PottyTime vs Puddle
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PottyTime
This app learns your dog's potty habits to predict when they need to go, helping prevent accidents. Log breaks, meals, and walks quickly, and receive smart reminders when you leave or arrive home. Track progress with detailed charts and insights, and share household access with family members.
- Predicts next potty break
- Quick logging of pee, poop, meals, and walks
- Smart home arrival/departure alerts
- Progress charts and insights
- GPS walk tracking
- Family sync for multiple users
- Apple Watch and widget support
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Know when the next potty break is coming — before the accident happens. PottyTime learns your dog's rhythm from every log and predicts the next break, reminds you when it's time, and keeps the whole household on the same page. No more guessing, no more puddles. ◆ LOG IN SECONDS Tap to log pee, poop, both, or accidents — plus meals and walks. Poop notes are one tap: Diarrhea, Soft, Normal, Hard, Mucus, or Blood spotted, no typing needed. Every event is timestamped and stored instantly. ◆ PREDICTIONS & REMINDERS See when the next break is predicted, get a nudge when it's time, and set a geofence reminder for when you arrive home. Accident tracking with room notes and an accident-free streak shows training progress day by day. ◆ DASHBOARD AT A GLANCE Daily pees, poops, accidents, meals and walk minutes, your weekly success rate, time since the last break, and a weekly recap card — all on one screen. ◆ CHARTS & INSIGHTS Spot the pattern: breaks per day, peak potty times, and how long after a meal your pup usually needs to go. Export a vet-ready PDF with the full history, including stool notes. ◆ WALKS & MAP Track walks with GPS and see every break on the map, right where it happened. ◆ FAMILY SYNC Everyone in your household logs for the same dogs. Create a household, share an invite code, and every event syncs in real time — no more "did anyone take the dog out?" texts. Sign in with Apple or Google. ◆ WIDGETS & APPLE WATCH Check the next predicted break from your Home Screen or Lock Screen, and log without opening the app. The Apple Watch app puts one-tap logging and the next-predicted time on your wrist. PottyTime Premium unlocks Family Sync and advanced insights: monthly or yearly, with a 7-day free trial on the yearly plan. Bought the original Family Sharing unlock? You keep lifetime access — nothing changes for you. Questions? pottytimeapp@gmail.com PottyTime Premium — Family Sync for your whole household: Monthly: $4.99/month Yearly: $29.99/year with a 7-day free trial Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://minolabs.app/pottytime/privacy
Puddle
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Puddle is a calm, AKC-aware puppy potty tracker. Log a break, see when the next one's coming. Built for the chaos of weeks 8–24, when you're up at 3am asking yourself whether you took them out two hours ago or three. The hero card always shows the next predicted break, in plain English, anchored to your most recent successful one. The math underneath: the AKC's "one hour per month of age" guideline, scaled by breed size, trimmed by 20% if a meal landed in the last 30 minutes and another 10% if water did. Tap the info circle to audit it row by row. Free to use forever with one puppy and the full prediction engine. Pay once for Pro to unlock multi-puppy sync, the accident heatmap, the Home Screen widget, and CSV export. WHAT PUDDLE DOES • Predict the next break — AKC bladder math, breed-size scaled, meal- and water-aware. The hero card always shows your puppy's next break in plain English. • One-tap event logging — pee, poop, accident, walk, meal, water. Tap to log, tap a row to edit. The day's timeline lives right under the countdown. • Predicted-break notifications — optional local nudges at each predicted break, per puppy. Quiet hours (10pm–6am) respected. No nudge in the middle of the night. • Accident trend chart — 14 days of accidents at a glance, with an "Improving / Steady / Up vs. last week" trend chip. • Day-by-day history — every event grouped by day, expandable, editable. • Per-puppy reminders — turn break reminders on or off per puppy from the Edit Puppy sheet. • Light, dark, or auto theme — set it and forget it. PUDDLE PRO — pay once, no subscription Unlock with a one-time purchase: • Up to 4 puppies — track a litter or a multi-dog household. Free includes 1. • Accident heatmap by hour of day — 30 days grouped into a 24-hour strip. Auto-detects the worst window ("6pm–8pm") so you can preempt instead of clean up. • Home Screen widget — small + medium widgets showing the next predicted break for the puppy you pick. Long-press to switch puppies. • CSV export — pick a puppy, pick a date range, export ISO-8601 timestamped CSV. Hand it to your vet or trainer in one tap. • Support a solo developer building indie apps. No subscription. No "lite" forever-trial. No nags. You pay once and the features are yours. WHY IT'S DIFFERENT Most puppy apps are either training-course libraries that bury the potty log under upsells, or static reminder lists that don't adapt as the puppy grows. Puddle is built around the prediction. Every event you log makes the next prediction sharper. The window adjusts as your puppy ages. The heatmap surfaces the trouble window without you having to scroll through history. By the time your puppy is housebroken at six months, you'll have stopped opening the app — and that's the point. You paid once, not every month. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Local-first. Your data lives on your device and syncs privately across your own iPhones via iCloud — included free for every user, Pro or not. No accounts. No servers of ours. No third-party analytics. No ads. No trackers. The widget reads from a private App Group container — not from a network. Photos you attach to a puppy are downscaled and stored locally, never uploaded to anyone's server. A NOTE ON PUPPY PROTOCOLS Puddle is a logging tool. The prediction is based on standard AKC housetraining guidance — it's a starting point, not a diagnosis. Every puppy is different. If you're worried about your puppy's potty patterns, frequent accidents, or any health concern, talk to a vet.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: PottyTime at every 4 days against Puddle's every 5 weeks. PottyTime also leads on iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.2). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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
Both are free to download. PottyTime sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Puddle sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
PottyTime ships an update every 4 days, Puddle every 5 weeks. Both last shipped on November 9, 2026.
| Parameter | PottyTime | Puddle |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (10 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 10 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 — better | 26.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 25 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ALLEN NGUYEN | Charith Perera |
In-app purchases
PottyTime
- PottyTime Premium Monthly$4.991 Month
- PottyTime Premium Yearly7 Days trial$29.991 Year
Puddle
- Puddle Pro$6.99





