What's new

Prepaid walks, a What’s new sheet in the app, and dogs who leave the household keep their history.

For owners

• When a dog leaves your household, you now mark them as moved on instead of deleting them — passed away, found a new home, moved with someone else, or another reason. Their page, photos and past walks all stay. Upcoming walks that were just for them are cancelled, and your walker hears about it right away.
• Tapping your walker's time-off banner now opens the full list on the first try instead of a blank sheet.
• After removing a dog you land back on Home, not on a dead end.
• If your walker turns on prepaid walks, Home shows how many walks you have left with them, and tapping it opens the full history. You still pay your walker directly, outside the app — Sidewalk only keeps the count.

For walkers

• The sheet for merging a client into an existing household now opens on the first try instead of blank.
• When an owner marks a dog as moved on, you're notified, the dog drops off any upcoming walks, and the walks you still have with other dogs carry on unchanged.
• Prepaid walks: turn it on in Settings, then add the walks a client has paid you for from their page. Every completed walk takes one off, the owner sees the balance on their Home and gets a notification when you add more. It's off until you switch it on, and a low balance never blocks a walk.

For everyone

• This What’s new now also shows in the app: once, the first time you open a new version, and any time from the App version row in Settings.
• Push notification switches have moved to their own Notifications screen under Settings.
• The website now lives at sidewalk.dog, and this page is where every update gets written up.

A round of fixes and small features straight from walker feedback.

For owners

• Your walker's upcoming time off now shows at the top of your schedule, with the full list of days they'll be away.
• You can take your dog off a single upcoming walk yourself. Your walker is notified right away, and you can hold to undo if you change your mind.

For walkers

• Your schedule is anchored to your home time zone, so walks stay on the right day no matter where you or your phone happen to be.
• Each time-off card has a one-tap reminder that gives the owners you walk for a heads-up before you're away.
• On Android, the sheet for adding a new household now scrolls above the keyboard instead of hiding behind it.

For everyone

• The distance on a shared walk summary no longer drops the last few steps after the walk ends.

Sidewalk is live on the App Store. Here's what shipped with it and in the weeks leading up to it.

Getting started

• Sign up as a walker or an owner the moment you open the app. No waitlist, no invite, no approval step.
• Walkers and owners link up by email: one side sends a request, the other confirms, and the household appears on both schedules.
• Walkers can set up a household before the owner has the app. When the owner signs up they claim it — and if they'd already made their own, the two merge into one.

For owners

• Message your walker directly inside the app, in one thread for your whole household.
• Every walker has a profile with their photo and details, so you know who's at the door.

For walkers

• Block out time off, and Sidewalk nudges you a week and a day before it starts so nobody is caught off guard.
• Share a finished walk with a link. Anyone can open it — route, distance, time, photos — no account needed.

For everyone

• Sidewalk is on the App Store for iPhone. Android is on the way.