Hani Walk — an app for dogs and their people

Sometimes we want to talk not only about animals that are looking for homes, but also about people building useful things for those who already share their lives with pets.

Recently, the creators of Hani Walk reached out to us and kindly offered to tell their audience about MačkaPas on their website. We really appreciated it — and in return, we wanted to introduce their project to you as well.

This is not an advertisement or a paid collaboration. It is simply a bit of warm mutual support between two small projects created by people who genuinely care about animals and want to make everyday life with them a little easier and safer. ❤️

When you have a dog, there are a million little things to keep in your head: is it time for a tablet, when is the next vaccination, have you walked enough today, is there anything dangerous on your usual route that your dog will definitely want to pick up, and should you really believe your pet when they insist that the other human in the household has not fed them yet 🙃

That is exactly why Hani Walk was created.

Hani Walk is an app that brings together everything your dog needs — and everything you need to keep track of it. You can:

• track walks with GPS and see the route, time, distance and steps — both yours and your dog’s
• set a daily goal and see whether your dog has had enough activity that day
• turn walks into real exploration: the map gradually opens up in places you have already visited with your dog, giving you a reason to choose a new route and explore the city together
• keep everything related to your pet’s health in one place: a digital veterinary passport, vaccinations, parasite treatments, medications, vet visits, documents and notes. There is no need to manually transfer information from every piece of paper — you can photograph a page of the veterinary passport, a vet’s prescription or a vaccine package, and Hani Walk will recognize the information and add it to the pet’s profile. Reminders help you remember important dates and medications
• book appointments with veterinarians, groomers and other pet professionals.

You can add several pets and share access to their profiles with family members, a dog walker or a pet sitter.

There is also a feed where people share photos of their dogs, find new friends and simply enjoy looking at other people’s adorable pets 🙂

Another feature is a map of potentially dangerous places. Users can mark broken glass, an aggressive dog, suspicious food or another hazard along a walking route so that other dog owners nearby can be warned. The app will notify you about the danger when you are in the area.

Hani Walk was created by Nastya and Andrey Ilyinykh, the humans of a beagle named Hani, who currently live in Montenegro. Nastya works as an editor-in-chief and handles content and communications, while Andrey works in IT. Nastya loves tracking just about everything, and eventually that habit naturally turned into the idea of an app for everyday life with a dog.

At first, Andrey built a simple website with only the most basic functionality. Over time, the project grew into a full app with a polished design, lots of useful features and almost 500 users — with new people joining every day.

One thing that is especially important to the creators is that Hani Walk was not invented simply as a product to monetize. It is an app made by dog owners primarily for themselves. They worry about missed vaccinations, enjoy discovering new walking routes, look for good veterinarians and know exactly how stressful it can be when a dog picks something up from the ground or disappears from sight for a moment.

That is why they are trying to make Hani Walk genuinely useful — the kind of app they themselves would want to use every day.

You can download Hani Walk from the App Store or Google Play.