Dog Decoder User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience67.4% of reviews
Neutral4.7% of reviews
Negative experience27.9% of reviews

~ Based on 43 written reviews from the US App Store.

Is Dog Decoder Safe?

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Is Dog Decoder Legit?

Dog Decoder appears legitimate, with a few gaps. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Dog Decoder is 73/100.

Based on 73 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Useful info but app sucks

Too many bugs and glitches. Information is useful but app freezes or glitches every time you use it. Not worth the $.

Great app

This is a great app for dog owners/handlers to better understand dog communication with people and other dogs

So-so

So GLITCHY! Impossible to use the app normally, it would get frozen, blank screen, not responding… ugh

Helpful App

The illustrations are very cute and the advice is sound. A couple of points of feedback to the designer: there are a couple of proof-reading errors and the quiz could be more comprehensive.

Good content but far too glitchy

I’m finding the content useful user-friendly, but the glitches are maddening, bordering on unusable. It won’t let me look at more than one or two poses before glitching - content is slow to refresh, but even if you wait for all the icon images to load on the screen there’s no guarantee that when you click on a body language or greeting option you won’t be faced with a blank screen—one that not only never loads, but doesn’t allow you to return to the menu screen. The only way to select another option is to close the app and reopen it. Every single time you want to select a new option to learn about.
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Super buggy, keeps freezing/crashing

I have to delete and reinstall the app every time I want to move from one description to the next

Excellent resource for dog communication!

Anyone who lives with a dog needs to get this app. So helpful and easy to understand. We monkeys really struggle with the beautiful communication from our canine friends so this makes it so much easier! Can’t recommend enough!

Requesting a refund

I was expecting this to have more useful info. This is all fairly obvious dog body language

Not worth it.

The creator of this app is known to steal the intellectual property of other smaller pet care/training businesses. It’s not worth supporting someone who believes that they are entitled to other people’s labour.

Crashed

Crashed never to return

Want to like but some issues.

I purchased this app after reading an article by the app author that I that was really helpful. Unfortunately, the app does not load images or descriptions for all of the entries. I’m frustrated that I paid $3.99 and it does not do what it claims to do. Please update the app or refund purchases.

Homeopathic scam pusher

Changed and downgraded my review as dog decoder has turned into anti vets pro homeopathic scams and I want no part of them using behaviour education to further those scams. I can no longer trust what they say

Simple, direct and practical. Very good and funny.

Very good

Dog Listening

As a professional dog trainer I recommend this app to people all the time. As humans that choose to bring dogs into our lives we should learn as much about what our dogs are saying as possible to improve everyone’s quality of life. This app lets you discover some often overlooked body language that dogs use to communicate with us. The breakdowns of every signal are well explained and the illustrations by Lili Chin are easy to relate to & remember.
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Must Have for Pet Owners

I work in rescue and have learned so much about reading dogs’ body language from this app. If more people were better equipped to handle their pets with this level of awareness, there would be more pets in homes! So worth it.

Not much info

The info is all very basic, if you’ve spent even a small amount of time around dogs. Definitely not worth 5 bucks, I got all I needed from it in about 5 minutes.

Great App to teach people and children

400,000 children are sent to the ER because people don’t recognize the dog’s warning and stress signals.
As holistic dog trainer and behaviorist, it’s my priority to help people better communicate with their dog’s.
This app is what I recommend to my clients to test their skills and teach their children.
The quiz is a great way to learn safely and build a strong family bond with their dog.
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Great on the go resource!

Accurate, simple and covers key points in understanding the basics of canine body language! Best app by far!

Enjoyable

This app has helped a lot in understanding my dogs. One of my dogs sometimes uses tongue flicks and yawns to indicate calm: she'll get on my lap facing me, make eye contact with me, flick her tongue & yawn, then settle.
It would be helpful if after clicking on a picture for details, exiting took me back to where I was instead of to the start.
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Not really worth the price !

I thought why not buy it thinking there would be a whole lot of information as it was $6.15 with tax

Yeah i was wrong the tests ask u the same questions just in different patterns the info is something I already knew ...
Don't make the same mistake as me unless u really don't know a thing about dogs
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