At launch
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
BarkUp features
Built to get you off the app.
Profiles and matching should do just enough useful work to create better real-world walks. Here is what is planned for launch-and what is not ready yet.
At launch
The focused set BarkUp needs to make local introductions useful and safer.
Coming later
Good ideas that still need evidence, design work and careful testing.
The foundations for a genuinely useful walk.
No inflated feature count. These are the capabilities BarkUp needs to solve the first problem properly.
At launch
Compatibility-led discovery
Look for the sort of dog and walk that fits, rather than scrolling through whoever is nearest.
- Filter around walking pace
- Make size and energy visible
- Share greeting preferences early
At launch
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
At launch
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
At launch
Safety controls
Verified adults, block and report controls, plus guidance for calmer first meetings.
- 18+ access
- Identity verification layer
- Straightforward reporting path
Example profilePickle
Dachshund · adult
“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.
Promising, but not pretending.
These ideas are on the trail map, not in the launch build. They will only move forward when BarkUp can make them useful, private and reliable.
Walk-condition reports
Timely community notes about mud, livestock, flooding, broken gates and other useful route conditions.
Saved walk ideas
Keep a short list of routes that suit your dog’s pace, confidence and practical needs.
Smarter compatibility signals
Improve suggestions using what makes a walk work, without turning sensitive location data into an advertising profile.
No invented release dates
“Coming soon” means planned and subject to change. BarkUp will announce a date when the feature is tested and genuinely ready-not to create artificial urgency.
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