The mood
One of six, with the feeling behind it spelled out.
How it works
What happens in those five seconds
A short clip, three signals read together, and a verdict with a confidence score you can see. Here's what happens between tapping the paw and reading the card, and what to do when the light's against you.
The capture
Five seconds, and you’re done
The paw button sits in the middle of the nav bar on every tab, and reads whichever dog is selected at the top of Home. Camera and microphone are asked for the first time you tap it, and not before.
Pick a length
Five seconds is the free clip. Subscribers get ten- and twenty-second options on the same screen, for the moments that take a little longer to unfold.
Record
What you see is what gets sent: the preview shows the full frame, so if the tail is on screen it’s in the read. A notification popping up mid-clip won’t spoil it.
A place in your queue
Once the clip is saved you can leave the read screen. A small queue on Home shows whether it’s waiting for a connection, uploading or processing, with room for five reads at a time.
Ready in your history
Once the upload is accepted, the read finishes even with the app closed. The result saves to your history with a keepsake photo when there’s a good frame, a note lands in your inbox, and a phone alert follows your notification settings.
One read, end to end
- Tap the pawWhichever dog is selected on Home
- Record 5sThe frame on screen is the frame that’s sent
- Save and uploadYour queue keeps track while you get on with your day
- Accepted for processingOne read is used, and it can finish with the app closed
- Ready in historyThe saved result, with a keepsake when there’s a good frame
5 secondsis the free clip. One read a day, every day; ten and twenty seconds come with a subscription.
Six moodsPlayful, Engaged, Uncertain, Puzzled, Startled and Appeasing.
Your profileOptional Personalised insights can add your dog's saved profile to a Read.
Three signals
The whole dog, not just the tail
The tail is the signal everyone watches, and on its own it says the least. So Dogoos reads face, body posture and vocal tone together, the way a good trainer takes in the whole dog before deciding anything.
Every read shows its working, too. You get a separate score for how much the face, the body and the sound each contributed, and a confidence figure the AI set for itself. A low number is a real answer as well, and you’ll always see it.
What a card actually shows
Face
0.78
Body
0.64
Sound
0.21
Confidence
0.62
“N% sure”
How confident the AI was, shown just as it came back.
Face · body · sound
A score for how much each signal carried the read.
What we spotted
Three or four named cues: “averted gaze”, “ears pinned forward”.
A headline
A playful line that interprets the body language, never a claim your dog said words.
A keepsake photo
The best moment from the clip, checked for sharpness, saved to your album.
The sixth mood
That guilty look isn’t guilt
You come home, the bin is on its side, and there it is: head low, ears back, whale eye, the whole slinking performance. It looks like a confession. It isn’t one.
Dogs don’t feel guilt the way we do. That posture is an appeasement response to your tone and your body language: a dog reading the room, not a dog reviewing its afternoon. So Dogoos calls the sixth mood Appeasing, and the weekly report and Story Mode follow the same rule. No part of Dogoos will ever tell you your dog feels guilty.
Good to know. There’s a guide on exactly this inside the app, readable with the wifi off: “Three Things to Never Do After Your Dog ‘Looks Guilty’”. The short version: a telling-off twenty minutes late teaches a dog to dread your arrival, not to leave the bin alone.
When it can’t see your dog
Sometimes the answer is “try again”
Too dark, too blurry, dog halfway out of frame, dog behind the sofa. When that happens Dogoos shows a different card: “Couldn’t read clearly”, the reason in plain words, and a best guess labelled as exactly that.
The same goes for a crowded frame. Asked to read one dog and handed three, with no way to tell which is yours, it says so rather than blending them into a verdict that describes none of them. Your dog’s profile photo travels with the clip to help it pick the right one.
Either way the card offers Try again and Close. A step closer or a lamp switched on is usually all it takes, and the next read lands.
Context
Your dog's profile can add context
With Personalised insights enabled, saved details such as breed and age can accompany your clip. Keep the profile up to date and consider the situation yourself when you look at the result.
A profile adds context; it does not prove how an individual dog feels or make the interpretation a diagnosis. You control Personalised insights in Settings.
Context training
Eight moments worth catching on purpose
Eight everyday moments, each with the reaction to expect and a tip on how to catch it. Record all eight and you have your dog’s own version of the situations that come round most, sitting in your mood history alongside every other read. It’s a set for you to compare against, so you can spot when today looks different from usual.
Offered a treat
Excitement. Hold one up; catch the moment they notice.
Said “walkies”
Anticipation. Say the walk word; watch ears, eyes, tail.
Dinner time
Eagerness. Pick up the bowl and film the build-up.
Time to play
Playfulness. Grab a favourite toy, catch the play-bow.
Bath time
Reluctance. Head for the bathroom; record the hesitation.
Vet / grooming
Wariness. How they look when something unfamiliar happens.
About to be left
Appeasement. The “please don’t go” face as you find your keys.
A new person
Curiosity. How they size up someone new at the door.
Each scenario is a real read. Record opens the normal camera, and it uses one of the day’s reads. On a free account that’s the day’s allowance, so take it one scenario a day. A scenario only ticks off once the read succeeds, so a mis-tap costs you nothing.
The details that decide it
Which dog, and which moment
In a two-dog house the first thing to get right is which dog you mean. So your active dog’s profile photo travels with the clip as a small reference, so the AI reads the right one when both are in shot. A slow or missing photo never holds up a read. It only goes along when Personalised insights is on; switch that off and the your saved profile details and reference photo are left out.
Dogoos also picks out a keepsake. The AI names the best moment in the clip, Dogoos checks the frames around it for sharpness and light, and the photo lands in your album and on the read card. If there’s no good frame, the read saves without one.
The clip stays in private storage on your phone and our server only while the read finishes, and unfinished captures expire after 24 hours. The privacy policy has the full detail.
Questions, answered
The bits people ask about
How accurate is it?
Every read carries the confidence the AI actually had in it, and you see that number even when it’s low. When the clip isn’t good enough you get the “couldn’t read clearly” card and a retry, never an invented mood. Good light and the whole dog in frame make the biggest difference.
Do the training scenarios cost me a read?
Yes. Each Record button starts a normal Read using your account's allowance. Pup currently includes one daily Read during launch. A scenario is marked complete after a successful Read.
What happens to the video clip?
It’s stored temporarily and privately on your phone and our server to finish your read, then the working copies are cleared. Unfinished captures expire after 24 hours. The finished read and its keepsake photo stay in your history. The privacy policy covers the detail, including how our AI provider handles it.
Can I take a read in my browser?
Not yet. Live camera reads are a phone feature. The web app opens your account on any screen for mood history, the Health Hub and the keepsake album, while photos, Doggy Dash and buying a plan stay on the phone.
Is any of this veterinary advice?
No. A read is warm, practical guidance about body language, never a diagnosis. If something about your dog worries you, that conversation belongs with your vet, and the Health Hub gives you the notes to walk in with.
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