WagWatch
WagWatch vs PokiPaw
PokiPaw covers more species than anyone. WagWatch turns what you log into a picture of how your pet is trending, and tells you the price up front. Here is the whole comparison.
The short version
PokiPaw is the broadest pet care app in this category: 16 species, 690+ breeds, 9 languages. If breadth is what you are shopping for, it wins on breadth. What it does not do is turn what you log into a picture of how your pet is trending — and that is the entire point of WagWatch.
The other practical difference is price. WagWatch publishes its price on the homepage: $3.99 a month, $24.99 a year, 14-day free trial. PokiPaw calls itself "free forever with no credit card required" and does not publish what its Premium tier costs, so you find out after you have put your pet's history in.
Side by side
| WagWatch | PokiPaw | |
|---|---|---|
| Premium price | $3.99 a month, $24.99 a year, published on the homepage | Not published |
| Free plan | $0 forever, 1 pet, unlimited logging, last 90 days of history, no card | Free forever, no credit card required |
| Seeing the pattern | Day and night ratings charted, potty and medical events as weekly lines with trend lines, and a calendar heatmap | Records and reminders; no trend charting of this kind |
| Sharing with a vet | PDF summary and CSV/JSON free; an expiring, read-only share link a vet opens without an account (Premium) | Not offered |
| AI assistant | Answers from your pet's own logged history, not generic advice (Premium) | Not offered |
| Species | Dogs, cats, birds, fish, rabbits, reptiles, horses, and "other" | 16 species, 690+ breeds |
| Languages | English and Spanish, fully translated | 9 languages |
| Shared household | On the free plan; temporary log-only sitter passes that expire | Sharing is offered; no temporary role |
| Apple Watch | A companion app: two taps to log from your wrist | Not offered |
| Offline | Entries queue on the phone and send when you are back online | Not stated |
When PokiPaw is the better answer
If you keep a reptile, a ferret and a horse and want one app that knows all three, PokiPaw covers more species than WagWatch does, and it supports nine languages where WagWatch supports two. If you mainly want a profile, a breed and reminders, its free tier does that and asks for nothing.
When WagWatch is the better answer
- You want to see whether things are getting better or worse, not just what happened — ratings charted over months, weekly lines with trend lines, and a heatmap of how bad days cluster.
- You are going to the vet and want to hand over a real history: a PDF, or a read-only link that expires.
- You want to ask "how has Buddy been this month?" and get an answer from your own logs rather than generic advice.
- You want to know the price before you start.
- More than one person shares the care, and one of them is a sitter who should be able to log but not read everything.
Questions people ask
What does PokiPaw's Premium cost?
It is not published on their site, so we will not guess at it here. WagWatch Premium is $3.99 a month or $24.99 a year, with a 14-day free trial, and that is on the homepage rather than behind a sign-up.
Does WagWatch support as many species as PokiPaw?
No. WagWatch has profiles for dogs, cats, birds, fish, rabbits, reptiles and horses, plus an "other" option; PokiPaw lists 16 species and 690+ breeds. If breadth of species is the deciding factor, that is a real difference.
What does "see the pattern" actually mean?
Every entry you log feeds three views: a day-by-day chart of the 1-5 ratings you give the day and the night, weekly lines for potty and medical events with a dashed trend line, and a calendar heatmap where good and bad days show as colour. A pet who is slowly eating less, or having more accidents, shows up there weeks before it shows up as a feeling.
Is WagWatch free?
Yes, and the free plan has no card and no trial clock: unlimited daily logging for one pet, the last 90 days of history and trends, medication and vaccine reminders, a shared household and a full export. Nothing you log is ever deleted — 90 days is a viewing limit, not a storage limit.
Not a substitute for your vet
WagWatch is a tracking and logging tool, not a veterinary service. Its job is to help you bring a clear, accurate history to the people who care for your pet professionally.
Try it today
Add your pet, log one thing, and see how it lands in the day view. It takes about a minute, and the free plan has no card and no trial clock.
Everything on this page about the other app comes from what that company published on its own website and store listing in September 2026, and from the independent site audit that recommended this comparison. Prices and features change; if something here is out of date, tell us and it gets corrected.