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I find it funny a lot of the reviewers are complaining and giving poor reviews because their cats wont hold still long enough for the app to work properly. Doesn’t sound like a developer problem. How about trying the app when you’re cat is chillin? If that doesn’t work… try patience. I’m giving the app four stars because I don’t fully believe it’s really reading a true emotion. But if it really is, all the better and pretend I have it five stars.

My exotic is a happy boy. As many know, exotics have very angry faces. So the grimace scale may be hard to catch with just this app alone. It’s like a random occurrence of a bad day and a good day depending on the angle I take. But very cute and well thought out concept.

As an experienced general practice veterinarian with a special interest in feline medicine and behavior ( not a boarded specialist I can appreciate the idea behind this app. Cats are notorious for hiding any sign of pain or distress. So any tool that will raise awareness to feline discomfort is welcome. However, I found the execution of the app to be unreliable. When testing on my own cats at home I got strange results. A cat that was clearly in a relaxed body and facial pose was repeated labeled as “being in distress”. I also got the same result in another cat that was resting with an alert but calm expression. Part of this could be related to the difficulty I had in framing the cats’ faces in the app. Anyone who has cats knows how uncooperative they can be when their silly humans do things to them. But even when I got a good view the results were the same. No matter what I was seeing with my trained eye, the app indicated that they were “having a bad day”.

So, for $3.99 a month, this app will allow me to upload photos of my cat and then tell me one of two things: he’s content, or he’s not content. It doesn’t give me any insight into how it arrived at this conclusion, making it appear totally random. If it thinks my cat is discontented, it asks me questions like: “Is he vomiting? Is he pooping?” First off, if my cat is puking, I don’t need an app to tell me he’s not happy. Could’ve figured that out on my own just by seeing food shoot out of his mouth. But for more subtle problems it isn’t really helpful either. If my cat seems ok, but this app says he’s not, I don’t think that would justify a vet trip. It just feels like a coin toss. There’s no explanation or analysis of the results. “Hi doc. My app says the cat’s not happy. Doesn’t say why. Please do thousands of dollars of tests.” Who’s going to do that??

I was excited to see an app like this as a veterinarian. I would like to be able to have a resource to give to owners, many of whom fail to recognize pain in their cats at home. As a feline crazy vet and someone who has grown up around cats their expressions can be quite subtle. So I decided to take my app for a test drive on my own cat to see what would happen.
Unfortunately disappointingly the app only gives one response (discontent) in a variety of situations: playful, content -getting affection, asleep, observant. So unfortunately this app for me doesn’t work.
I really like the idea of it though and feel that if works could be extremely useful in veterinary medicine and really hope my response helps to fix any glitches.

I’m confused about how this app can be touted as a real way to tell if your cat is happy. Maybe they’re just joking and it’s supposed to be for fun? For one there’s no nuance — it’s just content or discontent. Second, it disproportionately reads discontent and says if you get that a lot contact your vet. Lol can you imagine calling your vet like “this facial recognition app for cats says Fluffy is discontent, can I bring him in?” Third, it’s nearly impossible to get a good shot of your pet’s face b/c, as others have said and I also experienced, it takes too long to register the face — there’s no way a cat is gonna sit and stare at your phone that long. I hate to be rude but sorry, not sorry: this app is dumb and I feel like it was a waste to download it.

Tried it on four of my cats. Worked for the kitten who I got to look at the camera for long enough while distracting wit a toy. Apparently she’s a happy girl. Harder with the long haired ones, one who was definitely giving me his happy face got discontented result and if you have to keep trying to get them to look at the camera that seems to be the default. I wonder if you could amend your app to use a series of photos with the AI so the result would be less likely to be affected by bugging the cats to look at your device. Also think there is more work to be done for darker or longer furred cats.

I see this app having a lot of potential but it didn’t do much for me. It was exciting at first but the more i tried it, and on different days, it gave me the same generic results. I was hoping it was more of like a texting my cat kind of thing but it just repeated the same prompts. I can see it being a fun and interactive app if it had other options, but it’s just not something i would gravitate to. Hopefully an update will come and their will be more to it cause I can see it having a lot more to offer.

Listen, the naysayers are mad that this isn’t as fast as point and snap, but this is literally brand-new technology. No one is doing animal face recognition, let alone trying to tie cats to their pain/emotions. It’s a big ask of any research project.

It has a lot of room to grow with the speed, and being able to recognize dark cats’ faces, sure. Think of how powerful this can be once it gets better.

How long exactly reasonably do you expect to care to be still for your program to actually pick up the face? Cats as you know do not have a penchant for wanting to stand still long enough for a camera to be in their face. Under normal and bright light and I tried doing it from a distance before up close- this just doesn’t work yet but I like the concept idea. Unless it’s working though, it doesn’t deserve any space in my library.