Features

Everything Paw Atlas does, in detail

Paw Atlas is a daily record of your dog's life — walks, meals, treats, health, and the small things worth remembering. This page covers the whole app in detail; the About page is the short version.

Anything marked Premium needs a subscription. Everything else is free, with no account required. The rule behind the split is simple: logging is always free. Premium adds more depth — additional dogs, more Atlas features, every insight, the Review and the export tools. Your full history is always available.

The Diary

The Diary is the app's home screen, kept like a scrapbook. Everything logged lands here in order, with the most recent days running down the page and the Calendar reaching back to the beginning.

• Written entries — every entry hangs off a dotted thread as a short generated sentence, with names and key details highlighted as if by a marker. Beneath it, the matching card (a walk, a meal, a note) is cut out and set slightly askew, like a sticker on the page.
• Diary fonts — choose how the Diary's sentences and notes are set: Rounded, Serif, Handwritten, Pen, Marker or Typewriter. The choice is in Settings ▸ Appearance.
• Today Summary — a single card with the day's distance, walking time, steps and treats, alongside progress toward your daily and weekly goals. Switch it between today and the week, and share it as an image. It notices outstanding days, such as a new all-time record, and says so.
• Quick actions — add photos, log a meal, write a note, or log a training session from the Diary without opening another screen.
• Notes — short notes appear as note stickers in your chosen diary font. Flag a note as a medical note and it is included in the Medical Export. When a walk sets an all-time distance or time record, the Diary also drops in a note about it.
• Photos — photos added from the Diary, Calendar or a walk appear as loose polaroids in the day they belong to.
• Calendar — every logged day on a month grid. Day circles can be sized and coloured by distance, time, steps or treats, so busy and quiet days stand out. Tap any day to read it back exactly as it was written, with its nutrient summary, all the way back to the beginning.
• Appointments — add vet, groomer and other appointments from the Calendar, with reminders at the lead time you choose and optional sync to your device's calendar.

Walks

Walk tracking is the centre of the app, and the whole walk experience is free: GPS, maps, pauses, breaks and treats.

During a walk

• GPS route tracking — live distance, duration, pace and step count, with the route drawn on the map as you go. Steps come from the phone's motion sensors rather than GPS, so a lost signal doesn't invent distance. A toggle keeps the map zoomed out over your whole route.
• Walk two dogs together — tick a second dog in Walk Setup. Treats are split per dog and come off each dog's own daily allowance, the panel gets bathroom buttons for each dog, and finishing saves a separate walk record for each dog from the one shared route. A note can optionally be applied to both.
• Pause and resume — stop for a chat or a long sniff without it counting as distance walked. The map shows a genuine break in the line, with pause and resume pins at either end.
• Treats on the walk — log treats as you give them, counted against each treat's daily limit.
• Bathroom breaks — one tap for a poo or a pee, pinned to where it happened. Swipe a logged break to delete it.
• Favourite place button — drop a favourite place where you're standing, and walks passing through your saved places are marked as visits automatically.
• Dropped markers — drop your own custom pins mid-walk for whatever matters to you. Premium
• Friends met — record which dogs you ran into and where. Premium
• Training on the go — pin up to five training goals to the walk panel and log a repetition with one tap. Premium
• Follow a saved route — choose one of your saved routes in Walk Setup and watch it fill in on the map as you retrace it. Premium
• Live Activity — an active walk appears on your lock screen and in the Dynamic Island with live distance and time, plus controls to log treats and bathroom breaks, pause, resume or finish. In Settings you can switch on a live route map for the Live Activity.
• Walk recovery — the walk is backed up as it goes. If the app is interrupted, it offers to continue the walk, save it as finished, or discard it the next time it opens.
• Apple Health — finished walks are saved to Health as walking workouts with duration, distance and route. Paw Atlas reads only its own past workouts, to avoid saving a walk twice, and no other Health data.

After a walk

• Walk summary — the full route, stats, any achievements unlocked on that walk pinned to the spot they happened, and a note field for anything worth remembering.
• Pace colours — turn on pace colouring and the route is redrawn from red where you were slow to green where you were fast, with the walk's slowest and fastest speeds alongside. Walks recorded before this was added don't have the data for it.
• Save as a route — keep the path of any walk as a saved route. Premium
• Automatic route check — when a walk finishes, Paw Atlas compares its path with your saved routes, and if you covered at least 60% of one it counts as a walk of that route — even if you never picked it in Walk Setup.
• Walk detail — reopen any walk from the Diary or Calendar to see its map, markers, treats, photos, note and the favourite places it passed through, with the time of each visit.

Sharing a walk

Any walk can be exported as a designed image. Tapping share opens a preview with switches for what appears on the map (bathroom marks, favourite places, distance markers, friends met, dropped markers, pace colours, start and finish flags) and on the card below it (break times, training, places, friends, photos, your note). The preview redraws as you change them, and what you save is what you see. Your choices are remembered for next time. See Exports below for themes, backgrounds and light or dark.

Food & Treats

• Treats with daily limits — define the treats you give, each with its own daily cap, icon or photo, and tap to log. The app tracks both a per-treat limit and an overall daily count. Treats you no longer give can be archived and brought back later.
• Meals — log meals as you feed them, with calories counted against the daily limit you set for your dog. Wet and dry food are tracked separately.
• Defined meals — save the meals you feed regularly as reusable presets, so a repeat meal is one tap. Free for up to five; Premium for unlimited.
• Nutrient targets — set daily targets for protein, fat, carbohydrates, fibre and moisture, and see each meal's contribution on a progress grid. Free.
• Splurges — the occasional bigger indulgence, kept on its own tally so it doesn't disturb the daily count. Free for five; Premium for up to twenty. Splurges can be archived like treats.
• Meal-to-walk reminder — when you log a meal, optionally get a reminder once enough time has passed for a walk or playtime.

Stats

• Overview chart — distance, steps, time or treats by week, month, three months, six months or a year. Tap any bar to see that period's totals, and cycle between metrics with one tap.
• Trends — the current period drawn against the one before it, with the unfinished period left out of the line so a partial total doesn't read as a decline.
• All Time — lifetime totals for distance, walks, time, steps, treats, bathroom breaks and streaks, plus your longest walk, favourite place visits, photos, splurges, spending, routes and territory explored.
• Goals — daily and weekly goals for distance, time or steps, with progress, goal history and streaks. Optional reminders tell you when a weekly goal is within reach or reached, and when a streak is at risk.
• Insights — 78 observations drawn from your own logs rather than restated totals, grouped into ten category pages: Walking, Bathroom, Treats, Social, Training, Places, Routes, Territory, Food and Health. Each page reads as a short story with supporting charts, and categories without enough data yet show what's still to come. Free shows one category a day, rotating daily; Premium unlocks all ten.

Weekly & Monthly Review Premium

At the end of each week and month, Paw Atlas builds a slide-by-slide story of the period just gone: an overview of the totals, a title poster, comparisons with the period before, the insights that moved, your biggest walk, a photo poster and the badges earned. Any slide can be saved to your photo library, and a reminder tells you when a new review is ready.

Atlas

Atlas is where your dog's accumulated world lives — the map, the places, the people and the history.

Memory Lane

• Favourite place visits — every place you've marked and every walk that passed through it, with the time of each visit and when you were last there.
• Pictures — a running gallery of every photo you've added for your dog, newest first.
• Photo collage — turn your dog's pictures into one image. Pick between two and nine photos, choose horizontal or vertical, switch between neat arrangements and a wilder, overlapping layout, and use Rearrange or Shuffle to try new combinations. Tap a photo to keep it in place while shuffling, limit the photos to a date range, pick a theme and background pattern, and save the result to Photos. Premium

Explore

• Territory — a map that darkens everything you haven't walked and clears as you cover ground. It shows an estimate of the area you've explored, can highlight what your last walk added, lets you adjust how strongly the unexplored area is shaded, and can show or hide favourite places and custom markers. Free.
• Favourite places — mark spots worth remembering, each with a name, emoji, radius, optional photo and description. Any walk passing through counts as a visit automatically. On devices that support Apple's on-device intelligence, a built-in assistant can help word a place's description. Free for five; Premium beyond that.
• Custom markers — define your own pin types with an emoji and a name, choose which appear in the Diary summary, and drop them on walks. Past drops stay visible on future walk maps, and each type can be hidden. Premium
• Routes — every route you've saved from a finished walk, with how many times you've walked it since and when you last did. Pick a saved route in Walk Setup to follow it, and it appears as a guide on the map and on your Live Activity. A route is credited once you've covered enough of it. Premium

Care

• Vets & groomers — contacts with validated phone numbers, one-tap calling and an optional map pin for the practice.
• Medications — schedules with dose reminders, optional Apple Calendar entries, and a history of what was given and when.
• Heat cycles — start and end dates tracked over time for female dogs, appearing in the Diary and Calendar like any other entry.
• Weight history — log your dog's weight over time, in kilograms or pounds (set in Settings ▸ Units). A monthly weigh-in reminder keeps the log current, and your dog's age is tracked from the birth date or age you enter.
• Medical Export — a one-tap A4 PDF to bring to the vet or send to the clinic, covering a date range of up to 90 days. It includes your dog's details, weight history and the last vet visit; the diary notes you flagged as medical; the medication schedule and heat cycles; food (daily averages, exact values for the days you pick, the foods eaten, treats and splurges); and digestion and activity from walks. It is built from what you've logged, on your device, and nothing is uploaded until you share it. Premium

Logging for the entire health suite — medications, heat cycles, appointments, vet contacts and weight history — is free.

More

• Pet friends — the dogs yours knows, with a record of when and where you've met them. An optional walk-panel button drops a new friend right where you are, to name later. Premium
• Training goals — skills you're working on together, logged as practice sessions. Set a repetition target and the goal marks itself achieved when you reach it, and pin goals to the walk panel to log them mid-walk. Premium
• Expenses — what you've spent on your dog, with per-entry currency, a note and an emoji instead of fixed categories, and a monthly chart. Free.

Achievements

145 achievements across thirteen categories — Milestones, Dog Logic, Bathroom, Walking Habits, Pack Life, Training, Goals, Treats, Food, Exploration, Memories, Quirks, and a set of Hidden ones to find. They unlock from what you already log, and the ones earned on a particular walk are pinned to the spot on that walk's map. More than fifty are repeatable: earn one again and the badge keeps a count and the date it was last earned. Achievements are free.

Exports

Walks, the Stats chart, All Time totals, Insight pages, the Diary summary and Review slides can all be saved as images.

• Theme — export in any of the six themes, whichever theme the app is set to.
• Light or dark — choose a light or dark appearance for the exported image, independent of the app's own setting.
• Backgrounds — pick a background pattern: dots, grid, stripes, gingham, waves, paws, hearts, bones, sparkles or plain.
• Preview first — each exporter shows a live preview, so what you save is what you see.

Making it yours

• Six themes — Default, Ember, Twilight, Meadow, Ocean and Blossom, each with its own palette carried through every screen, card and chart. All free.
• Light and dark — follow the system or pin the app to either.
• Themed app icon — switch on a themed icon in Settings and the app icon follows your theme, with a choice of two icons for each. With it off, pick any icon from any theme.
• Diary font — six fonts for the Diary's written entries and notes.
• Home screen widget — small and medium sizes in four styles: Auto (today's stats, switching to your last walk right after one finishes), Weekly Ring, Treats Gauge and Today Focus.
• Multiple dogs — switch between pets from any screen, each with their own goals, meals and history. One dog is free; Premium for more.
• Reminders — optional notifications for medications, appointments, goals and streaks, the monthly weigh-in, a forgotten-to-log nudge, new reviews and achievements.
• Smart tips — 28 gentle, personalised nudges drawn from your own logs, in seven groups: walk load, meals, weight, bathroom, routine, care and kudos. They arrive in your in-app notifications (at most two a day per dog), only once there's enough history for a pattern to mean something, and can be switched off per dog or per group in Edit Pet.
• Built-in hints — short one-time tips point out the parts of the app that are easy to miss.

Privacy

Your data lives on your device and, if you're signed into iCloud, syncs privately to your iCloud account. There is no fragment server in between. No ads, no third-party trackers, and nothing about your dog is sold to anyone. The full details are in the Privacy Policy.

Free & Premium

Free covers a complete day, every day, and your whole history: one dog, unlimited walks with the full map and every core walk feature, meals and treats with calorie and nutrient tracking, defined meals (up to five), splurges (up to five), the whole health suite, the Diary and Calendar, goals and streaks, every achievement, all six themes, the widget, Territory, five favourite places, expenses, one Insights category each day, and image exports.

Premium adds more than one dog, all 78 insights, the Weekly and Monthly Review, saved Routes, the Medical Export, Photo Collages, pet friends, training goals and custom markers, and lifts the caps on favourite places, defined meals and splurges.

Caps apply to adding, never to viewing. If a subscription lapses, everything already created stays where it is — you simply stop adding more.