Wouldn’t detect a dog bark even if it bit it!
What a lazy piece of software development this is, charts all noise in a line graph with nothing to distinguish a bark from a squeaky chair. According to this app, my chair is anxious. This App had one job, and it failed miserably at it, plus the interface is horrible, and it’s not stable. I want my money back John!
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Terrible app
This app is terrible- the monitoring cannot differentiate between a noise and a bark. Don’t waste your money
Junk
Crashes all the time on my iPad. Not sure how the reviews are so good, one of the most amateurish apps I’ve ever seen.
Horrible app
Was recommended getting this app by an officer with my local council to record the neighbors dogs barking. I reluctantly paid money for the app. I started recording my next-door, neighbors, dogs, and quickly realized that basic functionality such as saving the recordings required an in-app purchase. save yourself some money. Don’t buy this app.
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It is useless
Picks up every do
Great app
Neighbours did not believe how much their dog barked when they went out. It was a constant annoyance. Now they are aware. Thanks bark n mad
Waste of time and money
I do not mind wasting money to buy an app that states my dog barked 1987 times when it barked once. What annoys me is I wasted $915 buying the iPad to use this app on. It stated the bus that went past wasn’t a happy bus, the school children making noise were excited. This is no more than an ambient recording device that is not doing what it states it does. I should report this to the ACCC.
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No longer working!
I’ve been using this app for over a year and now it won’t even stay open! I can report the error, or do anything!
Doesn’t work
App doesn’t work on my new iPad Pro or my wife’s 1 year old IPad Pro. Refund please. Application support is to a website for an account that is suspended. Very disappointing.
Suddenly family sharing stops working
We use the family iPad to monitor the dogs during the day and after about a month or so of use, now it says family sharing not allowed.
Very very helpful!
We had some feedback from our neighbours that our dog barks during the day whilst we were at work. He was quiet as a mouse when we were home so we wanted to hear it for ourselves.
This all works really well. You can hear absolutely everything! It’s very easy to review the recording and the graph. We could see he was barking and ended up walking him more and building him a sandpit for digging. Now all we hear is birds chirping and cars going by!
This all works really well. You can hear absolutely everything! It’s very easy to review the recording and the graph. We could see he was barking and ended up walking him more and building him a sandpit for digging. Now all we hear is birds chirping and cars going by!
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$15 for full version and doesn’t work
Won’t retain settings. Will not upload correctly. Can’t remote monitor. Even when all settings are completed as per help guide. Disappointed to say the least.
Not at all intuitive
Very hard to use and not at all intuitive. It records well but the user interface is hard to understand and there are no instructions that I can find on how to play back or save files. Disappointing
Great app
Thumbs up! Whilst what I heard was disturbing, it was great to hear what was actually happening while I was at work. Easy to use, gives you exactly what you need
Useful with some tweaks?
Just started using the app and have been getting some useful information. I wish that it could give information about decibel level of barking. Is there a way to add that in?
Difficult to use
This app is very difficult to use and is badly designed. All the text is appearing over other text so you can’t read anything. Managed to record a few hours of barking but can’t manage to do anything with that recording. Very annoying
Meh, microphone setting makes it worthless
Has great potential but the microphone setting is so sensitive there is no noticeable difference between the sound of the dogs walking around and the sound of them barking. Makes this app worthless. What they don't tell you in the App Store is that in order to gain access to control the mic sensitivity and other vital features you have to pay ANOTHER $10. What a scam.
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Amazing app!
5 stars, great app. I thought about trying my own RaspberryPi integration, but this app did it for $4.
I use an older iPad, but I can still record a full 8 hours easy.
The UI is funny, and I'm glad more time was spent making it functional versus pretty.
I use an older iPad, but I can still record a full 8 hours easy.
The UI is funny, and I'm glad more time was spent making it functional versus pretty.
Not as advertised
While the description says that the initial purchase includes everything needed to monitor and control barking, features are limited. No threshold option, very limited ability to play a noise in response to a bark.
Also silly to limit tone to sonic range, maxing out at 25 kHz
Also silly to limit tone to sonic range, maxing out at 25 kHz
Saved our sanity!
This app quite literally lowered my family's stress level and saved our sanity!
We have a "difficult" neighbor, who has a history of being overly sensitive to normal neighborhood noises, and complaining about every little thing. The previous homeowners were harassed by her, and the moment we moved in, she began complaining to us.
We adopted a dog at Christmas time, and within just a couple weeks she contacted us complaining, and notified us that his barking is "disturbing" and she had begun recording him (I assume to file a complaint since she she told us the first time we spoke to her after moving in that she recorded the previous neighbors in order to take them to "litigation"). Due to excessive rains for the first several weeks we had our dog we weren't even able to let him outside for extended periods of time, so I knew her complaints where unfounded, and we've been very careful to check with all our neighbors, look into the laws and not only be respectful neighbors, but have been overly cautious because we knew her history. So we felt we needed to protect ourselves in case she decided to file a complaint. We started by writing down every time our dog barked, and for how long. But that not only became tedious, but incredibly stressful, always feeling like we needed to be "on alert" to record a bark. And that didn't solve the problem of when we weren't home.
Thankfully we found this app! It has quite literally lowered our stress level and saved our sanity knowing that we can sit back and enjoy our dog not just listen and be ready to record any barks he may periodically let out.
My only complaint would be on my iPad 3 (running the latest iOS) the app periodically either freezes or crashes and I end up losing all or a portion of the recording time I thought it was running.
I also would love if we could somehow have the feature of the app to "ignore" a certain sound frequency/pattern, or ONLY recognize a certain pattern as barking from your dog. The app is set up in such a way that my chicken's noises, our voices, and neighbors' dogs show differently with different colors/patterns. We have found that while looking at the app I can recognize those are not our dog barking, the app doesn't make that distinction in real time, thus triggering the recorded verbal warning & praise (and then email alerts to barking detected). At this time the recorded verbal correction seems to be effective for him. But there are several times where it goes off due to other sounds, and he's just laying down doing nothing at the time and jumps up confused why he's receiving a correction. I'm concerned that those recorded corrections will become ineffective if they continue going off when he isn't barking.
Thanks again for this app!
We have a "difficult" neighbor, who has a history of being overly sensitive to normal neighborhood noises, and complaining about every little thing. The previous homeowners were harassed by her, and the moment we moved in, she began complaining to us.
We adopted a dog at Christmas time, and within just a couple weeks she contacted us complaining, and notified us that his barking is "disturbing" and she had begun recording him (I assume to file a complaint since she she told us the first time we spoke to her after moving in that she recorded the previous neighbors in order to take them to "litigation"). Due to excessive rains for the first several weeks we had our dog we weren't even able to let him outside for extended periods of time, so I knew her complaints where unfounded, and we've been very careful to check with all our neighbors, look into the laws and not only be respectful neighbors, but have been overly cautious because we knew her history. So we felt we needed to protect ourselves in case she decided to file a complaint. We started by writing down every time our dog barked, and for how long. But that not only became tedious, but incredibly stressful, always feeling like we needed to be "on alert" to record a bark. And that didn't solve the problem of when we weren't home.
Thankfully we found this app! It has quite literally lowered our stress level and saved our sanity knowing that we can sit back and enjoy our dog not just listen and be ready to record any barks he may periodically let out.
My only complaint would be on my iPad 3 (running the latest iOS) the app periodically either freezes or crashes and I end up losing all or a portion of the recording time I thought it was running.
I also would love if we could somehow have the feature of the app to "ignore" a certain sound frequency/pattern, or ONLY recognize a certain pattern as barking from your dog. The app is set up in such a way that my chicken's noises, our voices, and neighbors' dogs show differently with different colors/patterns. We have found that while looking at the app I can recognize those are not our dog barking, the app doesn't make that distinction in real time, thus triggering the recorded verbal warning & praise (and then email alerts to barking detected). At this time the recorded verbal correction seems to be effective for him. But there are several times where it goes off due to other sounds, and he's just laying down doing nothing at the time and jumps up confused why he's receiving a correction. I'm concerned that those recorded corrections will become ineffective if they continue going off when he isn't barking.
Thanks again for this app!
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