Hound-Up

For UK independent dog walkers and pet sitters

Your clients. Your rates. Your app.

Hound-Up is the app designed and built for independent dog walkers and pet sitters — customer & dog records, live GPS walk tracking, AI-assisted booking import, and your own themed marketing and appointment booking website. No marketplace standing between you and your clients and no commission on what you earn.

Other platforms often want a cut of your bookings or charge high rates regardless of the scale of your operations. Hound-Up is built only for the independent walker who already has their own clients. It's designed to be simple to use, takes care of invoicing and nudging for you, and can offer your clients a way to book available slots based on your own schedule.

New — and it's actually yours

A booking website that's yours, not a listing

Clients can pick a service you've priced, book a walk or an overnight stay, or just ask a question first if they're not ready to commit. Appointment requests land straight in your app, ready to accept or decline into your schedule. Every Autopilot walker gets a real, personalised marketing/advertising website — not a profile buried on someone else's marketplace platform.

  • Your own page
  • Your own content
  • Your own rates
  • Clients can request a booking or ask a question
0%Commission, ever
24/7Clients can book without a text

Straight from the app

The Hound-Up App

See it in action

Live from your Lock Screen

Start a walk and it sits on your Lock Screen and Dynamic Island — elapsed time, live distance, the route drawing itself in real time. One tap to Stop & Save, no need to even unlock your phone.

  • Optional live GPS route tracking
  • Supports solo or group walks — you define the rates and types of service you offer
  • Voice-to-text notes, transcribed entirely on-device

What's inside

Everything you need to organise the day

Client & dog records

A profile for every dog — breed, age, temperament, diet, medical notes flagged so nothing urgent gets missed — plus emergency contacts, vet details, and entry instructions like lockbox or alarm codes.

  • Per-client custom rates
  • Safe, tailored care at a glance before you knock

Live GPS tracking

Optional, per walk — start one and it sits on your Lock Screen and Dynamic Island, live distance and elapsed time updating as the route draws itself.

  • One-tap "Stop & Save," no need to unlock
  • Route map saved against every walk

Your own booking website

A real, branded public page — clients pick a priced service, book a walk or an overnight stay with a proper date range, or ask a question if they're not sure yet.

  • Zero commission on anything booked through it
  • Lands pre-filled in your bell notifications, ready to accept

Smart booking import

Paste a client's WhatsApp message straight in — AI extracts who, when, and what's needed, matches the dog to your records, and fills in fuzzy dates automatically.

  • Understands edits and cancellations too
  • You review and confirm before anything saves

Scheduling & calendar

Recurring patterns or one-off ad-hoc bookings, house sits as a first-class booking type alongside walks, and a feed that pipes straight into Apple/Google Calendar.

  • Clean native month/week view
  • See every future booking at a glance

Finance & invoicing

Every completed walk rolls straight into a ledger, grouped by owner. Professional PDF invoices, sent by email or WhatsApp in one tap.

  • Accountant-ready CSV export by UK tax year
  • Mark paid to archive out of your day-to-day view
See every feature

🐕 Client & Dog Records

  • Full profile per dog — breed, sex, age (or birthdate), temperament, diet notes
  • Medical notes with a flagged MEDICAL badge so nothing urgent gets missed
  • Vet name, phone and address on file for every dog
  • Emergency contacts and home-entry instructions (lockbox codes, alarm codes) stored per client
  • Custom rates per client — override your defaults for anyone, without fuss
  • Dog photos and colour-tagged avatars throughout the app

🌐 Your Own Booking Website

  • A real, branded public page for your business — not a listing on somebody else's marketplace Autopilot
  • Clients pick from your own priced services — a flat-rate visit, an hourly walk, or an overnight sit
  • Overnight-sit bookings collect a proper FROM/TO date range, never squeezed into a single day
  • A separate "Ask a question" enquiry form for anyone not ready to pick a date yet
  • Every request lands pre-filled in your bell notifications — accept and it opens already knowing the service, the date and, where it can, the client
  • Enquiries email straight to your own inbox as well, so nothing gets missed
  • Publish a live availability calendar so clients see your free slots before they even ask Autopilot
  • Zero commission, ever — every booking made through your page is entirely yours

📅 Scheduling & Calendar

  • Recurring schedules (e.g. every Mon/Wed/Fri, or alternate-week fortnightly patterns)
  • One-off ad-hoc bookings in seconds
  • Clean native month/week calendar view
  • House sits built in as a first-class booking type alongside walks — hourly or multi-night, billed correctly either way
  • Subscribeable calendar feed — pipe your bookings straight into Apple/Google Calendar

🚶 Walk Logging & Live Tracking

  • Log a walk before you go, or after the fact — no rigid timers required
  • Flat-rate visits or hourly walks, billed automatically at the right rate
  • Group walks with multiple dogs in one entry
  • Live GPS route tracking with real-time distance and duration
  • Dynamic Island & Lock Screen live activity — see your walk running right from the lock screen, with a one-tap "Stop & Save"
  • Voice-to-text walk notes, transcribed entirely on-device — nothing ever leaves the phone
  • Route map saved against every completed walk

📩 Smart Booking Import

  • Paste a client's WhatsApp/text message straight in — AI extracts who, when, and what's needed
  • Understands new bookings, recurring requests, and edits/cancellations to existing bookings
  • Auto-matches the dog mentioned to your existing records
  • Fills in fuzzy dates ("next Tuesday afternoon"), durations ("an hour's walk") and weekday patterns automatically
  • You review and confirm everything before it's saved — always in control

💷 Invoicing & Finance

  • Every completed walk/sit rolls automatically into a per-client ledger
  • Professional PDF invoices with your logo, business name and bank details
  • Send invoices by email or WhatsApp in one tap
  • Mark invoices paid and archive them out of your daily view
  • Manual payment reminders (nudges) for anything overdue
  • Monthly invoicing reminder notification, set to whatever day suits you
  • Accountant-ready CSV export by UK tax year (6 April–5 April, HMRC's own convention) — hand it straight to your accountant
  • Accept card and Apple Pay via Stripe payment links — sign in free and we'll email you the moment you're paid
  • Auto-nudge overdue invoices even with the app closed Autopilot
  • Automatic post-walk visit summary emails to owners Autopilot

🔒 Privacy & Reliability

  • Sign in free with Apple to get started — no email, no password, takes a few seconds
  • Works fully offline after that — client records, scheduling and walk logging all work with zero signal
  • Everything — clients, dogs, walks, invoices, your own business profile — backs up automatically and stays in sync across your devices from the moment you sign in
  • No ads, no analytics, no data harvesting
  • Manual backup export/import any time

🎨 Design

  • Modern, native iOS look and feel — Manrope type, clean cards, no clunk
  • Full light and dark mode support, plus a choice of accent colours

Free forever — every core workflow above: dogs, scheduling, walk/sit logging with live tracking, invoicing, ledger, card payments, manual send & nudge, plus up to 10 active clients. Sign in free (Apple ID, no email or password) and it's all backed up and synced across your devices too, with your choice of email and/or an instant push the moment a client pays.

Autopilot — £9.99/mo: unlimited clients, your own booking website with a live availability page, instant booking-request push alerts, and auto-chasing overdue invoices by itself, even with the app closed.

Getting paid

From walk to paid, without opening a spreadsheet

  1. 1

    Auto-compiled

    Every completed walk adds its line item to the client's ledger by itself.

  2. 2

    One-tap batch send

    At the end of the week or month, send every invoice at once via email or WhatsApp.

  3. 3

    Simple payments

    Clients get sent a link with your UK bank details, or you can use Stripe to send them an instant payment link* — no app to download.

  4. 4

    Reconciliation

    Mark invoices paid as the money lands, and they're out of your day-to-day view.

*Stripe charges a small commission if you choose to use their service — it can make paying you easier and quicker for your clients. Hound-Up doesn't receive or charge anything for this integration, and once a client pays via Stripe, the invoice is automatically marked as paid.

No marketplace, no commission

Your booking page, your clients, your rates. Hound-Up never takes a cut of what you earn.

Works with no signal

Offline-first by design — a dead zone on a countryside walk never costs you a note.

Signed in once, offline after

Sign in free with Apple to get started — then every dog, client and walk record works with zero signal, backing up the moment you're back in range.

Looks like a modern iOS app

Because it is one — built native, not a wrapped web app, with real light and dark mode.

Built for independent dog walkers. Not marketplaces, not agencies — you.

Download on the App Store