📍 Now live in San Francisco
Single and dog-loving? Your dog does the talking.
Dog Lovers is the dating app where your dog breaks the ice — meet other single dog owners at the parks you already walk. No mirror selfies. No job titles. Just dogs, parks, and people who get it.
The app ships soon for iOS and Android — the map is ready today. See how it works ↓
Waffles, 3
Golden Retriever
15 San Francisco dog parks rated — see the full list on the parks page.
- 15
- Parks mapped & rated
- 200 m
- Geofenced check-in
- 3
- Compatibility factors
- 0
- Owner photos required
How it works
Three steps. Zero awkward intros.
Step 1
Put your dog first
Create a profile for your dog — no photo of you required. Bio written in your dog’s voice, so the pressure is off before it starts.
Step 2
Swipe near your park
Set your home park and browse dogs nearby. Play style, energy, and personality tags do the compatibility homework.
Step 3
Match and meet at the park
Match, chat, check in within 200 m of the park, and meet where you both already walk. Casual, low-commitment, with a built-in conversation starter.
Compatibility, explained
A score with a story, not a black box
Every card carries a compatibility score built from three things that predict whether two dogs will actually enjoy the same afternoon — and a one-line story, in your dog’s voice, explaining why.
Play style
Wrestler, chaser, fetcher, tugger, gentle player, independent, swimmer — dogs who play the same way wear each other out happily.
Energy level
A zoomies machine and a professional napper can still be friends — but the score is honest about who sets the pace.
Personality tags
Big softie, social butterfly, old soul, chaos gremlin. Overlapping tags are where the dog-voice story on every card comes from.
Waffles × Biscuit
“Fellow fetch obsessive with big-softie energy? Biscuit and I would like to formally request the big field, one (1) tennis ball each, and absolutely no leaving early.”— Waffles, probably
The Singles Ratings
San Francisco’s most social dog parks
Why Dog Lovers
Built for dog people, not profiles
Park-first, not grid-first
Discovery is anchored to real dog parks — fifteen in San Francisco, mapped on the web. You match with dogs whose owners are actually nearby.
Your dog does the talking
Bios are written in your dog’s voice and prompts are answered as your dog. It’s disarming, it’s honest, and nobody has to perform.
Check in, earn badges, meet up
Check in within 200 m of your park (enforced server-side, with an opt-in auto check-in), earn park badges, and see who is actually there — not just who is online.
Built for in-person trust
Moderated profiles, verified dog-first photos, report/block/mute controls, and real privacy — including account erasure on request.
More than a swipe
A park community, not just a feed
Matching is the beginning. The park is where it turns into regulars you know by (dog) name.
Park events
Pack walks, breed meetups, and park socials with RSVPs — the community layer a swipe feed can’t give you.
Playdates
Turn a good chat into a plan: propose a time and park, and share it like a calendar invite.
Play invitations
Spotted a regular at your park? Invite their dog to play — low-pressure, dog-first, easy to say yes to.
Super Bark & rewind
A Super Bark says “our dogs simply must meet.” Swiped past a future best friend? Rewind brings them back.
Multi-dog households
Up to ten dog profiles under one account, with one active dog at a time. The whole pack is welcome.
Badges with personality
Early Bird, Regular, Birthday Pup and more — earned by showing up at real parks, not by swiping more.
The first date, minus the dread
How a first park date goes
- 4:58 PM
You check in at your home park. Biscuit’s owner sees Waffles is actually here — not “online,” here — and heads over.
- 5:07 PM
The dogs do the introductions. You talk about fetch strategy, the mud situation, whose dog just stole whose ball. Zero “so… what do you do?”
- 5:45 PM
Two tired dogs, one earned badge, and a playdate proposed for Saturday. If it hadn’t clicked? It was still a great walk.
An illustrative afternoon — outcomes vary, good walks guaranteed either way.
Trust & safety
Built to get you off the app
and into the park — safely
Verified dog-first photos
On-device ML checks every photo; humans review everything uncertain before it publishes.
No owner photo required
Your face, job, and height are not the product. Share more only when you choose to.
Block, mute, report
One tap away on every profile and chat, with a real moderation team behind the queue.
Erasure that erases
Delete your account and your photos and data are purged — not just hidden.
Questions
Fair questions
Is it live?+
San Francisco parks are mapped and rated right now on the web. The iOS and Android apps ship soon — join the waitlist and we’ll email you the moment they’re out.
Do I have to post a photo of myself?+
No. Your dog’s photo is the profile photo. Owners can appear in secondary photos only — never as the primary. The app’s ML and human moderation keep it that way.
How does matching work?+
Pick your home park, then swipe on dogs nearby. You get a compatibility score built from play style, energy, and personality tags. A mutual like opens a chat.
What does the Singles Rating mean?+
Each park is scored 0–10 for meeting other singles. The score is informed by neighborhood demographics from US Census marriage data, not just a vibe check.
Is it free?+
Free during early access. We’d rather prove the park community works in one city than squeeze a swipe meter.
What about privacy and safety?+
Block, mute, and report are one tap away everywhere. Photos are dog-detected before publishing, a human queue reviews the edge cases, and account erasure deletes your data on request.
I have more than one dog. Can they all join?+
Yes — up to ten dog profiles under one account. You pick one active dog at a time for swiping and check-ins, and you can switch whenever the other one gives you the look.
What is a Super Bark?+
A Super Bark is a standout like: it tells the other owner your dogs simply must meet. They’re limited per account so they stay meaningful — and if you swipe past someone by mistake, rewind brings them back.
How do park events and playdates work?+
Parks host events — pack walks, breed meetups, socials — with RSVPs. Once you’ve matched, you can propose a playdate at a specific park and time, or send a play invitation to a dog you’ve spotted at your home park.
How do you know the primary photo is really a dog?+
Every photo is checked by an on-device dog-detection model before it can publish. Anything the model is unsure about goes to a human moderation queue. Owners can appear in secondary photos, never as the primary.
I’m not in San Francisco. When do you launch near me?+
We’re proving one home-park community at a time rather than launching everywhere thin. Join the waitlist with your city — it genuinely decides where we map parks next.
Be first in your park
Join the waitlist and we’ll let you know when Dog Lovers opens near you.