Who makes Workout Samurai

One app, about one movement. Workout Samurai counts push-ups using your phone's camera, entirely on the device, and turns those verified reps into a game: a dojo campaign of chapters and bosses, samurai titles from Ashigaru to Daimyo, clans with a weekly clan boss, and ranked seasons from Bronze to Master. It is out now on the App Store and Google Play, listed as Workout Samurai: Push-Ups, and it is free to download and free to play. The download page has both links.

The narrow scope is deliberate. A phone camera can count a push-up honestly; it cannot honestly count six hundred exercises. Once the reps are machine-counted and server-validated, everything built on top of them, the progression, the titles, the leaderboards, means something. That trade is the whole product decision, and it is why the app does one thing rather than forty.

It is worth being blunt about this, because plenty of fitness apps are vague about it on purpose. Workout Samurai is a push-up game. It counts the push-ups you do and it gives them somewhere to go. It is not a coach and it does not write you a training programme.

• It counts standard push-ups with on-device pose detection, and it does not identify or score variations.
• It never uploads video. Frames are processed on your phone and discarded; only the rep count is submitted, and the server validates it. The detail is on on-device rep counting.
• It does not tell you what to train. There is no prescribed session, no adaptive plan and no schedule inside the app. If you want a plan, the guides and tools on this site are free and open to everyone.
• It does not train your back, legs or cardiovascular base. It is push-ups. That is the scope, and pretending otherwise would be the easiest lie on this page.
• It is not a medical device, and nothing in it is medical advice.

I kept starting push-up challenges and quietly quitting them. What I wanted was a counter I could not argue with, and a rank that meant something because I did the reps to get it. So I built the game I wanted to play: the camera counts, the server checks, and the only way up the board is push-ups. A wallet cannot do them for you. What this can offer is an honest floor to start from.

Everything in the guides is written by the team building the app. The methodology is the conventional one and we say where it comes from: a graded push-up progression in the hundred-push-ups tradition, the 2-for-2 progression rule, genuine rest days between hard sessions, and periodic re-tests against a real max rather than a remembered one. None of that is a feature of the app. It is training advice, published free, for anyone who wants it.

• Sources are named on the page. Where a guide cites a standard, a position stand or a study, it is listed in a sources block at the foot with enough detail to check.
• Numbers come from primary sources. The push-up norms tables and the military scoring tables were transcribed from the published documents, not from other blogs reprinting them.
• We publish what we could not verify. Where a branch's scoring tables could not be obtained from an official source, the guide says so and omits the table rather than reprinting figures we could not confirm.
• Dates are on every page. Standards change. A guide with no date is a guide you cannot trust.
• Corrections are welcome. If something here is wrong, tell us and we will fix it and say what changed.

It is easier to list the temptations than to describe the principle. These are the things this site does not do, and will not start doing when it would be convenient:

• No invented ratings or review counts. The store listing does not yet show enough ratings to display, so there are no stars anywhere on this site and no review markup in its structured data. Those appear the day real store ratings do.
• No fabricated testimonials or download numbers.
• No promised physique outcomes. Push-ups build pressing strength and endurance. What that looks like on you depends on things no app controls.
• No pretending the app is broader than it is. It counts standard push-ups. It does not detect variations, it does not coach you, and it does not train your back or legs.
• No rank for sale. Gems buy cosmetics. There is no path anywhere in the app from money to a higher place on the leaderboard, and the subscription is deliberately built so that there never is.

The fastest way to reach a human is support@workoutsamurai.com. We read every message. For account deletion, data requests, bug reports or a correction to something on this site, the support page has the details, the FAQ covers the common ones, and the privacy policy is the authoritative account of how data is handled.