Puddle & Pile User Reviews

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Want my $4 back

Shockingly bad interface. Does not seem to save entries I’ve already put in. Whenever I try to upload or take a pic of my dog, the whole thing crashes (and also loses everything). Honestly shocking how poor quality this.

Almost there

I’d love to see sleep and play tracking as well as a way to share logins with a family member to keep track!

Puppy Blues No More

I completely forgot how hard it is to have a puppy, I was actually depressed because potty training was so hard. This app saved me. I don’t know how, but this app knows when my puppy is going to need to potty with like 98% accuracy. I’ve even gotten the notification at work that she needed to make a puddle just to open my camera and see her peeing on a puppy pad. I normally don’t pay for apps, but I was desperate and I can say this app was the best $5 I’ve ever spent. If you have a puppy you need this app.
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Great one day in

Really enjoying the app so far, feel it’s helping me to keep on top of wee breaks. One thing I’m unclear on is should I be adding a licki mat or kong etc as food in the app? Would be great to have show and share learning part integrated into the add page. Thanks

Scam

Downloaded it and nothing opened

WARNING READ BEFORE DOWNLOADING

The app is NOT compatible with the updated IOS system. They haven’t updated in years. Spend your money elsewhere.

Best Thing Ever

This is so good for me because I just got a puppy and he has a lot of accidents so this app helped me a lot and NO ADDS

App has yet to load (iphone14 pro)

So i checked and saw this app hasnt been updated in years. For SURE its incompatible with the new iOS. Was super excited to use this with my new Pup to assist with the accidents.

Mixed Results

Started using this app about 4 weeks ago and below are my experiences. 1. App does a good job of alerting you when next expected puddle or pile will occur based off past history entered (though seems mostly like it’s only based on the prior day results - see point 3). 2. Those that have multiple users will need to coordinate inputs and sending history as there’s no user name account to share activity. It’s a stand alone app. 3. No complex report out or analysis of habits. Just a simple data extract of what was input 4. Historical data seems to delete puddle data after only 2 days, leaving history of only piles and/or food or drink habits. I’ve contacted creator on this and he indicated it would be looked into, but no short term fix I’ve seen. 5. Creator has been responsive to questions but app changes come down to developer time.
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Great!

I really love this app, it is so helpful. I wish there were a feature to toggle if you are away from the house and the dog is in a crate, but over all it is excellent.

Needs higher contrast for low vision people

Love this app! I recommended it to my mother-in-law, but she says she has a hard time reading the white print and inputting data against the photo backdrop. So I had to give it three stars. Is there anyway to put accessibility features on this for people with poor eyesight?

I can’t believe I paid for this

I can’t believe this is a paid app! Sure, it’s helpful to log these activities for your own reference and the predictability feature is nice, but you’ll notice when you look back the data and history is unreliable. I use this app religiously throughout the day because having a puppy is tiring and your day gets busy, so it’s helpful to know when they last went out. But this app is a rip off & the developers have some work to do.
My biggest gripe is the app deletes and changes entries on its own. For example, it shows my puppy “piled” 8x one day. Similarly, it shows I never input when she was fed yesterday. At first I thought I was mistaken and perhaps had forgot, so I’ve started screenshotting the activity and confirmed it does change on its own. I can’t believe the developers are profiting off this when it doesn’t even work as ir should.
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AMAZING!!

If I could give more stars I would. This app is AMAZING in helping you potty train. You just need to follow through on your end and whalla… potty trained. Wonderful experience with this app!!

Game changer

A dog trainer referred me to this app when I was super frustrated with the potty training adventure. Is it the ultimate answer to potty training? No!! However the app gives hope that there is value in being consistent in paying attention to your dogs habits and needs. Its easy to get distracted and forget to take them out timely so accidents WILL happen. Now as long as I remember to enter the information, I can reasonably rely on this app to assist me with getting the dog out before the accident occurs. The only change I would like is to be able to change the notification alarm. While the dog bark is cute, if the dog is napping it has woken him up. I never wake up a sleeping baby 😂
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Can’t create account

Would be useful to be able to create an account to have on multiple devices. There’s some odd way to share history via email that didn’t work as don’t use iPhone mail app… Didn’t understand infographics of hearts and stars or percentages either… not the best app

Best for dog training

I use this app every single time I have to potty train a puppy. It’s the best

none

I click on the categroies and nothing happnes, nothing opens.

Don’t buy this app

It only saves 3 days worth of data.

Also, the predictions are pretty useless. Anyone who has a puppy knows that they don’t go to the bathroom at the same time every day (which is the thesis of this app) besides right when they wake up and within a general time frame after they eat. Potty timing depends more on activity changes between napping, playing, etc. which this app doesn’t recognize. Just because my puppy peed at 2:03 PM on Tuesday right after he finished playing doesn’t mean he’ll pee at 2:03 PM on Wednesday when he’s in the middle of a nap as the app predicts.

I didn’t really mind the poor prediction ability because I found immense value in looking back at my data for the day to understand how much my puppy goes to the bathroom and to remember when his last accident was. I was hoping to be able to look back and say wow it’s been two weeks since an accident! We’re getting somewhere. BUT PLOT TWIST!! This app ONLY SAVES THREE DAYS WORTH OF DATA! Yep, the developer calls it a “3 day data-space saving feature.” The remedy suggested by the developer was to send myself my data every two days manually if I want a record. I’m sorry but I did not pay for an app to add another task to my to do list. I paid for it to make my life easier!

Look elsewhere.
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Good idea but there are better alternatives

I find the interface difficult to use and the predictions aren’t very accurate. I prefer the Wagaruffin.com app for the following reasons:
* easier to use
* much more accurate predictions
* ability to log other activities (like sleeping or exercise)
* easy to see previous activity history

Helpful but could be improved

I would give this app 5 stars if it didn’t delete your history over time. I wish it kept record of everything so you could go back and see when your dog had their last accident etc. It seems to delete some info and keep others.