Pushups - Tracker & Counter (Patreon)

Alright, you’re probably wondering what’s going on or if you’re on the wrong Patreon, but I do code a few apps here and there that I need or think are necessary. Honestly, I find that the apps available in the iOS App Store are way too expensive and often way too complicated. Sometimes you even have to pay for a subscription and all that, so I try to code things simply and easily myself.

The app I want to share with you today is called PushUps. Since I do my push-ups almost every day, I needed an app to track them: https://polarity.productions/pushups/

It works by placing your phone on the ground, turning on the camera, and it tracks how many push-ups you do based on the up-and-down movement, so you don’t have to count them yourself. I had an iOS app for this, but it costs money and they want a monthly subscription. I thought, no way, I’m not into that just for counting things. So I decided to create a web app myself, and that’s exactly what I did.

The web application is open source. You can either use it on my domain (polarity.productions) or download and upload it to your own server (you need https for the camera to work).

The data isn’t stored in any cloud database; it’s only saved locally in your browser (localStorage). So, you don’t have to worry about data privacy... it’s just an HTML page with no backend. Like I said, you can download it too. I’ll give you the GitHub link, and you can modify it if you want.

I’d love to hear your feedback on whether this interests you because I have more apps in mind that I think could be built similarly - without ads, logins, databases, subscriptions, and all that. (don't fear, main topic will be always Music & Bitwig here) 🤣 lemme know watcha think

Online Web App: https://polarity.productions/pushups/

Github & Code: https://github.com/polarity/app.pushups