Millions around the world have used Tinder’s swipe & match system to find potential dates – but now it could also help users find their perfect furry companion. Yeah, you heard it right! Tinder for pets is a new marketplace platform, which helps the single pet lovers to go on a date, find pets for adoption, find pet walkers or sitter apps and much more.
Why the Tinder for pet concept is trendy?
According to the Puppy Love promotional video, 7.6 million animals are abandoned each year.
This made Tinder for pet apps to enter the market to help people find their true companions in terms of pets.
Also, around 60% of Americans have pets of some kind, which made companies come up with a concept called Tinder for Pet Sitters or Tinder for Pet walkers, as it helps working-class people to get a pet sitter for their pets in their absence.
Nowadays there are also apps like Tindog, Dog Date Afternoon, Doggone Singles, etc which provides an app for single pet lovers to meet other pet lovers along with their pets.
The idea was developed to set up a platform for single pet owners to reach out to each other, creating a community within the app.
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Tinder for Pet Adoption
Zeppee: Australia’s first iPhone app for connecting pets to their new forever homes.
Using powerful location-based technology, coupled with the ‘Swipe’ user interface, popularised by apps such as Tinder & Stash, Zeppee ensured that finding the four-legged companion is easy, fun, and addictive for pet lovers.
Zeppee app helps the user to refine the search by pet breed, age, distance, category (Shelter, RSPCA, Breeder etc.) and much more. It also automatically pinpoints the user’s exact location using GPRS technology, which guides the user to find the closest suitable furry companions.
After the launch of Zeppe within two weeks, 2,000 animals were listed nationwide.
Zeppee has this unique feature where all the rescue pets feature a pink Rescue Ribbon on their profile photos (top right corner) as it becomes easy to spot
Barkbuddy: This app is the first app which was designed to locate adoptable pups in any area and fetch the pet lover a perfect match. It lets people quickly swipe through available animals, choosing those they like – and the app even learns their canine preferences over time.
Using this app user can swipe through photos of dogs, which helps the app to look at the different aspects of users favorite animals to improve its recommendations. It also provides a graph of the breeds people favor, and can also choose the size, age & sex of animal they prefer.
Barkbuddy has currently listed over 300,000 adoptable dogs, and has had 8 million swipes in the week it’s been live.
Tinder for Pet Sitting App
Rover
There are times when you just can’t take your pet everywhere as you need to go for work. The Rover app connects dog owners to hundreds of dog sitters in the city across the U.S and Canada, that helps the owners to find the perfect dog sitter who will watch your dog in the owner’s absence.
These dog sitters offer various services such as dog boarding, dog walking, house sitting, or doggy daycare.
The app notifies dog parents with adorable photo updates, GPS tracking of your dog’s walk, an easy way to message sitters, and a secure way to book and pay.
Rover has expanded the dog-sitting business to Europe, by aiming at more segments of the pet industry
We are building a very sticky relationship with a large portion of the pet-owning population. We expect to roll out additional offerings to make that even stickier – Aaron Easterly Rover CEO
Wag!
Wag! is another app for busy dog owners. It gives the owner access discover certified dog walkers in their local community and to book private dog walking, sitting or boarding services 7-days a week.
The dog owners can get a dog walker as per their convenience or set up a recurring walk schedule. And if your pooch is rumbustious, you can even get a dog walker to arrive in as little as 15 minutes.
Wag! also helps, dog owners to track their dog’s walk on a smartphone in real time, get a pee/poop notification or even request a live video feed.
Wag! App – a special act of goodwill“mile Wag! walks a dog”, as every mile a dog walks they donate one meal of nutritious, wholesome dog food to a shelter pet in need through Rescue Bank.
Did you know there is Tinder for pet Instagram called Petcube wherein owners can put their adorable pet’s pics, videos and connect to their pets for real-time.
Tinder For Pet & 
Pet Lovers Twining
Tindog
Inspired by Tinder, Tindog is another location-based app that lets you find other dogs and their owners around you, giving the owner and their canine the opportunity to make friends.
The app works really easy as the owner just has to upload a photo of him/her with their dog and begin swiping. Once the profile gets matched with another dog owner, the person can chat, share photos with one another, hook up for play dates at the dog park or meet up for coffee at a dog-friendly café along with their dogs to see if they find a perfect match.
The app, which is available for iOS and Android already has more than 100,000 registered users.
The platform was created to facilitate that two people who love animals and have dogs can get to know each other”, and assures that “the love of an owner for a dog is something that moves mountains – Julien Muller, CEO and founder of Holidog
Dog Date Afternoon
Dog Date Afternoon connects local, single dog lovers who want to date. Unlike apps that match dogs for play dates, Dog Date Afternoon is for owners that are single. The apps work really easy as the owners just have to enter their quick info, upload pics of them with their pups, browse profiles of dog owners and their pooches, find like-minded dog lovers & connect and go on fun dates.
In conclusion, Tinder for pets is not limited to dating app or pet sitter apps but there are also apps like Tinder for lost pets, Tinder for pets hotels & restaurants, Tinder for pet coach etc which help pet lovers to connect to other pet lovers as well as reach out to different sectors for the pet industry.
Also, Tinder for pet is not the only idea, as there is a lot of different Tinder for use cases in the marketplace.
