Support the project

Boop is made by one person.

No investors, no team, no marketing budget. Just me, a laptop, and a lot of dogs who have unknowingly helped train a breed classifier. If Boop has made you smile and you'd like to help it keep going, this page is how. It is entirely optional, and the app stays free either way.

Where the money actually goes

Not a vague "supporting development". These are the real bills, in the order they hurt.

🍎 Apple Developer Program, £79/year Non-negotiable. Without it the app cannot exist on the App Store at all, no matter how finished it is.
🌐 Domain and hosting boopapp.uk, this page, the Pet of the Day feed, and the photos behind it.
🔥 Firebase, currently about £0/month Deliberately. Breed recognition runs on your phone, not a server, and the leaderboard is built once every ten minutes rather than queried per visitor. It only starts costing real money if Boop gets genuinely popular, which would be a lovely problem.
🖨️ Print runs Leaflets and stickers for dog shows, vets, groomers and parks. The cheapest way to reach dog owners is to hand them something.
🧠 Model training 181 breeds is a lot of photographs. Better hardware means a better classifier, which means fewer wrong guesses at the thing the app exists to do.

Chip in

One-off, no account, no subscription. Card, Apple Pay and Google Pay all work. Handled by Stripe, so no payment details ever touch this site.

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£3

A coffee

Roughly one late evening of bug-fixing, fuelled properly.

Send £3

Most chosen

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£10

A good bone

Two months of domain costs, or a stack of leaflets for a dog show.

Send £10

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£25

A proper patron

A third of the Apple Developer fee. Three of these and Boop is on the App Store for another year.

Send £25

Setup needed before this page goes live. The donate buttons are disabled because the Stripe Payment Links have not been created yet. Open support.html, fill in DONATE near the bottom of the file, and this notice disappears on its own. Instructions are in the comment beside it.

The 5% comes off this too

Boop gives 5% of everything it makes to UK animal welfare charities, off the top rather than off the profit. That covers every subscription and every tip on this page, so of a £10 contribution, 50p goes straight out before any of it reaches a bill. Every payment is published, with amounts and recipients, at boopapp.uk/giving.

The other 95% is not a charity donation. It goes to me, to pay the costs listed above, and it counts as taxable income rather than a gift. So if your goal is helping animals rather than keeping Boop alive, give to a rescue directly. They will do more with the whole amount than I will with a twentieth of it, and I would genuinely rather you did that.

What supporters get

Nothing. That is deliberate.

No badge, no unlocked features, no Pro membership, no early access.
Everything in the app that can be earned is earned by catching pets.
Boop Pro exists and is bought in the app, the ordinary way, if you want the extras.

Paying money should never be a shortcut past the collecting, and a donation that quietly unlocked something would make this a shop rather than a thank-you.

Free things that help just as much

Genuinely. A review is worth more to a new app than £10 is.

⭐ Leave a review

Reviews decide whether the App Store shows Boop to anyone at all. It is the single highest-leverage thing you can do, and it is free.

📸 Submit your pet

Get them featured as Pet of the Day, in the app and on social. How to submit →

💬 Tell one dog person

Boop spreads at the park, not on the internet. One person you walk with beats a thousand impressions.