# Puffin' – Fitness Challenges — Workout & compete with friends > Workout & compete with friends (iPhone/iPad app by Luke Van Zyl.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/puffin-fitness-challenges/id6803294252 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Luke Van Zyl](https://appshunter.io/developer/1895748526) - Category: Health & Fitness, Social Networking - Price: Free - Age rating: 12+ - Requires: iOS 18.0 · 35 MB - Languages: American English - Released: 2026-08-26 - Data updated: 2026-10-24 ## What is Puffin'? 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. ## Is Puffin' safe? Not enough ratings yet to assess Puffin'. ## Is Puffin' legit? Puffin' – Fitness Challenges has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Puffin' is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data. ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 1.4 — 2026-10-24 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. ### 1.3.1 — 2026-09-26 Up for grabs When someone gets to a daily or weekly goal first, the challenge now shows their Puffin' right next to the bonus they grabbed. New notifications Hear about it when your Puffin' Points land, and when someone snags a first-place bonus in one of your challenges. You can turn either one off in Settings › Notifications. Thirteen new tops and two scrunchies Tees, tanks, singlets and more in Style Puffin', plus a scrunchie for your Puffin's antenna and one for its wrist. Better-fitting shorts Shorts sit better now, with no fur peeking out between the legs. ### 1.3 — 2026-09-20 Puffin' Points Earn points for the goals you hit: every day you hit a daily goal, every week you hit a weekly one, and at milestones on the way to bigger goals. Getting there first, winning a challenge, and working out on your birthday (add it in Edit Profile) all earn a bonus. Points come from challenges you do with others, arrive the next morning, and live at the top of Settings. Style Puffin' Spend your points in Settings › Style Puffin'. Try anything on for free, make your Puffin' any colour you like, and save your look as your profile picture. Your Puffin' now shows up on every workout you post. Taking a break Travelling or unwell? Turn on Rest in Settings to let your challenges know. Your workouts still count, missed days while you're away aren't held against you, and Puffin' won't nudge you until you're back. The Fall Collection Fourteen cosy new pieces, from a bobble beanie and a flannel shirt to hiking boots, striped socks, snowflake mittens and a belt bag. Challenges Every challenge now has its own feed and leaderboard, plus a day-by-day history of who hit the goal. And if your phone is set to the UK, distances now show in miles. ### 1.2.4 — 2026-09-14 Fixed - Tapping a notification crashed Puffin' — it now opens the challenge it's about. - Workouts were recording much shorter than you actually went. Distance is measured properly now. (Past workouts keep the distance they were saved with.) - Puffin' could go blank after a dropped connection — it now says it couldn't reach the server instead of showing an empty feed, and gives up after seconds instead of minutes. - Launch could hang, and sometimes flash a "Can't reach Puffin'" error before opening fine anyway. It now opens on your last known profile right away. - Invite links opened a dead browser page instead of the app — they now open Puffin' directly. - The offline error screen claimed you could still go record a workout from it — it no longer does. - Settings no longer leaves a stale sync warning behind when a sync simply couldn't read Health because your phone was locked. New - Your row in a challenge's standings now says "Me." - Settings › My Activity can exclude workouts under 20 minutes from your yearly workout count. - Your own marker on the recording map is your Puffin', not a plain dot. - Comment input is tidier: send button inside the field, tap or swipe to dismiss keyboard. ### 1.2 — 2026-08-28 Puffin' can tell you when something happens now. You'll get a notification when someone in your challenge finishes a workout, when anyone hits the goal, when a challenge wraps up, and when your day or week is nearly over and you're still short of the target. React with emojis or leave a comment straight from the notification, without opening the app. Challenges can also pick which workouts count. Set one up for cycling and a walk won't move the standings any more: choose any mix of activities, or leave it open to everything, which is how every existing challenge stays. Fixed: the app could sit on the opening screen indefinitely when it couldn't reach the server. 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