The best pets apps

Chewy

Chewy is the largest online pet retailer in the United States, selling food, treats, toys, and supplies from more than 3,000 brands, alongside a licensed pet pharmacy. The company built its reputation on customer service — handwritten cards, flowers when a pet dies — and on Autoship, its subscription model for the food and litter customers buy on repeat.

Petco

Petco is an American pet retailer selling food, supplies, and health products through around 1,500 stores, which also house grooming salons, veterinary clinics, and training services. The company has repositioned around pet health and wellness, restricting the food it sells to formulas without artificial ingredients.

Tractor Supply

Tractor Supply Company is the largest rural lifestyle retailer in the United States, selling livestock and pet feed, fencing, tools, workwear, trailers, and lawn and garden equipment across more than two thousand stores. Its customers are hobby farmers, ranchers, and rural homeowners, and the range reflects that — animal health products and chicken coops alongside power tools and work boots.

PetSmart

PetSmart is a major North American pet retailer with more than 1,600 stores selling food, toys, and supplies, alongside grooming salons, training classes, boarding, and veterinary services. The chain also runs one of the largest pet adoption programmes in the US through in-store partnerships with rescue organisations.

bitiba

bitiba is a European online pet shop selling food, litter, and accessories for dogs, cats, small pets, birds, and fish at permanently low prices. Part of the same group as Zooplus, it runs a deliberately no-frills operation — bulk sizes, fewer promotions, cheaper everyday pricing — for owners buying in volume.

BARK

BARK offers monthly dog subscription boxes, marketed as BarkBox, filled with hand-picked toys and treats, with a typical box containing two toys, two bags of treats, and a chew built around a theme. Plans include the Classic BarkBox, Super Chewer for tougher chewers, and Combo Boxes, with allergy-friendly options.

Ollie

Ollie makes fresh, human-grade dog food with real ingredients, delivering perfectly portioned meals based on a custom plan built from information about each dog. Beyond food, the brand offers health check-ins in its app, where its team reviews owner-submitted photos to help monitor a dog's health.

PetMeds

PetMeds is an American online pet pharmacy selling prescription and over-the-counter medications, flea and tick preventatives, heartworm treatments, and health supplements for dogs, cats, and horses. The business works directly with veterinarians to verify prescriptions before dispensing, and positions itself as a substantially cheaper alternative to buying the same medications at a veterinary practice, with subscriptions for treatments that must be given on a schedule.

Bulk Reef Supply

Bulk Reef Supply has spent more than fifteen years supplying saltwater and reef aquarium keepers, selling salt mixes, filtration, lighting, dosing equipment, testing kits, and livestock supplies. The company is as well known for its education as its products, publishing an extensive library of videos and guides that many reef keepers learn the hobby from.

Cocopup London

Cocopup London is a British pet accessories brand making colourful dog collars, leads, harnesses, bandanas, and matching owner bags in coordinated print collections. The brand sells direct online, releasing prints in limited runs and building a following among owners who treat dog accessories as a style purchase.

VetSupply

VetSupply is an Australian online pet pharmacy and supplies retailer, selling flea and worm treatments, pet food, supplements, and accessories for dogs, cats, horses, and small animals. The business competes on making routine pet healthcare affordable, offering the same preventative treatments sold through veterinary practices at substantially lower prices, shipped across Australia.

PetLab Co.

PetLab Co. makes pet wellness supplements and care products, concentrated on dog health — joint support, dental chews, skin and coat supplements, and digestive aids. The brand sells direct online, developing products around specific health concerns rather than selling general-purpose pet food, and ships without requiring a subscription.

Budget Pet Products

Budget Pet Products is an Australian online pet store selling premium pet food, veterinary prescription diets, flea, tick and worming treatments, toys, and accessories. The business competes on making premium pet care affordable, stocking the same brands sold through vet practices at lower prices and shipping across Australia.

MorphMarket

MorphMarket is the leading marketplace for captive-bred reptiles and exotic pets, covering lizards, geckos, snakes, pythons, boas, frogs, spiders, and invertebrates. Beyond buying and selling, it provides a breeder directory with ratings and tools for keepers to track their collections, offspring, and lineage — infrastructure the hobby previously lacked.

Buce Plant

Buce Plant is an American aquarium retailer specialising in live aquatic plants, alongside hardscape, substrate, lighting, and equipment for planted tanks. The business is named for Bucephalandra, the plant genus it became known for, and serves the aquascaping hobby — where a tank is composed like a landscape — rather than general fishkeeping.

The Dog Food App

The Dog Food App is a South African pet retailer selling dog and cat food, tick and flea treatments, treats, and hygiene products. The business stocks the major premium brands — Hill's, Royal Canin, Acana, Orijen, Eukanuba — at below typical shop prices, with free same-day delivery across the main metro areas.

FunnyFuzzy

FunnyFuzzy is a direct-to-consumer pet brand offering premium supplies for cats and dogs — from ultra-cozy beds and pet furniture to durable toys, grooming essentials and stylish accessories. The brand curates comfort- and design-led products for pet parents, selling directly through its own store with fast delivery and app-exclusive promotions.

Pet Supplies Plus

Pet Supplies Plus is an American neighbourhood pet retailer with hundreds of stores selling food, treats, toys, and supplies, alongside grooming and self-serve pet wash facilities. The chain positions itself on local service and convenience rather than warehouse scale, and combines its stores with delivery and curbside pickup.

Bailey's CBD

Bailey's is a direct-to-consumer pet wellness brand making CBD products for dogs — calming treats, oils, and supplements aimed at everyday comfort and mobility — backed by pet-expert support. It leans on autoship and subscribe-and-save so pet parents never run out of their dog's favorites. The brand sells directly to consumers through its own store and app, with free shipping over a threshold and app-only perks.

Honest Paws

Honest Paws is a direct-to-consumer pet wellness brand best known for its CBD products for dogs and cats — oils, soft chews, and treats targeting calm, mobility, and everyday wellbeing — alongside a broader range of supplements. Vet-informed, natural formulations are central to the brand. The brand sells directly to consumers through its own store and app.

PetShop.co.uk

PetShop.co.uk is a UK online pet store selling food, treats, grooming, health and pharmacy items, toys, and accessories for dogs, cats, and other pets. Its catalogue spans thousands of products across many brands, alongside own-label ranges including Naturals, Finest, and Taylors Natural Co. The retailer emphasises low prices, free UK delivery over a threshold, subscription reordering, and highly rated customer service.

Foy's Pet Supplies

Foy's Pet Supplies is the oldest pigeon supply brand in the United States, selling feed, health products, lofts, and racing equipment for pigeon keepers, alongside supplies for other small animals. The family business has served racing and show pigeon fanciers for decades, a specialism almost no general pet retailer covers.

Pablo & Co Boutique

Pablo & Co Boutique is an Australian pet-accessories brand known for bold, design-forward collars, harnesses, leads, beds and bandanas for dogs. Dropping frequent themed collections, the boutique sells directly to style-conscious pet owners, with early access to launches a core part of its community-driven model.

Bully Max

Bully Max is a premium dog food company based in Pittsburgh, family-owned and operated since 2009, selling high-protein dog foods, supplements, and treats for all breeds and ages. The brand built its name among owners of muscular breeds, and makes a point of its safety record — more than three million dogs served with zero recalls.

Feeders Pet Supply

Feeders Pet Supply is an American neighbourhood pet store chain carrying more than 10,000 products across 250 brands, including Pro Plan, Hill's Science Diet, Blue Buffalo, Royal Canin, Fromm, Merrick, Taste of the Wild, Wellness, Stella & Chewy's, and Orijen. The business is run by pet owners for pet owners, combining its stores with same-day home delivery, in-store pickup, and a recurring AutoOrder programme for food and litter.

SaltwaterAquarium.com

SaltwaterAquarium.com sells marine and reef aquarium supplies — filtration, lighting, dosing equipment, salt mixes, test kits, and livestock accessories. The American business serves reef keepers, a hobby that demands constant consumables and frequent equipment upgrades, and ships free with no minimum order, which suits the small, regular purchases the hobby actually generates.

Dubia.com

Dubia.com is a leading US source for live feeder insects and reptile supplies, breeding and shipping Dubia roaches, discoid roaches, crickets, hornworms, superworms, mealworms, waxworms, and soldier fly larvae. Beyond feeders it stocks more than 2,000 products — PVC enclosures, radiant heat panels, Zoo Med accessories, supplements, isopod cultures, springtails, and frozen rodents — for keepers of bearded dragons, leopard geckos, chameleons, tree frogs, tarantulas, and other exotic pets.

Chow Hound Pet Supplies

Chow Hound Pet Supplies is an American neighbourhood pet store carrying more than 10,000 products across 250 brands, including Pro Plan, Hill's Science Diet, Blue Buffalo, Royal Canin, Fromm, Merrick, Taste of the Wild, Wellness, Stella & Chewy's, and Orijen. The business is run by pet owners, and pairs its stores with same-day home delivery, in-store pickup, and a recurring AutoOrder programme for food and litter.

Pets Villa

Pets Villa is a British online pet supplies retailer selling food, toys, grooming products, and accessories for dogs, cats, and small animals. The shop positions itself at the premium end of pet essentials, curating a range rather than stocking every brand available, and focuses on nutrition and grooming rather than the broader hardware a superstore would carry.

Petsense

Petsense is an American pet retail chain owned by Tractor Supply, selling pet food, treats, toys, and essentials for dogs, cats, birds, fish, and small animals. The chain operates small-format stores concentrated in rural and small-town markets underserved by the national pet superstores, and pairs its range with grooming and training services.

Treats Unleashed

Treats Unleashed is a St. Louis pet retailer selling all-natural pet food, fresh-baked treats, and custom pet cakes, alongside toys, collars, beds, and supplies. The business runs an in-house bakery producing treats and celebration cakes for dogs, and pairs its stores with grooming and self-wash facilities.

Catalyst Pet

Catalyst Pet is an American cat food brand built on upcycled and sustainably sourced ingredients, sold direct to consumers. Its range covers food, treats and related cat products. The environmental argument — cutting waste out of the pet food supply chain — is central to the brand rather than a secondary claim.

PetsWorld

PetsWorld is a US direct-to-consumer brand specializing in pet training pads for consumers and veterinary professionals, offering heavy-absorbency, extra-large pads in bulk at competitive prices. It's a focused, single-category pet-supply brand. The brand sells directly to consumers through its own store and app.