Comparison

iPuja vs Parenting TRICK

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

iPuja

This app guides you through Buddhist meditation sessions with chimes and timed intervals. It offers customizable durations, supports iCloud calendar integration for progress tracking, and can display Buddhist teachings. It also features a map to locate other meditators and monasteries.

Highlights
  • Guided meditation sessions
  • Customizable meditation durations
  • iCloud Calendar integration for progress tracking
  • Map of meditators and monasteries
  • Display of Buddhist teachings (Dhammapada verses)
  • Optional Dana (voluntary donation)
Features
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Just find a peaceful location, comfortably sit on a couchion, place your iPhone on a stable location and touch the stick in the home screen of the app to be guided into your meditation session introduced by a beatiful chime expressly recorded from a seven metals bowl. In the course of the meditation the passage of time is marked by a bar: should you thereafter turn restless, you may unlock the iPhone and look for how much time is left without the need to stand up or interrupt your meditation. The end of the meditation period is again signaled by three gongs of the bowl, a notification and a vibration, useful in the case the device is in silent mode. Buy once and use forever, differently of other apps: no renewal fee or subscription. Just please consider offering a voluntary Dana for the developer as a form of gratitude for his work for the support of you practice. A practical button offers this option. Notwithstanding the app is especially focused on the Theravadin tradition, the default durations being the ones usually followed in the Forest monasteries of this tradition, followers of other traditions, as well beginners, may specifically adjust them to their present skill or interest. So both morning and evening Pujas may have their duration adjusted, free meditations may be set, relaxing music or Dhamma talks from the iTunes library may be played as a support, and intermittent single gongs may be inserted in the course of the meditation. Moreover meditations may be interrupted in advance by simply nudging the device. Meditation benefits from repetition and iPuja also assists you in that by both saving your sessions on your iCloud™ Calendar so to allow you to follow your progress and hopefully take encouragment from that, as well as allowing you to share them over the social networks in order to take a wholesome pride in your progress. The application also populates the new Mindfulness section of Health-kit with your meditation periods. Given meditation is not enough for a stable spiritual progress, iPuja also introduces the meditator to the teachings of the Buddha by displaying a random Dhammapada verse illustrated by a beautiful picture from the Buddhanet portal at the end of the meditation. Any practice benefits from the presence of others, and iPuja in fact allows to view the location of other meditators on the map with information on their experience and on whether they are presently meditating. The laziest meditators may also become followers of more expert meditators and so receive a notification each time the guide start a meditation with the possibility of joining it. The map also reports the monasteries, and soon also Dhamma centers, being entered by the users with information on how to contact them. Of course Sila, or virtue, is a basic factor for the practice and we encourage you to take the five precepts before starting to seriously meditate, yet iPuja is not yet able to also help you in that too... iPuja has been developed by an experienced meditator for more than 20 years in the Forest tradition of Luang Por Achaan Chah who is using it himself for his daily practice. We do our best to provide a most effective and simple experience, but you are welcome to contact us at info@ipuja.net or on the contact form in our web site http://www.ipuja.net if you would like some features to be added or improved, as well as to review the app on the AppStore to report your experience for the benefit of other meditators. IMPORTANT: the application uses local notifications for playing the timeout gongs even while the device is locked, please check in your settings that they are enabled for the application, should you experience problems. In order to inform other meditators of your location, please also grant the relative authorization.

About

Parenting TRICK

This app offers guidance and resources for parents based on the TRICK method: Trust, Respect, Independence, Collaboration, and Kindness. Get personalized advice, learn strategies, and find daily activities to help raise successful children.

Highlights
  • Personalized advice from Esther Wojcicki
  • Learn the TRICK method
  • Daily activities and scripts
  • Parenting challenges addressed
  • Goal-oriented personal paths
Features
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Hello and welcome! I’m Esther Wojcicki the creator of Parenting TRICK, a new app that aims to revolutionize the way we approach raising children. Here’s what publications like Inc., Worth, People, Fortune, BBC and CNBC say about me, “The Godmother of Silicon Valley, legendary teacher, and mother of a Super Family shares her tried-and-tested methods for raising happy, healthy, successful children using Trust, Respect, Independence, Collaboration, and Kindness: TRICK. Esther Wojcicki—“Woj” to her many friends and admirers—is famous for three things: teaching a high school class that has changed the lives of thousands of kids, inspiring Silicon Valley legends like Steve Jobs, and raising three daughters who have each become famously successful. What do these three accomplishments have in common? They’re the result of TRICK, Woj’s secret to raising successful people: Trust, Respect, Independence, Collaboration, and Kindness.” The TRICK app is designed to guide parents through this process, offering valuable resources, tips, and strategies for implementing the method in their everyday lives. Join me on this journey and discover how you can raise successful and fulfilled individuals with the help of TRICK! When you install the app, you'll get the following: *Ask Esther about your parenting challenges and get advice. She’ll even create a personal path to help you achieve your goals. *Learn all about Esther’s TRICK method at your own pace. *Every path is filled with activities, scripts and tips to help you use the TRICK method daily. Keep an eye out for new features. We’re constantly making updates based on your feedback. Start the journey today to be a better parent, and help set your children up for success in the real world. We utilize the Apple Standard EULA that can be found at https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

iPuja4 screens
Parenting TRICK4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Parenting TRICK at 100% against iPuja's 33%. Parenting TRICK also leads on price (Free vs $1.99). iPuja's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On update cadence, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Parenting TRICK is free to download; iPuja costs $1.99 up front. iPuja sells 4 one-off in-app purchases and Parenting TRICK sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
iPuja versus Parenting TRICK: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameteriPujaParenting TRICK
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating—5.0 (8 ratings) — better
Positive reviews33.3% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings—8 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 2 weeks
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.6 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size92 MB70 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperFabrizio BartolomucciAgentwire, LLC

Customer experience

iPuja

Written reviews12 reviews
Positive33.3%
Neutral8.3%
Negative58.3%

Parenting TRICK

All ratings7 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

4 purchases

iPuja

One-time4
  • Small Dana$0.99
  • Medium Dana$2.99
  • New Dharma Center$5.99
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  • Big Dana$6.99
2 purchases

Parenting TRICK

Subscriptions2
  • Parenting TRICK US7 Days trial$6.991 Month
  • US7 Days trial$65.991 Year

Questions

Is iPuja free?
iPuja costs $1.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Parenting TRICK free?
Parenting TRICK is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do iPuja or Parenting TRICK have ads?
Parenting TRICK shows ads; iPuja does not.
Which is updated more often, iPuja or Parenting TRICK?
iPuja ships an update every 2 weeks, and Parenting TRICK every 2 weeks. Most recently, iPuja was updated on November 1, 2026 and Parenting TRICK on November 4, 2026.

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