups — and for plank and hollow hold, a hold timer runs instead of a counter. The exercise wiki has 40 entries, from lunges to deadlift patterns to mobility. The catalog from which goals, analysis, and plans draw contains 42 exercises in nine categories: push-ups, pressing, pulling, squats, hip hinges, lunges, core, cardio, and mobility.

It becomes clearest with the training plans. There are ten — and in half of them, the push-up is just one exercise among many, not the goal:

  • Push & Pull Balance — six weeks to balance pressing and pulling
  • Full Body Strong — six weeks of squats, hip hinges, lunges, core, and mobility
  • Core Foundations — four weeks of core work
  • HIIT Burner — four weeks of conditioning
  • Mobility & Recovery — two weeks of deload

Push-ups certainly appear in them — but as a building block, not as the goal. Full Body Strong, for example, prescribes 84 exercise units over six weeks, 24 of which are push-ups; the remaining 60 are core, hip hinges, squats, lunges, and mobility.

Add to that freely customizable sessions, friends list and leaderboard, badges, streaks, heatmap, and daily goals — all in nine languages. None of that is in the name.

Why This Is More Than Cosmetics

A name that promises too little is not a harmless cosmetic flaw. It filters people out before they even see the app.

Someone looking for a squat tracker won't click on something called "Pushup." Someone wanting to track their full-body program assumes they're in the wrong place. And someone coming in through one of our articles on pull-ups, core training, or Zone 2 cardio lands on an app whose name contradicts what they just read.

That's the real reason for the change: not that we don't like the name anymore, but that it keeps people from finding something that would help them.

What's Guaranteed to Stay

First, the most important thing: push-ups are not going away. They were the beginning, they are the most developed part of the app, and they will stay that way. The push-up wiki with its 13 variants remains complete. The five push-up plans stay. The camera counter for push-ups remains what it is — the feature that started everything.

What changes is the umbrella brand, not the product. Push-ups stop being the name above everything and become what they already are: a first-rate exercise among several.

And: your account, your entries, your streak, and your badges remain untouched. A rename is not a restart. There is nothing to export and nothing to set up again.

What You Need to Do Now

Nothing. The new name isn't final yet, and we'll introduce it only when it is — along with everything that comes with it. Should anything change about addresses or links later, we'll announce it in advance and make sure old links keep working.

Until then, nothing changes for you whatsoever. Keep training, keep your streak — and don't be surprised when a different name appears above the page soon.