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Pull-up Challenge Tracker for iPhone

Track your pull-up challenge total on iPhone. Build toward 500, 1,000, or more without a streak reset wiping your progress. Free to download.

Pull-up goals tend to be ambitious: 1,000 reps, 5,000, a specific total by the end of the year. You started tracking in a habit tracker, logging daily. Then a deload week — intentional, planned, necessary — broke the streak.

Deloads are part of training. Your body needed the recovery. But the app didn't care. It saw seven days without a check-in and reset the counter. The 600 reps you'd already accumulated had no visible home.

Pull-up challenges are cumulative by nature. Each rep adds to a lifetime total. Whether you do 20 per day or 100 once a week, the count is what matters. The schedule is secondary.

The tracker should show your running rep total against your target — and stay there while you recover.

Common targets

500 pull-ups1,000 pull-ups5,000 pull-ups

Consistent upper body training adds 20 to 100 pull-ups per week depending on volume and current strength.

Why pull-ups is a milestone goal

Pull-up challenges measure cumulative reps, not daily check-ins. The total is the point. A rest day or deload week adds zero reps but costs nothing from the target. A habit tracker sees the rest day as a missed check-in.

The problem with streak trackers for pull-ups

Logging 0 pull-ups on a rest day resets the streak even when the cumulative total is 800. The tracker reports failure when the goal is 200 reps away from done.

What the math looks like

50 pull-ups per week reaches 1,000 in 20 weeks. A deload week costs nothing from the accumulated total.

How Notch tracks pull-ups

  1. 1
    Set a target. Enter how many pull-ups you want to do. Notch knows where done is.
  2. 2
    Log each pull-up. Tap to add one. Each tap adds a dot to the grid and moves the total closer to your target.
  3. 3
    Watch the grid fill. Every dot represents a real pull-up you do. Nothing resets. Take a break and resume from exactly where you left off.
Pricing

Free to download. The full app unlocks with a one-time $9.99 purchase. No subscription.

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A milestone tracker for iPhone. Set a target for pull-ups, log each pull-up, and watch the dot grid fill. No streaks. No resets. No subscription.

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