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BarkUp features

Built to get you off the app.

Profiles, routes and local knowledge, doing just enough useful work to create better real-world walks. Here is everything BarkUp does today.

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Available now

Live in the app today, and the reason BarkUp makes local walks better and safer.

In the works

The short list of ideas that still need evidence, design work and careful testing.

Available now

The foundations for a genuinely useful walk.

No inflated feature count and nothing described in the future tense. Every capability below is in the app right now.

Dog-first profiles

Temperament, pace, size, energy, play style and useful boundaries in one practical profile.

  • No public owner lifestyle feed
  • Dog needs before polished photos
  • Edit preferences as they change

Compatibility-led discovery

Look for the sort of dog and walk that fits, rather than scrolling through whoever is nearest. Switch the map to satellite when you want to see the ground itself.

  • Filter around walking pace
  • Map or satellite view
  • Share greeting preferences early

Privacy-aware local matching

Broad areas help people find realistic local options without displaying exact homes or live pins.

  • Rough area only in discovery
  • No public home address
  • Meeting place shared deliberately

Community walks

Create or join a walk with a known route, pace, meeting point and manageable group size.

  • Public meeting details
  • Clear walk expectations
  • Useful attendance controls

Trails worth walking again

Routes snapped to real paths, with the distance, terrain and elevation, plus the details that decide the day: gates, steps, road crossings, livestock, water access and whether it works off lead.

  • Save the routes that work
  • Check the ground on satellite
  • Attach one to a community walk

Places along the way

Vets, dog parks, drinking water, waste bins and pet shops, on the map and along a trail, with opening hours where a category has them.

  • Five curated categories
  • Opening hours for parks and vets
  • Shown against a trail route

Live hazard reports

Flooding, livestock on the route, broken glass, a blocked path or a loose dog - reported by walkers, confirmed by walkers, and gone once they are.

  • Confirm or clear what you find
  • Each type expires on its own
  • Nothing lingers past 14 days

Messages, never open to strangers

Text-only conversations that unlock for an accepted friendship or a shared approved walk, and close the moment either person blocks.

  • Reply to a specific message
  • Fifteen minutes to edit a slip
  • Ordinary messages expire at 90 days

Safety controls

Verified adults, block and report controls, plus guidance for calmer first meetings.

  • 18+ access
  • Identity verification layer
  • Straightforward reporting path
Example profile

Pickle

Dachshund · adult

adult verified
steady paceslow hellosmall dogs

“Happiest walking side by side. Please give me a minute before saying hello.”

North Oxfordshire · broad area
The visible identity

Your dog comes first. Your privacy stays protected.

BarkUp profiles are not miniature dating profiles for humans. The useful identity is the dog: how they move, meet and feel around others.

An owner still completes adult verification and remains accountable for their conduct. Their home and personal life do not need to become public content for the community to work.

In the works

Promising, but not pretending.

A short list, because most of what was once on it has shipped. What is left moves only when BarkUp can make it useful, private and reliable.

In the works

The forecast for your walk

The outlook for the day a walk actually falls on, next to the walk itself, so an organiser and everyone joining can see the same thing before deciding whether to move it.

In the works

Smarter compatibility signals

Improve suggestions using what makes a walk work, without turning sensitive location data into an advertising profile.

No invented release dates

“In the works” means planned and subject to change. We ship a feature when it is tested and genuinely ready-not to create artificial urgency.

Ready when you are

Try it on your next walk.

Every feature above is live today. Create a free account and see how your dog gets on.

  • Free to join, no card needed
  • Your home address stays private
  • Leave or delete your account any time

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