Rover - Dog Boarding & Walking

Rover.com

About this app

Rover is the #1 pet sitting and dog walking app. Get trusted pet care in your neighborhood.


The Rover app was created for dog people by The Dog PeopleTM. Through the app, get adorable photo updates, GPS tracking of your dog’s walk, an easy way to message sitters or manage your business, and a secure way to book and pay.


With over 100,000 pet sitters and dog walkers in the U.S. and Canada, Rover makes it easy to book pet care you can trust.


PEACE OF MIND
• 95% of reviewed services receive a perfect 5-star rating.
• Every service booked on Rover is backed by The Rover Guarantee and 24/7 support.


FAST & EASY
• Contact and message sitters and dog walkers, right from the app. Receive messages from sitters when you're on the go.
• Hassle-free and secure payments, every time.
• Get a map of your dog's walk, pee/poo and food/water alerts, and a personalized note from your sitter or dog walker.


FOR PET SITTERS AND DOG WALKERS, TOO
• Send photos, videos, and messages to pet owners with just a few taps.
• Get paid on the go—it’s simple and secure with the Rover app.
• Seamlessly manage your business, even if you're at the dog park.
• Enable push notifications to respond faster than ever to booking requests.
• Create Rover Cards to seamlessly share information with your clients.


IN THE PRESS
Rover has appeared in:
• The New York Times
• The Today Show
• The Wall Street Journal
• USA Today
• ABC News
• And many more!

Ratings and reviews

The concept is good and, when I can find a sitter, it's great! The problem is that the availability thing doesn't work very well. The app will let me send a request to someone for the morning who is available only in afternoons. It would be so much easier for me to find someone if matches by available time windows was a thing

I really do not like how the note function has been changed during the most recent update. I can no longer write separate paragraphs in the field intended for this. Also, the spelling and grammar check function doesn't want to actually work in this field, either. I know not all of your sitters use this function, but I most certainly do. I much rather would've had a timer added to the screen for the bookings in progress and to your progress bar than this UI change.

As a sitter, it's only okay at best. 20% is a huge cut for a service most already can't charge a truly fair rate for. There's also no way to upcharge for more complicated cases. My biggest complaint has to be that Rover keeps changing my rates. I've gone in and changed each individual option, yet I'll receive a request for one that's at a rate lower than what I selected, and of course, the owner wants that rate so I honor it and change it again, hoping it will actually stay at the rates I set.

What's new

Rover is always working on performance improvements and bug fixes (nobody likes fleas) to keep your experience bright-eyed and bushy-tailed.