Comparison

Pet Note vs Boop Book

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

Head to head
About

Pet Note

Features
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Pet Note helps you record and manage your pet's health and daily life in one place. Keep a clear history across 12 categories: condition, medication, weight, meals, water, potty, vet visits, grooming, brushing, walks, abnormal symptoms, and memos. Key features • Review today's activity and browse journal entries by date • See weekly potty, meal, and water charts plus weight trends • Attach photos and videos to records • Set reminders for vaccinations, medication, vet visits, and more • Create daily, weekly, or monthly repeats and alerts 7, 3, or 1 day ahead • Keep profiles and records organized for multiple pets • Find nearby animal hospitals on the map • Read practical dog and cat health care guides • Export and restore your records with ZIP backups Start without creating an account. Your pet profiles and records are stored on your device. Keep a steady record of precious everyday moments and stay more attentive to changes in their health.

About

Boop Book

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Boop Book is a private journal for the best animal you know. One photo a day. That's the whole idea. Each day gets exactly one photo, on an instant photo, with the caption written on in your own handwriting. The limit is the point. A year later you have 365 pictures worth looking at instead of four thousand you'll never scroll. AROUND THE DAILY PHOTO • Notes, milestones, and places with the weather baked in • Songs, videos, and voice notes. The bark, the purr, the chirp, the noise they make when the treat bag opens • Milestone suggestions that match your pet: "First walk" for a dog, "First shed" for a snake, "First word" for a bird MORE THAN ONE PET Every pet gets their own profile and their own photo-a-day. Tag a memory to one of them or all of them. Species is a text field, so nobody's axolotl has to be "Other". BIRTHDAYS OPTIONAL Plenty of rescues arrive with no known birthday. Give them a gotcha day instead and Boop Book counts from there, "2 years together". Give it neither, and it quietly stops asking. THE HEALTH SIDE Vaccinations, medications, allergies, conditions and vet visits, kept in one place, with renewals that remind you before they lapse. Microchip and insurance numbers, your vet's details, and the care notes you leave for a sitter. And an Emergency Card you can share or print. Allergies first, and the vet's number is one tap to call. Everything you type into it is end-to-end encrypted, like the rest of the journal. THE FRIDGE You keep the journal. The Fridge is the part you share: pick which memories go up, and everyone else sees only those. They can heart them back; they can't see the rest, because the rest never reaches their phone. Send a link. No account to make and nothing to sign up for. You can follow other people's Fridges from inside your own journal too. LOOKING BACK This day last year. Month recaps that play as little films with the month's song underneath. Then & Now, day one and today, side by side. A streak counter, a coverage heatmap, and search that actually finds things. PRIVATE BY ARCHITECTURE There is no Boop Book account, because there is no Boop Book server. Your journal lives in your own iCloud and is shared through Apple's own sharing. Captions and notes are end-to-end encrypted. No analytics, no tracking, no ads, no third-party SDKs. Export everything whenever you like: one zip of real files plus a readable memories.json. FREE, AND PLUS The whole journal is free: daily photo, every memory kind, multiple pets, sharing, the Fridge, the growth log, health records, the widgets, the daily look-back memories, and export. Plus adds the keepsakes: Memory Lane, Year Book, Year in Review, Then & Now, and the instant-photo themes. And when the time comes, a pet can be marked as a memorial. The app stops asking for today's photo, and their age stops where their life did. View the End User License Agreement (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Pet Note4 screens
Boop Book4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Boop Book at weekly against Pet Note's every 2 months. Pet Note's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. Pet Note sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and Boop Book sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pet Note ships an update every 2 months, Boop Book weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences Ā· 4 level
Pet Note versus Boop Book: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPet NoteBoop Book
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size74 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLUNLUHugh Gilmore

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Pet Note

One-time2
  • Add Pet$1.99
  • Data Backup$4.99
5 purchases

Boop Book

Subscriptions1
  • Plus, Annual7 Days trial$9.991 Year
One-time4
  • A Coffee$1.99
  • A Board Book$4.99
  • A Whole Pizza$9.99
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  • Plus, Lifetime$29.99

Questions

Is Pet Note free?
Pet Note is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Boop Book free?
Boop Book is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Pet Note or Boop Book have ads?
Neither Pet Note nor Boop Book shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Pet Note or Boop Book?
Pet Note ships an update every 2 months, and Boop Book weekly. Most recently, Pet Note was updated on October 19, 2026 and Boop Book on October 6, 2026.

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