NextPaw vs Dogitty
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
NextPaw
This app helps local pet businesses improve their online visibility and attract customers. It optimizes business listings, broadcasts events to local pet owners, and features coupons that can be printed or displayed on mobile devices.
- Optimize local business listings
- Boost online rankings
- Broadcast pet-friendly events
- Feature coupons and offers
- Integrate with Google My Business
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NextPaw Helps Pet Parents Find and Choose Your Local Business. Improve Local Rankings : • NextPaw ensures your business information is accurate, available, and optimized on the business directories that matter with a focus on boosting rankings for terms you should be focusing on. Broadcast Your Events : •Plan, schedule & distribute your events to 30+ websites and get in front of local pet owners looking for things to do with their pets. Feature Coupons & Offers : •Attract customers to come in by entering discounts and offers. Coupons are automatically added to your Google My Business page and your website. Coupons can be printed or shown on a mobile device.
Dogitty
Easily find trusted pet sitters for dog walking, boarding, or sitting services. Connect with reliable caregivers to ensure your pet is in safe and convenient hands. The platform also allows individuals to sign up and become pet sitters.
- Find trusted pet sitters
- Dog walking services
- Pet boarding and sitting
- Quick and reliable booking
- Become a pet sitter
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Safe, Easy, Quick, Reliable, and Affordable. Find a Trusted Pet Sitter with the Push of a Button. Doggity makes it easy to find a reliable pet sitter. Whether it be dog walking, Dog or cat boarding, Dog sitting or beyond. Leave your precious family member in safe, reliable and convenient care within minutes. Sign up to become a dog sitter!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Dogitty at weekly against NextPaw's every 5 weeks. NextPaw's advantage is ratings volume (9 vs 1) and iOS requirement (12.4 vs 14.0). On price, rating, 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for NextPaw against 5.0 for Dogitty. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: NextPaw has 9 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
NextPaw ships an update every 5 weeks, Dogitty weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | NextPaw | Dogitty |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (9 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | 9 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.4 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 30 MB | 88 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | NextPaw, Inc | Pruf, Inc |
Customer experience
NextPaw
Dogitty
In-app purchases
NextPaw
No in-app purchases
Dogitty
No in-app purchases
