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Dote: Dog & Cat Health

Pet Breathing Rate Tracker
Coming soon to the App Store

Dote on them,
even while they sleep.

Your iPhone estimates their breathing rate, checks their walk and, on LiDAR models, measures their size. Their records stay on your phone. No account.

For dogs, cats, rabbits, guinea pigs and birds · Built on veterinary guidance · Not a diagnosis

If they ever go missing

A poster in a minute. A call in one scan.

The first hour matters most. Dote turns your pet's profile into a lost-pet poster you can share straight away.

A Dote lost-pet poster: Missing dog, Help Golda come home, her photo, last seen nearby, and a call box with a scan-to-call QR code
A real poster made in Dote. Phone number and QR code blurred for privacy.
  • A recent photo, cut out beautifullyPick a fresh photo and Dote lifts your pet from the background, or use their sticker.
  • Last seen, missing since, a notePlus species, breed and microchip, so the right pet comes home.
  • Scan to callA QR code that opens a call to your number. No app needed for whoever finds them.
  • Share everywhereA ready image for neighbours, local groups, shelters and vets, in your language.
A Dote pet ID card for Golda: photo, species, and on the back an If I'm lost QR code that shows who to call
Golda's pet ID card, front and back. QR code blurred for privacy.
  • A pet ID card in your pocketPhoto, species, breed, microchip and vet, on a card you can flip, tilt and share.
  • If I'm lost: scan meAny phone camera reads the QR code and shows your number, or your vet's if you'd rather not share yours. Works offline, no app needed.
  • Honest by designClearly marked as not an official pet passport or travel document.
Share the love

Cards worth posting.

Every good moment becomes a story-sized card, with your pet cut out from their own photo.

A Dote share card: Meet Golda, her sticker on a warm peach background, 3.0 lb of love, My favourite everything
Golda's "Meet" card, straight from the app.
  • Six cards, made for youMeet, Sleeping soundly, Officially measured, In human years, Then & now and a monthly recap, filled in from your pet's real moments.
  • Their own stickerDote lifts your pet from a photo, so the card looks like them, not a template.
  • Story-readyShare as a full-screen image for Stories, or send the transparent sticker straight into Messages.
  • Birthdays and gotcha daysDote reminds you, and the card is waiting with human years and days together.
The walkthrough

One evening with Dote.

Every screen below is the real app, captured as it runs. Scroll, and the phone follows the story.

ACT I · NIGHT

A garden at night, a bud of light.

Dote opens on a sleeping pet and a closed bud that pulses at a sleeping rhythm. Touch and hold to feel the breath in your hand.

you understand the app before reading a word.

ACT II · HOME

See how they're breathing, every single day.

Luna's resting rate, her verdict in plain words, and her Bloom: a flower in her colours that breathes at her real rate.

one glance, no numbers to decode.

CHECKS

Catch changes before they become worries.

Camera breathing while they sleep, guided step by step: hold your iPhone upright or sideways and Dote steadies the view, keeps your pet in frame and starts on its own once they're still. Body size with LiDAR, standing or lying down, a walk check for an uneven step. Tap-to-count is always free.

a 30-second check at home, not a guess.

IS IT SAFE?

One look, and dinner stays safe.

Eighty foods, plants and household items with verdicts based on ASPCA Animal Poison Control, Pet Poison Helpline and the Merck Veterinary Manual. Point the camera at an ingredient list and Dote reads the label.

"Toxic: keep away", with what to do next.

GROW TOGETHER

Ten calm seconds. A closer bond.

Hold for one slow breath on a rain-streaked window to a night garden. The plant you raise together grows with time and is watered by real care, never a streak.

a moment that is yours, every day.

DIARY

Walk into the vet knowing what changed.

Skin, eyes, teeth, ears, coat, paws and body, photographed the same way each time so you can compare.

then-and-now, not "I think it looked different".

VET MODE

Everything your vet needs, on one screen.

Resting breathing with the trend, weight, medicines, episodes and night sounds, ready to hand over. The vet report PDF charts breathing, weight and doses, and can be translated on your iPhone when you see a vet abroad.

a better consult in less time.

ID CARD

If they ever get lost, help them find their way home.

A pet ID card whose QR code shows whoever finds them your number, with your vet and microchip details. If they go missing, Dote makes a lost-pet poster in seconds: a recent photo, where they were last seen, the microchip and a scan-to-call code, ready for neighbours, local groups and shelters. Write the same details to a $1 NFC collar tag, and anyone who taps it with their phone is offered your number.

a poster out the door in a minute, not an hour.

CELEBRATE

Years together, never missed.

Birthdays and gotcha days become cards you'll want to share, with human years and days together.

the small days remembered.

iPhone Duo

Unfold it. The garden opens too.

On the inner display the story runs as a wide column with the tab bar at your thumb. Real captures from the iPhone Duo.

Dote Today screen on the iPhone Duo cover display
  • Cover display: the Today card and the plantEverything a glance needs, closed.
  • Inner display: the moment screen, wideRain on glass, fireflies and the bloom use the whole garden.
  • Same app, same privacyNo account and no servers of our own, on either screen.
See how they're breathing, every single day. Dote Today screen on an iPhone Duo
Rest easy while they sleep. Dote's night garden welcome on an iPhone Duo
Ten calm seconds. A closer bond. The Grow together moment on an iPhone Duo
Catch changes before they become worries. Checks on an iPhone Duo
Every companion, cared for their way. Choosing a species on an iPhone Duo
Walk into the vet knowing what changed. Photo diary on an iPhone Duo
One look, and dinner stays safe. The chocolate verdict on an iPhone Duo
Years together, never missed. A birthday card on an iPhone Duo
The trailer

Nine screens. One promise.

What Dote changes for you, in the order you'll meet it.

See how they're breathing, every single day.
Rest easy while they sleep
Ten calm seconds. A closer bond.
Catch changes before they become worries
One look, and dinner stays safe
Walk into the vet knowing what changed
Everything your vet needs, on one screen
If they ever get lost, help them find their way home
Every pet, cared for, for life
And the rest

Built on veterinary guidance. Never a diagnosis.

Emergency

When to call a vet now

Emergency signs in plain words, based on VCA Animal Hospitals, the AVMA and Rabbit.org, with one tap to find an emergency vet near you.

Walk weather · Pro

Too hot to walk? Ask first.

For dogs: a Today card warns about hot pavement that can burn paws, heatstroke weather, icy paths, storms and fireworks nights, and suggests a better time. A green light shows how fresh the forecast is. Apple Weather is asked once when you turn it on, then only when you tap reload, and your location isn't stored by Dote.

Dote's Walk weather card: Warm, keep it short, 81 degrees, better around 4:30 PM
Food recalls

Recalled food, flagged for you

Dote checks the U.S. FDA's pet food recall list once a day and shows a card on Today if a food brand you saved for your pet is on it. The full list is in Safety.

Medicines

Meds & vaccines, given on time

Reminders with a one-tap "Given", a pet-sitter sheet, and Add to Calendar. Scan a medicine label and Dote fills in the reminder for you to check. Turn on "Ring like an alarm" for a medicine and it rings even in Silent mode, with Snooze and a "Dose due" card on the Lock Screen. "Reported side effects" shows what owners and vets have reported to the U.S. FDA for that medicine.

Night watch

Coughs and sneezes, overnight

Dote listens while they sleep and summarises the night in the morning. A Live Activity on the Lock Screen shows how long it has been listening and the sounds heard so far. Audio is analysed live, never recorded.

Ask · Free

Ask about your pet

Ask “Has Luna's weight changed?” and Apple Intelligence answers on your iPhone, using only your pet's own records. On iPhones with Apple Intelligence. It never diagnoses.

Food & shape

How much to feed

A daily calorie guide for dogs and cats from the 2021 AAHA guidelines, a starting point to adjust with your vet. Score their body shape from 1 to 9, described in plain words.

Episodes

Time it, film it

If your pet has a seizure or another episode, one big button times it, and you can film it for your vet. Vets ask for how long it lasted and a video.

Small pets

Eating and droppings, in two taps

For rabbits and guinea pigs, a daily check-in asks if eating and droppings are normal. If not, Dote shows the advice to call your vet the same day.

Weight

A drop in weight, noticed

If a weigh-in is 5% or more below your pet's usual, a card on Today suggests weighing again in a few days and talking to your vet if it keeps dropping.

Apple Watch

Count on your wrist

Tap-to-count breathing, medicines due and your pet's plant as a complication, synced from your iPhone.

Widgets & Siri

At a glance, hands free

Home Screen widgets that wake and sleep with the day, with the last reading and the plant. Pat your pet right from the widget. Ten Siri phrases, from “Check my pet’s breathing” to “Mark Apoquel as given”, translated into all 21 Dote languages. They work wherever Siri supports your language; Siri isn't available in Greek, Indonesian, Polish or Romanian, so use the Shortcuts app or Spotlight there. See them all.

Keep them in 3D

Their shape, kept forever

Walk around your pet with an iPhone Pro and Dote builds a 3D model on the phone. Turn it in your hand or place them in your room with AR.

Through the year

Ready for every season

Fireworks night, the holiday plate, calm-night and Healthy Heart challenges: timely care guides and small goals that teach you your pet's normal.

Portraits

A portrait in their likeness

Turn your pet's sticker into an illustration, animation or sketch with Image Playground, made on your iPhone.

Diary reminders

A photo, now and then

Tap the bell in the Diary for a gentle nudge every week, two weeks or month. Slow changes show early.

In loving memory

A quiet place to remember

When a pet has died, checks stop. Their sticker breathes at their last rate, their best photo becomes a living portrait that moves as you tilt your iPhone, with a candle, a memory book and a keepsake card.

Backups

Yours, sealed with a password

Export everything as one file, encrypted on your iPhone with AES-256. Move to a new phone or share a pet with family.

Accessibility & languages

Made for every pet parent.

Dote's key screens are checked with Apple's automated accessibility audit. It speaks your language and works with the way you use your iPhone. Full accessibility details

VoiceOver

Checks you can hear

Controls are labelled for VoiceOver. The camera check speaks its guidance ("Hold steady", "Move a little closer") and the verdict, and tap-to-count keeps a running count and speaks the result.

Audio graphs

Trends without looking

Trend charts come with VoiceOver descriptions and Audio Graphs, so you can hear whether breathing is rising or falling.

Larger Text

Big text, still tidy

Layouts follow Dynamic Type up to the largest accessibility sizes, with rows that stack instead of cutting off.

Reduce Motion

Calm when you need it

Rain, fireflies and the breathing bloom hold still when Reduce Motion is on. Increase Contrast and light or dark mode are followed too.

Haptics

Feel the breath

Touch and hold to feel your pet's breathing rhythm in your hand, no screen reading needed.

21 languages

In your language

English, Arabic, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Dutch, French, German, Greek, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish and Vietnamese. The app, the Watch app, verdicts and safety advice, all translated.

Privacy

Your pet's life stays on your iPhone.

No account. No servers of our own. No analytics. Camera and microphone checks run on the phone; photos, clips you keep, records, reminders and memorial keepsakes stay in the app. Only a few things go online: Apple Weather for walk weather (your location isn't stored by Dote), Apple Maps for the emergency vet search, the U.S. FDA's public pet food recall list, openFDA for a medicine's reported side effects (only the active ingredient and the species), and an anonymous crash report if the app crashes, which you can turn off. Export everything as one encrypted, password-protected file whenever you like. Privacy policy

Pricing

Free to care. Pro to go further.

No trial, no tricks. Prices are announced at launch.

Free, forever

$0

  • Tap-to-count breathing, unlimited
  • 3 camera breathing checks, then 1 every week
  • 1 walk check, 1 body-size measurement and 1 vet report to try
  • The last 30 days of history, for 1 pet
  • Is it safe?, emergency signs and Ask about your pet
  • Photo diary, records, pet ID card and Grow together

Dote Pro

Weekly, yearly or lifetime · Family Sharing

  • Unlimited camera checks: breathing, body size and walk
  • Your full history, not just the last 30 days
  • Unlimited vet-ready PDF reports
  • As many pets as you like (Free has one)
  • Walk weather for dogs: heat, pavement and storms
FAQ

Questions, answered.

How does Dote check my pet's breathing?

Point your iPhone at your sleeping dog or cat for 30 seconds. Dote watches the chest rise and fall with the camera (on iPhone Pro models also with the LiDAR depth sensor), counts each breath on screen as it finds them and estimates the breathing rate on the phone. Nothing is uploaded. Camera breathing for cats is newer and less tested than for dogs. Tap-to-count, the method vets teach, is always free and works for every pet, including rabbits, guinea pigs and birds. Settings → How Dote measures explains each method and its limits.

Is Dote a diagnosis?

No. Dote gives you a resting breathing rate, a walk check and safety verdicts based on ASPCA Animal Poison Control, Pet Poison Helpline and the Merck Veterinary Manual, in plain words. It tells you when a reading is above your pet's own limit so you can call your vet. It never diagnoses.

Does my pet's data leave my iPhone?

Your pet's records don't. Dote has no account, no servers of its own and no analytics. Camera and microphone checks run on your iPhone; photos, clips and records stay in the app. A few features go online: walk weather asks Apple Weather for your local forecast (your location goes to Apple and isn't stored by Dote), Find an emergency vet near me uses Apple Maps, food recall alerts download the U.S. FDA's public recall list and match it on your iPhone against the food brands you saved, and Reported side effects sends openFDA only the medicine's active ingredient and the species. If Dote crashes, an anonymous crash report is sent the next time you open it; you can turn this off in Settings → Privacy. You can export everything as one password-protected, encrypted file at any time.

Which pets does Dote support?

Dogs and cats get every camera check; camera breathing for cats is newer and less tested than for dogs. Rabbits, guinea pigs and birds get tap-to-count breathing, Is it safe?, emergency signs, the diary, records and the plant, and rabbits and guinea pigs get a daily eating-and-droppings check-in. Each species has its own flower in the app.

What is free and what is Dote Pro?

Free, forever: tap-to-count breathing, always unlimited; 3 camera breathing checks, then 1 every week; 1 walk check, 1 body-size measurement and 1 vet report to try; the last 30 days of history; 1 pet; plus Is it safe?, emergency signs, the photo diary, records, the pet ID card, Grow together and Ask about your pet. Dote Pro adds unlimited camera checks (breathing, body size and walk), your full history, not just the last 30 days, unlimited vet-ready PDF reports, as many pets as you like, and walk weather for dogs: heat, pavement and storms. Weekly, yearly or lifetime, with Family Sharing; no trial; prices are announced at launch.

What if my pet has died?

Edit your pet and turn on In loving memory, then choose the date. Checks and photo reminders stop, birthday reminders become gentle remembrance messages, and they get a quiet space on Today: their sticker breathing at their last recorded rate, a candle you can light each day, their photos, a memory book PDF and a keepsake card. Nothing is uploaded, and you can turn it off again in the same place.

When does Dote launch?

Dote is in final testing on TestFlight and is coming soon to the App Store for iPhone (iOS 27) with an Apple Watch companion. Email us from the contact page and we will tell you the day it goes live.

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