K9metrix is 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.
Most kennels plan teams on a whiteboard and keep health notes on paper. K9metrix does both on the phone in your pocket, and it knows which dogs can run together.
In October 2026 we compared 62 features, one by one, against the other kennel and dog-sport apps on the market.
Other kennel apps give you a board to drag dogs around. K9metrix makes the whole day's teams in one tap, under your rules.
Rest days, days-a-week limits, puppy and old-dog caps, and each dog's recent km decide who runs.
Tell it the going and the cold. It picks the dogs that suit the day.
Kilos from your booking system or typed by a guide. Each sled shows kg per dog in green, amber or red.
Everything Länsstyrelsen asks for, with the red flags worked out and listed first.
Run sizes checked against the Swedish table (SJVFS 2020:8), and a count of dogs over 12 months against your permit.
Water, bedding and temperature on every round, the frost-water rule, and which dogs left their pen today.
A senior badge, the 90-day vet check, a written senior plan and their time out of the pen.
Write the same thing about two dogs twice and the app asks: make this a rule?
Build at the same time with a live presence light. Lock the day, undo a move, practise in private.
Mark the race squad, read each dog's readiness in plain words, and let it pick the best line from the pool.
Who sleeps where, find any dog in a second, and the counts per row.
Every kennel gets its own private copy, its own yard map, its own rules and its own language. The pictures below are example kennels made for this page.
Upload your dog list in the app from any spreadsheet. It matches your own column names and shows you 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 also 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. Write the same note about two dogs twice and the app asks if it should become a rule.
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 takes older dogs on a days-a-week rule only after the others. On heavy going it leans on the stronger pullers. Drag any dog to change it, then save: every guide's phone has the teams, even with no signal.
A real training run from our yard at Altajärvi, 15 October 2026. The musher saved the GPS file once, and every dog in that team got the 9.38 km on its own record.
Full details in our privacy policy.
We are taking a few kennels in Sweden and Norway for the 2026–27 season. You use the app for real team-making. We fix what you find and build what you ask for.
Free for pilot kennels this winter.
No card, and nothing starts by itself. When paid plans begin, pilot kennels get a founding price, and you decide then.
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 man.
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.
Write to us. Tell us your kennel's name, how many dogs you have, and whether you race. We answer in English, Swedish or Norwegian.
Vi svarar gärna på svenska. Vi svarer gjerne på norsk.