Dogtopia vs PawTend
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!
PawTend
Manage all aspects of your pet's care in one place. Schedule services, store important records, and receive updates from participating pet care providers. Stay organized and connected with your pet's well-being.
- Schedule boarding and daycare
- Manage pet profiles and records
- Receive vaccination updates
- Store payment methods
- View reservation details
- Digital agreement completion
- Receive report cards and photos
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Keeping up with your pet's care should be simple. PawTend connects you with participating pet care providers so you can manage reservations, records, and updates all from one convenient app. Whether you're scheduling a boarding stay, or daycare visits. PawTend helps you stay organized while keeping your pet's information up to date. Features • Schedule boarding, daycare, and other services* • Manage your pet's profile and important information • Receive vaccination verification updates • Securely store payment methods for faster checkout • View reservation details and upcoming visits • Complete agreements digitally before your visit • Receive report cards, photos, and important notifications • Stay connected with participating pet care businesses • Access live pet cameras when offered by your provider • Review invoices and payment history PawTend was designed to simplify communication between pet owners and pet care professionals, helping create a smoother experience from reservation to pickup. *Available features may vary by participating business.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: PawTend at 100% against Dogtopia's 12%. PawTend also leads on rating (5.0 vs 2.7) and update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks). Dogtopia's advantage is ratings volume (576 vs 3). 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.
PawTend holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Dogtopia has 576 ratings behind it against 3, 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 PawTend's.
Dogtopia ships an update every 3 weeks, PawTend weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Dogtopia | PawTend |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.7 (576 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 11.8% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 576 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 110 MB | 52 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Dogtopia Enterprises, LLC | PawTend, INC |
Customer experience
Dogtopia
PawTend
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
PawTend
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Dogtopia
No in-app purchases
PawTend
No in-app purchases









