AI breed check Tracker+
An honest guess at your dog’s breed
One photo goes in. Out comes the breed it thinks is most likely, a confidence number that’s allowed to be low, and the one to three breeds it reckons are in the mix. It’s a guess from a photo, not a DNA test — and where it shows you a mix, the app prints that line underneath, so nobody has to work it out.
What it answers
The rehoming form just said “collie cross”
Rescue dogs arrive with a breed written down by someone who was, politely, guessing. Puppies bought as one thing grow into the shape of another. And every park has a man who is quite certain yours is a lurcher.
Dogoos answers it the only way a photo can. One most-likely breed with a confidence number, then the makeup as one to three breeds — the top one included — each carrying its own 0–100. When the photo won’t support a call, the answer comes back “Mixed breed”, which is the same pair of words it uses when it’s certain it is looking at a mix. The confidence beside it is how you tell those two apart.
The result lands on your dog’s profile as a card marked AI breed check and stays there. Two breeds or more and the breed guide opens the full breakdown — “What’s in Max’s mix?”, a bar for each breed, and the line underneath calling it an estimate from photos rather than a DNA test. One breed and you get a verdict instead: Breed confirmed by AI, or The AI sees something else with a link back to the profile.
How it runs
What happens when you tap Run
It picks the photo, not you
A profile holds four photo slots, and the check takes “Clear face” first — front-on, good light, plain background — then the other slots in order, then the profile picture. That order is fixed in code. You always know which photo it read.
One photo and one sentence
No name, no age, no breed you already typed in, no read history, not even the previous result. The model gets the image, a one-line request to identify the dog and return the JSON, and the standing instruction behind every check: name one breed or “Mixed breed”, set the confidence honestly, and break the makeup into one to three breeds.
The wording moves with the confidence
“That matches — Border Collie” when it agrees with the breed you set. “Looks like a…”, with a Use this breed button, when you haven’t set one. “We think it’s a…” when it’s over 90% sure and disagrees with you. “Might be a…” below that, and there the profile keeps the breed you picked.
Nothing changes until you say so
The card offers; it never edits. Keep “Collie cross” on the profile if that’s who she is. The guess just sits alongside it.
The allowance
A small pool, and it never refills
A check is spent the moment our server says yes — before the model has even looked at the photo. A blurry answer costs you exactly what a good one does, and nothing hands it back.
Breed checks you will ever have, by plan
A spent check is spent. The count lives on our servers for the life of the account, so re-adding a deleted dog, swapping the photos, reinstalling or waiting for tomorrow all give back exactly nothing. Nor does a dud result: if the photo is too poor to say anything with, the app shows “Couldn’t read the breed — try a clearer, front-on photo”, and you are already one down. Pick your best front-on shot before you tap Run. (The server holds an absolute ceiling of 60 per account as well, which no plan you can buy comes anywhere near.)
Honest limits
A photograph can only settle so much
What it does
- Names the single most likely breed, with a confidence number that’s allowed to be low
- Breaks the makeup into one to three breeds — the top one included — each with its own 0–100
- Answers “Mixed breed” when the photo won’t support anything sharper
- Disagrees with the breed you set, out loud, then waits for you to decide
- Carries “An estimate from photos — not a DNA test” on the share card itself
- Keeps the count server-side, so a reinstall or a new phone never farms fresh checks
What it won’t do
- Sequence anything — there’s no swab, no laboratory, no genome involved
- Tell you about inherited conditions, health risk, or how big a puppy will grow
- Prove a pedigree, or check a breeder’s claim for you
- Add up to 100% — those are confidences, not slices of a dog
- Turn a bad photo away. A live read has a quality gate; this doesn’t. A poor photo buys a low number and still costs a check
- Run on the free plan — though a Tracker Pass counts — or hand a check back when you delete a dog
Where a swab wins
What a photo can’t reach
A photo shows what your dog looks like they’re made of. It can’t show what they’re carrying. For an inherited condition or a real genetic breakdown, that’s a cheek swab and a lab, and no confidence number on a photograph stands in for one.
The breed guide’s Health tab is worth the same care. It’s general information about a breed — the conditions that breed is known for as a population, written to help you ask better questions. It says nothing about your dog, and it certainly says nothing about a dog an AI thinks might be that breed. If something’s worrying you, start with your vet. A breed guess is the wrong place to start that conversation.
What it changes
A breed on the profile does real work
The point isn’t the badge on the card. Four other parts of the app read that field the moment it’s filled in.
Questions, answered
Before you spend a check
Is this a DNA test?
No, and it never pretends to be. Where it shows a mix, “An estimate from photos, not a DNA test” sits directly under the breakdown, and the share card carries the same line in its own words. It’s reading a picture: coat, ears, muzzle, proportions, the shape of the whole dog. A cheek swab reads the genome. For a heritable disease, or a pedigree you have to prove, the swab is the one you want.
How accurate is it?
There’s no accuracy percentage we can honestly publish, so we don’t publish one. What you get is a confidence number on every result and wording that moves with it — “That matches” at the top end, “Might be a…” at the bottom. A confidence is not a certainty, and a high one on a poor photo is still a guess about a poor photo.
Which plan do I need?
Tracker or above — and a Tracker Pass counts, so the prize wheel’s jackpot, the bone shop’s seven-day Pass and a referral reward all open it for as long as they last. On Pup the card shows a lock and one sentence: “Unlock AI breed detection to guess your dog’s breed from their photos.” Your daily live read, your mood history and the breed guide itself all stay free.
How many checks do I actually get?
Three per dog, and an account pool of three for every dog slot your plan allows: six on Tracker, fifteen on Whisperer, thirty on Pack Leader. It’s a lifetime pool, not a monthly one. Nothing resets it — not a new month, not a new phone, not a fresh install.
Can I run it in my browser?
Yes, as long as the photo is already there. Adding or replacing a dog photo is a phone job, and the web app says so plainly instead of failing quietly — but the check itself has no phone-only step. Buying the plan does: Google Play purchases happen in the Android app, and tapping through to plans in a browser tells you exactly that. Whatever you’re on, the entitlement follows the account.
It disagrees with my rescue centre. Who’s right?
Possibly neither. You’re both working from the same evidence, which is what the dog looks like. The AI is never told what the paperwork says, so it isn’t arguing with the centre — it has simply never heard of them. Where it genuinely matters, for a health question or a breed-specific risk, a vet and a DNA test are the two that can settle it.
Your dog is one of a kind.
It’s still nice to know which kinds.
Open the web app 🦴
Breed check is on Tracker and above · Plans are bought in the Android app · Photos are added on your phone