The best way to photograph your pet
Pet Cue’s on-device AI takes the photo the instant your dog or cat looks at the lens, checks it for blur, and keeps trying until the shot is sharp.
Auto-shutter and Moments work with dogs and cats.
$2.99 once. No subscription. No in-app purchases.
Meet Pet Cue
Getting a dog or cat to look at the camera usually takes a pocketful of treats and a lot of luck. Pet Cue turns it into one tap.
Point your phone at your dog or cat and tap the shutter once.
Pet Cue plays a sound made for pets, the one this pet responds to best.
The instant their face turns to the lens, on-device AI takes the photo, and checks it for blur.
AI auto-shutter
No more photos of an ear, a tail or a blur. Point the phone, tap once, and the photo is taken at the moment your pet faces the lens.
Works with dogs and cats. It needs light and a face that fills a fair part of the frame.
Perfect Shot
It doesn’t stop at a photo. It stops at the perfect one.
All of it on the phone, in a fraction of a second. In very dim light it may take longer, or stop after a minute and tell you that more light helps. Photos you take by hand aren’t judged.
Moments
The best pet photos are rarely the posed ones. In a Multi-Shot session, Pet Cue also catches the head tilt, the yawn, the tongue-out and every new pose, even when your pet isn’t looking at the lens.
Every photo’s caption says what it caught, and each kind has its own switch in More. Moments work for dogs and cats, in Multi-Shot with Auto-shutter on.
Learns each pet
Every cue is scored. The winner plays first.
Every cue is a small experiment: did your pet look, and how fast? Scores like “Looked 7 of 9 · 0.6 s” build up for each pet, and AUTO plays this pet’s favourite first.
Cues made for pets
14 cues that turn their head, from a squeaky ball to a knock at the door.
Each cue repeats for a few seconds in different tones and glides between the phone’s speakers, so the sound seems to move. Novelty is what turns a pet’s head.
Twinkle also pulses the flashlight gently beside the lens.
With Cue on, the cue strip shows AUTO and this pet’s best four. Choose which cues play for each pet in More > Choose Cues.
Multi-Shot
For a photo shoot rather than one perfect photo, turn on MULTI in the camera menu. One tap and Pet Cue keeps going: a sharp photo every time your pet looks or does something cute, a new cue whenever it loses interest.
Ready in a second
Pet moments last two seconds. Pet Cue opens from the Lock Screen, and the volume buttons take the photo.
Lock Screen camera
Add Pet Cue to Control Center, the Lock Screen or the Action button. It opens straight into the camera without unlocking, cues and all, for the current pet, and the photos join the app the next time it opens.
Volume buttons
Like the Camera app: press a volume button, or Camera Control, to take the photo or to start and stop a session. Handy when one hand holds a treat. Rather use the buttons for the cue volume? Switch it off in More.
iPhone Duo
Like Kid Cue on your Camera — but for those who have more furry kids.
On iPhone Duo, the cue plays on the outer display, right next to the lens your pet should look at, while the inner screen shows PET VIEW: what your pet sees.
Built around your pets
Switch to the front camera and the cue appears on the screen itself: a small glowing window just under the camera, at full brightness, so your pet looks toward the lens, and you.
Unlimited pets, each with a name, a kind (dog, cat, bird or other), its own cues and its own learning. The pet button switches between them.
Large thumbnails, multi-select delete, Save to Photos and Share.
Cue and Auto-shutter each have a switch. Use them together, use the auto-shutter alone as a silent camera that waits for the look, or play cues and shoot yourself.
Rear or front, and every lens your phone has (0.5×, 1×, 2× or 3×), from a glass menu that unfolds from the Camera button.
The same lens and paw on a different tile, in More > App Icon.
More > Guide explains every mode with the app’s own buttons, how the auto-shutter decides and how learning works. Nothing is left to discovery.
The app and its store listings are translated, from Arabic to Vietnamese.
Private by design
Everything runs and stays on your phone.
Pet detection, learning and Moments all run on the phone. There is no account, no ads, no analytics and no tracking in the app, and its App Store privacy label is “Data Not Collected”. The Android app doesn’t even ask for network access. Your pet’s photos never leave your phone unless you share them.
FAQ
We think Pet Cue is the best way to photograph your dog or cat, because it solves the hard part: the look. A cue made for pets gets their attention, and on-device AI takes the photo the instant they face the lens, so you get eyes, not ears and tails. It is a one-time $2.99 purchase with no ads, no account and no subscription.
Give your dog a reason to look at the lens, and be ready the instant it does. Get down to eye level in good light, then make a sound your dog doesn’t hear every day: novelty is what turns a head. Pet Cue does both parts: tap the shutter and it plays a cue made for pets (a squeaky ball, a treat-bag crinkle, a knock at the door), and its on-device AI takes the photo the moment your dog faces the lens. More tips: how to get your dog to look at the camera.
Use sounds that mean prey or food to a cat: a bird trill, mouse squeaks, crickets, a treat bag or a can opener. Pet Cue plays these cues, learns which one your cat looks at fastest, and takes the photo the moment your cat faces the lens. Shoot in soft light, at your cat’s eye level, when it is calm. More tips: how to get your cat to look at the camera.
Pet Cue is built never to hand you a blurry photo as the result. While it waits, focus and exposure lock onto your pet’s face and the shutter stays at 1/100 s or faster; it shoots only when your pet and the phone are still enough, then checks each automatic photo for blur at the eyes. A blurry one is kept and marked Blurry, and Pet Cue keeps trying until it has a sharp one. In very dim light it may take longer, or stop after a minute and tell you that more light helps. Photos you take by hand are not judged.
Yes. Pet detection, learning and Moments all run on your phone, and Pet Cue needs no internet connection, account or sign-in. The Android app doesn’t even ask for network access.
Pet Cue is coming soon to the App Store for iPhone and to Google Play for Android. The iPhone app needs iOS 26 or later; the Android app needs Android 8.0 or later.
Pet Cue is coming soon to the App Store for iPhone and to Google Play for Android.
$2.99 once. No subscription. No in-app purchases.
Pet Cue