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For households with more than one pet

One app for the
whole furry family.

Every pet gets its own health record, food plan, expense list and document folder — vet visits, vaccinations, medications and allergies included, each with its own due-date reminder. An emergency card pulls it all together automatically for the one time you actually need it. Nothing about your pets is stored anywhere but your own phone.

Free, for as many pets as you have. Works offline. Not a substitute for veterinary advice.

Mixed Paws home screen with three pets, a dog called Biscuit, a cat called Pickles and a rabbit called Nugget, under reminders for a course of hairball paste ending, a C5 booster and a vet follow-up, with a Dog-friendly places button

What it does

The parts of pet ownership that usually live in a vet folder, a phone album and your memory.

A look inside

Real screens from Mixed Paws. Every pet, person, vet and number on them is made up.

Dashboard for Biscuit, a 4-year-old mixed breed dog, with two reminders, an Emergency card button, and one-tap Fed, Walked and Meds given buttons above today's log: fed at 7:10 am and two walks
Every pet's dashboard, one tap from Home
Health screen for Biscuit with the vet's after-hours notes, above tiles for vet visits, vaccinations, medications, flea, tick and worming, allergies and weight, with due dots on vet visits and vaccinations
Health hub: vet contact, visits, vaccinations, meds and allergies
Expenses screen showing $608.40 for this year, with bars for vet, food, boarding, grooming, insurance and toys and accessories, above the form for adding an expense with Today and Yesterday buttons
Expenses, tracked by category
Emergency card for Biscuit showing a placeholder microchip number, his council registration, allergies to chicken and flea bites, a daily joint chew, the vet's details and two emergency contacts, with a link to toxic foods and poisons
An emergency card built from what you've already entered
Favourite people screen listing Jo Example the pet sitter, Sample Grooming Co the groomer and Example After-Hours Vet, with the sitter and after-hours vet marked as emergency contacts
Sitters, groomers and emergency contacts, one tap away

How it works

  1. Add a pet

    Name, species, breed, date of birth. That's enough to start — everything else can wait.

  2. Fill in what you know

    Vet contact, current food, people who can be called. Add the rest as it comes up.

  3. Check in as you go

    Log a vet visit, a vaccination, a walk, an expense — whichever hub fits, in a couple of taps.

  4. Reach for the emergency card

    Everything that matters in a hurry, already assembled, ready to show or send.

Pricing

Mixed Paws is free, for every pet in the house. There's no trial, no subscription and nothing to buy.

Mixed Paws

Free every feature

As many pets as you have, on as many of your devices as you like: health records, food, expenses, photos, the emergency card and reports. No card and no sign-up.

How it's free

Our other apps a banner along the bottom

A small banner along the bottom shows Idle Ideas' other apps, one at a time. It's built into the app: no ad network and nothing tracked. It never shows on the emergency card.

Where your data lives

  • Every pet's records are stored in your browser on your device
  • Photos and documents stay on the device too, never uploaded
  • There is no account, no database and no sign-in
  • The only thing it fetches is your state's off-leash parks list, from idleideas.com.au — never your location
  • The banner of our other apps is part of the app and fetches nothing. A tap goes through idleideas.com.au, which counts which app it came from and went to (nothing about you), then opens that app's page
  • Export makes a full backup file you keep wherever you like

What it isn't

  • A cloud service. Nothing syncs between devices; move data with Export and Import.
  • A substitute for veterinary care — the emergency card is a quick reference, not medical advice
  • Pet insurance, or a vet's own records system
  • Something that charges you. It's free, with no trial to run out and no card to give

Put it on your phone

Mixed Paws is a web app that installs like a normal app. No app store needed, and it works with no signal.

iPhone or iPad

  1. Open Mixed Paws in Safari.
  2. Tap the Share button at the bottom.
  3. Choose Add to Home Screen, then Add.

Android

  1. Open Mixed Paws in Chrome.
  2. Tap the three-dot menu.
  3. Choose Add to Home screen or Install app.

Laptop or desktop

  1. Open Mixed Paws in Chrome or Edge.
  2. Click the install icon at the right of the address bar.
  3. It opens in its own window from then on.

Help sheets

Step-by-step sheets with a picture for every step, for iPhone, iPad and Android. Print them, or keep them on the phone.

Put Mixed Paws on your phone

Six steps for Android, then six for iPhone and iPad, from opening the browser to Mixed Paws's icon on your Home screen.

Open the sheet

PDF, two A4 pages, 443 KB.

Backups: make one, load one

Page one emails a backup to yourself or family. Page two puts it back, on the same phone or a new one.

Open the sheets

PDF, two A4 pages, 383 KB.

Questions

Does it work with no signal?

Yes. Once it's installed it runs fully offline — the whole app and all your data are already on the device. You only need a connection to open it the very first time.

What does it cost?

Nothing. Every feature, for as many pets as you have, with no trial and nothing to buy. A small banner along the bottom of the app shows our other apps, one at a time; that's how it pays its way. It doesn't track you.

Is the emergency card medical advice?

No. It's a fast reference — allergies, medications, vet contact, the people to call — pulled from what you've already entered, so you're not hunting for it under pressure. It doesn't replace calling your vet.

What happens if I lose my phone?

Your data was only on that phone, so you'd restore from your last Export file. Make one whenever you've added a lot — it's a single file you can keep in email, Drive or iCloud.

Can I show the vet my pet's history?

Yes — the per-pet PDF or CSV care report lays out vet visits, vaccinations, medications, allergies, expenses, weight and activity as one dated timeline, ready to print or send ahead.

Mixed Paws is free to use now.

Open it on your phone, put it on your Home Screen, then add your first pet.

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