In daily use in a real grooming salon, right now, in 2026
PupBooker is the appointment book, client list and sales ledger for one person running a grooming business. It lives on your phone, it works with no signal, and it does not need a receptionist to be useful.
01 / THE ONE THAT MATTERS
You sign in with Google once, and the app borrows three things from your own account: Drive to keep the backup, Gmail to send the reminders, and a calendar of its own to put the day on. The reminder goes out as your shop, from your address, because it is your account sending it.
Backup is built and running today. Mail and calendar are next, and until they ship this page will keep saying so.
Real screen, not a mockup
02 / WHAT IS IN IT
There is no dashboard, no pipeline, no workspace. A groomer opens the app between dogs, with wet hands, and needs the answer in one tap. Everything else was cut.
The three have got deeper rather than multiplied. A lapsed rabies date now shows on the appointment instead of only on the dog's own page, because the moment it matters is the dog standing in front of you. A client who did not turn up last time is flagged before they arrive. The price you charged for that dog last time is offered back when you close out, and a tip is recorded beside it rather than inside it, so being tipped well never quietly raises what the app thinks the groom costs.
03 / WHERE IT LIVES
Your clients, your dogs, and your sales are written to the phone in your hand. That is the whole store. It works in a garden with no signal, it works when the wifi is out, and it keeps working if we vanish, because nothing about it depends on us being here.
Once a night the book copies itself to your own Google Drive, into a private folder only this app can see. Not our Drive, yours. Lose the phone and the next one is back where you were in a few minutes. We have tested that on real hardware.
04 / THE PRICE
PupBooker is in closed testing on Google Play, so there is nothing to charge for and nothing to sign up to. When it does ship it will be a flat monthly price with every seat included, because charging a one person business per user is a tax on growing.
While it is in testing the book holds 15 clients. That is enough to try it properly and not enough to run a full round on, which is deliberate: nobody should move a working business onto something still being tested. If you fill it and want more room, ask and it will be opened up, at no cost, because there is nothing to charge yet.
One email, on the day PupBooker reaches the Play Store. Nothing else, ever.