Dog Optics vs SwiftPaws
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Dog Optics
Experience the world through your dog's eyes by toggling between canine and human color spectrums. This app allows you to capture photos and videos in your dog's unique vision, and assess environmental elements for color blind accessibility.
- Simulate dog color vision
- Capture photos and videos in dog sight
- Assess color blind accessibility
- Compare human and canine vision
- Educational information pages
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Toggle back and forth between dog sight and human sight even while shooting videos. Flip to the front camera and snap a selfie with your dog in their color spectrum. Broaden your understanding of others with our app. Dog’s see a color spectrum that lacks red and is similar to some forms of Red Green color blindness. Use our app to assess areas and signage for color blind accessibility. Check out the info pages for thought provoking demonstrations about how your vision differs from your lovable K9.
SwiftPaws
Control your pet's interactive lure coursing toy with this app. Designed to provide a healthy outlet for your pet's energy and natural instincts, it enhances playtime and enrichment.
- Control lure coursing toy
- Enhance pet playtime
- Provide pet enrichment
- Manage pet's energy outlet
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At SwiftPaws, we make playful enrichment products for your pet's best life. Use the SwiftPaws App to control your SwiftPaws Lure Coursing Kit. As Seen on Shark Tank, SwiftPaws Lure Coursing Kits and other enrichment products provide a healthy outlet for your pet's natural drive and energy.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: SwiftPaws at Free against Dog Optics's $0.99. SwiftPaws also leads on update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 10 months). Dog Optics's advantage is rating (4.3 vs 2.7) and review sentiment (63% vs 33%). On ratings volume, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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
SwiftPaws is free to download; Dog Optics costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Dog Optics holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 2.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 32 and 26 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 63% of Dog Optics's written reviews are positive against 33% of SwiftPaws's.
Dog Optics ships an update every 10 months, SwiftPaws every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Dog Optics | SwiftPaws |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.3 (32 ratings) — better | 2.7 (26 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 63.2% of reviews — better | 33.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 32 — better | 26 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 months | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #80 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 90 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Risbeck LLC | Swift Paws, Inc |
Customer experience
Dog Optics
SwiftPaws
In-app purchases
Dog Optics
No in-app purchases
SwiftPaws
No in-app purchases
