Dog people

A dating app for dog lovers, where the dog is on the card.

Not a dating app with a dog filter. A dating app where your dog's card comes first, matches are scored on how the dogs would get along, and the first date is planned around a walk.

The problem with dog people on normal apps

Every third profile has a dog in it and none of them tell you what you need to know: is that dog easy with other dogs, is it a four-walks-a-day dog or a couch dog, and does this person's whole schedule bend around it the way yours does. You find out by asking, or by turning up at a park with two dogs that hate each other.

What Attune does instead

The dog is the card. Name, breed or type, age, energy, size, temperament, and whether it is good with dogs and cats. The human is the small circle; tap through when the dog has your interest.

A score you can read. Two dogs get a compatibility number, and the number comes with its reasons: "both high-energy, both large, both easy with other dogs." When it is low, the reasons say why, and sometimes that is the useful part.

Lock in. When you want to focus on one person, propose a lock. If they accept, you both stop browsing and talk only to each other. It is free, it is mutual, and it ends on its own after three quiet days so nobody is stuck.

A first date the dog can come to. Our Kansas City guide lists the patios, breweries and off-leash parks where a two-dog first date actually works.

For every kind of dog person

• High-energy dogs (huskies, vizslas, shepherds, collies): you match best with people who are outside every day. The score says so.
• Companion dogs (frenchies, cavaliers, shih tzus): patio people, city people, slow-Sunday people.
• Reactive or selective dogs: say it on the card. You will match with calm households and with people who do not have a pet, and nobody will suggest Bar K for the first date.
• Rescues with a history: the card has room for what your dog needs from new people. The right match will read it.

Browse dating by breed for what people with your breed are like to date, and which dogs would get along with yours.

Also for cat people and the no-pet-yet crowd

Attune is not dog-only. Cats get equal treatment, and people without a pet can join by saying what they are open to. A dog person and a cat person can see, before the first message, whether their animals could ever share a hallway.