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Digitise your pet's health record, without retyping it

Do you really have to retype years of a paper record? No. You photograph the page, the app reads the date, the vaccine and the batch number, and pre-fills the entry. You check, then you confirm.

Updated on 11 November 2026

The app's review sheet after a scan: recognised vaccine, document date, booster written on it, batch number and vet, with buttons to pre-fill a vaccine or a visit
The screen, in the app.

The real reason digital records get abandoned

It is not the design, nor the price. It is the first half hour: an empty record to fill in by hand, vaccine by vaccine, deciphering labels stuck on crooked and handwritten prescriptions.

A digital health record still empty on day two is a dead record.

How it goes

  1. Step 1

    Photograph the page

    In the pet's Documents, add a document and scan it: a record page with its vaccine labels, a prescription, an invoice. The page joins the record's Documents.

    Documents screen of a pet's profile: a list of prescriptions and invoices, and the Add a document button
  2. Step 2

    Check what the app read

    A "The scan also read" sheet offers the recognised vaccine, the date, the booster written on the document, the batch number and the vet. Nothing is saved at this stage.

  3. Step 3

    Confirm, the reminders follow

    You pre-fill the vaccine (or visit) entry, correct it and save. The entry's booster date triggers the notifications (for a vaccine, 7 days and 1 day before).

    Reminders screen: upcoming vaccines and treatments, with the number of days left

Nothing is saved on its own. That is deliberate: on a medical document, an automatic reading that wrote itself in unchecked would be worse than typing it by hand. The machine proposes, you dispose.

What it recognises

  • The type of document: prescription, invoice, report, lab results, certificate
  • The date of the document and, when it carries one, the booster date written on it
  • The vaccine, when its name (or its brand) is in the app's reference table — DHPP, rabies, myxomatosis-RHD…
  • The batch number
  • The amount of an invoice
  • The vet, and the weight written on a report

On a record page that carries several vaccine labels, the app offers to create them together ("Create the 3 vaccines on this page"). Every date it reads stays a suggestion that you confirm with one tap: handwriting reads badly, and two mixed-up digits would give a wrong booster date.

A doubtful field stays empty. What it does not read, you type: it is an accelerator, not an oracle.

Reading happens on your device

Text recognition runs on your phone — Vision on iPhone, ML Kit on Android — with a model bundled inside the app. Concretely:

  • the image is not sent to any reading service: the text is read on the spot;
  • the reading itself needs no connection, and it works on an Android device without Google services;
  • reading the text has nothing to download; only Android's document scanner (automatic edge detection) fetches a Google Play Services module, once, the first time it is used — without it, a plain photo does the job;
  • the page you photographed is filed in the Documents of the record, like any document you add: it is kept on our servers, hosted in France.

The module that downloads is a component of the scanner, not an upload of your documents.

How long to take over an existing record

The vaccine pages of the paper record photograph in one go, prescriptions and invoices as they come. The rest — weights, contacts, appointments — fills itself in with use.

What is free, what is Premium

What it coversFreePremium
Scan a document and pre-fill the entry✓✓
Documents filed in the record500 MB10 GB
Animals1Unlimited

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Scanning is not a Premium feature: what limits it is space (500 MB of documents) and the number of pets (one, without Premium).

Frequently asked questions

Do I have to retype the whole health record?

No. You photograph the page: the app offers the fields it read (vaccine, date, batch number) and you confirm them. Nothing is saved before you confirm.

Does it work with a handwritten record?

Reading handwriting is less reliable than reading printed text. That is why the dates it reads are only suggestions, confirmed with one tap, and why a doubtful field stays empty: what the app does not read, you type.

Are my documents sent to a service to be read?

No. Text recognition runs on your phone, with a model bundled in the app. The page you photographed is then filed in your record's Documents, kept on servers hosted in France.

Is scanning available in the browser version?

Scanning is in the iPhone and Android app. The browser version does not offer automatic reading of documents.

Does scanning cost anything?

No, it is not a Premium feature. The offer without Premium covers one pet and 500 MB of documents.

Snap a photo, the app reads the rest

The scan recognises the vaccine, the date and the batch, and pre-fills the record.

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Page updated on 11 November 2026.