Dog feeding · for families who take turns feeding the dog
FedFlip is a shared feeding sign for families who take turns feeding the dog. It puts the AM/PM flip magnet from the fridge onto everyone's home screen as a widget: whoever feeds the dog taps the sign, and it turns to FED on every phone in the household, with that person's name on it. If someone taps a meal that is already covered, FedFlip shows who fed the dog and how many minutes ago instead of logging a second breakfast. The sign resets itself at midnight.
Fill the bowl, then tap the FedFlip widget on your home screen without opening the app. Your sign turns over to FED with your name on it, and FedFlip sends the flip to everyone else in the household so their widgets turn over too. Nobody has to walk to the kitchen to check the fridge.
Each meal can be flipped once a day. If breakfast is already FED and someone taps it again, FedFlip does not quietly record a second breakfast; it shows a card like "Dan fed Maple 8 min ago" on the widget or in the app. Two people tapping at nearly the same moment still end up with one FED and one warning.
Each meal has a window, 6 to 10 in the morning and 4 to 8 in the evening unless you change it. If the window closes and nobody has flipped that meal, everyone in the household gets one reminder for that meal that day. Either reminder can be switched off in Settings.
In a house with more than one person and one dog, "Did you feed the dog?" gets asked twice a day. That is why pet stores sell AM/PM feeding magnets, sliders, and dry-erase charts for the fridge door: one glance answers the question, and anyone can flip the sign without opening anything.
The trouble is that the magnet only answers people standing in the kitchen. The parent at work, the teenager who walks in through the garage, and the partner wondering at the grocery store whether the dog ate tonight cannot see it. Group chats scroll past, and nobody wants to text the house every evening. FedFlip keeps the magnet's one-glance simplicity and moves it to the screen everyone already checks all day: the phone's home screen.
The Today tab and the widget show the same two signs, Breakfast and Dinner. Each is either Not yet or FED, and a FED sign carries the name of whoever flipped it and how long ago. The two states also differ in color, but the words are always there too, so the sign reads the same for everyone.
The double breakfast usually happens in the morning rush: one person feeds the dog on the way out, another walks in five minutes later and sees a dog acting as if it has never eaten. FedFlip treats each meal as a single slot for the day. The first flip wins. Anyone who taps the same meal afterward gets a card instead of a second entry, saying who fed the dog and how many minutes ago. That card is the point of the app, so it is never hidden or merged away.
Mistakes happen the other way too. If someone flips Dinner when they meant Breakfast, anyone in the household can flip it back. The undo is kept in the History tab next to the original flip, which lists the last 30 days of meals with who flipped each one and when.
The first screen is a demo sign you can tap right away, with no account and no network, just to feel the flip. When you want to share it, you sign in with Apple or Google, create your home, and fill in the dog's card: a name, an icon from a built-in set (there is no photo upload), and the two meal windows. The household's time zone is set for you.
Then you invite everyone else with a code or a link. Invites expire and can be reissued. Each person installs FedFlip, joins with the code, and sees the current state of the sign as soon as they are in. Settings has the member list, a way to leave the home, a way for the owner to remove a member or delete the home, and account deletion. When someone leaves, their widget goes back to the demo sign.
Sharing a sign between phones needs a go-between, so FedFlip runs on a small server that stores your household, its members, and the flips. When you tap, your own widget turns over right away. The server then sends a silent update to every phone in the home, and each phone redraws its widget when that update arrives. iOS decides when background updates run, so another phone can lag behind yours; opening FedFlip always pulls the current board.
If you flip with no connection, the flip waits on your phone and is retried, and the widget says it is waiting to sync rather than pretending everyone already knows. Tapping a button inside a widget without opening the app needs iOS 17 or later. Flip notifications are off by default, because the widget turning over is the signal; each person can turn on a notification for flips if they want one. Usage statistics are collected anonymously, without device identifiers or IP addresses.
A fridge magnet is loved because it does one thing. FedFlip keeps that limit. There is no portion size, calorie count, diet plan, or medication schedule, and no meal wizard. Two slots a day, FED or Not yet, is the whole model. If your dog's routine needs more than that, a care tracker or your vet's plan is the right tool.
FedFlip is a feeding sign for the household. It does not give veterinary advice and does not tell you how much or how often to feed your dog. Ask your veterinarian about your dog's diet and feeding schedule.
Each person who wants the sign on their own home screen installs FedFlip and signs in with Apple or Google, then joins your home with an invite code or link. The demo sign on the first screen works without an account, so anyone can try the flip before joining.
Your own widget flips as soon as you tap. The other phones update when they receive a silent update from the FedFlip server. iOS controls when background updates run, so their widgets can trail behind yours, and opening the app always shows the current state.
Only one flip counts. The meal is a single slot for the day, so the second tap gets a card saying who already fed the dog and how many minutes ago, on the widget or in the app.
Yes. Anyone in the household can flip a meal back. The undo is recorded in History next to the original flip, so nobody is left wondering what happened.
The demo sign works offline. A flip made with no connection is held on your phone and retried, and the widget shows that it is waiting to sync. The midnight reset happens even offline, because it is part of the widget's own schedule.
No. FedFlip only records whether breakfast and dinner were given, by whom, and when. It has no fields for portions, calories, or medication, and it does not give feeding or veterinary advice.
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