Puffin' – Fitness Challenges
Workout & compete with friends
Free · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
Puffin' turns the workouts you're already doing into something you do together.
Start a challenge. Share the six-character code. From there, every workout in Apple Health counts on its own — no logging, no starting a timer in one more app, no copying numbers from somewhere else.
ONE FEED, EVERY CHALLENGE
Everything from every challenge you're in arrives in a single stream: who ran, how far, and what it counted toward. Tap a workout to see the route on a map. React and leave a comment. A challenge's own page is that same feed under the standings, with everyone taking part a tab away.
CHALLENGES THAT FIT REAL LIFE
Compete on distance, time, active calories, workouts or steps. Set a target for the whole challenge, each day or each week. Standings update as workouts land, and whoever set the challenge up can change any of it while it runs — a target that turned out too easy is one edit away.
A challenge doesn't have to be a competition. Leave the target off and leave the dates open and it's simply the people you're in it with, and everything they've been doing.
One workout is never claimed by a single challenge. Ten miles satisfies a five-mile challenge and a ten-mile one at the same time, in full, with nothing divided between them — and Puffin' shows you exactly what each workout counted toward.
STRAIGHT FROM APPLE HEALTH
Runs, rides, walks, swims, lifts — whatever your Watch, your phone or another app already saved. It shows up in the feed, usually within moments of finishing.
RECORD IT HERE IF YOU WANT TO
No Watch? The Activity tab records a workout itself, with a GPS route for outdoor sessions and a live view on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island. Pause and resume are handled properly. Did something without your phone? Log it by hand in a few taps. Either way it's saved to Apple Health, so Health stays the record of everything you've done.
WHO SEES WHAT
Your workouts are visible to people in the challenges you join — nobody else. There is no public feed, no follower count and no discovery. Routes never leave your iPhone: they live in Apple Health and are drawn from there.
REQUIREMENTS
iPhone, iOS 18 or later. Sign in with Apple. Puffin' needs permission to read your workouts, steps and active calories from Apple Health.
Ratings & Reviews
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A new My Activity
See your week, month or year at a glance: calories, steps, workouts, miles walked, active minutes, and how many of your challenges you've hit a goal in. Week shows every workout, Month a table for each week, and Year a card for each kind of workout you do.
Settings, under your puffin
Tap your puffin at the top of the Feed for Settings, or to invite a friend to Puffin'.
A tab for your wardrobe
Style Puffin' has a tab of its own, so dressing up your puffin is always one tap away.
A tidier feed
Each workout shows its icon beside the title and how long ago it happened, like "2h ago". Challenge cards say whether the goal is daily, weekly or a total, and show the top four. And the Fall Wardrobe banner can be tucked away with its X.
Puffin' on Apple Watch
Record a run, walk, ride or any other workout from your wrist, with your heart rate and calories as you go. On a walking pad, run the belt from your watch too. Tap the flag to see where you stand in each of your challenges.
Indoor walks
On a treadmill? Pick Indoor when you record a walk. Puffin' times it, and when you're done you add the distance or pace and the calories.
Replies with a little personality
Long-press a workout notification for a couple of replies in Puffin's voice, beside the emoji.
Joining late, fairly counted
In a challenge's history, the weeks from before someone joined are left blank rather than crossed out, and don't count against them.
Walking pads
Got a WalkingPad or a UREVO walking pad? Connect it when you start an indoor walk and Puffin' tracks your distance and steps live, straight from the pad.
Your workout, always in view
While you record, the bar that takes you back to your workout sits above the tabs instead of covering them, and when music is playing too, the Dynamic Island's small circle shows your workout clock.
Workout goals, one at a time
A challenge that counts workouts shows a segment for each one, so you can see what's done and what's left.
A steadier pace
While you record, on your iPhone or your watch, your pace updates every 15 seconds instead of flickering every second.
Pace when you add a workout
Adding a workout by hand, you can now type a pace instead of a distance, and Puffin' works out the other from how long it took. Distance and pace only appear for workouts that have them, so strength training and yoga no longer ask.
Longer workouts save first time
Adding a workout longer than 30 minutes no longer means changing the start time before Save will work.
Syncing that doesn't get stuck
If a sync stopped partway, nothing more reached your challenges until you closed Puffin'. Now it gives up after a minute and starts again by itself.
The developer, Luke Van Zyl, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Health & Fitness
- Contact Info
- User Content
- Identifiers
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Luke Van Zyl
- Size
- 36.7 MB
- Category
- Health & Fitness
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 18.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 15.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 2.0 or later. - Apple Watch
Requires watchOS 11.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Location
- This app may use your location even when it isn’t open, which can decrease device battery life.
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
13+
- 13+
- Frequent
Contests
Contains
Messaging and Chat
User-Generated Content
- Copyright
- © Luke van Zyl
