Barking Dog Monitor & Control for Android

Has great potential but the microphone setting is so sensitive there is no noticeable difference between the sound of the dogs walking around and the sound of them barking. Makes this app worthless. What they don't tell you in the App Store is that in order to gain access to control the mic sensitivity and other vital features you have to pay ANOTHER $10. What a scam.

5 stars, great app. I thought about trying my own RaspberryPi integration, but this app did it for $4. I use an older Mobile, but I can still record a full 8 hours easy. The UI is funny, and I'm glad more time was spent making it functional versus pretty.

While the description says that the initial purchase includes everything needed to monitor and control barking, features are limited. No threshold option, very limited ability to play a noise in response to a bark. Also silly to limit tone to sonic range, maxing out at 25 kHz

This app quite literally lowered my family's stress level and saved our sanity! We have a "difficult" neighbor, who has a history of being overly sensitive to normal neighborhood noises, and complaining about every little thing. The previous homeowners were harassed by her, and the moment we moved in, she began complaining to us. We adopted a dog at Christmas time, and within just a couple weeks she contacted us complaining, and notified us that his barking is "disturbing" and she had begun recording him (I assume to file a complaint since she she told us the first time we spoke to her after moving in that she recorded the previous neighbors in order to take them to "litigation"). Due to excessive rains for the first several weeks we had our dog we weren't even able to let him outside for extended periods of time, so I knew her complaints where unfounded, and we've been very careful to check with all our neighbors, look into the laws and not only be respectful neighbors, but have been overly cautious because we knew her history. So we felt we needed to protect ourselves in case she decided to file a complaint. We started by writing down every time our dog barked, and for how long. But that not only became tedious, but incredibly stressful, always feeling like we needed to be "on alert" to record a bark. And that didn't solve the problem of when we weren't home. Thankfully we found this app! It has quite literally lowered our stress level and saved our sanity knowing that we can sit back and enjoy our dog not just listen and be ready to record any barks he may periodically let out. My only complaint would be on my Mobile 3 (running the latest iOS) the app periodically either freezes or crashes and I end up losing all or a portion of the recording time I thought it was running. I also would love if we could somehow have the feature of the app to "ignore" a certain sound frequency/pattern, or ONLY recognize a certain pattern as barking from your dog. The app is set up in such a way that my chicken's noises, our voices, and neighbors' dogs show differently with different colors/patterns. We have found that while looking at the app I can recognize those are not our dog barking, the app doesn't make that distinction in real time, thus triggering the recorded verbal warning & praise (and then email alerts to barking detected). At this time the recorded verbal correction seems to be effective for him. But there are several times where it goes off due to other sounds, and he's just laying down doing nothing at the time and jumps up confused why he's receiving a correction. I'm concerned that those recorded corrections will become ineffective if they continue going off when he isn't barking. Thanks again for this app!

Awesome app! Worked exactly as described and definitively made training my dog easier and quicker.