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Researched the pet-care space for months, built an app to fill the biggest gap, now live on the App Store — feedback wanted

Over the last few months I researched the pet-care space — reading owner forums, app reviews, and the vet-visit complaints that come up again and again. One problem showed up everywhere: owners have no single place for their pet's health.

Vaccine dates, meds, weight, vet records — it's scattered across photos, notes, and paper cards, and it all falls apart at the vet's office ("when was the last rabies shot?" 😅). The existing apps were either bloated, subscription-walled, or vet oriented (which makes sense) — And honestly? I hated the UX , except a few (being honest here😅).

So I built Tavi to fill that gap. It's now live on the App Store 🎉

✨ What it does:

  • 📅 Auto-builds a vaccine + care schedule per pet, so owners see what's due instead of guessing
  • 📸 Scan a vaccination certificate → it pulls the details in, no manual typing
  • 📈 Log weight, meds and symptoms with history and trends over time
  • 🐶🐱 Multiple pets, each with its own profile
  • 📄 Export a vet-ready PDF to bring to appointments
  • 🔔 Reminders for boosters and care tasks
  • 💸 A pet expense tracker — and a lot more

🆓 One pet, completely free for life, and it works offline. There are feedback + support channels built right into the app, so anything reported reaches me directly — and we've got a team ready to dive in. iOS is live now; Android is in closed testing.

🙏 I'd love your honest take — pet owners and anyone else welcome:

  • Would you actually use this? 👀
  • What's the first thing you'd want it to do?
  • Anything that felt confusing or off?

📱 App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tavi-pet-health/id6795540956
🌐 Site: https://tavi.pet

on August 18, 2026
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    I do not own a pet, so I will leave your first two questions to people who do and take the third one. I looked at the listing rather than the app, because that is my corner.

    Your name and subtitle share no words, which is right and which almost nobody gets right. "Pet Health, Dog Training: Tavi" plus "Cat Care & Vet Records, Puppy" covers dog, cat, vet, training, records and puppy without spending a character twice. Apple indexes a word once, so duplication buys nothing, and you avoided it.

    The subtitle does read as if it got cut off though. It ends on "Puppy" with nothing after it. That trailing word is still indexed, so you have not lost search value, but the subtitle is also the second line a human reads under your icon, and on an app with no ratings yet it is one of the few things carrying trust. A phrase that ends cleanly and holds the same terms would cost you nothing.

    One thing for when Android opens up: Play indexes the full description and has no hidden keyword field, so the copy that earns its keep on iOS does not transfer. That catches people who ship one listing to both stores.

    I have put your listing into our own system to look at it properly, which means pulling the terms it currently ranks for and the search demand behind them. That takes about a day. If it is useful to you I will come back on this thread with what it shows, no strings.

    I work on ASOScan, so treat that as a bias.

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    The combination of certificate scanning, longitudinal health records, and vet-ready exports makes this more than a simple reminder app. I’m curious which of those use cases is getting the strongest response from early users.

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      Thanks Aryan — that framing is exactly what I was going for, so it's good to hear it read that way.

      Honest answer: it's only been live a few days, so I'm reading signal from conversations and early testers more than hard numbers yet. But the split so far is pretty clear:

      • Vet-ready records + export pull the hardest. The most repeated frustration I heard across months of research was people sitting in the exam room trying to remember the last vaccine or dewormer date. Being able to hand the vet a clean history in one tap is the thing that makes people go "oh, I actually need this."

      • Certificate scanning is the unlock, not the hook. Nobody wakes up wanting to scan a certificate — but it kills the "do I really have to type all this in?" barrier at setup, and setup is where most pet apps quietly lose people.

      • Longitudinal trends are a slow burn. People value the weight/health charts once they've logged a few weeks, less so on day one.

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        That’s a pretty clear separation between the hook, the activation mechanism, and the longer-term value. I’d be interested in hearing what you learn as the sample gets larger — what’s the best email to reach you at?

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          Hey you can reach out to me at hello@tavi.pet

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            Thanks! I’ve just sent it over.

            Looking forward to hearing your thoughts whenever you have a chance.