Dogtopia vs The Dog Stop
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!
The Dog Stop
Easily schedule daycare, boarding, and grooming for your dog. Monitor your pet's activities live via 24/7 cameras and manage all your appointments and history in one place.
- Schedule daycare, boarding, and grooming
- Live 24/7 pup camera monitoring
- Create and manage pet parent profiles
- Modify existing appointments
- Add extra services (Delights)
- Track appointment history
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The Dog Stop app makes it easy to book daycare, boarding, and grooming appointments for your pup and then Watch your pup play live on our 24/7 Pup Cams. Simply create your Pet Parent profile in minutes, and you’re in control: Request appointments for daycare, boarding, and grooming Modify existing appointments Add Dog Stop Delights to any stay and track you appointment history.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: The Dog Stop at 90% against Dogtopia's 12%. The Dog Stop also leads on rating (4.9 vs 2.7) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.6). Dogtopia's advantage is ratings volume (576 vs 88). 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.
The Dog Stop holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 2.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Dogtopia has 576 ratings behind it against 88, 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 90% of The Dog Stop's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Dogtopia | The Dog Stop |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.7 (576 ratings) | 4.9 (88 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 11.8% of reviews | 90.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 576 — better | 88 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 3 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 | 60 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Dogtopia Enterprises, LLC | The Dog Stop LLC |
Customer experience
Dogtopia
The Dog Stop
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
The Dog Stop
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Dogtopia
No in-app purchases
The Dog Stop
No in-app purchases
