Description
HammyNest — The Complete Hamster Care Companion
Everything you need to give your hamster the best life possible. Built by a hamster owner, for hamster owners.
DAILY CARE
- Track feeding with 191-food safety database
- Log cage cleaning with next-due reminders
- Daily care checklist with auto-logging
- Playtime timer for free-roam sessions
- Morning check-in for overnight activity
- Water monitoring and shopping list
- Heat warnings and a summer safety briefing when it's dangerously hot — free for everyone
HEALTH & WELLNESS
- Health journal with weight & vet visit logs
- Mood & behaviour logging with pattern analysis
- Sleep tracking with wake/sleep shifts
- Heat cycle & scent tracker with 4-day predictions
- Activity tracker
- Care score — your weekly care report card
- Medication and allergy tracking
GUIDES & REFERENCE
- Emergency guide for health crises
- "Hamster on the Loose!" — escaped hamster recovery, real stories, an illustrated comic, and a calm space
- Summer heat-safety guide — cooling them down, spotting heatstroke, and what never to do
- Going Away guide — travel prep, how long they can be left, and sitter instructions
- Behaviour guide — 20 behaviours decoded
- Cage setup guide with wire vs tank vs bin comparison
- Breed encyclopedia for all 5 breeds
- Hamster sounds guide, seasonal care tips, and more
- Room safety for free roam — hazards, gaps, cables, toxic items
- Bedding safety guide — safe vs. dangerous materials, minimum depth
- Floor cleaning safety — safe products list
- Owner Wellbeing guide — stress, your health, and calming techniques
- Allergies & Asthma guide — spotting a hamster allergy from bedding and dander
PHOTOS & SHARING
- Photo gallery with timeline, tags, and growth strip
- Before & after slider with the Growth Journey card
- Tag & Share — filter by tag and share a mood card in one tap
- Share Hub — 10 shareable cards: streaks, milestones, weight charts, and more
- QR pet sitter cards with emergency contacts
- Food barcode scanner — check if a food is safe
- QR sitter card scanner — view the full care sheet
- Photo subject lifting — extract your hamster as a sticker (iOS 17+)
- AI photo tags (premium) — one-tap suggested tags
TOOLS & MORE
- Taming tracker with trick training guide
- Vet appointments with Calendar sync
- Pick vet location on Maps
- Export data as CSV or vet visit summary
- Achievements and care streaks
- Hamster quiz and breed quiz
- Age, cage size, and bedding calculators
PREMIUM
- 7-day free trial
- Unlimited hamster profiles
- Full care history and food database
- Health journal, mood, sleep, and activity tracking
- Photo gallery, journal, and care calendar
- Live weather + automatic heat alerts the night before a hot day, even when the app's closed
- Pet sitter cards, export data, custom themes, and more
FAMILY & SHARING
- Care Circle — share care with your partner in real time
- See who fed, who cleaned, and who's next at a glance
- Push notifications when your partner logs care
- "Already fed?" guard prevents duplicate logging
- FairShare (premium) — see who did what percentage of the care
- Routines (premium) — assign standing responsibilities
MORE FROM THE DEVELOPER
- Symply — an asthma & allergy tracker, for if a hamster sets off your own allergies
- Moshed — a concert & gig journal
- NEATEd — a playful "see how AI learns" sandbox
OUR PROMISE
Heat warnings, the emergency guide, and life-saving care advice are free for everyone. A hamster's safety is never a premium feature.
PRIVACY
Your data stays on your device and in your personal iCloud. We never collect, see, or share your information.
Built with love in Scotland, inspired by Miho — a five-time escape artist who once stole an entire carrot and vanished for three days.
Privacy Policy: https://github.com/venetsia/hammynest-support/blob/main/PRIVACY.md
Terms of Use: https://github.com/venetsia/hammynest-support/blob/main/TERMS.md
What's new (v1.4.0)
HammyNest 1.4.0 — "Summer Care & Travel"
A record heatwave is sweeping the UK and Europe, so this update is all about keeping your hamster safe through hot days — and time away from home.
BEAT THE HEAT
• New summer heat-safety tips: how to cool them down safely, spot heatstroke early, and what you should never do (never cool a hamster too fast)
• Free heat warnings for everyone: a real "tomorrow will be dangerously hot" alert on your Home screen, plus a once-a-summer heat-safety briefing — because a hamster's safety is never a premium feature
• Premium adds live weather on your dashboard and an automatic heads-up the night before a hot day, even when the app's closed
GOING AWAY?
• New Going Away guide: how long a hamster can safely be left, a pre-trip checklist, and exactly what to tell a sitter
• Seasonal nudges for summer holidays, Christmas and Easter trips
• Hand over a Premium Pet Sitter Card with feeding notes, emergency contacts and a scannable QR care sheet
THE GREAT ESCAPE — COMIC EDITION
• Miho's real 24-hour escape, retold in 12 illustrated panels — imagined by my partner and brought to life with AI
• Watch it three ways: spotlight reveal, cinematic pan & zoom, or tap-through story mode
• Pinch to zoom and explore every panel up close
ALSO
• A nod to Asthma Awareness Month — keeping a hamster can affect your breathing too, from bedding dust to dander, so the Allergies & Asthma guide now links to Symply, our asthma & allergy app
• Discover our other apps under More → "More from the Developer"
• What's New now keeps your past updates, so you can look back any time
• New heat-safety and travel sources added to the in-app References
• Polish and reliability fixes throughout
Built with love in Scotland, inspired by Miho.