Answers about Dogs Social and Antwerp dog parks

Yes. Dogs Social is a free web app for seeing which dogs are at Antwerp dog parks and checking in with your own. You can open the map, look at a park and check in for now without signing up or paying anything. An account is free too, and only needed for a later arrival, a dog photo or a bio.

No account is needed to open the Dogs Social map, look at a park or check your dog in for now. Those all work anonymously on any phone browser. An account is needed for three things: scheduling a later arrival, uploading a dog photo and saving a bio.

Dogs Social covers Antwerp, Belgium only, with 96 dog parks from the city's open-data portal. It does not cover other cities, beaches or trails. You can browse the Antwerp parks on this site, and open the app map to see who is at one right now. More cities are a plan, not something you can use today.

Open the Dogs Social map and tap an Antwerp dog-park pin. The park card shows live check-ins for dogs who are there now and separate plans from dogs arriving later. Presence depends on people checking in and can change quickly, so treat it as useful context rather than a guarantee that a dog will still be there.

Checking in tells other Dogs Social users that your dog is at a park now or plans to arrive later. A now check-in works without an account and lasts for a selected visit window. You can extend the stay, check out or confirm arrival when appropriate. It is a simple presence signal, not a reservation.

Yes, Dogs Social separates dogs who are at the park now from dogs whose owners have planned a later arrival. Scheduling a future arrival is the one check-in action that needs an account. A later plan is still only an intention; it does not reserve the park or promise that the owner will arrive.

Other Dogs Social users see information about your dog, not about you as a human. Depending on what you provide, they can see the dog's name, photo, size, sex, age group, social style and short bio, along with the check-in timing. They do not see your real name, phone number, address or live location.

The static park facts on this site come from Stad Antwerpen's open-data portal, the city's own register of dog zones. Dogs Social publishes that register in full: all 96 active Antwerp dog parks, with details such as facilities and boundaries from the same source. Nothing here is a hand-added pin, and no city dog zone is left out. The app's live presence is separate: it comes from users' check-ins and can be more current than the city record.

Not yet. Dogs Social currently works as a mobile-first web app in a phone browser, and it can be added to a phone's home screen as a PWA. There is no iOS or Android store app today, so there are no App Store or Play Store downloads. A native phone app is one future roadmap theme, not a current capability.

An empty park is still worth knowing about: it tells you the trip can wait, or that another hour suits your dog better. Dogs Social cannot conjure up dogs, and a quiet park might just mean nobody checked in. Check in yourself and you become the reason somebody else walks over.

Dogs Social takes its parks straight from Stad Antwerpen's own register of dog zones: every pin is a park the city officially lists, and the site carries that whole list rather than a selection. Google Maps mixes official parks with entries people added by hand, so it can send you to one that closed and miss one two streets away. Dogs Social also shows which dogs are checked in right now and who plans to arrive later. Directions still open in Google Maps from a park card.

Email feedback@dogs.social, or send your idea from the What's next page on dogs.social. Both land in the same private inbox. No account is needed, and a reply address is optional.

No. You can open the Dogs Social map, tap any Antwerp dog park and see which dogs are checked in without checking in yourself and without an account. Checking in is what makes your own dog visible to other owners, and it is what makes the next person's map worth opening.

You choose how long when you check in, from about a quarter of an hour to a couple of hours, and other owners can see when your dog is expected to leave. You can extend the stay or check out early if plans change. When the window runs out, the check-in ends on its own.