Agility Gate vs Dash
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Agility Gate
Streamline your dog's agility competition experience. Check in your dog, scratch, or mark conflicts remotely via your phone and monitor your position in the queue in real-time. Avoid crowding around physical gate sheets and manage your competition flow efficiently.
- Remote dog check-in
- Scratch from competition
- Mark as conflict
- Real-time gate updates
- View queue position
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At a busy dog show, getting your dog to the line in an efficient manner becomes more and more difficult. Rather than crowd around gate sheets, why not check-in your dog on your phone and see how far out you are from heading into the ring. Check-in your dog, scratch or even mark yourself as a conflict and see the gate update in real-time.
Dash
Track your dog's performance in AKC Fast CAT events, monitor their progress towards titles, and discover upcoming competitions. View breed rankings and share your dog's achievements with others.
- Log Fast CAT run times and speeds
- Track title progress with visual bars
- View daily updated breed rankings
- Search for upcoming events by location
- Import run history from screenshots
- Share dog profiles with custom links
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Dash-Hound: the Fast CAT tracker for dogs who love to run Track every run, see how your dog stacks up against their breed and the whole country, follow your friends' dogs, and never miss an event. EVERY RUN, IN ONE PLACE Log your dog's Fast CAT runs the day they happen and instantly see speed, points and title progress. Compare Run 1 vs Run 2, spot trends on the speed chart, and see your personal bests at a glance. Runs that match AKC's posted results get a green check, so you know your record is right. BREED RANKINGS & PROJECTIONS See where your dog ranks in their breed, with size classes for breeds that split by height. Your projected ranking comes from your best-3 average and updates as new results come in. Look back at past years with historical rankings. TITLES Follow the road from BCAT to DCAT, FCAT and beyond. Progress bars show exactly how many points you need for the next title, with a ribbon for every title earned. FIND EVENTS Search upcoming Fast CAT events by state or zip code, with entry details and dates. Get notified when new events are posted near you. Browse clubs and lure operators too. FOLLOW DOGS YOU LOVE Follow your friends' dogs (or your rivals) and get a notification when they run. Share your own dog's public profile with a custom link: stats, speed chart, rankings and run history. DOG OF THE WEEK Every week we spotlight a standout dog from the Fast CAT community. Nominate yours! EASY IMPORT Coming from another app? Upload screenshots of your run history and Dash-Hound brings it in. No retyping. DASH-HOUND PREMIUM (optional) Everything above is free. Premium adds even more for your own dogs: • Detailed run results: where your dog placed overall, in their height group and breed, and against every dog that ran that day nationwide • Weather performance: see how your dog runs on wet vs dry tracks and hot vs cool days • Photos on every run, building a photo gallery on your dog's public profile Premium is $2.99/month or $19.99/year. Payment is charged to your Apple ID and renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://dashhound.app/privacy Dash-Hound is an independent app and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the American Kennel Club.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Dash at every 3 days against Agility Gate's monthly. Dash also leads on rating (4.7 vs 4.3) and review sentiment (89% vs 73%). Agility Gate's advantage is monetization model (free vs ad-supported) and ratings volume (75 vs 13). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Dash holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Agility Gate has 75 ratings behind it against 13, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 73% of Agility Gate's written reviews are positive against 89% of Dash's.
Agility Gate ships an update monthly, Dash every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Agility Gate | Dash |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (75 ratings) | 4.7 (13 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 73.1% of reviews | 88.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 75 — better | 13 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 40 MB | 52 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Roger Ly | James Brown |
Customer experience
Agility Gate
Dash
In-app purchases
Agility Gate
No in-app purchases
Dash
No in-app purchases
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