Wildly inaccurate GPS, tiny bit buggy

First, there’s a lot to like in this app. It uses the real vet formula to give you a more accurate estimate of your dogs daily caloric needs (none of the 2% bodyweight junk). The meal tracker needs some polishing, but it works okay with just a few bugs. I’ve been keeping track of my dog’s calorie intake with Soulver, but this app makes things much easier.

The biggest problem is that the makers advertised it as ‘run keeper for dogs.’ It’s definitely not. The GPS is wildly inaccurate. A known 5.5 mile run showed up as a 3.4 mile run. Map My Run and RunKeeper both have little trouble getting an accurate distance and pace and giving me an accurate route map. SlimDoggy’s route map was just a mess of jagged lines criss-crossing my running route. Bad SlimDoggy! You can manually add workouts, but the extremely poor GPS performance still looses it a star.

The rest of the app isn’t really intuitive to use. It took some fiddling to figure out how to add foods. They have lots of foods already loaded on the app, but the names of the food get cut off after a certain length. My dog’s food has a long name, so I had to manually enter it into the database with a shortened name. Also, trying to adjust the amount of food you’ve fed your dog in the app is buggy. It frequently will double add food, or just lose track of all the food I’d fed him that day and I have to re-enter everything. So the app loses another star.

There’s ALOT of potential in this app. I’ll keep using it and hope it gets better.

Aonosna about SlimDoggy