Dogtopia vs Pet Stop Link
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Dogtopia
Easily book dog daycare, overnight boarding, and spa services. Monitor your pet's stay with live webcams, track their activity, and access helpful dog care content.
- Book daycare, boarding, and spa appointments
- Watch live webcams of your dog
- Track exercise activity
- Set and achieve wellness goals
- Discover upcoming events
- Access dog care content
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Book your dog for daycare, overnight boarding, and spa appointments at their favorite home away from home. With the Dogtopia app, you can create a profile to request appointments, watch your pup play on webcams, check out upcoming events, track their exercise activity, achieve wellness goals, read helpful dog content, and more!
Pet Stop Link
This app connects to a smart pet fence system, allowing you to monitor your pet's behavior and receive notifications for collar charging or setting adjustments. It provides real-time information and over 1000 customizable settings for your pet's safety and your peace of mind.
- Smartphone connectivity
- Pet behavior monitoring
- Collar charging notifications
- Remote setting adjustments
- Over 1000 customizable settings
- Real-time information access
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Imagine a pet fence system that Links to your smartphone. That monitors your pet’s behavior and sends you a notification if a setting needs to be changed. A setting you send to your dog’s collar with a quick click. Now there’s Link™, an amazing breakthrough in pet fencing. With Link you’ll have access to real-time information at your fingertips and so will your Pet Stop Dealer. Information like letting you know the collar needs to be charged or prompting you to make an adjustment to the over 1000 available settings. Link makes it all so easy. This breakthrough technology forever changes the peace-of-mind you get from your Pet Stop system, and it's only available through participating Dealers. For over a decade Pet Stop has been the leader in technology, providing more custom settings to individualize our products than any other manufacturer in the industry. Ask your Pet Stop Dealer about Link and the ability to be one of the first to receive a Link enabled product as soon as it becomes available.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Pet Stop Link at 55% against Dogtopia's 12%. Pet Stop Link also leads on rating (3.9 vs 2.7) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.6). Dogtopia's advantage is ratings volume (575 vs 73). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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.
Pet Stop Link holds the better App Store score, 3.9 against 2.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Dogtopia has 575 ratings behind it against 73, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 12% of Dogtopia's written reviews are positive against 55% of Pet Stop Link's.
Dogtopia ships an update every 3 weeks, Pet Stop Link every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Dogtopia | Pet Stop Link |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.7 (575 ratings) | 3.9 (73 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 11.8% of reviews | 55.2% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 575 — better | 73 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 110 MB | 27 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Dogtopia Enterprises, LLC | Perimeter Technologies, Inc. |
Customer experience
Dogtopia
Pet Stop Link
User reviews
Dogtopia
From 575 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Easy to use
- 📽️ Ability to view webcams
- 💻 Convenient app for scheduling
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent app crashes
- ⚠️ Unreliable webcam functionality
- 🔍 Difficult to navigate
- 🔄 Repetitive tour prompts
- 🔑 Login and account issues
Pet Stop Link
From 73 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Great for behavior training
- 👍 Effective for stopping unwanted behaviors (jumping, barking)
- 👍 App allows remote trainer functionality
- 👍 Convenient for adjusting collar settings
- 👍 Night light feature is useful
Room to improve
- 🐛 Slow to connect
- 🐛 Limited Bluetooth range (often < 15-20 feet)
- 🐛 Disconnects frequently
- 🐛 App is unreliable
- 🐛 Inaccurate battery life reporting
Bugs and requests
Dogtopia
Reported bugs
4 issues- App freezes and crashes frequently
- Inability to log in or access user profile
- Webcams not working or constantly freezing
- Appointment details disappearing after updates
Requested features
4 requests- View appointment history and pass balance
- Ability to edit/cancel existing appointments
- Improved camera quality and reliability
- Streamlined user interface
Pet Stop Link
Reported bugs
10 issues- App is slow to connect
- App disconnects frequently
- App has limited range
- Inaccurate battery life reporting
- App connects to the wrong collar
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- App history/data is incorrect or confusing
- "Invalid Pin" errors prevent connection
- App does not launch after updates
- Light button does not work reliably
- App is unstable and hangs on loading screen
Requested features
8 requests- Improve connection speed and reliability
- Increase Bluetooth range
- More accurate battery life reporting
- Better history/data logging and visualization
- Fix "Invalid Pin" errors
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- Ensure app launches after updates
- Improve multi-dog collar selection
- Allow remote trainer to work at greater distances
In-app purchases
Dogtopia
No in-app purchases
Pet Stop Link
No in-app purchases
