Make an app
Make a pet care app for iPhone
A pet care app is a shared memory for everyone who looks after an animal. Describe your pets and Borel builds a native iPhone app in Swift: a profile per pet, feeding and walks, vaccine and vet dates with reminders, a weight chart and a photo diary, with an option to share it all with your household.
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“A pet care app: each pet has a name, photo, species, birthday and vet. Log meals, walks and medicine with one tap each. Vet visits and vaccines have dates and a reminder a week before. A weight chart shows the last year. A diary keeps photos and notes.”
Screens
What a pet care app needs
The screens Borel builds from the prompt above. Ask for more, fewer or different ones.
Pets
A card per pet with its photo, age and what's due next.
Today
Meals, walks and medicine as buttons, with who did what and when.
Vet log
Vet visits, vaccines and weights, with upcoming dates on top.
Diary
Photos and short notes, newest first.
Data
What it keeps
Borel writes these as Swift models. On the phone they work with no connection; in Borel's cloud they follow a signed-in person.
| What | Holds | Kept |
|---|---|---|
| Pet | Name, species, birthday, photo, vet's number | On the phone, with SwiftData |
| Care event | Pet, kind (meal, walk, medicine), time | On the phone, with SwiftData |
| Vet record | Date, reason, vaccine, next due date | On the phone, with the pet |
| Weight | Pet, date, kilograms | On the phone, with the pet |
Native iPhone features
What it can use on your iPhone
Written in Swift with Apple's own frameworks, so they work the way iPhone owners expect.
- Reminders and notificationsA reminder a week before a vaccine is due, and daily medicine times.How Borel builds it
- ChartsYour pet's weight over the last year as a line.How Borel builds it
- ContactsThe vet and the pet sitter picked from your contacts, one tap to call.How Borel builds it
- Maps and locationMark where a walk started, or the dog park you like, on a map.How Borel builds it
Make it yours
What to ask for next
Once the first version runs, ask for changes in the chat, in words like these.
- “Show how long since the last walk in big numbers.”
- “Add a page for the pet sitter with feeding instructions.”
- “Let the whole family log walks and see who did the last one.”
How to make it
From a prompt to your iPhone and the App Store
- 1
Describe it
Paste the prompt on this page into Borel, or write your own in plain words. Borel plans the screens with you before it builds.
- 2
Try it in your browser
Borel writes the app in Swift and SwiftUI, builds it with Xcode on its own Mac and opens it in a live iPhone simulator in your browser, free.
- 3
Put it on your iPhone
With Pro, Borel Companion for Windows or Mac installs it on your own iPhone with your Apple ID: a cable the first time, then Wi-Fi.
- 4
Publish it when it's ready
Pro publishes to the App Store from the same project. Apple's Developer Program, $99 a year, is the one thing you pay Apple.
Log a real day of feeding and walks on your iPhone. Check that the buttons work while holding a lead, that the vet's number dials when tapped, and that a medicine reminder arrives at the right time.
Dog walkers, groomers and shelters can publish an app for their clients. Accounts in Borel's cloud keep each client's pets separate, and Borel adds the account deletion row Apple requires.
Building starts free, with 5 free credits a day, up to 30 a month, and the simulator in your browser costs nothing. Pro, from $20 a month, adds installs on your own iPhone through Borel Companion and publishing to the App Store.
Before you start
Good to know
- It doesn't track a pet's location with a GPS collar or tag.
- It doesn't book vet appointments; it keeps the dates you enter.
Frequently asked questions
Yes. Describe what you log, and Borel builds one-tap buttons for each with a history per pet.
Yes. Each vaccine gets a next due date, and the iPhone reminds you as far ahead as you choose.
Yes. With accounts in Borel's cloud, everyone logs to the same pets and sees who did the last walk, once the app is on the App Store for them.
Yes. Each pet has its own profile, care log, vet records and diary.
Make your pet care app
Start from the prompt on this page, change it to fit your idea, and Borel builds it while you watch.