Write down how to look after your pets and home once. Before each trip, While Away turns it into a clear, up-to-date guide your sitter opens on their phone, with emergency numbers first and one daily schedule for all your pets.
No account. No subscription. Your alarm codes stay on your phone.
About 4 in 10 dog owners leave their pets with a friend, neighbour or relative. That usually means a long message the night before and hoping nothing was left out.
Instructions get lost between "safe travels!" and photos. The sitter scrolls up looking for the vet's number.
The same feeding amounts and the same alarm instructions, typed out again before every trip.
The cat's pill, the bin day, the gate that doesn't latch. You remember it at the airport.
Your household profile stays in the app. Each trip only stores what's different this time.
Food, meds, routines, quirks, vet, access and contacts. Start with the essentials in about 5 minutes and add more later.
Dates, sitter, and anything different this time ("half portions until Sunday"). A checklist flags missing must-haves.
A phone-friendly guide and a printable PDF. Your sitter doesn't need an app or an account.
Instead of a separate page for each animal, the sitter gets a single timeline for the day, with medications highlighted. Codes are left out of the guide and you send them separately.
While Away is in development for iPhone. Join the list and we'll email you once, when it's ready.
No. They get a guide file that opens in any phone browser, plus a PDF if they prefer paper.
Only on your iPhone, with optional backup to your own iCloud Drive. Nothing is sent to us.
iPhone comes first. If enough people on the list ask for Android, it's next. Tell us when you sign up.
A doc works until you have to update it for the third trip. While Away keeps your permanent info separate from each trip's changes, checks for missing essentials, and formats everything the way a sitter reads it.
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