Run your dog‑walking business
from your phone.
We never take a cut.
Your clients, your schedule, your money — yours. Built by a dog walker, for dog walkers.
Free for 30 days — no card to request early access. Then $29.99/mo, your price never goes up — and your clients never see a fee with our name on it.
Dog owner, not a walker?
Your walker will want to see this — send it to them.
Why StarPaw
Own your operation — not a cut of it
Nothing to download, for you or your clients — it runs right in your phone’s browser.
Your client relationships
Owners are yours — their dogs, their contacts, their history live in your account, not a marketplace's.
You’re never locked in
You get paid on your own accounts — never routed through us. Photos and videos download straight to your phone; cancel any month and take it all with you.
Out of the gig economy
StarPaw isn’t a marketplace — it’s the software you run your own business with. No one ranks you, no algorithm races your rates to the bottom.
Who’s behind it
I walk dogs in San Francisco
I've been writing software for twenty years. I built this to run my own book — every feature came from a problem I hit on a real route, usually one-handed.
— Axel, San Francisco
The app
A look inside
Screens from the app — swipe through, or tap any one to enlarge.
Features
Five screens that run your day
Most software for this work stops at the schedule and the billing. These screens are built for the part where you’re outside with the dogs.
Walk it — and the owners see it
A live map draws your route while you log each dog and any incident, and the photos and video you take reach every owner whose dog was on the walk — no texting the same clip to six people, one at a time.
Route optimization that remembers
One tap orders your pickups and drop-offs to keep the driving down — no more working through them in the order they were booked. Nudge any of them by hand, and the order holds for that weekday, week after week.
Every dog’s details, right at the gate
The gate code, who to call, what they’re allergic to — everything you keep on each dog, a tap away when you’re standing at the gate with leashes in one hand.
Your whole schedule, by day or by dog
Recurring walks, daycare, and boarding, plus the one-off when a day’s different. Open a day to see every dog on it, or a dog to see every day it’s booked. Clients can request a day from their side of the app — it lands on your calendar, and nothing is booked until you approve it.
Know who’s paid — and keep every dollar
A twenty at the door, a Venmo for last week, a month up front — it all lands in that dog’s reserve, so you always know who’s paid and who owes. We never touch the money; clients pay you in cash or on your own Venmo or Zelle.
Hands full? Just ask
Ask about your day and Dog Star AI answers — who’s booked, what a dog’s allergic to, who owes you. Ask it to do something and it sets it up: opens the screen, starts the walk, drops a note where you’re standing, drafts the text. You tap once to confirm, so nothing happens by accident.
Getting started
Start with one dog
No setup fees and no required onboarding call — though you can have one for the asking. Add one dog, walk it tomorrow, and fill in the rest of your book whenever you have a spare evening.
Request an invite
Tell us about your walking business — takes a minute. We read every one.
Add a dog
Start with one — its people, schedule and home. Add the rest of your book at your own pace.
Walk, log, get paid
Log your walks, send photos and video to owners, and always know who owes what.
Bring your pack in early
20 spots for San Francisco walkers — that’s how many people I can set up myself. Free for 30 days, then $29.99/mo. Not paying for itself? Every cent back in your first 90 days — no questions asked. Once these spots are gone, StarPaw is $49.99/mo. Yours stays $29.99/mo — it never goes up.
Get early access →No card to request early access — takes a minute.
Dog owner?