Dogtopia vs Brinley’s Big Backyard
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!
Brinley’s Big Backyard
Manage your pet's care with ease. Schedule appointments, receive real-time updates with photos, communicate directly with staff, and handle payments securely. Experience top-tier pet services conveniently through this app.
- Schedule appointments
- Receive pet status updates
- Get pet pictures
- Chat with staff
- Contactless payments
- Pet care management
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Brinley’s Big Backyard offers the very best in pet care! Use our app to schedule appointments, receive status updates & pet pictures, chat with us, make contactless payments, and much more! Come see us at Brinley’s Big Backyard where we delight you and your pets!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Brinley’s Big Backyard at 100% against Dogtopia's 12%. Brinley’s Big Backyard also leads on rating (4.9 vs 2.7). Dogtopia's advantage is ratings volume (530 vs 35) and update cadence (monthly vs every 3 months). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
Brinley’s Big Backyard holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 2.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Dogtopia has 530 ratings behind it against 35, 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 100% of Brinley’s Big Backyard's.
Dogtopia ships an update monthly, Brinley’s Big Backyard every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on September 16, 2026 and September 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Dogtopia | Brinley’s Big Backyard |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.7 (530 ratings) | 4.9 (35 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 12.1% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 530 — better | 35 |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 116 MB | 141 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Dogtopia Enterprises, LLC | iTrust Ventures LLC |
Customer experience
Dogtopia
Brinley’s Big Backyard
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
Brinley’s Big Backyard
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Dogtopia
No in-app purchases
Brinley’s Big Backyard
No in-app purchases
