Spooky Paws is a community built around one simple joy: dressing a pet up and showing everyone. Owners add a pet, upload a costume photo, pick a category and post it to a shared feed, where the rest of the club can boo, laugh or aww at it. There are no follower counts and no algorithm deciding who gets seen, just the newest costumes first, and a "top today" view for whatever the community loved most in the last 24 hours.
The other half of the app is the contest. Every entry is also a competition, with four categories: Scariest, Funniest, Cutest and Best DIY. Each night there is a quick head-to-head vote, and the season leaderboard runs across Halloween week, so a single good costume can keep earning badges for days. Pets have their own public profile pages that collect their live costumes, badges and wins, which makes it easy to follow a dog, cat, rabbit, bird or reptile you keep voting for. If you are stuck for ideas, the Costume Lab chats through costume suggestions for your own pet.
Spooky Paws is for pet owners who like making things, for people who just want to scroll cute animals for ten minutes, and for anyone who takes Halloween a little too seriously. It is a 16+ community, and it stays playful rather than gory: pets are the subject, people's faces are not, and every photo is screened before it reaches the feed.
The app is built and looked after by the Spooky Paws crew, a small independent team of pet owners and Halloween fans rather than a large social network. We would love to hear what you think, whether that is a bug, a category we are missing, or a pet we have to meet.