Best pet sitting apps and software for solo sitters (2026)

By Andrew, maker of Pawdex · Published September 2, 2026 · Last updated September 2, 2026

The best pet sitting software for a solo sitter depends on one question: do your clients need to log in? If they book and pay through your software, you want a platform like Time To Pet (from $25/month) or PetPocketbook (free tier, $25/month paid). If you keep your own client list and just need every pet's care details, your daily visits and your earnings organized, Pawdex is a $1.99 one-time purchase for iPhone with no subscription at all.

The comparison

Prices from vendor pricing pages, Capterra and Software Advice, September 2026. On PetPocketbook's free tier, pet parents pay a 5% service fee by default.

Not Rover, not Wag

One clarification first, because these searches get tangled together. Rover and Wag are marketplaces: they connect pet owners with sitters and take a cut of every booking. Nothing on this list does that. Everything here is business software for sitters who already have their own clients. If you're looking for a place to find clients, that's a different article. If you're looking for a way to manage the clients you have, keep reading.

Time To Pet

Time To Pet is the one most working sitters have heard of, and its reputation is earned. It holds a 4.9 rating across 271 Capterra reviews and says over 4,000 pet care businesses run on it. You get scheduling, invoicing, a client portal, GPS-tracked visits, visit report cards, and staff management, starting at $25/month for the solo tier and rising to $50 and $80 as you add people.

The honest picture: it's built like software for a company, because it is. If you plan to hire a second walker next spring, that structure is exactly what you want, and paying $300 a year for it is reasonable. If you're a one-person operation watching six regulars, you're paying for staff scheduling, payroll-adjacent reports and a client portal you may never turn on.

Skip it if: you have no plans to hire and your clients are happy texting you.

Precise Petcare

Precise Petcare is the budget pick among the full platforms — $15/month for a solo sitter, which works out to $180 a year, with staff tiers from $35 to $180/month as you grow. The feature list covers scheduling, billing, GPS check-ins, client portals and white-label branding. Its Capterra reviews rate value for money at 4.9, the highest of any tool here, though the overall 4.2 rating across 17 reviews trails the pack, with ease of use the common complaint — one reviewer counted three-plus clicks to reach a single day's schedule.

Skip it if: you want polish. You're trading interface smoothness for the lowest subscription price in the category.

Pet Sitter Plus

Pet Sitter Plus schedules over 4,500 sitters a month and carries a 4.8 rating across 140 Capterra reviews, with pricing that starts around $22/month and scales by revenue. It's a mature, web-based system with sitter portals, client portals and GPS visit verification, and its customer service gets praised constantly in reviews.

It's also, frankly, agency software. The design assumes schedulers assigning visits to a roster of sitters. A solo sitter can absolutely run on it, the same way you can commute in a school bus.

Skip it if: the word "staff" doesn't apply to your business.

Scout

Scout's pitch is your brand, not theirs: clients book through apps and pages carrying your business name, with GPS-tracked visits, photo check-ins, report cards and automated invoicing underneath. Pricing starts around $25/month, and the company donates a portion of revenue from completed appointments to animal charities, which is a genuinely nice touch.

Skip it if: custom branding doesn't matter to you — without that, you're paying Time To Pet money for a smaller feature set and a smaller support team.

PetPocketbook

PetPocketbook is the billing specialist: automatic invoicing, online payments, tip handling and scheduling in a mobile-first app rated 4.9 across 127 Capterra reviews, with 97% of users recommending it. The pricing model is the interesting part. There's a free tier where pet parents pay a 5% service fee on top of your rates, or a flat $25/month regardless of how many staff you have. Their own testimonials claim automatic invoicing saves users around ten hours a month, which tracks if invoicing is currently eating your Sunday nights.

Skip it if: your clients pay by Venmo and cash without complaint. The free tier's 5% fee lands on them, and some clients will notice.

Pawdex

Pawdex is my app, so read this section with that in mind.

I built it because everything above is priced and shaped for running a pet care company, and plenty of sitters aren't running companies. They're one person with a phone, a set of regulars, and pet details scattered across Notes, texts and memory. Pawdex gives every pet its own card — feeding schedule, meds, quirks, who to call, how to get in the door — plus the day's visits as an ordered checklist, earnings totals with CSV export for taxes, and report cards you text to owners after a visit. Gate and alarm codes stay locked behind Face ID, and everything lives on your iPhone and your own iCloud. There are no Pawdex servers, which means nobody, including me, can see your clients' entry codes. It costs $1.99, once.

Now the trade-offs, because they're real. There is no client portal, no online booking, no payment processing and no staff features — clients can't log in to anything, because there's nothing to log in to. It's iPhone-only. If clients booking themselves would save you hours a week, buy PetPocketbook or Time To Pet instead; $1.99 of organizer doesn't replace $300 of platform. Pawdex wins on exactly one thing: keeping a solo sitter organized for the price of a coffee instead of a car payment.

Skip it if: you have staff, you want online booking, or you're on Android.

Also worth a look

Scritches is newer software aimed at solo and small-team sitters trying to escape spreadsheets, and PetSitClick offers basic scheduling with mapping tools for small operations. Neither publishes pricing as visibly as the tools above, so check their sites directly. LeashTime and DoTimely also come up in this category, mostly among established multi-sitter businesses.

How to choose

Four questions settle it faster than any feature grid:

• Do clients need to book and pay online? Yes: Time To Pet, Scout or PetPocketbook. No: keep reading.
• Will you hire anyone in the next year? Yes: Time To Pet or Pet Sitter Plus, since migrating later is painful. No: keep reading.
• Is invoicing your biggest headache? Yes: PetPocketbook, and let the automation earn its fee. No: keep reading.
• Do you mostly need pet details, visit checklists and earnings in one private place? Then a $180-to-$300-a-year platform is overkill, and that's the gap Pawdex exists to fill.

Whatever you pick, do the yearly math before subscribing. A sitter doing eight $20 visits a week grosses about $8,300 a year (more on what pet sitters actually make); $300 in software is 3.6% of that. Sometimes it's worth it. It should never be invisible. And if you're still deciding what to charge in the first place, start with the pet sitter rates calculator.

Common questions

Is there pet sitting software without a monthly subscription?

Yes — Pawdex is a one-time $1.99 iPhone purchase with no subscription, and PetPocketbook has a free tier funded by a 5% client service fee. Every other major tool charges monthly, typically $15–25 for a solo sitter.

What's the cheapest pet sitting software?

Pawdex overall at $1.99 once. Among subscriptions, Precise Petcare's $15/month solo plan is the lowest, and PetPocketbook's free tier costs you nothing directly.

What do most professional pet sitters use?

Among multi-sitter businesses, Time To Pet is the most widely used by review volume, with Pet Sitter Plus close behind. Solo sitters split between those platforms, PetPocketbook, and simpler tools like notes apps and spreadsheets — which is the group Pawdex was built for.