For anxious dogs & their people

They're learning they're okay without you.

Settle is the honest instrument for separation anxiety. No camera. No livestream. Just proof your dog is getting calmer, week by week.

Private beta  Made in Ireland

A category of one

Settle won't watch your dog.

Every other dog app is a camera, a microphone, a live feed — your phone full of doomscroll moments while you're at work. We built the opposite. Settle listens locally on your Mac, throws the audio away, and keeps only the numbers that prove your dog is doing better.

×No camera
×No livestream
×No anxiety pings
×No recordings, ever

The best owner is the one who comes home — not the one who panicked over a livestream all day.

How it works

Three things, done well.

It's not a pet tech platform. It's an instrument with one job: tell you, honestly, whether your dog is getting calmer.

01

Listens

On your Mac, on-device, while you're out. Audio is analysed one second at a time, then thrown away. Nothing is recorded or transmitted.

02

Measures

Barking spells, longest quiet stretch, time spent settled. The numbers behaviourists actually use — not a panic dashboard.

03

Proves it works

Week-over-week curves so you can see the line bend down. The thing nobody else gives you: evidence your work is paying off.

A worked example

The numbers tell you what to do next.

Separation anxiety is fixed by gradual desensitisation — short absences, slowly extended. Without a number, you can't tell if you're moving too fast (and triggering setbacks) or too slow (and going nowhere). The chart is the feedback loop.

Is the work paying off?
The line bends down over weeks. No more guessing whether you're imagining it.
Ready to extend the next absence?
A new longest-calm streak says yes. A spike says hold steady another week.
Time to call a behaviourist?
A flat or rising curve is the signal. And you arrive with hard data — not "he barks sometimes."
Albert · barking minutes per session
Week 1 ~28 min → Week 6 ~6 min
30 20 10 0 Wk 1 Wk 2 Wk 3 Wk 4 Wk 5 Wk 6 Started 5-min Spike → held steady ↘ extended to 45 min

Each annotation is a decision the data unlocked — push longer, hold steady, push again. That's the loop.

When it matters most

Built for the hard moments.

The events that create separation anxiety are also the ones that make it hardest to know if your work is paying off. Settle gives you a number to watch, quietly, over weeks.

A new rescue

Brand-new dog, brand-new house, brand-new routine. You don't know what their baseline is yet — and now you do.

Return to office

The lockdown dog who was never alone is suddenly alone all day. Track whether they're adapting or struggling.

A new baby

The whole household rhythm has flipped. Make sure your dog isn't the one paying for it quietly.

A move

A new home is a new soundscape. Watch the curve climb back to calm, week by week.

Settle is in private beta

Tell us where you'd run it.

We're letting in small batches of beta users. Drop your email below — we'll let you know the moment your platform is ready.

Beta opening soon

Settle for Mac

macOS 14 (Sonoma) and up. Apple Silicon and Intel.

In development

Settle for Windows

Tell us there's demand and you'll bump it up the queue.