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What it is. WoofWalk is a free app for dog owners and dog walkers, made in County Durham. It finds the nearest bin for a bagged dog mess, records your walks, lists pubs, hotels and vets near you, and turns every recorded walk into help for a UK rescue charity of the walker's choosing. No subscription, no paid tier.

Launch. Google Play: 10 August 2026. Apple App Store: 9 October 2026. Free download: woofwalk.app/install (sends iPhone and Android users to the right store). More than 2,500 installs across iPhone and Android in the first two months (to 11 October 2026).

The bin map. About 90,000 litter and dog-waste bins mapped across the UK: 78,474 from OpenStreetMap plus more than 11,000 added by walkers where the map was missing one. The app points to the nearest bin and how far away it is, so a bagged mess goes in a bin rather than on a branch or a fence post. Walkers can add a bin the map does not have.

Places and people. More than 35,000 pubs, more than 22,000 hotels and more than 2,400 vet practices on the map (OpenStreetMap, refreshed by the app's users).

Not yet quotable. How many bags were binned because of the app: the measure is being added and will be reported once it has a month of data. Walker bookings: the booking feature is new; figures follow once there is something worth reporting.

WoofWalk is a free app for dog owners and dog walkers, made in County Durham by Killearnan Innovations Ltd. It maps about 90,000 litter and dog-waste bins across the UK and points walkers to the nearest one, records walks, and lists pubs, hotels and vets near you. Every walk recorded in the app earns a small sum, funded by advertising, for one of 14 UK rescue charities chosen by the walker. WoofWalk launched on Google Play in August 2026 and on the Apple App Store in October 2026. It is free to download and use, with no subscription. woofwalk.app

Bret Hunter Gordon is the founder and director of Killearnan Innovations Ltd, the company behind WoofWalk. He lives in Wolsingham, County Durham.

14 UK rescue and assistance-dog charities are partners. Each walker chooses one; every recorded walk earns that charity a small sum, funded by advertising shown in the app, not by the walker.

Partners (as listed in the app): All Dogs Matter, Border Collie Trust GB, Chesterfield Animal Rescue, Cloud K9 Rescue, Doggy Dens UK Rescue, Hope Rescue, Medical Detection Dogs, Northern English Springer Spaniel Rescue, Oakwood Dog Rescue, One Wish Dog Foundation, PennyPaws Rescue, Perthshire Gundog Rescue, The Pack Project, The Rescue Hotel.

Payouts to the partners run monthly on the 10th. Amounts are reported to the partners, not quoted in press material. More about the partnership: woofwalk.app/charity-partners.

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Killearnan Innovations Ltd, company number 17036061, registered office 61a Bridge Street, Kington, Herefordshire HR5 3DJ.