FluentPet User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience35.7% of reviews
Neutral14.3% of reviews
Negative experience50.0% of reviews

~ Based on 28 written reviews from the US App Store.

Is FluentPet Safe?

FluentPet appears mostly safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for FluentPet is 80/100.

This assessment is based on 113 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.1/5.

Safety Analysis

74.3% of ratings point to a safe experience
5.3% of ratings suggest some concerns
20.4% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 113 App Store ratings for FluentPet.

Is FluentPet Legit?

FluentPet appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for FluentPet is 88/100.

Based on 88 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

My dog Bella

She has tons of these notes that helps me know what she wants and needs! thank you so much!

Why does the light come on in the middle of the night?

FWIW, this app is getting more stable with time and the connection between the device and app is more consistent

But why oh why does it turn on the light on the device in the middle of the night? If it’s updating firmware, why does the light need to come on? If it’s the battery or some other reason, why can’t there be an option to keep the light off at night? Why can’t I mute it at night?
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Love

This product has been such a joy to have in the house!!! We used to have cheap buttons from Amazon and we recently upgraded to FluentPet about 3 months ago. Worth it. I love the app. It’s great getting the notifications on my phone when they press a button because I often can’t hear what they say from across the house. The setup was so easy. Recording new buttons, so easy. Idk why this isn’t rated higher. I’ve never had an issue. :)
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Fluent Pet Wins after many failures

Fluent pet has been an amazing experience for my animals. We have tried buttons many times, but I made all.of.the.mistakes. After 5 years of failures, with FP's free boot camp and FP101 course, My dogs were pressing within 15 minutes. They are now 3.5 weeks in and have 10 words, and about to add 2-3 more! They are already starting 2 word combinations to communicate concepts they don't have buttons for.

Mostly, my dogs ate MUCH happier. They seem to have more confidence that we will work together to figure out whAt they want and need. Before, they beg ask and we would guess, but when we got it wrong, they walked off in a huff. Now, even when we don't know, they seem more confident that we will get it.

I cant recommend these buttons enough.
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My dog loves to talk to me

Howard is using his button and I love it so much. The app is a huge upgrade!

Lost connection

My connect keeps loosing connection with my app on my phone. So frustrating

Disconnected

The idea for this product is so cool, but I’m really frustrated to see that I get an error when I look at the app now and my “household” is not found. All the buttons are gone. I am not looking forward to setting these up again… I don’t want to have to do this over and over and I hope this is the only time this happens.
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The chat style update somehow made it worse

Previously the app would intermittently drop connections when adding buttons, but since the update, I can't add a button. It does all of the sounds but the app never shows the new button. Yes, even after waiting a few minutes. Button presses now get synced "later" in the "background" frequently hours or days later. I'm so disappointed I bought these to replace my OG classics. Feels like such a waste of money for how frustrating it is to add a word and get it to sync. If I could return them for SpeakUp I would.
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Great concept, poor execution

I like the new chat style UI, but they haven’t fixed one of the core issue- the app often disconnects from the base, sometimes within a day of reconnecting. Very annoying

Poor software

It is very poorly designed software. I was unable to reconnect the Connect buttons to the base, change voice prompt and correct mistakes. Yes I read and followed the instructions exactly. I could get the button to connect to the base but the Next button would not let me move to the record screen after I set it up the first time. I tried to disconnect and the. It changed the buttons to classic and would not let me delete from classic and add to connect. This is basic stuff. Seems to be only 1 use case that it considers. Please fix this.
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Freezes up

The app only works half of the time when trying to connect the buttons to the base. After many tries it does connect, however the app won’t go past “naming” a button. The button does show up in the app, but I cannot change the name. Instructions say to close and reopen the app, that did nothing, but frustrate me. I bought the Fluent Pet Connect to make life easier, it ain’t happening yet!!
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Quiet

With their last update, the system is rendered. It’s way too quiet to be heard unless the room it’s being used in is fully silent. No TV or music on in the background. I miss the old version before the awful update!

The buttons won’t connect

The base took a little convincing to connect, I was able to connect one button and the other seven that I purchased are basically useless because they cannot be connected. It seems like the app is not catching the connection of the button despite the connection sound ringing. Super disappointed

Response from developer

We are sorry to hear that you are experiencing technical difficulties linking your Connect Buttons. Please email info@fluent.pet and our support team will be happy to assist.

Obvious functions missing

If you follow the set up instructions that come with your base and buttons, it will take an unnecessary amount of time to actually load all the information in. My recommendation is to associate all of the buttons to the base station at the same time, then assign the words to each button without updating the base station until you are completed assignment. There is no ability to bulk assigned button presses to users so if you have more than one pet and a lot of activity, you’re going to completely skip the assign feature because it’s a waste of your time. There is no way to activate the connect base station from your phone app, which seems like a total mess to me. However, once you get past all of that, everything works reasonably well and is highly entertaining.
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Working perfectly for us so far

The set up took a bit of patience but the instructions were good enough to get through it. You have to charge the base and pair it to the app before you do anything else. Once you have that worked out, the rest is pretty easy. Being able to pause notifications is helpful during training sessions. I really like that it has battery indicators for the buttons and that you can edit the button names. I think this is going to be a lot of fun.
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Love it!

Getting texts from my pets has been a game changer. There were some glitches early on, but the customer service has been phenomenal is getting us up to date. I appreciate all of the new app updates as well - it just keeps getting better!

Not working

This product is expensive, especially the new connection buttons. We have spent a lot on both the old and new buttons. We really wanted this app to work so that when we are on a different floor, we can hear the dogs. However, this app has been malfunctioning from day one, and now we can’t even log into it. It keeps trying to sync with the website, but we get errors. It started by not loading and gradually led to not working at all. You need to look into this, please.
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App Freezes

The app freezes every time I try to assign a button hit/sequence. I have to quit the app and reopen to assign every hit/sequence. It is arduous. Button connecting and setup is also slow. It took me 60+ minutes to connect 18 buttons. The app and hardware needs a lot of work.

Keeps locking up

App keeps locking up, I have to keep quitting the app and restart it. Looks like there was an update yesterday and now this keeps happening. Please fix this issue, I paid a substantial amount of money for this connect system.

App won’t allow log in

I have a log in and password but it refuses to recognize it and keeps saying wrong password. I even changed it. I can’t even get started. I had feeling this was going to be sketchy app - spent $500 for nothing should’ve stuck w the oils school version