Dog Simulator is an Android app developed by Swift Apps LLC (Królewska 65A/1 30-081 Kraków). Others apps created by Swift Apps LLC are: Cat Simulator.

Dog Simulator first became available on 17 Dec 2014. It is estimated that Dog Simulator has been downloaded between 5000000 and 10000000 times from the Play Store.

Dog Simulator 2.2.3 requires the following permissions:

Allows applications to access information about networks.

Allows access to the list of accounts in the Accounts Service.

Allows applications to open network sockets.

Allows an application to read the user's contacts data.

Allows access to the vibrator.

Allows using PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming.

Allows an application to write to external storage.