What it does, and what it doesn’t yet.
RueRoo Dog is being built in the open. Everything below is sorted into what works today, what we’re building now, and what we’re only thinking about — because deciding whether to trust software with a living animal is not the moment for vague marketing.
In the app today
LiveBuilt, tested, and running. If it is in this band, it works.
- Households with roles
- Owner, admin, member. One owner, who manages members and billing.
- Multiple dogs
- Every schedule, log and reminder is scoped to a specific dog.
- Sign in with Apple or Google
- No password to invent or forget.
- Push notifications
- iPhone and Android.
- Scheduling that survives daylight saving
- 7am stays 7am across the clock change, verified against the tz database. Naive reminder apps fire twice that morning, or not at all.
- Schedule patterns
- Daily, specific weekdays, every N days, or monthly on a date — clamped sensibly in short months.
- Care types
- Meals, walks, potty breaks, medication, supplements, grooming, and anything else you need to remember.
Being built now
BuildingIn active development. We are not putting dates on these, because a date we miss is worse than no date at all.
The daily loop
- Today list
- Everything due for every dog, one screen.
- One-tap completion with attribution
- Every entry carries who did it and when.
- Duplicate suppression
- Claim a task and it's claimed for everyone. This is the “done twice” half of the promise.
- Feeding log with amount
- Not just “fed” — how much. Matters for weight, and for vets.
- Walks with per-person assignment
- Thursday evening is Jayson's.
- Shared household notifications
- Everyone sees what everyone logged.
- Skip with a reason
- She was at the kennel. The dose was held. A skip is not a miss.
Family
- Kid profiles and Family Mode
- Children participate fully, with no account and no login.
- Allowance ledger
- Kids earn credit for chores they actually completed. No real money ever moves — RueRoo keeps score, you settle up however you already do.
- Time-boxed sitter access
- Give a sitter or walker access for a weekend. It expires on its own.
Health
- Potty log and stool scoring
- Record what you saw, on the 1–7 scale vets already use.
- Medicine and supplement minder
- Reminders and confirmation. Identification, logging and reminding — never guidance.
- Abnormal-event alerts
- Vomiting, blood, a seizure — logged once, and everyone in the household is told immediately.
- Vet-ready PDF export
- Walk into the appointment with the actual record instead of trying to remember.
The hard parts
- Pet lifecycle
- When a dog dies or is rehomed, reminders stop that day. The history stays.
- Household changes
- If a household splits, ownership can move. The dog's past is not erased for either person.
- Succession
- Name a recovery contact, so the dogs' care continues if something happens to you.
Ideas we're exploring
ExploringNot committed, not scheduled, and not something to buy the app for. Listed because you deserve to know where our heads are.
- Prescription scanner
- Scan the label to set up the dose schedule.
- Photo stool capture with automatic scoring
- Describes and scores what it sees against the standard scale. It would never diagnose.
- Barcode scanning and reorder nudges
- Scan a supplement tub and know before you run out.
- Potty-training programme
- A structured programme that grades the dog and the owner separately. Consistency is the owner's job.
- Offline-first logging
- Log a walk with no signal. It syncs when you're back.
- GPS walk tracking
- Track the walk, see it on the lock screen.
- Calendar push
- Assigned walks land in Google Calendar or your device calendar.
- Pooch pic of the day
- A photo a day, stitched into a year of your dog growing up.
Things RueRoo Dog will never do.
It will never give veterinary advice.
No symptom interpretation, no dosage guidance, no “your dog may have…”. RueRoo Dog identifies, logs and reminds. That is the whole boundary, and it does not move. If your dog is unwell, call your vet.
It will never guarantee a reminder.
Push delivery depends on Apple, Google, your network and your phone. We work hard at the part we control — the scheduling — but nobody should make RueRoo Dog the only safeguard for a life-critical dose. Anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something.