Point your phone at your dog, cat, rabbit, bird or reptile. PetLumen runs species-appropriate photo and video checks for early signs of illness, tracks changes over time, and hands your vet a report they can actually use. Free 3-tap urgency checker, no signup.
Hey Product Hunt! I'm Michael, and I built PetLumen because of my golden retriever, Oliver.
Like most pet owners, I've had the 9pm panic: something looks off - an eye, a limp, the way he's breathing - and you're stuck between "probably nothing" and a $200 emergency visit. Vets are amazing, but they can't see what your pet looked like last Tuesday. You can.
PetLumen turns your phone camera into a structured health check:
- Photo and video scans that are species-appropriate - a rabbit isn't a small dog, and a bird hiding illness looks nothing like a cat doing it. The triage rules are built per species, including the scary fast-movers (rabbit GI stasis, blocked male cats, birds with labored breathing).
- Everything is tracked over time, so you can show your vet the trend, not describe it from memory.
- A free urgency checker at petlumen.ai/check - three taps, no signup, tells you Emergency / See a vet soon / Monitor at home, with conservative rules. We'd rather send you to a vet unnecessarily than miss something.
- New this week: scan your pet's food label and get an honest rating for YOUR pet (species, age, conditions) - in testing it caught a cat food being fed to a dog and flagged the onion powder. Plus a free photo feeding log.
What it is NOT: a diagnosis or a vet replacement. It's the observant friend who says "that's worth a call" and hands over organized evidence when you make it.
Plans start at $10/mo, but the urgency checker and the emergency-vet directory are free forever - use them even if you never sign up.
I'll be here all day - ask me anything about the species triage rules, the camera pipeline, or why building for reptiles is harder than you'd think.