Why I built Capupet

Published: March 13, 2026

Capupet is my response to a simple but important problem: many animal shelters do not have good administrative systems.

I often see animal shelters using Excel, notebooks, phone calendars, Google Drive, and many other tools at the same time. This makes their information fragile, hard to organize, and difficult to access.

This is not a new problem. Many small organizations have it: barbershops, coffee shops, nutritionists, and almost any small business. They usually have many software options available with a quick Google search.

However, animal shelters need a powerful platform to manage all their information, and there is still no great solution that fits all of their needs.

There are affordable or even free solutions, but many of them lack modern features, modern design, solid UX, or the reliability a quality platform should provide.

There are also strong products, but they are often not affordable. Some do not even display pricing publicly, and among those that do, the cheaper plans can still be expensive. Maybe that is less of a problem in the US or Europe, but in Latin American countries, where many shelters depend mostly or fully on donations, every dollar counts.

To contribute my grain of salt to this problem, I built Capupet. The platform is 100% free, has a modern design, includes essential features, and is easy to use.

With this platform, shelters can centralize information, improve record-keeping, upload files, create pet profiles (including notes, medical records, images, and documents), publish their list of available pets, and collaborate more easily between team members.

If you know an animal shelter, please share the project with them. It is 100% free, and if you are part of one, please check it out.