Tracking built for someone holding three leads.
Tap start, put the phone in your pocket, and let it run. The route, the distance and the duration are recorded properly — including the parts most trackers get wrong, which are the parts that end up on an invoice.
- Keeps recording with the screen off and the app in the background
- Pause and resume, with paused time and distance excluded
- Group walks: several dogs out together, one record each
- GPS spikes filtered out before anything is measured
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Any app can draw a line. The question is whether you can bill from it.
A consumer fitness tracker is measuring a run for the person holding the phone. A walk record for a client is a business document: it is what the owner sees, what proves the job happened, and what a line on an invoice refers to. That raises the bar in three specific places, and all three are places raw GPS gets it wrong.
The confident lie
An urban canyon or a cell-tower fallback produces a well-reported fix a kilometre away. Add it and the dog “walked” an extra kilometre, on a record you charged for.
The drive between stops
Stop the recording and you lose the walk. Leave it running and the drive to the next client is measured as part of it.
The pocket
A walker cannot hold a screen open for an hour. If tracking stops when the phone locks, the feature does not exist.
Screen off, phone in pocket, still recording.
Background location is what makes this usable at all. Your phone will ask permission once, plainly, and then the recording continues while you get on with the walk.
- Continues with the screen locked and the app in the background
- Force-quit mid-walk? It offers to resume, with nothing lost
- A live timer and distance while the walk is open
- Works with no signal — GPS is a satellite fix, not a data connection
The distance is filtered before it is trusted.
Three exclusions, and every one of them is a real charge on somebody’s invoice.
- Vague fixes are dropped. A phone in a pocket under trees reports a position it does not really have; without this filter a standing dog “walks” hundreds of metres sideways.
- Impossible speeds are skipped. A leg implying about 29 km/h between two fixes is a GPS spike, not a sprint. It is excluded rather than added.
- Paused stretches are excluded outright. The next kept point starts a fresh segment, so a walker who paused and drove two miles does not hand the client a two-mile walk.
- Route quality is judged and reported. Where there is genuinely too little to go on, the walk says so instead of quoting a confident wrong number.
Log the job without stopping the job.
Events are one tap each and can be logged against one dog or all of them at once, because on a group walk everything happens at the same time to different animals.
- Water, toilet, treat, photo and note — per dog or for the group
- Medication, behaviour, injury and sickness where relevant and permitted
- Photos attach to the walk they were taken on
- Collected and home safe: one tap each, timestamped, each notifying the owner
- Every walk records who performed it — on the report, and in your history
Straight about what it does not do
There is no live in-progress tracking for owners — they get collection and return notifications and the finished route, not a moving dot. There is no route optimisation, no automatic stationary detection, and no in-app route editing to correct a bad trace. A drop-in visit deliberately records no route at all, because there isn’t one.
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Questions walkers and sitters actually ask
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.
How accurate is the distance?
The route is filtered before it is measured. Fixes vaguer than about 30 metres are ignored, and any leg implying an impossible speed is treated as a GPS spike and skipped rather than added — a single bad fix in an urban canyon can otherwise add a kilometre to a walk that ends up on an invoice. Where the route is too sparse to judge, the walk says so rather than quoting a confident wrong number.
Can I walk several dogs together?
Yes. Pick the dogs at the start and one outing is recorded as one walk for each of them, sharing a group. Each owner gets their own report about their own dog, and each dog keeps its own record even though they walked the same route.
Can I record a home visit with no route?
Yes. A drop-in is a job in its own right: arrive, log the feed, the litter, the water, the medication, a photo and a note, finish. There is no route to record and nothing pretends there was one.
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.
Does the owner know when the dog is collected and home?
Yes. Collection and return are each one tap, each timestamped, and each sends the owner a notification. It is the single most reassuring thing the app does, and the report that follows is not a substitute — it arrives after the worry it would have prevented.
Walk one round with it.
Start a walk, put the phone away for an hour, and look at what came out the other end.
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