Puchku

Feel and reflect, with a calm cat.

Puchku is a little tuxedo cat who keeps you company while you notice how you feel. Tap one feeling, let a thought out, breathe over the hills with him, and see your days more clearly.

Only your devices can read it. No account needed. Everything in Puchku is free.

Coming soon to iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch

iPhone and iPad (iOS 18 or later), Mac (macOS 15 or later) and Apple Watch (watchOS 11 or later). Free, with nothing to buy.

Puchku, a black-and-white kitten with a green collar and a gold bell, sitting and looking at you.
Today in Puchku: Puchku sits on his cushion with the sun in the window and a butterfly outside. Under him, the five feelings with Happy picked, and the rows for venting and for breathing.

Tap how you feel

Happy, Calm, Tired, Low or Stressed. One tap is the whole check-in.

  • Each feeling is a weather, and the window in Puchku's room turns to match. He looks up, walks over and answers with his body.
  • Add what it's about if you like: sleep, work or school, friends, family, body or money, and a closer word for how you feel.
  • Tap again whenever it changes. Miss a day and nothing breaks.

Check in from anywhere

Widgets on your Home Screen and Lock Screen, Control Center, Siri and Shortcuts (“Check in with Puchku”), the Action button, or one tap on Apple Watch.

Venting in Puchku: Puchku eyes a crumpled paper ball of your words. Below, two choices: keep the words in your journal, or let go, and Puchku bats the paper ball away with nothing saved.

Let it out

Type it like texting yourself, or say it in a voice note. Nobody answers. It's just for you.

  • Tap Puchku's round button at the end of the tab bar, wherever you are in the app.
  • Voice notes are turned into text on your device, never online.
  • When you're done, keep it in your journal, or let it go: the words crumple into a paper ball and Puchku bats it away. You can undo for a few seconds.
  • Today's weather stays either way.
Breathe in Puchku: Puchku walks down a green hill under a pale sky, with “Breathe out” and “All the way down” above him. Picking a walk with Puchku: Easy, Even, Sigh, Slow and Wind down, each drawn as a hill, and Short, Medium or Long.

Breathe over the hills

Puchku walks over the hills and breathes with you. Up a hill, breathe in. Down the other side, breathe out.

  • The sky starts as your weather and clears a little with every breath out, until he sits down with you in the sun.
  • Five walks: Easy, Even, Sigh, Slow, and Wind down for bedtime. Each one Short, Medium or Long.
  • Feel it with your eyes closed. On iPhone, a soft swell on the way up and his purr on the way down. On iPad, his purr.
  • No clock, no count, no holding your breath.
  • Start from Today, from Control Center, or ask Siri to breathe with Puchku. After you tap Stressed, he asks, “Come walk with me?”
Reflect in Puchku, on the Day: Puchku sits on the Day, Week and Month pills over a strip of the day's check-ins. Below, what happened, what came before the turn, and a question to write about. Reflect in Puchku, on the Week: the week's seven days as weather under Puchku, then what happened, what came before the heavier days, and the question “What would help the next time work or school comes up?”

Reflect

Your day, week and month on one page: what happened, what seemed to set it off, what you can take from it, and a question to write about.

  • A strip of your check-ins up top: a day's moods with their times, a week's seven days, a month one stripe a day.
  • It comes from your check-ins and, while your journal is open, your vents, entries and voice notes. Your breathing walks count too, and whether your next check-in was lighter.
  • Tap the question and your journal opens with it, ready to write.
  • Share it with a friend, picking every part first, or add it to the PDF you make for your therapist.

Written on your device

With Apple Intelligence on, Apple's on-device model writes it: a week from its days, a month from its weeks. Every part shows where it came from and is checked before you see it. It never gives advice and never says one thing caused another.

Without Apple Intelligence, Puchku puts it together from your check-ins.

Your journal in Puchku on iPad: Puchku sits on this week's card with Write today's entry, then earlier entries, Vents you kept and A basket of good days.

Your journal

Write today's entry, keep the vents you chose to keep, and gather good days in a basket.

  • On a happy day, Puchku may ask to keep one line. On a low day, he brings one back out.
  • Voice notes show what they said, as text. Search finds your words, typed or spoken.
  • Every entry is sealed on your device, and the journal locks when you leave. One Face ID or Touch ID opens Puchku and your journal together.

Make him your pet

Have a pet of your own? Make Puchku look like them: pick from 24 cats and dogs, or start from a photo.

  • The photo is read on your device, then deleted. It's never uploaded.
  • Change any part by hand, and give your pet a name.
  • Your pet is drawn in Puchku's style, with every pose and gesture: in the room, on the hills, by your Mac's notch and on your Apple Watch.
  • Free, like everything else. Go back to Puchku whenever you like.
Your pet in Puchku: Puchku, a tuxedo kitten, picked, and Your own pet, made from a photo of yours, with a button to make one from a photo. Biscuit, a golden retriever made from a photo, sitting on the cushion in Puchku's room, with the rows for venting and for breathing: walk the hills with Biscuit. Your pet page in Puchku with Biscuit picked: change Biscuit's look or name, and the switch App icon matches Biscuit, on.

The app icon follows your pet

On iPhone and iPad, Puchku's icon changes to match your pet. One switch brings Puchku's own icon back.

  • Puchku's app icon: his black-and-white face with the green collar and gold bell.
  • Puchku's app icon drawn as a golden retriever.
  • Puchku's app icon drawn as a tabby with white.
  • Puchku's app icon drawn as a beagle.
  • Puchku's app icon drawn as a Russian Blue.

Stickers in Messages and WhatsApp

Sixteen stickers of Puchku, and of your own pet once you make one: the five feelings and eleven poses. They're in Messages, and you can add them to WhatsApp from Me.

  • Puchku sticker: sitting and saying hi.
  • Puchku sticker: happy, with a big grin.
  • Puchku sticker: curious, head tilted.
  • Puchku sticker: tired, with heavy eyes.
  • Puchku sticker: curled up asleep.
  • Puchku sticker: a playful bow.
Puchku's room in the morning: the lamp on, a pale sun in the window, and Puchku on his cushion, just awake, saying hi.

His room, and his ways

Puchku lives in a little room at the top of Today. Tap him to say hello, stroke him, or pick him up and set him down.

  • He answers what you do: a slow blink when you're low, a big yawn when you're tired, a purr and a lean when you're stressed, a pounce when you're happy.
  • He tilts his head while you type or speak, waves the first time you open Puchku each day, and stretches when your week is done.
  • The room follows the time of day, from morning to night, and he curls up to sleep at bedtime.
  • Your weather shows in small ways: sun on the floor and a butterfly on a happy day, the lamp on when it's gray, a mug of tea when it rains.
  • With Reduce Motion, he only blinks.

Sounds and music

Short, soft meows and purrs, one at a time. They follow the Silent switch and stay quiet at night.

Music for calm: three tracks made for Puchku, in the app and never streamed. Rain on the window, Slow morning and Night lamp, with a sleep timer that fades out.

People in Puchku: friends' pets on one hill with their weather and you, Puchku, in the middle. Below, the button I could use a check-in, and rows for Ma, Sam and Priya.

With your people

Friends see your weather, and your words only if you share them.

  • Everyone's pets on one hill, each with their weather. Hide my mood today is one switch.
  • Send a heart and your pet carries it over.
  • Ask the people you choose for a check-in, with no details.
  • Send a friend your day, week or month, picking every part first.
  • Invite a friend with a link. No account needed.

For your therapist

Bring a PDF to your therapist: you choose what's in it, see every page, and share it yourself.

It's made on your device, with only what you pick.

Puchku on iPad: his room with the lamp on and a pale sun in the window, the five feelings under him, and the tabs Today, Journal, Reflect and People along the top.

On every Apple device

One Puchku on all of them.

Your iPhone, iPad and Mac stay in step, end-to-end encrypted. Apple Watch checks in with one tap.

  • iPhone and iPad

    Puchku on your Home Screen and Lock Screen. His widget has a day of its own, from a morning stretch to a nap at night. Tap him to pat him.

    On a wide iPad, his room sits beside your day, with a sidebar for the rest.

  • Mac

    Puchku walks along the bottom of your screen, and the notch is his den. Click him to open his room, with all of Puchku inside.

    He goes home to the notch for calls, full-screen apps and the night, or whenever you bring him home.

  • Apple Watch

    Two seconds on your wrist: one tap checks in, and Puchku answers. Today's check-ins show as weather, and his face sits on your watch face.

    The Watch keeps no words.

  • Apple Health

    If you turn it on, the feelings you tap go in as State of Mind. Puchku never reads your Health data.

Your words stay yours, from Puchku's first open: Puchku gives a slow blink over the five promises: only your devices can read your words, we can't, nothing collected, never used to train AI, and you choose every share. Puchku locked: Puchku curled up asleep over the words Puchku is locked, with an Unlock button and Get help.

Private, to the fullest

  • Only your devices can read it. End-to-end encrypted, even between your iPhone, iPad and Mac.
  • We can't read it. Not your moods, your vents or your journal.
  • Nothing collected. No account needed. No ads, no tracking, no analytics.
  • Never used to train AI. Anything smart runs right on your device. Puchku never sends your words to any AI company.
  • You choose every share.

Puchku locks with Face ID or Touch ID, and your journal stays protected by your device's Secure Enclave.

How Puchku handles your data

The real Puchku, a black-and-white tuxedo cat with green eyes, sitting on a green bedspread.

Why Puchku

Puchku is a real tuxedo cat. When I moved to the US, I was alone, far from family and without friends. On the hardest days, his face was the reason I kept going.

“Puchku” means “cute” in Bengali. This app is my way of giving everyone that kind of company: not an assistant, a pet who stays by your side and listens, no matter what.

Arpan Ghoshal, who made Puchku

Puchku curled up asleep, tail wrapped around the paws.

Gentle by design

No streaks, no scores, nothing to keep up with.

Puchku isn't a medical or crisis service. If you're struggling, Get help is always in Me, with helplines for where you are.

Free

Everything in Puchku is free. No subscription, nothing to buy.