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Dog training log apps: keeping a record of every session

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 5 min read Barksy is one of the 4 apps below and it is ours.
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The short answer

Our pick

Barksy, if you want a written record of every training session

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. Sessions are logged next to everything else the day contained, each entry with its history and stats, so the record explains itself when you read it back.

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

Also worth a look

Dogo, if you want somebody to review the session rather than record it

You film your dog doing an exercise and a certified trainer comes back with notes on what to change. That is a different kind of record: not what you did, but what an expert saw in it. Weigh it against the fact that Dogo publishes no price anywhere.

Also worth a look

Puppr, if the sessions you want to log are tricks

Taught by Sara Carson and The Super Collies, who hold a Guinness World Record for most tricks in 60 seconds. A different job from the rest of this list, and the one where practice logs are most fun to keep.

The 4 apps, side by side

Four of the ten apps we track, compared on what each company publishes: the price, the trial, how you get an answer when something goes wrong, and the App Store score. No app in this category publishes a feature list, so the table shows the figures that can be checked rather than a tick-box grid nobody could source.

Barksy, Dogo, Puppr, Pupford 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
Dogo by Dogo App GmbH Not published 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
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Where an app has several prices running at once, the range is shown: most of these publish only their App Store in-app purchase list, which is every price the developer currently has live rather than a price list. We open no paywalls and start no trials, so anything visible only inside an app is marked "not published". Ratings are US App Store scores. Facts checked August 10, 2026.

How to choose

  • If you want to see progress over weeks rather than days, you want a log with history and stats, which is what Barksy keeps.

  • If you want expert eyes on how you are training, Dogo puts a certified trainer on a video of your dog.

  • If the training you are logging is tricks, Puppr is built for that and the rest of this list is not.

  • If you are training toward a title or a test, check the governing body first: some require their own paperwork, and no app here replaces it.

Why we built Barksy the way we did

A training log is a tracker with a narrower name, and the tracker is what Barksy was built around. Sessions go in beside potty breaks, meals, walks, sleep, medications and health events, so the session you are reading back has the rest of that day around 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.

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4.6 out of 5 on the App Store. Barksy is free to download, and most plans start with a 3-day free trial. A one-time lifetime plan at $49.99, with nothing to renew.

The 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

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, each with step-by-step video.

Barksy vs Dogo, 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 courses.

Common questions

What is a dog training log?

A record of what you actually did: which session, when, and what else happened that day. It matters because training progress is slow enough to be invisible day to day. Read back over three weeks and the trend is obvious; rely on memory and every bad Tuesday feels like starting over.

Which app keeps a training log?

Barksy. It logs training sessions alongside everything else in the day — potty breaks, food and water, walks, sleep, medications and health events — and every entry comes with its history and stats. 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.

What should I record after a training session?

What you worked on, how long, and anything unusual around it. The unusual part is where the value is: a session that fell apart is more informative next to the fact that the house was full of visitors that afternoon, and neither of those survives a week in your head.

Is a notebook not just as good?

For one person, often yes. It stops working the moment a second person in the house needs to read it, or the moment you want to know what the pattern was in April. An app answers both, and it also reminds you to do the session in the first place.

What does Barksy cost?

Barksy lists weekly $4.99 to $9.99, yearly $14.99 to $39.99, lifetime $49.99 on its App Store page, including a one-time lifetime plan at $49.99 with nothing to renew. It is free to download, and most plans start with a 3-day free trial.

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". No app in this category publishes a comparable feature list, so this page compares the figures each company does publish and describes what Barksy does from our own claims register. Checked August 10, 2026, due again by November 10, 2026. Prices and store ratings go stale fastest.

Sources: the pages these figures come from

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Puppr

Pupford

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