Your dog walking business, sorted.
The app for UK dog walkers and pet sitters. Schedules, clients, pets, HMRC mileage and invoices — in one app built by a dog walker. Cat sitting and drop-in visits too.
The app for UK dog walkers and pet sitters. Schedules, clients, pets, HMRC mileage and invoices — in one app built by a dog walker. Cat sitting and drop-in visits too.
The day laid out as a route: leave home, first stop, next stop, back home. Each service shows the pet, the owner, the address and how long it takes — with the drive time and distance to the next one in between.*
Tap Mark as done on the card as you finish. No timers to start, no clocking in.
Drive times and distances between stops are a Pro feature. The rest of the Today screen is free.
Three views of the same diary: a week timeline with running totals, a week grid for spotting gaps, and a month view with a dot per service so a busy Tuesday is obvious at a glance.
Times are estimated arrivals — "~9am", the way walkers actually book — with a duration that defaults from the service type and can be nudged per booking.
Walk several pets together and each owner still gets billed separately — no mental arithmetic at the end of the week. Set a booking to repeat weekly and it fills the diary for you.
Every booking carries its pets, their tags, the owners behind them and a note for the day. Tap through to the client, or open the drive in your maps app.
Search "Noodle", not "Chen". The Clients tab flips between a Pets list and an Owners list, both searchable, both showing photos and tags like Nervous, Lead only or Good off lead.
A pet's page has the next service, their preferred time window, one-tap call, text and email for the owner, and — for when it goes wrong — the vet and the emergency contact side by side.
Every client has a secure notes field for the things you'd never write in a group chat — back door codes, alarm codes, where the spare key lives. It's encrypted in the database, unlocked with Face ID, fingerprint or your device PIN, and hides itself again the moment you leave the screen.
Client names and addresses are encrypted at rest too. You can lock the whole app behind biometrics, export everything you've entered, and delete your account and its data outright — all from one screen.
Barkerway estimates the day's driving from your home base, round your stops in your pickup order, out to a walk destination if you drove there, and home again. No GPS, no tracking, no battery drain.
Every leg is listed and every leg is editable — tap a figure and type the real one if you took the long way. Totals roll up per tax year with the 55p and 25p bands applied automatically.
Pick a tax year and see income received, your mileage claim, business miles and what's still unpaid — on a cash basis, so income counts in the year it landed, not the year you invoiced it.
Export three CSV files to hand to your accountant or drop into a spreadsheet.
Barkerway keeps a Needs billing list of every client with unbilled services. Open one, tick the services, tweak a price if you agreed something different, add a note and raise the bill.
Each bill is numbered, dated and totalled, exports as a branded PDF, and gets marked received in one tap. The header keeps a running count of what's come in, what's outstanding and how many bills you've raised this tax year.
Define your own service types — solo walk, group walk, puppy visit, cat drop-in — each with a default price and duration, and override the price per client where you've agreed a rate. Change a price or retire a service type and bookings you've already done keep the price they had.
Build your own pet tags, save the vets you deal with, pin the walk destinations you drive to on a map, set your invoice prefix, numbering and payment terms, and put your home base in so mileage starts from the right doorstep.
Sign in at app.barkerway.uk with the same account to add clients and pets, plan your schedule, sort your mileage, and handle invoices and business details from a laptop — with a proper keyboard for the fiddly bits. Everything syncs both ways.
Ten hand-built colour themes, from calm Waymarker greens to Midnight blues and Ember oranges. Pick one and the whole app comes with you.
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Everything you need to keep the day straight.
£4.99 a month or £49.99 a year
Everything in Free, plus the money side.
Pro comes with a 14-day free trial. Cancel any time from the App Store or Google Play.
Yes. Barkerway is built in the UK for independent dog walkers and pet sitters. Prices are in pounds, mileage uses HMRC's approved rates, tax summaries follow the UK tax year, and client data is stored in the EEA.
No. Mileage and drive times are estimated from the addresses of your home base, your clients and any walk destination, using Google Maps driving distances. There is no live location tracking and no battery drain, and every figure can be edited.
For each day it adds up the drive from your home base, round your stops in your pickup order, out to a walk destination if you drove to one, and back home. Totals roll up per tax year at HMRC's rates: 55p a mile for the first 10,000 business miles and 25p after that. Mileage is a Pro feature.
Yes. Cats and other species get the same records as dogs, and you define your own service types, such as a 30-minute walk, a cat drop-in or dog sitting, each with its own price and duration.
Yes. Add pets from different owners to one booking and each owner is billed separately at their own price.
Barkerway is free to download, and the free plan covers clients, pets, scheduling, recurring bookings and secure notes. Pro adds travel times, HMRC mileage, billing and invoices, tax-year summaries and themes for £4.99 a month or £49.99 a year, with a 14-day free trial.
Yes. Barkerway is on iPhone through the App Store and on Android through Google Play. You can also use the web app at app.barkerway.uk from any browser.
In the EEA, in Frankfurt. Client names, addresses, contact details and notes are encrypted at rest, and secure notes such as key safe codes need Face ID, a fingerprint or your device PIN to open. You can export all your data or delete your account at any time.
Free to download. Run your round on the free plan, and try Pro free when you're ready.