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Barking Dog Monitor & Control 4+
Reprimand and Praise your Pup
John Hall
Designed for iPad
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- $5.99
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
Monitor, control and understand your dog's barking with colour coded graphs. Play reprimand and praise recordings when required.
Is your dog barking while you are out? Is the dog next door continually barking? Run monitoring sessions to record and control excessive barking. You can see the results immediately through the use of graphical displays. The lower graph shows you a visual summary of the entire monitoring session while the upper graph shows instantaneous barking activity.
Was your dog disturbed? Was it lonely? Was it playing? See why your dog is barking with colour analysis graphs which show the dog’s mood from the sounds in the bark.
Your initial acquisition provides you with everything you need to monitor and control your dog(s) barking. Unlimited monitoring duration, playback of a recorded reprimand to check your dog when it barks followed up by praise when it stops. Fast review features save you time when you get home.
You can monitor for well in excess of 12 hours as 'Bark'n Mad' has low storage and battery usage with background and screen-off recording.
If your dog is a barker you have further optional facilities to help control it:
・ Whistles to attract your dog’s attention
・ Boost the volume of your reprimand and praise recordings
・ Fine-tune when your reprimand and praise recordings are replayed
・ Support for Bluetooth hands free devices for recording and playback of reprimands and praise
・ Remotely view the monitoring session graphs on your iPhone
・ Setup periodic email updates and barking alerts for monitoring sessions
・ Access session recordings from your computer.
Additional features are available for raising or responding to complaints about barking:
・ Email download links to recording copies
・ Email download links to guaranteed unaltered recording copies
・ Capture and email monitoring and playback summary graphs as required.
・ Prove where the monitoring session was recorded (with the unlimited version)
Where barking complaints have occurred we recommend that both parties to the complaint (the neighbour and the owner) run Bark’n Mad to record barking and work together for a solution.
APP STORE REVIEWS
Excellent!!! Brilliant!.....highly recommended. Listen to what your dogs have been up too while your out. Very sensitive microphone. Absolutely genius app. Just what I was looking for to help train my dogs to be quiet while I am out and find out if the neighbours are over exaggerating. Picks up every single noise and very long recording time. Hope more quality apps like this to follow. Great tool.
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We recently got a rescue dog not used to having his own 'pack' and certainly not to being left alone. We were concerned he might be barking and that this would annoy or worry neighbours. We tried this app for the first time today and it worked perfectly! After an hour in, he started whining and barking a little, enough for the '20 second' criteria to be reached and the prerecorded 'quiet' message to be played. To my amazement listening to the recording afterward, he quietened down, was rewarded with the 'praise' I had recorded, and was quiet for the rest of the time we were out! Just amazing.
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I would like to say, however, that your App completely solved my "barking dog" problem, and in one hit! Our dog is a reasonably well trained golden retriever, but our neighbour informed us in strained tones (so I guess it must have been going on for a while), that whenever we both went out, which was infrequent, the dog barked incessantly until our return. In more desperation than any real hope, I picked up my trusty iPad and googled. Your App came up, so I installed it and tried it. I had noted the "Record reprimand" and "Record praise" bits. I was looking forward to hearing the result. From its first use, the dog, now, never barks when we go out, even if I don't leave the iPad! I think he's still trying to figure out how I knew, and was able to tell him off when he couldn't see me!
Congratulations on a fantastic App!
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What’s New
Version 3.7.1
Stability updates.
Further updates to better handle iPhone notches.
All support links double checked - no issues found.
Ratings and Reviews
Worth downloading
My neighbour recently told me that my dog was barking pretty much from the time I left home until I got home in the evening. Using this app I have been able to confirm how much she is barking and the other / noises contributing to her barking such as other dogs barking, postie's motorbike, sirens, etc.
Does exactly what it says
I rarely review apps but would feel bad not reviewing this one, given how dependant I have become on it. Use it every day, to see how changes we've made to our dogs routine affect his barking. Has been invaluable in this respect.
The app is pretty easy to use and barely seems to drain the battery at all. Can be a little slow to respond at times but this is probably as I am still using an iPad 2. The app seems to have great support and updates come out regularly. Have recommended it to several friends.
Would be nice if the next update could make it easier to see when recording were made
Brilliant App
I would highly recommend this App. My dog trainer recommended it after I mentioned that I was concerned my dog was barking excessively.
Our neighbour was complaining that our 16 month old German Shepherd was barking for hours at a time. I was upset to think my dog was that distressed and that the neighbours were annoyed. I had asked the other neighbour if they had heard her barking, they said that she would be lucky to be barking for a maximum of 10 minutes at a time.
I have been using the App for approx 6 weeks now and am convinced that the neighbour was exaggerating. The microphone on the App is that sensitive it picks up my dog and the neighbours dog barking, birds chirping, planes flying over.
I now have evidence that she has been only barking for a maximum of 7 minutes for one period over that 6 week period.
We live on one acre and the App still picks up noise from all aspects of our property.
Highly recommended well done.
App Privacy
The developer, John Hall, 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 Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Information
- Seller
- John Hall
- Size
- 104.1 MB
- Category
- Lifestyle
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 16.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 16.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 13.0.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Location
- This app may use your location even when it isn't open, which can decrease battery life.
- Copyright
- © 2015 John Hall
- Price
- $5.99
- In-App Purchases
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- Full Version. $9.99
- Choose when reprimand and praise are played $1.99
- Export and Email Links to Monitor Recordings $1.99
- Remote Monitoring using iCloud Drive. $2.99
- Email a copy of the monitoring/review screen. $1.99
- Single Tone Whistle. $1.99
- Enable emailing of periodic updates and barking alerts. $2.99
- Email Protected Unaltered Recordings $4.99
- Boost the replay volume of your recorded commands. $1.99
- Use a Tritone Whistle as an Attention Grabber $1.99