The whole walk, start to finish
Getting a dog out of the door is a small routine repeated hundreds of times a year. The app is built around that routine rather than around a feature list.
The app is permanently in development. It carries on being worked on after release: features get added, screens get reworked, and the things people ask for get built. The app you take up today is not the app you will have in a year — it should be a larger one, and a subscription covers what arrives as well as what is there now.
Know where you stand
Walks this month, dogs on the account, and the next walk in the diary. If a walk is being tracked right now, it says so and gives you the distance so far.
It stays on your phone
Your dogs, their medical history, your address, your walks and your photos are held on the device and opened with a PIN. All that leaves is your email address, a user ID, a device ID and your purchase history, which run your subscription and notifications and go to nobody else. You can decline to give it, and some subscription features will simply be unavailable.
Ready when it matters
Sixteen first aid topics and a tap-to-call emergency vet line, there whether or not you have signal to look something up.
Plan it, walk it, remember it
Plan the walk before you go
Pick the dog, choose the kind of walk — solo at their own pace, a group walk with dogs they know, or a short gentle one for a puppy — then set how long, when, and where.
Add the things you would otherwise forget: take the long lead, avoid the road. It goes in the calendar, and the month view shows every walk at a glance.
- Solo, group and puppy walks
- Thirty minutes to two hours
- A month calendar with every walk on it
Track it live as you walk
The route draws itself on the map as you go, with distance, elapsed time and pace underneath, and how accurate the fix currently is.
One tap logs the things worth remembering afterwards — a wee, a poo, water, a treat, a written note or a voice memo — against the point on the route where it happened. Hold the button to finish, and the walk joins your history with its distance, duration and pauses.
- Live route, distance, time and pace
- Wee, poo, water, treat, note and voice
- Every tracked walk kept, with the numbers
Everything about your dog, in one place
Annual booster, kennel cough, flea and worming, each with what is due. Weigh-ins charted over time so you see the trend rather than a single number.
Allergies, medication with dose and timing, ongoing conditions a walker should know about, your vet with a tap-to-call number, the microchip number and the insurance policy. Kept for you and whoever walks your dog — not shared with your practice, and no substitute for their advice.
- Vaccinations, with what is due
- Weight charted over time
- Vet, microchip and insurance to hand
First aid, for the day you need it
Sixteen topics, searchable and filtered by emergency, injury, illness or environment, with the 24-hour emergency vet line pinned to the top of the screen.
Each one is written as numbered steps you can follow one-handed under pressure — choking, CPR, suspected poisoning, bloat — with different instructions for a small dog and a large one. Every topic ends by telling you to get it confirmed by a vet, because it is guidance and not an examination.
- Sixteen topics, searchable
- Emergency vet on the first line
- Steps, not paragraphs
Keep a horse as well?
A good many people who walk a dog also muck out. If that is you, there is a second app built the same way and by the same person: Horse Rider, which does for the yard what this one does for the lead.
It tracks a ride the way this tracks a walk, and keeps each horse’s record the way this keeps each dog’s. Then it does the parts a dog never needs: the farrier cycle, due every six weeks with nobody writing to remind you; the feed chart, grouped by time of day because somebody else has to read it; and the tack room, where a saddle carries a fit-check interval because a saddle that fitted in March is a pressure point in September.
Same rules as here — everything on your own phone, no adverts, no analytics, nothing handed to a third party.
A subscription unlocks some of it
Walking a dog is free. Tracking a walk, the dogs on your account and the whole first aid library cost nothing and need no subscription — the first aid pages never will, because a page telling you what to do about a choking dog has no business behind a payment screen.
The rest — the medical record with its jab and worming reminders, the photo gallery, the calendar, planning a walk in advance and spoken notes — needs a subscription. It comes in two lengths, monthly and quarterly, and it renews until you cancel it, which is done in the App Store like any other subscription.
- Monthly £4.99 a month
- Quarterly £12.99 every three months — £4.33 a month, saving £1.98
UK prices. The App Store shows the price in your own currency before you buy, and it is the App Store that takes the payment.
Cancelling does not take anything away from your phone. Your dogs, their records and every walk you have tracked stay exactly where they are — the paid screens simply stop opening.
It all stays on the device
The app opens on its own PIN. Your dogs’ details, your walks, your address, your emergency contact and your photos are held on the phone and stay there. The single exception is your email address, which is held so your subscription can be allocated to it. It is not sold, not rented and not passed to any third party. You can decline to give it at all, though some subscription-based functionality may then be unavailable. There are no adverts in the app and no third parties processing anything, by design.
A look through the app
These shots are not always updated the moment something changes, so screens may look different in the version you download.
Opens on a PIN 
Home 
Calendar 
Who’s walking 
Log a moment 
Your history 
Your dogs -
Medical 
Vet and insurance 
First aid 
Step by step 
Photos
Tameside Tails on Trails is coming to iPhone
The app is built and running on device. If you walk dogs around Tameside, or anywhere else, and you want to know when it lands, send a message and I will tell you.