Puchica vs HIIT Timer & Trainer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side ā with what reviewers say about each.
Puchica
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Puchica is a private cycle companion for period tracking, mood notes, symptoms and personal predictions. Health data is processed on your device and is not shared with external servers. Track your cycle, calendar, emotional weather, daily quote audio, the little drop mascot, reminders, Apple Health integration and an Apple Watch companion experience. The core app is free. Premium unlocks Buddy, your virtual companion, the intelligent Coach and advanced features with one lifetime purchase, no subscription. Optional tips in Settings help maintain the app.
HIIT Timer & Trainer
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HIIT Timer & Trainer is a fast, no-nonsense interval timer for HIIT, Tabata, circuits, stretching, and anything else built around "do X seconds, rest Y seconds, repeat N times." On iPhone and Apple Watch ā now with a 12-week home workout plan and a stretching plan. WORKOUT PLAN ⢠A 12-week home plan: strength circuits, intervals and easy days, getting a little harder every few weeks. ⢠Every move explained in plain words ā no jargon, no guessing. "12 times", "each leg", "hold 30 seconds". ⢠Strength moves wait for you to tap DONE; intervals have their own hard and easy tones and haptics. ⢠Track your weekly weight and monthly waist alongside the plan. ⢠Personal Plan (one-time purchase): answer six quick questions and get a plan built around your goal, your days and your time ā then change any of it by hand, including knee-friendly moves. FLEXIBILITY PLAN ā NEW ⢠A second 12-week plan: daily stretching, about 15 minutes, to touch your toes again and squat deep with heels down. CIRCUITS ⢠Comes with a ready-made Full Body circuit ā try it, then build your own. ⢠Build your own workout: named exercises, each with its own duration, repeated over rounds. ⢠HIIT Timer & Trainer calls out every exercise ā "Squats", "Plank" ā so you never have to look at the screen. ⢠Optional warm-up and cool-down phases bookend any workout, circuits and classic sets alike. LOCK SCREEN & DYNAMIC ISLAND ⢠Your running timer lives on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island: current exercise, set counter, and remaining time at a glance. iPHONE ⢠Three things on the screen: sets, exercise duration, rest duration. Plus or minus to dial each one. Long-press +/ā to auto-repeat. ⢠Five preset slots ā four built-in (8Ć20/10, 6Ć40/20, 5Ć1m/15, 4Ć3m/1m) and one fully customisable. ⢠Audio cues that actually help: a rising-pitch tick every second, a higher beep every 5 seconds, plus a voice announcement on a configurable interval ("3 minutes 20 seconds remaining"). Off, every 10s, or every 30s. ⢠Pause / resume / stop, with a clear "next phase" hint so you always know what's coming. ⢠Set rest to 0 for self-paced circuits ā HIIT Timer & Trainer waits for you to tap CONTINUE before the next set. ⢠Keeps running when the screen is locked, audio coming through your speaker or headphones. ⢠Siri and Shortcuts: say "Start a HIIT Timer & Trainer workout" ā works from the Action Button too. TRACK YOUR PROGRESS ⢠A monthly calendar marks every day you finished a workout. ⢠Streaks, a 12-week trend chart, and 15 achievements to unlock. ⢠Home Screen widget with your current streak and this week's workouts. ⢠Optional daily reminder at your chosen time ā it knows your streak and what's at stake. ⢠iCloud sync: progress and achievements follow you across your devices. ⢠Apple Health: finished sessions can be saved as HIIT workouts. Off by default. APPLE WATCH ⢠Start, pause, and stop workouts from your wrist ā no need to fish your phone out mid-set. ⢠Workouts finished on the watch count on your iPhone calendar too. ⢠Voice announcements over AirPods. ⢠Haptic cues every 5 seconds and on phase transitions, so you can train without headphones and still feel the cadence. FREE, WITH TWO OPTIONAL ONE-TIME PURCHASES The timer, the built-in presets, the calendar, the Apple Watch app and reading the plans are free. No subscription, ever. Two optional one-time purchases: ⢠Your Presets & Circuits ā save your own presets and build your own circuits. ⢠Your Training Plans ā run the 12-week and stretching plans, get a plan made for you, edit it by hand. PRIVACY No accounts. No analytics. No ads. Your settings, plan and workout history live on your devices and in your own iCloud ā nowhere else. Apple Health is written only if you switch it on, and never read. WHY HIIT Timer & Trainer Most workout apps want a subscription and your data. HIIT Timer & Trainer wants neither. Open it, dial in the workout ā or follow the plan ā hit START, train, close it.
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Verdict
Puchica and HIIT Timer & Trainer are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters ā price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them ā neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Puchica sells 5 one-off in-app purchases and HIIT Timer & Trainer sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Puchica ships an update every 4 days, HIIT Timer & Trainer every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Puchica | HIIT Timer & Trainer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days | Every 2 days ā better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details ā not scored | ||
| Size | 83 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Pedro Enrique Caparros Torres | Anton Popov |
In-app purchases
Puchica
- Small Support$0.99
- Ticket de cambio de buddy$2.99
- Medium Support$2.99
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- Large Support$3.99
- Puchica Full Unlock$24.99
HIIT Timer & Trainer
- Unlock presets$0.99
- Your Training Plans$2.99
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