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Puppy schedule apps: keeping a routine you can actually stick to

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 5 apps below and it is ours.
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The short answer

Our pick

Barksy, if you want the puppy's day on a schedule you can actually keep

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. Set a reminder for anything and it arrives as a notification, one-off or repeating, and everything that actually happened goes in the same app. That pairing is the reason to pick it.

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

Also worth a look

Zigzag, if you want the training itself sequenced by week

Zigzag publishes more than 250 puppy lessons arranged as a timeline through puppyhood rather than a library you search, with 24/7 chat with its own coaches. That is a schedule for the training, which is a different thing from a schedule for the day, and for some people it is the one they want.

Also worth a look

Pupford, if you want to pay nothing while you work out the routine

The 30 Day Perfect Pup course is free, taught by Zak George, with no trial to remember to cancel. It gives the first month a shape without asking for a card.

The 5 apps, side by side

These are five of the ten apps we track, the ones most often recommended for a new puppy. They are 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 here publishes a feature list we could compare row by row, so what the table shows is what can be checked.

Barksy, Zigzag, Dogo, Pupford, Puppr 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
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
Dogo by Dogo App GmbH Not published 7 days 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
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
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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 the problem is that nobody remembers what happened, you need a record, not more lessons. Barksy is the one here that logs the day alongside the training.

  • If the problem is that you do not know what to teach next, Zigzag's week-by-week programme is built for exactly that.

  • If you want to spend nothing this month, start with Pupford's free 30-day course and come back to the rest later.

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

Why we built Barksy the way we did

Most of this category teaches your dog and stops there. The part that falls over in the first months is not the training, it is the routine around it: who fed her, when she last went out, which vaccination is due. Barksy carries both, and that 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.

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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

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

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

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.

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.

Common questions

Is there an app that puts a puppy on a schedule?

Barksy does. You set a reminder for anything the day needs — walks, potty breaks, meals, training sessions, vet visits, vaccinations — one-off or repeating, and they arrive as notifications on your phone. Alongside that it logs what actually happened, so the schedule and the record live in the same place. 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 a puppy schedule include?

The things that go wrong when nobody remembers them: potty breaks at a regular interval, meals at fixed times, sleep, short training sessions, and the medical dates that arrive once and matter — vaccinations, worming, the vet. A schedule that lives in one person's head stops working the first day that person is out.

Does the app work out the schedule for me?

No, and be careful of any app that claims to. You set the reminders yourself, because you know when your puppy eats and sleeps and nobody else does. What Barksy does is make them arrive reliably, repeat on the pattern you chose, and sit next to the record of what actually happened.

How much 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, which includes a one-time lifetime plan at $49.99 with nothing to renew. Several price points run at once because the paywall is tested, so the figure you are offered is the one on your paywall. Barksy is free to download, and most plans start with a 3-day free trial.

Can more than one person in the house use it?

The reminders arrive as notifications on the phone they are set on. If the problem you are solving is that nobody in the house can say when the puppy last went out, the tracker is the part that answers it: every entry carries its history, so the record is there to read rather than to remember.

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

Zigzag

Dogo

Pupford

Puppr

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