A phone app for sled-dog kennels. It makes the day's teams from your own dogs and your own rules, keeps every dog's health and inspection record, and logs each kilometre a dog runs.
Built and used every morning at our own 74‑dog kennel in Swedish Lapland.
Aegirrested 2 days
Argos41 km this week
Maninever beside Kraka
Bunnyleft side only
Shirooruns with Reine
Reineruns with Shiroo
Lebowskiback from rest
Rambostrong pullerTeam 3, Altajärvi, this morning. Eight dogs, −18 °C, run 1. Made in one tap: the most rested dogs first, every pair rule kept, Kovu left out after three runs in a row.
Counted in our own kennel on 26 October 2026.
Most kennels plan teams on a whiteboard and keep health notes on paper. This is the same day, with the app doing the remembering.
Care today is the kennel's to-do list for the day: the morning and evening rounds, who is still to go out of the pen, doses due, frost and water, and food stock in days. Everyone ticks as they go, and it works with no signal.
Older dogs carry a senior badge, their 90-day vet check and a written senior plan.
Letting a group loose in the play yard? Tick them on Free run and tap Out now: it warns if two dogs must never be loose together or a female in season is going out with males.
Who sleeps where, with a face for every dog. Find any dog in a second, see the counts per row, and a pen that is too small for the dogs in it shows up red. Here on a demo kennel: 32 dogs in four blocks.
Try the three views, the way they work in the app.
It leaves out every dog marked injured, resting or in season. Then it fills each team the most rested dogs first, fewest kilometres lately, and keeps your rules: never beside, must pair, never in the same team, left side only, not in lead, at most so many days a week.
Tell it the going and the cold and it picks the dogs that suit the day. Guest weights come in from Checkfront or are typed by a guide, so every sled shows the load per dog. Two guides can build on two phones at once. Drag any dog to change it, then save: every phone in the yard has the teams, even with no signal.
Add the GPS file (GPX) from your watch, handheld or phone app to a saved team. Each dog in it gets the distance, time, speed and climb on its own record, and the route is drawn on the map. No file? Type the km and minutes instead.
History keeps the season: every dog's kilometres and runs, days since it last ran, and a grid of the last fourteen days. Try the two views.
We have applied to connect Garmin Connect and Polar Flow. Once that is on, a musher connects their own watch account, and after each sync the app reads the route, distance, time, speed and climb and puts them on the team that ran. Route and times only: no heart rate or other body data is kept. Until then, the watch's GPX file does the same job by hand. Watch data stays inside your kennel's own account: never sold, never passed on, never used for AI. Disconnect whenever you like; your kennel can delete any track, and we delete your watch data on request within 30 days. How we handle watch data.
Positions, what to watch for, km this season, rest days. Health checks by body part, body condition 1 to 9, weight trend. Medicines with doses, who gave them, and withdrawal days.
Write the same note about two dogs twice and the app asks: should this be a rule?
Mark the race squad. Every dog in the pool is ranked: km in the last 7 and 28 days, longest run, pace, days since it last ran, in plain words. Build the line picks a 12-dog line from the pool in one tap, every rule checked.
One tap makes the inspection pack, red flags first. Run sizes are measured against the Swedish table (SJVFS 2020:8), and the count of dogs over twelve months against your permit. Norway's and Finland's rules are being added.
Daily rounds, the out-of-pen log, medicines and the senior plan are already in it. Nothing to type up the night before.
Upload your dog list from any spreadsheet. It matches your own column names and shows a preview before anything is saved. Or send us the list, or a photo of your whiteboard, and we put it in for you. Each dog can carry its Trekkhundregisteret ID, and its page links straight to its record there.
Pick a dog, pick the rule, pick the other dog: never beside, must pair, never in the same team, left side only, not in lead, at most so many days a week. Or fill in the rules spreadsheet.
Tomorrow morning, and every morning after. Drag any dog to change it, save, and every guide's phone has the teams.
We are taking a few kennels in Sweden, Norway, Finland, France and the UK for the 2026–27 season. You use the app for real team-making. We fix what you find and build what you ask for.
No card, and nothing starts by itself. When paid plans begin, pilot kennels get a founding price, and you decide then.
Ask for a pilot placeIn October 2026 we went through about 30 products: sled-dog apps, dog-sport logs, breeder apps and boarding-kennel software. We tried what we could ourselves, read the rest on their own websites and app-store pages, and compared 62 things, one by one. No app is named here. Where it was a judgement call, we counted it as level, not as a win. Where another app is ahead today, we say so: watch sync, an app-store listing, staff shifts, a gear list, breeding, finding a dog by camera and public reviews. We keep the score as the app grows.
Each row says what K9metrix does, what the closest app does, and what else is on the market, with where we saw it. Tap a group, then a row. Two rows are not scored: live race tracking (not what K9metrix is for) and bookings (a different aim).
Yes — race pool flag on the dog record, Races switch, race card per dog
No field seen [tried ourselves, 9 Oct]
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Yes
No — manual drag board [tried ourselves, 9 Oct]
None found
Yes — Race screen
Training analytics and "load analysis" charts, Pro [their website, 16 Oct]
App B: per-dog fitness stats [their website, 16 Oct]
Yes — race card
Weekly km and rest-day targets in training plans, Pro; full training history [their website, 16 Oct]
App B: per-dog stats by season [their website, 16 Oct]
Yes — per saved team, from the phone or a GPX file from a watch or handheld (Topo GPS included); typed km as fallback
Yes — offline GPS recording of routes, speed, elevation, distance; route library, Pro [their website, 16 Oct]
App B: GPS per dog, live teammate location [their website, 16 Oct]
Not yet: Garmin and Polar applied for. A GPX file from the watch does the job by hand today.
Garmin + Strava sync; Apple Watch "coming soon"; Coros/Suunto/Polar planned [their website, 16 Oct]
App B: Garmin, Strava, Polar, Suunto [their website, 16 Oct]
No — rules researched, not in the app
No — blog articles only [their website, 16 Oct]
None found anywhere
No
No [their website, 16 Oct]
Race organisers' own rule PDFs
Partly — race card tiles for coat / checkpoint / eating / leader; BCS 1–9 with words
No
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No
No
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Partly — "papers" tile on the race card; chip, treatments and withdrawal days are recorded
Vaccination records with reminders [their website, 16 Oct]; no race list match
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Yes. Pick the race, plan the weeks back from race day; the logged runs fill the plan in by themselves
Training plans with weekly km and rest-day targets, Pro [their website, 16 Oct]
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Yes — 43 races (Scandinavia, Finland, France) in the race planner, with classes and a link to each race
"Race planning and results", Pro [their website, 16 Oct]; details not inspected
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No (a phone is not an approved GPS at FL)
No
race-tracking services / race organisers: public live map via SPOT or inReach, position every ~5 min, no musher data back [their website, 16 Oct]
Yes
"Daily wellness checks" with trend charts [their website, 16 Oct]; fields not inspected
App C (police-dog tool): body temperature, injuries, recovery (K9) [their website, 16 Oct]
Yes (WSAVA words)
Not seen
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Yes
Weight history and trend charts [their website, 16 Oct]
App D (breeder app): weights and growth charts [their website, 16 Oct]
Yes
Medications with reminders [their website, 16 Oct]
App B: medication schedules [their website, 16 Oct]
Yes
Vaccinations with reminders [their website, 16 Oct]
App D (breeder app): vaccines, worming, flea/tick (paid) [their website, 16 Oct]
Yes
Vet visits [their website, 16 Oct]
boarding software: vaccine management (boarding) [their website, 16 Oct]
Yes
Not seen
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Yes
No
None found
Yes
"Daily tasks" in its kennel module [their website, 16 Oct]; not welfare-specific
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Yes
No
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Yes (runs judged; houses recorded)
No
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Yes
No
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Yes
No
App F (breeder software): microchips (Windows, /yr) [their website, 16 Oct]
Yes
Operator reports for Norway (§13) as CSV or PDF; a "welfare and traceability" module, not read in full [tried ourselves, 26 Oct]
App C (police-dog tool): "certification-ready reports" for auditors (K9) [their website, 16 Oct]
Yes, light — staff list and who is on (switch on or off per kennel)
Staff scheduling, roles, task assignment in its kennel module [their website, 16 Oct]
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Family tree + Trekkhundregisteret link; no litter module (tour kennels rarely need one)
Breeding and litters page [tried ourselves, 26 Oct]
App D (breeder app): litters, heat cycles, whelp countdown [their website, 16 Oct]
Partly — statuses Rehomed/Deceased, "Gone from the kennel" section
No
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Yes, 10 MB, PDFs and photos
Not seen
App D (breeder app): documents and photos, paid plan [their website, 16 Oct]
Print for the vet (A4)
Not seen
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Yes — from parents + date of birth
"Lineage" on profiles; pedigree in its kennel module [their website, 16 Oct]
App E (breeder software): pedigree certificates, Windows [their website, 16 Oct]
Yes
Injuries logged [their website, 16 Oct]
App B: injuries logged [their website, 16 Oct]
Yes
No
None
Yes
No position or "do not run with" field [tried ourselves, 9 Oct]
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Photo per dog
Find a dog with the phone camera [tried ourselves, 26 Oct]
App B: photos [their website, 16 Oct]
Yes
Not seen
App F (breeder software): microchips [their website, 16 Oct]
Yes
Feeding schedules in its kennel module [their website, 16 Oct]
App B: food logging [their website, 16 Oct]
Yes
Performance history [their website, 16 Oct]
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Yes
"Daily status" [their website, 16 Oct]
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Yes
No
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Yes
Not seen
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Yes — admins download it from the app
Not seen; "Advanced reporting and export" planned Q4 2026 [their website, 16 Oct]
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No — separate lists
Not seen
App C (police-dog tool): AI summaries of logs [their website, 16 Oct]
Yes
No — manual board, "Rest" flag only [tried ourselves, 9 Oct]
None in ~30 products
Yes
No
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Yes — from the booking system or typed by a guide; every sled shows load per dog
Own bookings marketplace; guest weights not mentioned [their website, 16 Oct]
None
Yes
Manual rest flag
App B: rest-day calendar [their website, 16 Oct]
Yes
Multi-user with roles [their website, 16 Oct]
boarding software: logins per tier [their website, 16 Oct]
Yes, light — who is on today (staff switch)
Staff shifts with an overlap check and calendar export [tried ourselves, 26 Oct]
general rota apps (generic)
Care today list + food stock counted in days
Daily tasks, feeding schedules and a gear inventory [tried ourselves, 26 Oct]
boarding software: feeding/med/activity tracking [their website, 16 Oct]
Yes, nearly everything
Offline GPS recording and offline-first sync [their website, 16 Oct]
App B: offline GPS [their website, 16 Oct]
Yes
Not seen
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Yes
No
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Yes
Not seen
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Yes
Not seen
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Reads Checkfront
Own marketplace with Stripe and a commission per booking; booking system planned Q3 2026 [their website, 16 Oct]
boarding software [their website, 16 Oct]
English, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, French, German — app and website
English, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish [their website, 16 Oct]
App B: Norwegian/English
Home-screen app on iPhone and Android; store versions in preparation
In the iPhone App Store (iPhone, iPad, Watch); no ratings yet [their website, 16 Oct]
App B: iOS + Android, 3.6/5 from 23 ratings [their website, 16 Oct]
Yes
Multi-kennel planned Q4 2026 [their website, 16 Oct]
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Yes (built 10 Oct)
No
a stable app (stables): no lesson-assignment engine
Pilot kennels this winter
None findable
App B "50 000+" users claimed, 3.6/5 [their website, 16 Oct]
A fair question for any small company. K9metrix is made by a small husky kennel in Kiruna. So that your kennel is never stranded, every one of these is in the agreement you sign.
Your dogs, rules, notes, health records and history belong to your kennel. We never sell or share them.
Kennel admins can download everything from the app at any time: the dog list, the whole kennel file, and every document and photo.
Teams, notes and health checks work on the phone with no server at all. Only sharing between phones stops.
If Snowdog Arctic Adventures AB stops trading, or its founder dies or can no longer run it, every kennel gets the app and a plain-words guide to running it, free, licensed for its own kennel.
A named second person holds the keys and the instructions, so the handover never depends on one person.
Every kennel is backed up every night, and the server is paid a year ahead.
K9metrix comes from Snowdog Arctic Adventures, a husky kennel of 74 dogs at Altajärvi, outside Kiruna in Swedish Lapland. We built it because we needed it: tours every day, guides who change through the season, and an inspector who wants to see the records. Our own crew makes its teams with it every morning. These are some of the dogs it was built for.
Write to us. Tell us your kennel's name, how many dogs you have, and whether you race.
Send us your hardest rule and your messiest dog list. We'll show it working on your own dogs.
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