Pet Pick vs Adopt a Rescue
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pet Pick
Discover adoptable animals in shelters and find your perfect companion. Browse detailed pet profiles, filter by species, breed, or urgency, and save your favorites. This app aims to help every pet find a loving home.
- Search for adoptable pets
- Filter by zip code, shelter, species, and breed
- View detailed pet profiles
- Save favorite pet picks
- Take notes on pet profiles
- Map view of pet locations
- Filter for urgent pets
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Every pet deserves a safe and loving home. Many pets end up in shelters because their owners can no longer keep them, and many others are found fending for themselves on the streets. Sadly, shelters run out of room, and far too many pets are euthanized every year. Pet Pick's goal is to help change that by helping each pet find a loving home. Pet Pick® makes it fun and easy to search for adoptable pets near you and Pick your Pet! Each pet's profile has photos, details, and the shelter's location and contact information. Search your way • Search by ZIP Code and distance, or by animal shelter. • Filter by species, breed, age, size, and sex. Pet Pick isn't just dogs and cats. You can find horses, pigs, rabbits, birds, lizards, guinea pigs, and more. • Narrow it down with filters like Good with kids, Good with dogs, Good with cats, House-trained, and Vaccinated. • Save your searches to run again any time. Keep your Picks • Tap the heart to save a pet to your Picks, all in one place. • Add notes to any Pick. • Your Picks and notes sync across your iPhone and iPad with iCloud. • Hide pets you're not interested in, and bring them back any time. Help urgent pets • Turn on Urgent only in the search to see only pets who are running out of time. • Urgent pets need a loving home as soon as possible. • Get notified about urgent pets near you, within the distance you choose. • See your Picks and urgent pets on a map. Contact the shelter • Call, email, or visit the shelter's website right from a pet's profile. Pet Pick is free and has no ads, so you can focus on Picking your Pet.
Adopt a Rescue
Discover adoptable dogs, cats, puppies, and kittens from shelters. Find your perfect companion and give a rescue pet a loving home.
- Search adoptable dogs
- Search adoptable cats
- Search puppies
- Search kittens
- Rescue shelter pets
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Search adoptable dogs, cats, puppies and kittens and rescue a wonderful shelter pet today.
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Verdict
Pet Pick and Adopt a Rescue both sit at 4.1 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Pet Pick's written reviews are positive against 0% of Adopt a Rescue's. Pet Pick also leads on ratings volume (14 vs 4). Adopt a Rescue's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 27.0). On price, rating, update cadence and ads there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Adopt a Rescue holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 4.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 14 and 4 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 100% of Pet Pick's written reviews are positive against 0% of Adopt a Rescue's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pet Pick | Adopt a Rescue |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (14 ratings) | 4.3 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 14 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 27.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 27 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | NUMBERWING, INC. | North Shore Animal League America |
Customer experience
Pet Pick
Adopt a Rescue
In-app purchases
Pet Pick
No in-app purchases
Adopt a Rescue
No in-app purchases
