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The best dog training apps in 2026

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.

By the Barksy team Facts checked August 10, 2026 7 min read Barksy is one of the 10 apps below and it is ours.
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The short answer

Our pick

Barksy, if the day is what keeps going wrong

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. A one-time lifetime plan at $49.99, with nothing to renew. Buy it if the thing breaking in your house is that nobody remembers when the puppy last went out.

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Barksy is free to download, and most plans start with a 3-day free trial.

Also worth a look

Baxter & Bella, if you want a qualified person on your own dog

Unlimited one-to-one phone calls and Zoom sessions with a named, certified trainer, for a single $238 payment that never renews. It is also the most any app here asks you to spend up front.

Also worth a look

Zigzag, if the dog in front of you is eight weeks old

More than 250 lessons arranged as a timeline through puppyhood rather than a library you search, plus 24/7 chat with human coaches. A subscription, with no one-time option.

Also worth a look

Pupford, if you want to pay nothing at all

The 30 Day Perfect Pup course is free, taught by Zak George, with no trial to remember to cancel. A reasonable way to find out whether an app is the format that works for you.

Also worth a look

Puppr, for tricks and only tricks

Taught by Sara Carson and The Super Collies. Carson holds the Guinness World Record for most tricks performed in 60 seconds. A different job from the rest of this list.

All 10 apps, side by side

Barksy, Baxter & Bella, Dogo, Zigzag, Puppr, Pupford, Woofz, PawChamp, Hundeo, Toffy AI, on the four things that actually differ: what each publishes as a price, how long the trial runs, how you get an answer when something goes wrong, and what App Store users score it. Every figure comes from one maintained table of 93 sourced facts, each carrying the page it came from and the day we opened it. Another 28 are marked not published, because no vendor page states them.

10 dog training apps compared on price, free trial, how each one answers you, and the App Store rating.
App Published price Free trial When you get stuck App Store rating
Barksy ours
  • Weekly $4.99 to $9.99
  • Yearly $14.99 to $39.99
  • Lifetime $49.99
3 days Answers in the app 4.6 on the App Store
Baxter & Bella by BAXTER & Bella LLC
  • Lifetime $238
Not published A person 4.0 on the App Store
Dogo by Dogo App GmbH Not published 7 days A person 4.8 on the App Store
Zigzag by PetCare Services Ltd
  • Monthly $8.99 to $9.99
  • Yearly $24.99 to $49.99
7 days A person 4.8 on the App Store
Puppr by Chin and Cheeks LLC
  • Monthly $13.99
  • Yearly $99.99
  • One-time $2.99 to $13.99
Not published A person 4.8 on the App Store
Pupford by Pupford LLC
  • Monthly $9.99
  • Every 6 months $39.99
  • Lifetime $199.99
  • One-time $19.99
Not published None 4.8 on the App Store
Woofz by nove8 LTD
  • Weekly $7.99 to $9.99
  • Monthly $12.99
  • Every 3 months $29.99
  • Yearly $29.99 to $59.99
3 days Software only 4.6 on the App Store
PawChamp by Fontadella Limited
  • Weekly $6.99 to $9.99
  • Yearly $54.99 to $79.99
  • One-time $19.99 to $49.99
Yes, length not published Promised, never says who 4.2 on the App Store
Hundeo by RINACLA LTD
  • Monthly $4.99 to $14.99
  • Yearly $29.99 to $78.99
  • One-time $49.99
Not published Promised, never says who 4.7 on the App Store
Toffy AI by Compawnion Ltd
  • Monthly £9.99 / $9.99
  • Every 3 months £24.99 / $24.99
Not published Software only 5.0 on the App Store
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Where a vendor has several prices live at once, the range is shown. For most of these the only public figure is the App Store in-app purchase list, which is every price the developer currently has running, so they are concurrent price tests rather than a price list. We opened no paywalls: no account was created and no trial started, which is why 6 of the 10 trial lengths are missing. Ratings are US App Store scores.

How to choose in four lines

  • If the routine is what keeps breaking, pick the app that tracks the day and reminds you: Barksy is the only one here that does both alongside the lessons.

  • If you want to stop paying at some point, pick one with a one-time price you can read: Barksy at $49.99, or Baxter & Bella at $238. Everything else on this list renews.

  • If you want a person to look at your dog, pick from Baxter & Bella, Dogo, Zigzag, Puppr, and expect a subscription.

  • If your dog is fearful or has bitten someone, do not pick an app. That is work for a qualified behaviorist in the room with you.

Whether anyone answers you, and how fast

These apps split on one thing more cleanly than on price: what happens when your dog does something the lessons did not cover. Price is the obvious comparison and it is close to useless here, because most of them do not publish one.

Answers in the app: 1 app

  • Barksy. Step-by-step guides for specific problems, plus a daily tip.

Written in advance by the trainers who wrote the lessons, so the answer is there at 11pm on a Sunday with nobody to wait for.

A person: 4 apps

  • Baxter & Bella. The most human support in this table. Unlimited one-to-one phone calls and Zoom video sessions with their trainers, plus live group Q&A events, classes, courses and an Ask the Trainer area — all included in the one-time membership at no extra cost.
  • 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.
  • Zigzag. Human coaches. 24/7 live chat with Zigzag's training coaches, plus a community where coaches take part.
  • Puppr. Human trainers. 24/7 live chat with Puppr's own team of professional trainers, included in Premium.

Software only: 2 apps

  • Woofz. No live human support. The listing offers a '24/7 AI Assistant' for questions. The four certified trainers are named as the people behind the content, not as people you can message.
  • Toffy AI. AI only, available 24/7. Toffy's own words: 'It's like texting a trainer who truly gets your dog.' No human is offered.

Promised, never says who: 2 apps

  • PawChamp. PawChamp claims 'ASK professional dog trainers for help, 24/7 for free' and offers 'Consultations with professional dog specialists'. It also ships a 'Pawchie AI Companion'. No page says which of the two answers you, so we do not state that a human does.
  • Hundeo. A '24/7 Hundeo Coach' described as 'your personal expert, always available' that answers questions instantly. Nothing on the site or the listing says whether a person or software answers, and 'instantly, any time, as often as you want' reads like software.

We quote these two rather than describing them, because no page either company publishes says whether a person or a program replies.

None: 1 app

  • Pupford. No live trainer. The course comes with a free private community where owners ask each other questions.

Why we built Barksy the way we did

Most of this category teaches your dog and stops there. The part that actually falls over in the first months is the routine: who fed her, when she last went out, which vaccination is due. Barksy carries both, which is the whole argument for it.

  • Lessons

    150+

  • App Store

    4.6

  • Lifetime plan

    $49.99

  • 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.

The Barksy tracker screen, listing a day's logged events

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.

The Barksy reminders screen, with repeating reminders set

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.

A Barksy behavior guide open on a specific problem

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.

4.6 out of 5 on the App Store. Barksy is free to download, and most plans start with a 3-day free trial.

What none of them will tell you

These apps withhold more than they publish, and the gaps are the same ones every time. Other roundups fill them with a plausible number, because a number reads better than an admission.

  • Dogo publishes no price at all. Its App Store entry reads "Dogo Premium Subscription: Free Trial" with no amount, and dogo.app has no pricing page. The amount appears only on the paywall inside the app, after you start the trial.
  • Six of the 10 do not publish a trial length. PawChamp is the odd one: its own membership policy describes cancelling before the trial converts, so a trial exists, but no page says how long it runs.
  • Three publish no lesson count, and one contradicts itself. Hundeo's store listing claims 500+ tricks, games and guides while hundeo.com claims 200+ training videos, for what looks like the same content. We quote both rather than picking the bigger one.

The 10 apps in detail

Barksy

ours

A dog training app that also runs the day. The tracker takes anything your dog does and the reminders take everything you have to remember, both alongside the lessons, which most training apps leave to a second app.

Answers in the app

Price: Weekly $4.99 to $9.99 · Yearly $14.99 to $39.99 · Lifetime $49.99. Free trial: 3 days. Content: Structured courses covering 20 topics, with over 150 lessons and more than 20 tricks.

What Barksy does, in full

Baxter & Bella

by BAXTER & Bella LLC

Actually talking to a qualified trainer about your own dog: unlimited one-to-one calls and video sessions with a named, certified trainer for one payment that never renews.

A person

Price: Lifetime $238. Free trial: Not published. Content: More than 75 lessons plus hundreds of videos, printable charts and checklists, arranged as modules from Preparing For My Puppy through Basic, Intermediate and Advanced Training.

Dogo

by Dogo App GmbH

Getting a real trainer to look at your actual dog: you film the exercise, a certified trainer reviews the video and tells you what to fix, which no other app in this table does at this price.

A person

Price: Not published. Free trial: 7 days. Content: 12 programs and 100+ guided courses, tricks, commands, games and exercises, each with step-by-step video.

Barksy vs Dogo, side by side

Zigzag

by PetCare Services Ltd

The first months with a puppy specifically — it is the only app here built around puppyhood as a timeline rather than a library, and it pairs that with 24/7 human coaches.

A person

Price: Monthly $8.99 to $9.99 · Yearly $24.99 to $49.99. Free trial: 7 days. Content: Over 250 puppy training lessons with how-to videos, delivered as 3 lessons a day.

Barksy vs Zigzag, side by side

Puppr

by Chin and Cheeks LLC

Tricks, taught well — the lessons come from a record-holding trick trainer, and tricks are the one thing here that is genuinely fun to practise rather than a chore.

A person

Price: Monthly $13.99 · Yearly $99.99 · One-time $2.99 to $13.99. Free trial: Not published. Content: Over 100 lessons, plus masterclasses and a weekly puppy guide.

Pupford

by Pupford LLC

Costing nothing — a complete 30-day course from a well-known trainer, free with no trial to cancel, which no paid app in this table can match on price.

None

Price: Monthly $9.99 · Every 6 months $39.99 · Lifetime $199.99 · One-time $19.99. Free trial: Not published. Content: A 30-day course of daily video lessons, plus 20+ Academy training courses and a library of desensitisation sounds and articles.

Woofz

by nove8 LTD

Being upfront about money — Woofz is the only app here that prints its full price list publicly, including which plans carry a trial and which bill you straight away.

Software only

Price: Weekly $7.99 to $9.99 · Monthly $12.99 · Every 3 months $29.99 · Yearly $29.99 to $59.99. Free trial: 3 days. Content: Not published.

Barksy vs Woofz, side by side

PawChamp

by Fontadella Limited

Reaching people who are not reading in English — the site runs in nine languages.

Promised, never says who

Price: Weekly $6.99 to $9.99 · Yearly $54.99 to $79.99 · One-time $19.99 to $49.99. Free trial: Yes, length not published. Content: Not published.

Hundeo

by RINACLA LTD

Letting you change your mind — a 30-day money-back guarantee on top of the statutory 14 days, which is the only unconditional refund offer in this table.

Promised, never says who

Price: Monthly $4.99 to $14.99 · Yearly $29.99 to $78.99 · One-time $49.99. Free trial: Not published. Content: The store listing claims 30+ expert courses, 500+ tricks, games, recipes and guides, 2,500 quiz questions and 300+ breed profiles. The website gives different figures for the same things: 200+ training videos, 2,000+ quizzes and 200+ breed guides.

Toffy AI

by Compawnion Ltd

Answering an odd question at two in the morning — it is built as a conversation first, so you describe what your dog just did instead of hunting for the right lesson.

Software only

Price: Monthly £9.99 / $9.99 · Every 3 months £24.99 / $24.99. Free trial: Not published. Content: Not published.

GoodPup is not on this list, and here is why

GoodPup does not exist as a product you can buy. Rover acquired it on 15 June 2022 for $7.4 million, which Rover Group states in its 2022 annual report to the SEC. goodpup.com now redirects to rover.com/training/search, and there is no GoodPup listing on the US App Store or on Google Play. Two unrelated apps use the name on the App Store and are not the company Rover bought.

We say this plainly because most "best dog training app" lists still rank GoodPup, and it was a genuinely good answer: one-to-one video training with a certified trainer. If that is what you wanted, Baxter & Bella and Dogo still do it.

Common questions

What is the best dog training app?

It depends on what is going wrong. 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. That combination is the reason to pick it: the lessons are the easy part, and remembering the routine is what actually breaks in the first months. If instead you want a named certified trainer on the phone, Baxter & Bella does that for a one-time $238. If your puppy is eight weeks old and you want a day-by-day plan, Zigzag. If you want to pay nothing, Pupford's 30 Day Perfect Pup is free.

How much do dog training apps cost?

Between about $5 a week and $238 once, and almost nobody publishes a price you can rely on. Barksy runs from $4.99 to $49.99 depending on the plan, including a one-time lifetime option at $49.99 with nothing to renew. Several price points run at the same time, so the figure you are offered is the one on your paywall. Baxter & Bella, Puppr and Woofz also print prices on their own pages. Dogo publishes none at all. For everyone else the only public figures are the App Store in-app purchase list, which shows every price the developer currently has live, several at once, because they are running price tests.

Is there a dog training app you can buy once instead of subscribing?

Barksy and Baxter & Bella are the two here with a one-time price you can read before you buy. A one-time lifetime plan at $49.99, with nothing to renew. Baxter & Bella charges $238 once for its lifetime membership. Every other app on this list is a subscription that renews until you cancel it.

Which dog training apps let you talk to a real person?

Four of the 10: Baxter & Bella, Dogo, Zigzag, Puppr. Woofz and Toffy AI answer with software instead. PawChamp and Hundeo both promise round-the-clock help without ever saying whether a person or a program replies, so we quote their claim rather than repeat it. Barksy puts the answer in the app: step-by-step guides for biting, chewing, nipping, leash pulling and barking, plus a tip every day, available the second you look.

Is there a free dog training app?

Pupford is the closest: its 30 Day Perfect Pup course is free with no trial to cancel. Barksy is free to download, and most plans start with a 3-day free trial. Dogo, Zigzag, Puppr, PawChamp and Hundeo are also free to download with paid content behind a subscription. Woofz, Baxter & Bella and Toffy AI publish nothing about whether any content stays usable without paying.

What happened to GoodPup?

Rover bought GoodPup on 15 June 2022 for $7.4 million, stated in Rover Group’s 2022 annual report to the SEC. goodpup.com now redirects to rover.com/training/search, and there is no GoodPup app on the US App Store or on Google Play. Two unrelated apps use the name on the App Store and are not the same company. Any list that still ranks GoodPup as a current dog training app is out of date.

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". This page compares 10 live apps; GoodPup is excluded because it no longer exists as a product. Checked August 10, 2026, due again by November 10, 2026. Prices and store ratings go stale fastest.

Sources: the pages these figures come from

Baxter & Bella

Dogo

Zigzag

Puppr

Pupford

Woofz

PawChamp

Hundeo

Toffy AI

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