Pretty good, but iOS version is better

Overall, this is quite a nice little app. You set up an iOS device to spy on your puppies, then connect your mac to it remotely. It will play noises through your mac’s speakers (with an adjustable sensitivity, so you don’t hear every little peep). It also lets you watch via video and speak to the dogs (to correct a barking dog, for example). As a bonus, even though the description says that video only works when 2 devices are on the same wifi network, this is in fact not the case; I can stream live video from home to any other network. Some people may have firewall issues (for example, I can’t connect from work). If you can manage it, this can be solved by routing your traffic through a VPN. My only real complaint is that the iOS client has some nice features that seem to be missing from the mac version, the best of which is the activity log. When you are using 2 iOS devices, the “Person Station” (i.e., the one you are using, not the one that’s with the dogs) will log and record all sounds, so if you step away for a while you can flip through and see if there have been any noises while you were gone. This should absolutely be in the mac version as well! But otherwise, it works quite well and is quite affordable!

zeeman808 about Dog Monitor