A dog barking monitor for when you're out

Does your dog bark all afternoon, or do the neighbors have it wrong? Leave a spare iPhone or iPad at home with Bokedex listening. You'll see every barking episode on your own phone, with short clips and an alert if it keeps going.

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Bokedex Home monitor: the start button, the living room iPad listening at 92% battery, 5 barks today, 1 min 20 s of barking, 1 alert, and today's timeline.

How it works

Three steps.

Set up the spare phone

On the device that stays home, open Home monitor, choose Use this iPhone as the monitor and tap Start listening. Plug it in for long days.
Head out

It keeps listening with the screen locked. Speech, TV chatter and other sounds are dropped; only moments with a dog are kept.
Check in from anywhere

Your own phone, signed in to the same Apple Account, shows the timeline and gets an alert if barking goes on.

What you see on your phone

Timeline: Each barking episode with its time, length and kind of bark, like alert or attention.
Excitement: How worked up your dog sounded: calm, engaged or very excited.
Clips: Turn them on to keep a 6-second clip of each episode and hear it for yourself.
Totals: Barks today, total barking time and alerts sent.
Monitor status: Which device is listening, its battery level and when it last checked in.

Alerts that don't flood you

Choose when to hear about it: after 30 seconds, 1 minute or 2 minutes of barking within five minutes, or turn alerts off. You'll get at most one alert every 15 minutes, and none while you're looking at the monitor. The alert tells you your dog's name and how long the barking lasted.

Built for a phone on a shelf

The monitor checks in every 15 minutes, so if it goes quiet for about 40 minutes, your phone shows that it may have stopped. You also see its battery level, so you know when to plug it in.

Private by design

Barks sync through your own private iCloud database. There's no Bokedex server, and we can't see or hear anything. Without iCloud, the monitor still works and keeps the timeline on the home device. Episodes and clips are deleted after 7 days.

Using what you find

Barking that clusters in the first minutes after you leave is worth a closer look. Bokedex's Quiet at home and Separation distress plans start there, and a vet or behavior professional can help when it's panic rather than boredom.

What it can't do. It hears the room it's in, so put it where your dog spends the day. It's audio only, not a camera, and a dog barking on TV can sound like a real one.

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