Independent Vet: Find a Vet
Find locally owned vets
Only for iPhone
Free · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
iPhone
Independent Vet helps you find veterinary practices that are locally owned and independent, not part of a corporate or private equity chain. It's the independentvet.com map on your phone, with tools for looking after your pets.
FIND AN INDEPENDENT VET
• Browse a map of practices across the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, each marked as verified independent, claimed by its owners, academic or nonprofit, or listed and not yet verified.
• Search by practice name, city, ZIP code, Canadian postal area or UK postcode.
• Filter by services such as emergency, 24/7, urgent care, specialty and exotics. Corporate-owned practices can be shown too.
• See who owns each practice and, for verified practices, the evidence behind it.
• Call, get directions or open a practice's website. Report an issue or suggest a missing practice right from the app.
• Take a guided tour of an area's independent vets: choose Tour this area in the map's + menu for a few cards on who owns the practices nearby, and where to go in an emergency.
MY VETS AND EMERGENCY
• Save your primary vet, up to three emergency vets and other practices you trust, with private notes.
• Get an alert if a saved practice is acquired or its ownership changes, with nearby independent alternatives.
• Share your list as a PDF with a pet sitter or family member.
• Open Emergency for the nearest 24/7 independent hospitals, your own emergency vets and animal poison control, even without signal.
PETS AND RECORDS
• Keep a profile for each pet: breed, birthday, weight, allergies, conditions and microchip number.
• Scan vaccination certificates and other records with your camera. The text is read on your phone and the details are filled in for you to check.
• See which vaccines are due, search your records, and share them as one PDF with a new vet, a sitter or a kennel.
MEDICATIONS AND REMINDERS
• Scan a label or start typing a name to add a medication.
• Flexible schedules, from twice a day to every three months, with start and end dates.
• Dose reminders you can mark as given from the notification, refill reminders and quiet hours.
SHARE WITH YOUR HOUSEHOLD
• Share pets with family or a pet sitter, so everyone sees the same records and medications and knows when a dose has been given.
• Invite someone in person with a QR code, or send a link that you approve.
VET JOBS
• Browse jobs at independent practices and send an expression of interest straight to the practice.
NEWS FROM INDEPENDENT VET
• Open the Inbox in Profile for news and short surveys from Independent Vet.
FOR PRACTICE OWNERS AND STAFF
• Practice owners and staff can sign in to manage their practice: edit the practice's message and post jobs.
PRIVATE BY DESIGN
• No ads, no analytics and no tracking.
• Pet records, scans and medications are stored on your phone, and scanning happens on the phone.
• An account is optional. With one, My Vets and your settings follow you to a new phone, and your pet records are backed up end-to-end encrypted, unlocked with Face ID or your recovery key. We can't read them.
• You can delete your account and its data from the app at any time.
Verification describes who owns a practice, not the quality of its care. Independent Vet doesn't diagnose or give medical advice; always ask your vet about your pet's health.
Photos from pet parents: see fun photos from visits on a practice, and add your own.
From the practice: practices can add their picture and photos to their listing.
Tour this area: a button on the map makes the tour easy to find until you've taken it.
Corporate-owned practices: choose whether the map shows them too, and it remembers your choice.
Group profiles: groups' profiles appear sooner after they're published.
Search by group: searching for a group shows all its practices when none are near you, and says how many more are farther away.
The developer, Francis Wong, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Location
- Contact Info
- User Content
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
- Other Data
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Francis Wong
- Size
- 42.9 MB
- Category
- Lifestyle
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Contains
User-Generated Content
- Copyright
- © 2026 Independent Vet