For dogs and cats with heart disease, the sleeping breathing rate is the earliest warning sign. PawBeat makes the daily count effortless - silent, one-handed, in the dark - now with an overnight Night Log that confirms coughs and a Symptom Radar that reads your logs together.
For pets with MVD, DCM, HCM or CHF, a rising sleeping breathing rate often shows up before any visible symptom. Vets prescribe a daily count for exactly that reason.
Your pet is finally asleep, the lights are off, and you are counting breaths against a phone stopwatch. PawBeat is a silent tap counter that works one-handed in the dark and never loses a reading.
"It seemed faster lately" is hard to act on. A clean chart against the target your vet set - plus meds, episodes and weight - makes the next appointment count.
Tap along with each breath; PawBeat computes breaths per minute. Or prop the phone up and camera assist shows a live breathing meter - all on-device. Works in the dark, auto-saves if interrupted, and counts from your Apple Watch, a widget or Siri.
Leave the phone by the bed and tap start. PawBeat keeps a two-second clip of any sound that stands out; in the morning you confirm which were coughs. Audio is analysed as it arrives and never written down, the last 14 nights stay on your phone, and nothing is uploaded.
PawBeat reads several logs at once and names the patterns they make together - weight and breathing rising in the same week, coughing clustering at night. Each card shows the exact readings behind it. It surfaces your data; your vet decides.
For the stiff ones too: a one-minute weekly check for older dogs, with Librela and Adequan cycles charted against the scores and short walking clips your vet can watch.
Set the target your vet gave you (default 30/min). Two consecutive sleeping readings above it triggers an alert with a one-tap call button.
Daily checklist for furosemide, pimobendan and the rest - with reminders and med-change markers on your charts.
Record coughing or fainting episodes with severity and an optional video for your vet. Videos never leave your phone.
Track weight and simple QoL scores - the context your vet weighs alongside the breathing trend.
A one-page report: breathing chart with target line, med compliance, episodes and weight - plus a monthly AI summary for your vet.
One screen to hand over at the clinic: medications with their last doses, the week's chart, last night's confirmed coughs, and the numbers to call. It works with no signal, so a basement consult room does not leave you scrolling.
When something feels wrong at 2am, a short checklist walks you through what to look at and ends with a clear next step, instead of the search-engine spiral that leaves you more frightened and no better informed.
Tap any reading to find out what that number means tonight, not in general. History is searchable too: filter by type, pick a date range, and a day's doses collapse to a single line.
PawBeat has no ads, no analytics and no location tracking. Readings and meds sync through your own private iCloud; episode videos and Night Log audio never leave your phone at all. The monthly AI brief sends only a summary of readings (never video, never audio) to our AI service, then discards it.
Episode videos and Night Log audio are never uploaded - not even to iCloud.
Readings sync in your Apple account, not our servers.
Privacy is the point, not the price.
For dogs and cats with heart disease, a rising sleeping respiratory rate is one of the earliest signs of fluid building up in the lungs. Catching the trend early - usually above about 30 breaths per minute - is exactly what your vet wants to know.
Wait until your pet is fully asleep, then tap once per breath (one rise and fall of the chest). PawBeat computes breaths per minute and saves the reading automatically - silently, so your pet stays asleep.
The Night Log listens while your pet sleeps and keeps only a two-second clip of any sound that stands out. Sound is analysed as it arrives and never written down otherwise, only the short clips you review are saved, they stay on your phone, the last 14 nights are kept, and nothing is ever uploaded. In the morning you play each clip and confirm which were coughs, so the count your vet sees is one you verified.
Symptom Radar reads several of your logs at once and names the patterns they make together, such as weight and breathing rising in the same week or coughing clustering at night. Every card shows the exact readings behind it. It surfaces your own data for you to discuss with your vet and never diagnoses.
No. PawBeat records your own observations and surfaces them against the target your vet set. Diagnosis and treatment decisions always belong to your veterinarian - and if your pet is in distress, contact a vet immediately.
PawBeat is available now on the App Store - just tap "Download on the App Store" above.
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