Questions about Pet Cue.

Pet Cue (“Pet Cue: Dog & Cat Camera” on the stores) is a camera app for dogs and cats by All Blue LLC. Its on-device AI takes the photo the instant your pet looks at the lens, checks every shot for blur and keeps trying until it is sharp, catches head tilts, yawns and new poses, and learns which sounds get each pet to look. Pet Cue is coming soon to the App Store for iPhone and to Google Play for Android.

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.

$2.99 (or the local equivalent), paid once. No subscription, no in-app purchases and no ads.

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.

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.

On-device pet models find your dog or cat and its face points (eyes, nose, ears) eight times a second. Pet Cue scores how squarely the face turns to the lens: eyes level, nose centred between them, head neither sniffing down nor looking over the phone. Two frames in a row above the line, with your pet and the phone still enough for a sharp photo, trigger the shutter, and zero-shutter-lag capture keeps the frame from that moment. Nothing leaves your phone.

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.

The default way Pet Cue shoots. One tap starts a hunt for one sharp photo of your pet looking at the lens: cues play, Pet Cue shoots when your pet looks and holds still, checks the photo for blur, and keeps trying until it is sharp. Then it stops by itself and says “Perfect shot”. It gives up after a minute.

Pet Cue shoots when your pet looks at the lens and both your pet and the phone are still, so it may wait a moment for a sharp shot. The auto-shutter needs light and a face that fills a fair part of the frame, and it works on dogs and cats: move closer or add light. For shaggy breeds whose eyes hide in the fur, Pet Cue makes a second, closer pass on the pet alone. You can always shoot by hand: turn AUTO off and tap the shutter.

Yes. The auto-shutter and Moments work for cats as well as dogs, and cats get their own cues: a bird trill, a treat-bag crinkle, mouse squeaks, crickets, a can opener and more.

Yes, for cues: birds and other pets get their own sounds, such as whistles, trills and chirps. The auto-shutter and Moments need a dog or a cat, because the on-device pet models know those two; with other pets you take the photo yourself.

An opt-in photo shoot. Turn on MULTI in the camera menu (or More > Multi-Shot), and one tap keeps Pet Cue going: a photo at every steady look (at most one every 0.6 seconds) and every moment, and a new cue whenever your pet loses interest. Each photo is checked; blurry ones are kept and marked but not counted. A session ends when you tap stop, or by itself after three minutes.

In a Multi-Shot session with Auto-shutter on, Pet Cue also photographs the moments in between: head tilts, funny faces (yawns, tongue-outs, licks) and new poses (sitting, lying down, a play bow, belly up), even when your pet isn’t looking at the lens. Each photo’s caption says what it caught, and each kind can be switched off in More > Moments.

A head tilt is the line between the eyes tilting at least 18 degrees while the face is toward the camera. Funny faces come from a small model Pet Cue trained for this, running on the phone: on real photos it never trained on, 96 in 100 of its picks were real yawns or tongue-outs. A new pose is one that differs from every photo already taken in the session. Pet Cue does not read emotions, and it does not catch winks or blinks.

14 cues made for pets: squeaky ball, treat bag, bunny hop, kissy heart, pinwheel, twinkle, doorbell, bird trill, mouse, kibble shake, can opener, knock knock, meow, crickets. Each cue repeats for a few seconds in different tones and glides between the phone’s speakers, so the sound seems to move. Twinkle also pulses the flashlight gently beside the lens.

Every cue is a small experiment: did your pet look, and how fast? Pet Cue keeps score for each pet (“Looked 7 of 9 · 0.6 s”). AUTO plays the winner first, still tries the others now and then, and never plays the same cue twice in a row, because pets get used to a sound quickly. Each pet learns separately, and the learning stays on your phone.

Yes. Turn Cue off and leave AUTO on, and Pet Cue becomes a silent camera that waits for the look. Or turn AUTO off to play cues and take the photo yourself.

Yes, because the sound is the cue. To shoot without sound, turn Cue off with the paw button.

Yes. On iPhone, add the Pet Cue control to Control Center, the Lock Screen or the Action button: the camera opens without unlocking, with your pet’s cues and settings, and its photos join the app the next time it opens. On Android, a Quick Settings tile opens the camera over the lock screen.

Yes. As in the Camera app, a volume button presses the shutter: it takes the photo, or starts and stops a session. More > Volume Buttons Take Photos turns it off if you’d rather use the buttons for the cue volume.

Yes. Switch to the front camera and the cue appears on the screen itself, in a small glowing window just under the camera at full brightness, so your pet looks toward the lens and you.

Yes, as many as you have: each with a name, a kind (dog, cat, bird or other), its own cues and its own learning. The pet button switches between them.

In Pet Cue’s gallery on your phone, each captioned with how it was taken: “Auto-shutter, looked in 0.6 s after the squeaky ball”, a moment such as “Head tilt”, or “Taken by hand”. Save any photo to Photos or share it, and select several to delete.

Yes: Yellow, Sky, Coral, Mint, Lilac or Graphite, in More > App Icon.

iPhone with iOS 26 or later, and Android phones with Android 8.0 or later. On iPhone Duo, an update moves the cue to the outer display; on Android foldables such as Galaxy Z Fold and Z Flip, the cue can play on the cover screen.

Everything it does on iPhone, and an update brings the cue to the outer display: it plays facing your pet, right next to the lens your pet should look at, while the inner screen shows PET VIEW, what your pet sees. Pet Cue on iPhone Duo.

Yes, coming to Google Play for Android 8.0 or later, with the same on-device auto-shutter and per-pet learning, Multi-Shot, head tilts and new poses, a Quick Settings tile and cues on the cover screen of foldables. Some features, such as funny-face detection, come to Android later. Pet Cue for Android.

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.

No. Pet Cue has no account, no ads, no analytics and no tracking, and its App Store privacy label is “Data Not Collected”. Your pet’s photos never leave your phone unless you share them.