Safer, happier dog walks.

Remember the friendly porch, the water bowl, and the spot to give a little space. Save your discoveries, leave a timely sighting, and keep a record of the walks that make a neighborhood yours.

Open the web app Phone apps

No ads. No subscription. Private notes to start. The web app is free; the phone apps are $1, once.

Leash Lookout on a phone: the active sightings list with a loose dog and a coyote report, each with the time left before it fades

For the walker

A notebook for the loop you walk every day, house by house — wherever that loop is.

Stickers on every house

Friendly dog, water bowl, shady stretch, loose dog, keep off — tap a house and tag it, with a dated note you'll see next time. Private by default; share any note with neighbors when you want to.

Alerts that expire

Coyote, snake, skunk or loose dog? One tap drops a time-stamped pin where you stand. It fades out by itself — 4 hours by default, never more than a day — so the map shows what's current, not last spring. Something that stays, like broken glass, can be marked as a lasting hazard.

Heads-up on the move

Within about 200 feet of a flagged house, a lasting hazard or a fresh sighting, the app nudges you. Record each walk's distance, time, pace and route, kept on your device, with weekly and monthly totals. The phone apps keep recording with the phone in your pocket.

Any neighborhood

Add your area once — about a megabyte of house positions and addresses from OpenStreetMap — and every house around you becomes tappable, even without a signal. Shared notes, live walkers and the chat are local to roughly 15 km around you.

Help when it matters

Find emergency vets, clinics, groomers, parks and trails, with call and directions links where available. Orange County places are built in; other areas load from OpenStreetMap. Call to confirm hours and availability.

Walk together

Switch on live sharing and neighbors see your dot while your walk is recording — and only then. See who's out right now and say hi in the walk chat; messages leave the chat view after a day. Share a sighting or a favorite spot as a link neighbors can open in any browser.

Works your way

Light or dark, miles or kilometers, larger text, keyboard-friendly, and offline once it has loaded. Back up your notes any time as JSON, KML or CSV; nothing is locked in.

Private by default

Sharing is a switch, never a default. Your route never leaves your phone, live sharing stops the moment you end a walk, and anything unkind can be reported or hidden with one tap.

For the people who live here

Your house gets a voice. Post a resident notice and every walker sees it the moment they tap your house — and gets a gentle heads-up as they pass.

🐶 Friendly dog here — say hi🌱 Please keep dogs off the lawn💧 Water bowl available😬 Our dog is nervous — give space

Our golden loves visitors — but please keep dogs off the new grass.

Posted by the resident · shown without a name

A little guidance goes a long way

Open your house on the map and choose “I live here” to add a resident notice. A distance check helps place the notice; it does not verify ownership or residence. Keep the message about the place and what helps on the walk.

What makes it different

Two-way. Walkers note what they see; residents say what they'd like. Resident notices add another perspective to the map.
Company on the walk. See which neighbors are out right now (only those who chose to share) and talk in a walk chat whose messages leave the view after a day.
The emergency list you hope you never need. 24-hour and after-hours animal ERs sorted by distance, one tap to call — no searching while your dog is hurt.
Nothing goes stale. Sightings have a shelf life you choose, from one hour to a day, so a warning never outlives the coyote.
Your notes stay yours. Everything starts private. Sharing is a switch on each note, and anything unkind can be reported or hidden with one tap.
Honest pricing. One dollar, once, for the phone apps. No subscription, no ads, no selling of data, and live sharing stays off until you choose it. Recorded routes stay on your device.
Made by a neighbor. Born on the streets of Chandler Ranch in Orange, California, by someone who walks them every day — and built to work on yours.

A look inside

The same app on a phone and on a big screen: your notebook beside the map, with quick access to places, sightings and walks.

The phone map with house outlines, a friendly-house sticker, a caution sticker, two sighting pins and the Start walk, Add note and Report buttons

The desktop web app: the notebook sidebar with saved places and active sightings beside the neighborhood map

Get it

One notebook, three ways to open it. Sign in on any of them and your notes follow you.

Web app

Free, installs to your home screen from the browser, and works offline once it has loaded. In a browser, keep the app open while recording a walk.

Open leashlookout.netlify.app/app

Android

Now on Google Play for Android phones and tablets (Android 7 or later): $1, once, with no ads and no subscription. Records walks with the phone in your pocket.

Get it on Google Play

iPhone

Now on the App Store for iPhone and iPad (iOS 15 or later): $1, once, with no ads and no subscription.

Get it on the App Store

Questions, ideas or a neighborhood to add? Write to pkmdinc@gmail.com.