One platform for the work most rescues do across four.
Most rescue management software handles animals well and leaves everything else to other vendors. RescueSphere is built for the whole job: intake to adoption, donors to volunteers, your team to your public website.
Last verified August 2026. We summarize how the rescue software market generally works today, not any one product.
What most rescue software does well
- Core shelter management: animal records, intake, medical history, and the adoption pipeline.
- A focused tool that does the part of the job it was built for.
- Workflows your team may already know inside and out.
Where RescueSphere adds to that
- It brings your public website, donor records, and volunteers into the same place as your animals, so the data only lives once.
- One predictable monthly price covers the whole bundle, instead of stacking per-user, per-adoption, or per-feature add-ons.
- Your data exports to CSV or JSON in one click, any time, with no support ticket required.
Feature-by-feature
No marketing fluff. Just what each platform actually includes.
"Typical" reflects how most rescue management products in the US market price and bundle features as of August 2026, based on the published vendor pages below. Individual products differ, and vendors change their packaging — check the source before relying on any row. If a competitor ships something we don't, we'll mark it on this page honestly.
Sources: Pawlytics · Shelterluv · RescueGroups.org · Petstablished
Already on another platform? Migrating is easy.
If your data lives in spreadsheets, or in Pawlytics, Shelterluv, RescueGroups, ShelterBuddy, PetPoint, or something built in-house, we'll work through the move with you. Three steps.
Export your data
From your current platform as CSV. If your export is locked behind a tier, we'll help you negotiate it out.
We import it for you
We map your fields and load your active records, at no charge for Founding Rescues. You get a sandbox to check the counts and sample records before anything goes live.
Pet records, contacts, adoption history, medical history, donor history. We match your fields into RescueSphere so nothing gets dropped.
Prefer to do it yourself? See what the self-serve import checks before it writes anything.
Try RescueSphere free for 30 days.
No credit card, no setup fees, and full feature access for 30 days. Take the time to decide, and if the fit isn't right, your data exports to CSV in one click.