What it’s like to use with a lead in one hand.
Not a feature list — a description of a Tuesday. This page walks through the app the way the day goes, from the first pickup to the last report.
- Open it once in the morning and it tells you what is next
- One thumb, big targets, nothing that needs two hands
- Works in a park with one bar and a phone on 12%
- On iOS and Android, as one professional app
Full access for 30 days · No card · Unlimited clients and pets
Software written for a desk, used on a pavement.
Nearly every business tool assumes the user is sitting down, with both hands, indoors, on wi-fi, with time to read a screen. A dog walker has none of those things for most of the working day. The result is software that gets used at 9pm from the sofa, describing a day that happened from memory — which is the same problem as a spreadsheet, with a subscription attached.
One hand, always
The other one has a lead in it, or a poo bag, or a gate.
Glare, rain, gloves
Small targets and dense screens do not survive a February morning.
Seconds, not minutes
Anything that takes a minute at a gate will not be done at the gate.
Open it once. It already knows.
The first screen is the round, in the order you will do it — not a calendar you have to interpret. Late work is at the top because that is the thing you need to see first.
- Running late, next, later today, done
- Address and pickup instructions on the card
- Call and directions without opening anything
- Group jobs shown as one card with the dogs named
- Booking requests waiting, if any came in overnight
Start, pocket, walk.
One tap and it is recording. The phone goes away and stays away, and the parts that need a tap are big enough to hit without stopping.
- Background GPS keeps the route going with the screen off
- Water, toilet, treat, photo, note — per dog or for the group
- Pause when you stop, so the drive between clients is not billed as a walk
- Force-quit or a flat battery? It offers to resume where it left off
- All of it works with no signal
The report goes without you writing it. The invoice waits until it should.
You finish, the owner gets the report, and the work quietly becomes a billable line for the end of the month. Neither needs you to remember.
- The Walk Diary sends with the route and the photos
- The owner already had a message when the dog was collected and when it got home
- Delivery status on every report, so a failure is yours to see and not theirs
- Client messages in one place, not on your personal number
- At month end, one invoice run across the whole book
Straight about what it does not do
This is a professional app, separate from the free CorePaw app your clients use — you install one and they install the other. It is on the App Store and Google Play; there are no download counts or star ratings on this website because there is nothing real to put there yet.
Questions walkers and sitters actually ask
Is CorePaw Pro available on iOS and Android?
It is built for both — one app, released as its own iOS and Android listing. You can download it from the store links on this page.
Does GPS keep recording with the phone locked?
Yes. Recording continues with the screen off and the phone in your pocket, using background location. If the app is force-quit mid-walk it offers to resume when you reopen it, with nothing lost.
Can I pause a walk?
Yes. Pause when you stop for a chat or drive between two stops, and resume when you set off again. Paused time is not counted in the duration and the paused stretch is not counted in the distance — so a walker who paused and drove two miles does not hand the client a two-mile walk.
What happens when there is no signal?
The walk carries on. Everything you tap is written to your phone first and reported as done, because it is done — the queue empties itself when you come back into range. The one exception is invoicing, which needs a connection and says so, because invoice numbers are issued centrally and in order.
Can a solo walker use it?
Yes, and nothing about a team is in the way. With one walker the members screen says "just you" and the assignment picker on a booking does not render at all. Everything is scoped to your business from day one, so adding a partner later is a setting rather than a migration.
Is there a free trial?
Yes — 30 days with every feature switched on. Thirty days rather than the usual fourteen is deliberate: a walker's value lands twice, once on the first walk report and again at month end when the invoicing run saves an evening. A shorter trial ends before the second one arrives.
Do one Tuesday with it.
Not a demo round — a real one, with real gates and a real client waiting for a photo.
Full access for 30 days · No card · Unlimited clients and pets