Push Drop Stick

Push Drop Stick is a reward-based dog training app that adapts to your dog while you train. Each plan breaks a skill into small steps, written by a certified professional trainer, and most steps come with a short video demo. You mark every try, and the app uses those results to choose what comes next, so your dog moves on when they're ready, not when a schedule says so. HOW IT WORKS Set your dog up, ask for the behavior, and tap the check when they get it or the x when they don't. After each set, the app makes one of four moves: Push ahead to a harder step, Stick and repeat this one, Drop back to an easier one, or add a Split, a smaller step in between. You mark honest reps; the app handles the difficulty. FOLLOW THE TRAIL Your dog's Journey is a forest path through Everyday Manners, free with no account: Touch, Sit, Down, Come, Leave It, Casual Heel, Down Stay, and Go to Bed. A Next Up card shows what to train today, and the trail ends at the castle. GOALS, FLAGS, AND GAMES Earn goals for hand signals, verbal cues, distractions, distance, duration, comfort, and offered or automatic behaviors, and watch the flags go up on your castle. Then proof them in games that shuffle what your dog knows across plans, so they answer the real cue, not the pattern. PERFECT YOUR TIMING WITH A CLICKER A clicker marks the exact instant your dog gets it right. Tap the check as a clicker, or bring your own physical clicker and let clicker recognition hear it and mark the win, calibrated to its sound and quick to ignore barks. Mark reps hands-free from your Apple Watch and close your rings, or use voice-to-text anywhere you'd rather not type. HISTORY AND PROGRESS Track every rep, step, and goal. Watch a session live or replay it after, then share a progress graph, with your rate of reinforcement so you know training's in the sweet spot. TRAIN LIKE A PROFESSIONAL Five step types put real behavioral science behind every plan: Prompting, Shaping, Capturing, Errorless, and Classical. Build duration with fixed or variable intervals. THE FULL LIBRARY 50+ plans across Positions, Basic Manners, Tricks, Confidence Building, Grooming, and Handling, each teaching your dog what to do instead of what not to do. TRAIN AS A TEAM Share a dog with your partner, family, or trainer, with sessions, goals, and notes synced across every device. MEET THE ASSISTANT Most AI only knows what you tell it. The Assistant reads what actually happened: every rep, pass and fail, where your dog pushed ahead and where they dropped back. It adds your dogs and keeps notes on each one, finds the right plan and opens it ready to train, keeps your Journey pointed at the right next stop, starts proofing games, and answers when you ask mid-session. Film a few reps and it looks at them with you. COACH Coach is the full AI trainer the Assistant works for. It keeps a notebook on every dog, reviews sessions rep by rep, works through behavior problems with you, answers from published research with citations, writes or edits plans for your dog, and checks back in on its own schedule. Coach's Assistant is free; Coach is not. WHAT'S FREE With no account: Everyday Manners, the full library, the adaptive engine, goals, games, history, Apple Watch, and clicker recognition. With a free account: sync, sharing, and the Assistant. Our methods come from the behavioral science taught to professional trainers: small steps, clear criteria, and rewards for what you want, with your dog's own results deciding when to move on. No corrections, no pain, no fear. You don't need to study any of it to use it. Mark honest reps and let the app decide what's next.