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VetFolder: a pet vaccine tracker for the whole household
The pet folder you can find in a parking lot, not the drawer you meant to sort.
VetFolder is a pet vaccine tracker for dog, cat, and small-animal owners who keep clinic paperwork in three places. It holds each animal's shots, worming and flea dates, weight, and microchip number, and hands a boarding desk proof in one tap.
Waitlist Not built yet Updated 5 September 2026
What problem does VetFolder solve?
The kennel desk wants proof of the kennel cough shot before they will take your dog, and the certificate is a photo somewhere in a camera roll from two summers ago. The card that came home with the puppy is in a kitchen drawer, soft at the folds and half faded. The clinic emails a PDF after every visit, and those sit in an inbox under a subject line you would never think to search for. Then the details start to matter. A locum vet asks what the flea treatment was and whether it was the spot-on or the tablet, and you can only remember the color of the box. A cat loses weight slowly across four visits and nobody notices, because each weight was read aloud in the room and written on a different sheet. When the chip registry asks you to confirm the number, you go hunting for the letter. None of this is difficult. It is just scattered across paper, email, and other people's software.
Pet health record sheet
One sheet per animal for shots, worming, flea treatments, and the return date your vet gave you.
| Date | Pet | Vaccine or treatment | Dose or lot | Clinic | Next due |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Free to use. No account. Nothing you type here is stored.
What would VetFolder do?
VetFolder would keep one folder per animal on your phone. You photograph the vaccine card, forward the clinic's PDF, or type a line by hand, and each entry carries a date, a product name, a lot number if the label shows one, and the clinic that gave it. Weights go on a curve, so a slow drop is visible rather than remembered. Return dates are yours to enter from what your vet told you; VetFolder never invents one, because what an animal needs and when is a conversation with the clinic that knows the animal. When a sitter, a groomer, or a boarding desk asks for proof, you send a link that shows the records and stops working after the stay.
How would it work?
- 1Photograph the vaccine card or forward the clinic's PDF, and VetFolder files it under the right animal.
- 2Add the return date your vet gave you, in the words they used.
- 3Watch the weight curve across visits instead of trying to recall the last number.
- 4Send a sitter or a boarding desk a link that shows proof and expires after the stay.
Who is it for?
- Households with three pets, three vaccine cards, and one drawer that swallows all of them.
- Foster carers who hand an animal on and must hand its paperwork on too.
- Owners of an older cat or dog whose weight and medication list change every few months.
Can you replace a pet medical records app with one folder and a phone?
Start with one sheet of paper per animal, at the kitchen table rather than at the clinic. Across the top write the animal's name, date of birth or your best guess, breed, color, sex, whether they are neutered, the microchip number, and the registry that number sits with. That header is what a rescue, a locum vet, or a boarding desk asks for first, and it is the part nobody can reconstruct in a hurry. Underneath, rule six columns: date, what was given, dose or lot number, the clinic, who signed it, and anything you were told about coming back. Then work through the paper you already own. The vaccine card, the discharge notes from the spay, the wormer packet in the cupboard, the flea treatment box in the bathroom. Copy each one onto a line. For anything still in the house, photograph the label front and back, so the product name and lot number survive after the box goes in the bin. Photograph the finished sheet and put that photo in an album named for the animal. Put the paper in a plastic wallet with the original card, and keep the wallet with the carrier or the lead rather than in a filing cabinet. When you need it, you are usually already leaving the house. Then decide who else holds a copy. Send the photo to whoever looks after the animals when you travel. Ask your clinic to email a summary after each visit and file those emails in one labeled folder. What the sheet cannot do is tell you what is due next. That belongs with your vet, and the sheet's job is to make the question quick to answer.
What do people use today?
| Option | Good at | The gap |
|---|---|---|
| The paper vaccine card from the clinic | Official, signed, and accepted at a boarding desk without argument. | One card per animal, easy to lose, and no use at all while it sits in a drawer at home. |
| A veterinary practice's own portal | Holds the visits that practice carried out and often handles repeat prescriptions. | Stops at the practice boundary, so a move, a locum, or an out-of-hours visit leaves a hole. |
| A photo album on your phone | Free, always with you, and enough to show a card at a counter. | Nothing is searchable, weights cannot be compared, and a second animal's card looks identical. |
| A notes app or a spreadsheet | Free-form, private, and fine for one animal if you are disciplined. | No expiring link for a kennel, and nobody types a lot number on a phone keyboard twice. |
What would it cost?
Free
$0
- One animal's full record
- Card and label photos
- Printable record sheet
Household
$3.99/mo
- Every animal in the home
- Expiring proof links for sitters and kennels
- Weight curve across visits
- Shared with a second adult
Prices are proposed. Founding members lock in the lowest price if we build VetFolder.
Questions people ask
What is a pet vaccine tracker?
A pet vaccine tracker keeps each animal's shots, worming, and flea treatments in one place, with the date, the product, and the clinic that gave it. VetFolder would add weights, the chip number, and a link a boarding desk can open.
Will VetFolder tell me when a booster is due?
No. VetFolder shows the return date your vet gave you and reminds you of that date. What an animal needs, and how often, is a decision for the clinic that has examined it.
How does a boarding kennel see the records?
The kennel opens a link you send from your phone. The link shows the record and the photographed cards, then stops working after the dates of the stay. Nobody has to install anything or create an account.
Can I import records from my vet?
Photo and email import come first. You forward the clinic's PDF or photograph the card, and VetFolder files it. Direct connections to practice software need each practice's cooperation, so that is a later question rather than a promise.
Does it suit a rabbit or a horse as well as a dog?
Species is a field, not a limit. The record has the same shape for any animal: date, product, dose or lot, clinic, and what you were told about coming back.
Where are the records stored?
Records live on your device first. The household plan syncs them to a second phone so both adults see the same folder. Proof links are the only thing anyone outside the household can open, and they expire.
Why does a phone app come with a paper sheet?
Kennels, groomers, and locum vets still ask for something you can hand over. The sheet on this page fills that gap today and gives you a shape to copy into the app later.
When will VetFolder launch?
There is no date. VetFolder gets built only if enough owners join this waitlist and say they would pay for the household plan. Joining costs nothing and the sheet is free.
Where does this stand?
VetFolder is a proposal, not a product. This page collects demand from search and answer engines. Askwright builds it only if enough people join the waitlist and say they would pay. Read how this works.