Households
Share the dog, keep your own account
Up to five people, one shared pack, and nobody ever handing over a password. Every read, every keepsake photo and the whole health journal are shared; your bones, your streak and your daily reads stay yours. Free on every plan.
Why it exists
Two people, one dog, and one very confused app
The obvious fix is to hand over your password. It works for about a day. Then the app is greeting your partner by your name, wearing your theme, counting your streak, and every read looks like you took it, including the eleven-o'clock one where somebody else was filming the dog staring at the washing machine.
A household fixes it properly. Everyone signs in as themselves and shares one pack, up to five people. That eleven-o'clock read still lands on your phone the moment it finishes, stamped with the name of whoever was holding the camera.
Setting one up
From solo to shared in three steps
Solo to shared
- One of you creates itYour pack, reads and health journal move in
- A code goes outGood for 24 hours and one person
- The dog is sharedReads, photos and the journal, for everyone
- You stay youSeparate sign-ins, separate allowances, separate plans
One of you creates it
Settings → Household → Create our household. Name it whatever you shout at dinner time; the app offers “Our pack”. Your dogs, reads, keepsakes and health journal move in while you watch.
The owner makes a code
Single use, good for twenty-four hours, and only one live at a time. Making a fresh code retires the last one, and the codes avoid look-alike characters, so nobody has to squint at a group chat.
They type it, and the whole house knows
There's a switch on the join screen: bring my dogs, reads & health with me, or leave them in your own account, where they sit untouched until you leave the household again. The moment a code is used, everyone already in is told, so a code can never let somebody in quietly.
The split
Everything about the dog is shared. Everything about you isn't.
What the household shares
- Every dog in the pack: profile, photos, weight, the lot
- Every read, live on every phone the moment it lands
- The keepsake album and every photo in it
- The health journal: weights, medications, notes, meals and walks
- Reminders: set the booster once and it rings on everyone's phone
What stays yours
- Your sign-in. Nobody in the house ever holds your password
- Your name, so the app greets the right human
- Your theme, bones, streak, quiz scores and bookmarks
- Your daily read allowance, and your plan, if you have one
- Your notification settings: each person decides what their phone rings for
Good to know
Two things to agree before anyone joins
Plans and reads stay personal. Every member reads at their own allowance, and a subscription belongs to the account that bought it. So if you're on Whisperer and your housemate is on the free plan, you get your reads, your breed checks, the weekly report and Story Mode; they get one read a day and the whole shared world around it. Keeping allowances separate also means nobody can use up the day's reads before the second person is awake.
And what you bring in stays with the family. Whatever moves in when you join belongs to the household from that moment, and leaving doesn't take it back out. Only the last member out takes it all home. It's worth agreeing that before anybody joins.
Who did what
Every read remembers who took it
Each read is stamped with the member who captured it. Open one your partner took and it says Captured by Alex underneath. Your own say nothing. You were there.
Keepsake photos work the same way. Everyone in the household sees every photo, and only the person who took one can delete the file. Remove a keepsake your housemate took and it leaves the album for everyone, them included, while the file itself stays with them.
Hiding is household-wide. Take a read out of the mood history and it goes for everyone at once: the family's stats, the album and the vet visit summary all drop it. It's a hide rather than a delete, so nobody loses a history they didn't agree to lose, and nobody in the house can put it back.
Leaving
What happens when someone walks out the door
Anyone can leave, and the owner can also remove a member. Either way the person going keeps their own account and stops seeing the pack, while their dogs, their reads and the photos they took stay with the household. If the owner is the one leaving, a remaining member takes over as owner on the spot, so a household always has one.
The last member out is the exception, and the whole thing comes home with them. Any live invite code is retired, and then the household closes.
And if someone erases their Dogoos account while the rest of you carry on, their photos go with them and the reads they took stay as mood data, attributed to a former member. Your dog's history doesn't grow a hole where a person used to be.
Questions, answered
The things families ask
Does a household cost anything?
No. It's free on every plan, the free one included, and it lives in Settings → Household.
Can we share one subscription across the house?
No. A plan belongs to the account that bought it. The shared world (dogs, reads, album, health journal) is free for everyone in the household; the paid extras follow the person paying for them. Reads and breed checks come out of your own allowance, never a family pot.
Who can send invites?
The household owner. Codes are single-use and expire after twenty-four hours, only one is live at a time, and every existing member is told the moment one is used, so a code that ends up in the wrong group chat can't quietly add a stranger.
Can I join without handing over my own dogs?
Yes, there's a switch on the join screen. Leave it off and your pack, reads and health journal stay in your own account, out of sight while you're in the household: the app shows you the household's dogs and history until you leave again.
If I leave, do I take my reads with me?
No. What moves in belongs to the family from then on: your dogs, your reads, your keepsake photos and your health notes stay with the household. The one exception is being the last person out, which brings the whole thing home with you.
Do reminders fire on everyone's phone?
Yes. The journal is shared, so a reminder anyone sets is scheduled on every member's phone, and each person's own notification settings decide whether it makes a sound.
Should I add someone if my dog has a health condition?
Everyone in a household can read the whole journal: weights, medications, notes, meals, walks and reminders. Share it with the people you'd already talk to about your dog's health. The journal only records what you put in it, and anything that worries you goes to a qualified vet.
We don't live together. Can we still use it?
Yes. A household is a group of accounts, not an address, and nothing in it cares where anyone lives. If you're sharing a dog across two homes, sharing a dog goes through the practical parts.
One dog, one history, however many of you there are.
Read the household guide
Creating, joining and keeping everyone looking at the same record.