Presidential Fitness Tests App
When the Presidential Fitness Test came back on May 5th, I started getting emails from American PE teacher friends asking the same thing: “how do I actually run this?” The White House published the standards as three PDFs and that was about it.
I’m a PE teacher who also builds apps. So I built one.
https://apps.apple.com/au/app/presidential-fitness-tests/id6767750660
It’s called PFT — an iPhone/iPad app that handles every part of running the test:
• Paste your class roster from a spreadsheet, set up in a minute
• Records results and calculates the right tier (Presidential / National / Participation) live as you go
• Every cut score for every age and sex two taps away, sourced directly from whitehouse.gov
• Testing Day mode runs a whole class through every event in a 45-minute period
• One tap auto-fills the official White House certificates at the end
• Stopwatch with a curl-up preset, big-tap rep counter, 20 BPM cadence metronome for the push-up protocol
A few things I deliberately did not build, because the PFT has a complicated history:
• No leaderboards, no public ranking between students
• No accounts, no data leaving your device, no analytics
• Awards are opt-in, never automatic
• Criterion-referenced throughout
To celebrate our launch I’ve decided to make it 100% free for the next few weeks. Download it now and keep it forever.
If you’ve got feedback, ideas, or things you wish it did differently, I’d love to hear it. These tools only get better when teachers tell me what’s broken.