Cats hide illness. Furwise lets the whole family log feeding, litter, water, weight and medication on one shared timeline, so small changes aren't forgotten before the vet visit.
I got my first cat in March and spent that whole first month googling things at 1am, which is exactly how you end up on a forum from 2011 being told two completely opposite things. The chat is the bit I use most now. I asked why she throws up right after eating and got an actual answer, in normal words, with the source attached so I could go and read it myself.
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Android, mainly. My partner's on Android and can't join.
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I'd installed 11Pets first. It does more, technically, but it's built for every animal on earth and it sort of assumes you already know what's worth writing down. I didn't. That was the whole problem.
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Hi Product Hunt 👋 I'm Chi-Yu, maker of Furwise.
Furwise logs a cat's daily care in seconds: feeding, water, litter, weight and meds, on one timeline the whole family shares.
Here's why it exists. Two years ago I got my first cat and googled everything. Content farms and chatbots gave me confident, fluent answers about "cats" in general; none of them knew anything about my cat. I wanted to understand the problem properly, so I left my engineering job for an assistant role at an animal hospital, at one sixth of the pay. I'm an assistant, not a vet. But I stand in the room where owners, animals and vets try to understand each other, and that room taught me this:
A vet sees your cat for about 15 minutes a year. You see your cat for 8,760 hours.
Owners do notice the changes. By the time they reach the clinic, those observations have faded into "he's been a bit off lately." A vet can't work with that, and I've watched it cost people real time and real money.
What it does today:
- Log feeding, water, litter, weight, and medication in seconds - Share one timeline across the whole family, which matters most in multi-cat homes where nobody knows if someone else already fed them - Reminders for vaccines, medication, and weigh-ins, per cat - Photo checks for mood and stool - A summary of what's changed recently, so "when did this start?" gets a real answer with a date on it
What it deliberately does not do: diagnose. That's the vet's job, and working at a clinic is exactly what convinced me of this. Furwise makes sure you can tell the vet what happened, and when.
Honest numbers: about 15 daily actives, and two of them are strangers who decided to pay. That's enough for me to believe the problem is real.
What's next: I want your cat's own records to drive what you see in the app.
Furwise is free on iOS today. I'd love to hear what you'd want tracked, especially from anyone who's coordinated care for a sick pet with family.
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A vet visit mode that pulls a one-page summary of the last few weeks would be clutch. Date, weight curve, litter box trends, any skipped meds, and a quick chart if possible so I can just print or show it on my phone without scrolling through a long feed.
Thank you, this really helps. Using the data properly is exactly our next step. We already have an early version of "record insights" that flags changes like a short-term drop in weight, so you're not scrolling to find them. The one-page vet summary you're describing is something we'll definitely build, and you just made it much clearer what it should look like.
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Sharing the timeline with our vet directly would be huge — even just a one-time export or a shareable link so we don't have to screenshot everything the morning of the appointment.
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@merdavudoljrdf Thanks, this is a good one. Been thinking about it myself. Ideally you'd just show your vet a QR code and they'd see your cat's status on the spot, no signup needed. Or add a regular vet as a shared member. Gonna look into it properly, appreciate you flagging it.
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the shared timeline approach is genuinely clever, especially logging litter changes which honestly most cat trackers skip. nice that it pulls the whole family into one feed so nothing slips through.
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@erdalvkye Thanks. Litter was the one I didn't want to skip, it's usually where trouble shows up first. And with a few people in the house it's way too easy to lose track. Glad the shared feed made sense to you.
Yeah, it's honestly not meant to be. Working at an animal hospital, I've started to see how much goes into how a vet reads a cat, the bloodwork in that moment and years of hands-on experience acorss a lot of cases. A phone app just can't reach that. What it can do is hold onto the small stuff you'd forget, so you can walk in and tell them exactly what changed and when.
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@chi_yu_wu Fair point. That actually makes a lot of sense, still a bit skeptical about how many people will actually stick to logging every little detail daily
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The shared timeline is genuinely useful, finally my partner and I are not double-logging meals. The weight tracker caught a slow drop in our cat we would have missed at the vet.
Thank you, this genuinely means a lot. I just want it to help people take better care of their cats, so honestly this kind of comment makes my day
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iOS dev here. ive tried way too many of these pet trackers and most are honestly just a glorified form with a logo on top. this one actually feels thought through, the timeline and the way you switch between cats is really smooth. nicely done
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@ohlulu_shih Thanks, means a lot coming from someone who actually does ios. I'm a backend/infra person who learned ios just for this, so "smooth" is a relief to hear. still learning, so hit me with any feedback you've got
Hi Product Hunt 👋 I'm Chi-Yu, maker of Furwise.
Furwise logs a cat's daily care in seconds: feeding, water, litter, weight and meds, on one timeline the whole family shares.
Here's why it exists. Two years ago I got my first cat and googled everything. Content farms and chatbots gave me confident, fluent answers about "cats" in general; none of them knew anything about my cat. I wanted to understand the problem properly, so I left my engineering job for an assistant role at an animal hospital, at one sixth of the pay. I'm an assistant, not a vet. But I stand in the room where owners, animals and vets try to understand each other, and that room taught me this:
A vet sees your cat for about 15 minutes a year. You see your cat for 8,760 hours.
Owners do notice the changes. By the time they reach the clinic, those observations have faded into "he's been a bit off lately." A vet can't work with that, and I've watched it cost people real time and real money.
What it does today:
- Log feeding, water, litter, weight, and medication in seconds
- Share one timeline across the whole family, which matters most in multi-cat homes where nobody knows if someone else already fed them
- Reminders for vaccines, medication, and weigh-ins, per cat
- Photo checks for mood and stool
- A summary of what's changed recently, so "when did this start?" gets a real answer with a date on it
What it deliberately does not do: diagnose. That's the vet's job, and working at a clinic is exactly what convinced me of this. Furwise makes sure you can tell the vet what happened, and when.
Honest numbers: about 15 daily actives, and two of them are strangers who decided to pay. That's enough for me to believe the problem is real.
What's next: I want your cat's own records to drive what you see in the app.
Furwise is free on iOS today. I'd love to hear what you'd want tracked, especially from anyone who's coordinated care for a sick pet with family.
A vet visit mode that pulls a one-page summary of the last few weeks would be clutch. Date, weight curve, litter box trends, any skipped meds, and a quick chart if possible so I can just print or show it on my phone without scrolling through a long feed.
@ekin1366265
Thank you, this really helps. Using the data properly is exactly our next step. We already have an early version of "record insights" that flags changes like a short-term drop in weight, so you're not scrolling to find them. The one-page vet summary you're describing is something we'll definitely build, and you just made it much clearer what it should look like.
Sharing the timeline with our vet directly would be huge — even just a one-time export or a shareable link so we don't have to screenshot everything the morning of the appointment.
@merdavudoljrdf Thanks, this is a good one. Been thinking about it myself. Ideally you'd just show your vet a QR code and they'd see your cat's status on the spot, no signup needed. Or add a regular vet as a shared member. Gonna look into it properly, appreciate you flagging it.
the shared timeline approach is genuinely clever, especially logging litter changes which honestly most cat trackers skip. nice that it pulls the whole family into one feed so nothing slips through.
@erdalvkye Thanks. Litter was the one I didn't want to skip, it's usually where trouble shows up first. And with a few people in the house it's way too easy to lose track. Glad the shared feed made sense to you.
I don't feel like this is a substitute for a vet
@lena_sato
Yeah, it's honestly not meant to be. Working at an animal hospital, I've started to see how much goes into how a vet reads a cat, the bloodwork in that moment and years of hands-on experience acorss a lot of cases. A phone app just can't reach that. What it can do is hold onto the small stuff you'd forget, so you can walk in and tell them exactly what changed and when.
@chi_yu_wu Fair point. That actually makes a lot of sense, still a bit skeptical about how many people will actually stick to logging every little detail daily
The shared timeline is genuinely useful, finally my partner and I are not double-logging meals. The weight tracker caught a slow drop in our cat we would have missed at the vet.
@vedat2010893
Thank you, this genuinely means a lot. I just want it to help people take better care of their cats, so honestly this kind of comment makes my day
iOS dev here. ive tried way too many of these pet trackers and most are honestly just a glorified form with a logo on top. this one actually feels thought through, the timeline and the way you switch between cats is really smooth. nicely done
@ohlulu_shih Thanks, means a lot coming from someone who actually does ios. I'm a backend/infra person who learned ios just for this, so "smooth" is a relief to hear. still learning, so hit me with any feedback you've got