Comparison

Unwind vs CalmDogs

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Unwind

Track your dog's walks, incidents, and enrichment activities to identify behavioral patterns. Gain insights into what's contributing to your dog's stress or anxiety, allowing you to intervene before issues escalate. Features household sharing and Apple Watch integration.

Highlights
  • Track walks with GPS routes and types
  • Log encounters and dog reactions
  • Record incidents with triggers and severity
  • Monitor enrichment and care activities
  • View weekly summaries and behavioral patterns
  • Household sharing and multi-dog support
  • Apple Watch companion app
Features
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Built for reactive and anxious dogs, and the people working to help them. Your dog communicates through behavior, but patterns across days and weeks are hard to spot on your own. A bad walk, a skipped rest day, a stressful encounter: the signs connect, but not in ways you can see in the moment. Unwind tracks walks, incidents, enrichment, and care in one place, then shows you what's actually building so you can act before problems escalate. What you can track: • Walks with live GPS routes, distance, and a walk type: sniff, typical, or adventure • Encounters during walks: dogs, people, vehicles, and how your dog reacted • Incidents like reactivity, guarding, or fights, with triggers and severity • Enrichment activities: play, training, and calm time • Care events like grooming, meds, and vet visits • Notes, photos, and context What you'll see: • A status card for each dog that says how they're doing today, and stays quiet when things are fine • Weekly summaries connecting walks, behavior, activities, and care • Balance, a weekly view of active days, calm days, and the days an incident broke the pattern • Patterns that only become visible over weeks • Alerts adjusted to each dog's traits, goals, and recent activity What you get: • Household sharing: invite family with a link, and everyone logs to the same dogs • Apple Watch companion: log encounters and control walks from your wrist • Multi-dog support with per-dog trait configuration • Your data follows your account, with offline logging that syncs when you're back • Export everything as CSV to share with your vet, trainer, or behaviorist • No ads Whether you're managing leash reactivity, a recent rescue still settling in, or a multi-dog household, Unwind helps you see what's working.

About

CalmDogs

Features
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Some days your dog is fine. Other days it's the same street, the same dog across the road, and everything falls apart. It rarely feels like there was a reason. There usually is. It's just spread across three days instead of one. CalmDogs is a log built for reactive dogs. You note what happened — the trigger, how they reacted, how long they took to settle — and the app keeps the running picture you can't hold in your head. A vet visit on Tuesday, fireworks on Wednesday, a bad night's sleep, and Thursday's walk was never going to go well. WHAT YOU GET - A read each morning. One line on what today can hold, before you head out. - Your dog's own pattern — which triggers matter, where they happen, and at what time of day. - Progress you can actually see. Recovery speed usually moves before anything else, and how often it happens usually moves last. That means you can see change weeks before it starts to look like change. - A training path built around what you logged, with exercises that fit into a normal walk. WHAT IT ISN'T It isn't a cure, and it doesn't treat your dog as a problem to be fixed. It won't tell you how far away to stand — nobody can know that from a phone. And it doesn't replace a good trainer or your vet. If you tell it about a bite history when you set up your dog's profile, the app says so plainly and points you towards a professional — before you're ever asked to subscribe. Built for the walk you're dreading tomorrow. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Unwind4 screens
CalmDogs4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Unwind at none against CalmDogs's 3. CalmDogs's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 2 months) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 26.1). On price, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. CalmDogs sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per 7 days. Unwind asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Unwind ships an update every 2 months, CalmDogs weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 14, 2026 and September 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Unwind versus CalmDogs: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterUnwindCalmDogs
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS26.115.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size26 MB47 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperIdentity Mad LLCMIKEL SALINAS CORDON

In-app purchases

None

Unwind

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

CalmDogs

Subscriptions3
  • Weekly$9.997 Days
  • Yearly$39.991 Year
  • Yearly$59.991 Year

Questions

Is Unwind free?
Unwind is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is CalmDogs free?
CalmDogs is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Unwind or CalmDogs have ads?
Neither Unwind nor CalmDogs shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Unwind or CalmDogs?
Unwind ships an update every 2 months, and CalmDogs weekly. Most recently, Unwind was updated on September 14, 2026 and CalmDogs on September 17, 2026.

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