For pet sitters

Open the guide

1. Install Leashnote from the App Store. You'll need an iPhone or iPad on iOS 17 or later, signed in to iCloud.
2. Tap the link the owner sent you, or scan their QR code with the Camera app. iOS opens Leashnote and asks you to accept the share.
3. The guide appears under You're sitting for. Open it any time, even offline once it has loaded.

If the link says it's no longer available, the owner may have locked it after their named sitters joined, or stopped sharing. Ask them to Unlock to let someone else in or send a fresh link.

Today's checklist

The guide opens on today. Meals, medications, walks, and anything else the owner scheduled are listed in time order with a Next marker. Tick things off as you go. Ticks are for you, and stay on your phone unless you include them in a check-in.

Above the checklist, Never rules are pinned in coral. Read those first. Each pet has its own section with food amounts, medication details, quirks, and vaccine dates in case of a vet visit.

Emergency card

The emergency vet, regular vet, poison control, the owner, and a backup contact are each one tap to call. The card also shows the spending limit the owner has approved for vet care, where the carrier is, and insurance details, so you can act without waiting for a reply.

House info and codes

Wi-Fi, thermostat, trash day, and the like are in House info. Door and alarm codes are hidden until you tap to show them, and are available from the day before the trip until it ends. They hide again after a screenshot, while screen recording, and when you leave the app. Please don't write them down anywhere else.

Reminders and doses

Tap the bell at the top of the guide and your phone will remind you of each meal, medication, and walk for the rest of the stay. Tap it again to turn them off. Reminders are scheduled on your phone and don't go anywhere else.

If the owner has the medication tracker, each dose also gets its own alert. When you've given it, tap Given. That sends the owner a confirmation, and the app tells you so before you tap.

Send a check-in

Tap Send a check-in. Add a photo or two, pick a mood, write a note, and the tasks you've ticked off today come along. The owner gets a notification right away. You'll feel a small tap and see a "sent" confirmation.

Photos are picked with the system photo picker, so Leashnote never sees your photo library, and location data is stripped before sending.

What the owner sees

Action	Goes to the owner?
Sending a check-in	Yes, with a notification
Tapping Given on a dose	Yes, with a notification
Ticking off other tasks	No, unless you send a check-in
Opening the guide or showing a code	No
Your location	Never. Leashnote doesn't use location at all.

The owner can see that you've opened the link, under the name on your Apple Account, and the name you enter in Leashnote's Settings appears on your check-ins.

Calendar, Lock Screen, translation

• Add to Calendar puts the trip on your calendar plus a repeating event with an alert for each daily task. Leashnote asks for write-only calendar access the first time.
• Live Activity. If the owner has Plus, your next task shows on your Lock Screen and updates as you tick things off.
• Translate. If the guide is written in a different language than your phone uses, a banner offers to translate the owner's notes on your device using Apple's Translation framework. Names, addresses, codes, and medication names stay exactly as typed. Needs iOS 18 or later.

When the trip ends

You get a trip-ended notification if the owner uses the trip schedule. The guide stays in your app until the owner stops sharing, or until 30 days after the trip ends, whichever comes first. When it's removed, your reminders and Live Activity are cleaned up with it.

Questions? See Support.