Barksy vs Dogo: which puppy training app should you actually install?
Over 150 lessons written by professional dog trainers, a tracker for anything your dog does, and reminders for everything you have to remember. Free to download.
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The short answer
Barksy, if the daily routine is what is actually breaking
Barksy is a dog training app that also runs the day: over 150 lessons alongside a tracker for anything your dog does and reminders for everything you have to remember. If nobody in the house can say when the puppy last went out, that is the problem it was built for. You can read the whole price list before you install it, including a one-time lifetime plan.
Get BarksyBarksy is free to download, and most plans start with a 3-day free trial.
Dogo, if you want a qualified person to look at your dog
You film your dog doing an exercise, a Dogo trainer reviews the video and tells you what to change. That is worth buying when the problem is specific enough that a general lesson will not reach it, and when you are content to find out the price after the 7-day trial starts.
Barksy and Dogo, side by side
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Where an app has several prices running at once, the range is shown. Both figures come from the App Store in-app purchase list, which is every price the developer currently has live, so the price either app offers you may be none of them. Facts checked August 10, 2026.
One of these apps answers you tonight
Dog training apps split on one thing more cleanly than on price: what happens when your dog does something the lessons did not cover. Barksy answers with the app, immediately. Dogo answers with a person, when that person gets to your video.
This matters most in the first weeks, when the question is rarely "how do I teach sit" and usually "why is my dog doing this specific strange thing at midnight". Barksy covers biting, chewing, nipping, leash pulling and barking step by step, plus a tip every day, and it is there at 11pm on a Sunday with nobody to wait for.
The other half of the difference is what you know before you pay. Barksy's price points are on its App Store page: weekly $4.99 to $9.99, yearly $14.99 to $39.99, lifetime $49.99. Dogo publishes no price anywhere, on any page, so the trial is the only way to find out.
Barksy
Answers in the appStep-by-step guides for specific problems, plus a daily tip.
Dogo
A personHuman trainers. You send a video of your dog performing an exercise and a Dogo trainer reviews it and gives feedback, and there is a trainer helpline for questions.
What you get with Barksy
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Lessons
150+
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App Store
4.6
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Lifetime plan
$49.99
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Puppy parents
125,000+
Everything your dog did, in one place
Track anything in your dog's day: potty breaks, food and water, walks, sleep, training sessions, medications and health events, and anything else you want to keep. Every entry comes with its history and stats.
Reminders for everything you have to remember
Set a reminder for anything: walks, potty breaks, meals, training sessions, vet visits, vaccinations, your dog's birthday. One-off or repeating, and they arrive as notifications on your phone.
An answer at 11pm on a Sunday
When something goes wrong, the answer is already in the app. Barksy has step-by-step guides for the specific problems: biting, chewing, nipping, leash pulling, barking. Plus a tip every day. It is there at 11pm on a Sunday, with nobody to wait for.
Pay once and never see a renewal
A one-time lifetime plan at $49.99, with nothing to renew.
Barksy is free to download, and most plans start with a 3-day free trial.
Who should buy Dogo instead
If what you want is a named, certified trainer looking at footage of your own dog, buy Dogo. Human trainers. You send a video of your dog performing an exercise and a Dogo trainer reviews it and gives feedback, and there is a trainer helpline for questions. Named trainers with stated certifications. Alexa Diaz is a Certified Professional Dog Trainer – Knowledge Assessed (CPDT-KA) and a Canine Good Citizen test proctor with 15 years running her own training business. Agne Jazukevičiute has trained since 2012 and has run her own dog training school since 2014. Jeny Paik is a certified trainer. Co-founder Rasa is a veterinary doctor. It also publishes 12 programs and 100+ guided courses, tricks, commands, games and exercises, each with step-by-step video. Nothing written in advance does the job of a person watching your particular dog, and if that is what you are shopping for, we would rather you got it.
What Barksy costs
A one-time lifetime plan at $49.99, with nothing to renew.
Barksy is a dog training app that also runs the day: over 150 lessons alongside a tracker for anything your dog does and reminders for everything you have to remember.
Barksy is free to download, and most plans start with a 3-day free trial.
4.6 out of 5 on the App Store. Dogo scores 4.8.
Common questions
Is Dogo better than Barksy?
They are built for different buyers. Dogo is built around video review: you film an exercise and a trainer comes back with notes, days later. Barksy is a dog training app that also runs the day: over 150 lessons alongside a tracker for anything your dog does and reminders for everything you have to remember. It answers you the moment you ask, and it shows you a price before you install anything, which Dogo does not.
How much does Dogo cost?
Dogo does not say. Its App Store in-app purchase entry reads "Dogo Premium Subscription: Free Trial" with no amount, the listing names a 1-month and a 12-month plan without figures, and dogo.app has no pricing page. The amount appears only on the paywall inside the app, after you start the 7-day trial. Barksy's are on its App Store listing: weekly $4.99 to $9.99, yearly $14.99 to $39.99, lifetime $49.99. That includes a one-time lifetime plan at $49.99 with nothing to renew.
What happens in each app when you get stuck at 11pm?
Barksy answers immediately: step-by-step guides for the specific problems, biting, chewing, nipping, leash pulling and barking, plus a tip every day. Dogo answers when a trainer next watches your video. Both are useful, but only one of them is awake when the puppy is.
What free trial does each app give you?
Barksy is free to download, and most plans start with a 3-day free trial. Dogo publishes a 7-day free trial on its App Store listing, after which you find out what it costs.
Does Barksy track things Dogo does not?
Yes. Barksy logs anything in your dog's day: potty breaks, food and water, walks, sleep, training sessions, medications and health events, each with its history and stats, and it will remind you about any of them, one-off or repeating. Dogo is a training app, so the daily routine is somewhere else, usually a notebook or nowhere.
Can you use either app without paying?
Both are free to download with the paid content behind a subscription. Barksy also has the one-time lifetime plan, so it is the one of the two where you can stop paying and keep the app. Neither company publishes a list of what stays free.
Every figure about another app on this page is generated from one maintained file of sourced facts, not typed out, and each one carries the public page it came from and the day we opened it. We open no paywalls and start no trials, so anything that appears only inside an app is marked "not published". Checked August 10, 2026, due again by November 10, 2026. Prices and store ratings go stale fastest.
Sources: the pages these figures come from
Dogo
- Dogo App Store description, subscription section — https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dogo-dog-training-clicker/id1153294767, opened August 10, 2026
- Dogo terms of service, section 2 — https://dogo.app/terms-of-service/, opened August 10, 2026
- Dogo on the US App Store — https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dogo-dog-training-clicker/id1153294767, opened August 10, 2026
- Dogo on Google Play — https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.dogo.com.dogo_android, opened August 10, 2026
- Dogo about page, 'Meet Dogo trainers' — https://dogo.app/about-us/, opened August 10, 2026
- Dogo about page — https://dogo.app/about-us/, opened August 10, 2026
- Dogo App Store description — https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dogo-dog-training-clicker/id1153294767, opened August 10, 2026
- Dogo terms of service, sections 2 and 3.1 — https://dogo.app/terms-of-service/, opened August 10, 2026
- Apple iTunes lookup API, US storefront — https://itunes.apple.com/lookup?id=1153294767&country=us, opened August 10, 2026
- Dogo App Store description, video exam feature — https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dogo-dog-training-clicker/id1153294767, opened August 10, 2026