Shelter Partner is an cross platform app built for animal shelters and rescues that replaces paper volunteer logs with real-time, accurate information about the dogs and cats in their care. Mount it on a wall-shared iPad or hand it to volunteers on their own devices, and give everyone instant visibility into which animals need a walk, a play session, or a little extra enrichment today.
WHY SHELTERS LOVE IT
• Replace clipboards and paper sign-out sheets with a live digital log
• Give volunteers a simple way to see which animals haven't been let out
• Capture enrichment notes, behavior observations, and photos in seconds
• Reduce staff time spent answering "which dogs still need a walk?"
ENRICHMENT TAB FOR VOLUNTEERS
Browse every adoptable dog and cat as an easy-to-scan card with photo, kennel location, and recent notes. Tap an animal card to take an animal out or put it back, log an enrichment activity, and see at a glance which animals have been waiting longest. Friendly interface for new or younger volunteers, and bulk actions let experienced volunteers or staff modify multiple animals at once.
VOLUNTEER MANAGEMENT FOR STAFF
Invite, track, and manage your volunteer roster, sync with Better Impact, and set custom rules per volunteer — georestriction so check-ins only happen on-site, minimum visit durations, required fields, custom intake forms, and photo uploads. Shelter Stats show exactly how long it's been since each animal was last taken out, so no dog or cat falls through the cracks.
VISITOR KIOSK MODE
Turn a spare iPad into a friendly adoption kiosk. The Visitor Tab shows adoptable dogs and cats with photos, temperament, age, and notes, plus a full-screen slideshow mode for lobbies and events — helping visitors fall in love with their next pet while they wait.
BUILT-IN AI ASSISTANT
An optional AI chat assistant can answer visitor and volunteer questions about available animals using your shelter's live data, making it even easier for guests to find the right match.
CONNECTS TO YOUR EXISTING SOFTWARE
Shelter Partner syncs directly with ShelterLuv, with more shelter management system integrations on the way, so your animal data stays accurate without double data entry.
WHO IT'S FOR
Animal shelters, humane societies, SPCAs, rescues, and foster-based nonprofits looking to modernize volunteer operations, improve animal enrichment tracking, and give every dog and cat the attention it deserves.
Shelter Partner is built by and for the animal welfare community. Have feedback or need help getting your shelter set up? Reach out anytime at jared@shelterpartner.org or visit shelterpartner.org/new-shelter to get started.
This is a great app that helps us manage the dogs at our shelter, keeping track of which dogs are in the kennels and which ones are out on the play yard. A recent update unfortunately messed up the view for us however… We have to scroll forever through every dog on our list to get down to a dog we’re looking for. Our old two column view disappeared and we now have a single column of dogs to scroll through. When we rotate our phones, it displays two columns again, but the search/filter bar at the top is so large that you can’t actually see any of the dogs in the list. Perhaps if providing an option to display more dogs in that column view, either with multiple columns or reducing, the data displayed to show more isn’t an option…Perhaps a column on the side where you can click on a letter of the alphabet to get you down to dogs that have names that start with that letter?
Developer Response
Thanks for the feedback! We’ve just pushed a new version that’s more optimized for phones. It forces at least 2 columns and attaches the search bar to the top so it disappears as you scroll down. We hope these changes help and don’t hesitate to reach out with more feedback!
Excellent start on a better solution for animal care
guybert
Jared developed an excellent solution for tracking animal care and an easy to use tool for volunteers who socialize and enrich animals in shelters and visitors/potential adopters to learn about individual animals. Frequent updates continue to make the tool best in class. Well integrated with existing software used by shelters.
• Minor visual improvements
Version 2.2.1
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Information
Seller
Jared Jones
Size
86.1 MB
Category
Business
Compatibility
Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 13.0 or later.
iPod touch Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
