Calming audio,designed for your dog,made with your voice
Your voice woven into calming music designed for your dog, delivered fresh every morning.
Original calming music made just for your dog,
carrying the familiar trace of your own voice.Fresh every morning, tuned for how dogs hear, on whatever device stays home.
The hours
you’re gone are the
hardest of their day
Hearing the voice they love helps pass the day like nothing else. It’s not the spoken words that matter, but rather the sound of the person they’re bonded to.
Elio allows that piece of you to remain when you’re away, woven into music designed to meet the needs of all dogs: those who pace at the window or are startled by the delivery truck; the one who’s simply bored and restless, or the contented dog whose owner just wants to make their day the best it can be. Elio creates a soundtrack to suit them all.
A piece of you,
woven through
Five households, Elio five ways
Each track is uniquely composed for their dog’s breed, age, and what settles them. Choose a story to hear how.
Quiet on the Avenue
Anna & Juno
Warm Winds
Low bassoons, soft organs
Anna lives on a busy street, and Juno reacts to everything: buses, bikes, the neighbor’s slamming door. Dogs hear mid-range frequencies unusually well, so Juno’s music is built for the range where her hearing is sharpest, with a slow and steady rhythm, to help to keep the outside noise at bay.
Dogs hear your voicedifferently than people do
Dogs are far more sensitive to the tones that carry its unique texture — the audible quality that makes you sound like you.1 A familiar voice can calm a dog the way a warm hug calms a person, and it isn’t the words that matter as much as the sound of the one they’re bonded to.2
Elio places your voice inside instrumental music at a level shaped for that sensitivity — present to your dog, a gentle warmth to you. The composition draws on more than two decades of research into which rhythms settle dogs, which textures hold their attention, and what happens when they hear the same thing over and over.3
That last part matters. Dogs habituate to repetitive audio quickly — within days, a playlist on repeat goes as stale to them as it would to you.4 So every track Elio makes is compositionally distinct from the one before.
The music adapts, too. A dog who frets when the house empties hears something different from one startled by thunder or the street — different tempos, different textures. And because dogs slowly lose the high end of their hearing as they age, much as people do, the music shifts over time to meet them where they hear best.5
Elio is a comfort and enrichment product, grounded in behavioral science and psychoacoustics — not a medical device, not a treatment, and not a substitute for veterinary or behavioral care.
Plays on whatever device stays home
play Elio.”
Say it once and the day’s track begins — no phone, nothing to press. The simplest way to fill the room while you’re out.
In your podcast app
Subscribe once to your dog’s private feed and a fresh track will automatically land every morning in your podcast app wherever you already listen. Freely cast from the app to your preferred compatible device, or listen on any Smart TV, tablet, phone, or computer where your favorite app is available.
In your dog’s Lounge
Open the Lounge — their custom web player and settings page — in any browser and press play. Nothing to install, works on any screen. Use AirPlay or Chromecast to easily broadcast the day’s track to anywhere else you’d like to listen.
Give Elio a try — the first week is free
Eight hours of fresh music every day, with your voice woven through
7 days free · then $15/month · cancel anytime
During setup, you’ll read a short passage designed to capture the full richness of your voice. That one recording is all it takes. Elio weaves distinct elements of your tone into every track, at a level shaped for your dog’s hearing. Most of the time it sits so low it reads less as a voice than as a warmth underneath the music — always present, mostly imperceptible. At certain moments it’s woven closer to the surface, and you might briefly hear it rise — a familiar trace passing through the music, then settling back under.
Dogs recognize their owner’s voice and respond to it differently than any other sound — well-established research, over two decades deep. Elio composes around your dog’s breed, age, and temperament, at tempos and tonal ranges matched to canine hearing. Most dogs settle in within the first couple of weeks. Don’t be surprised if your dog seems a little less frantic when you get home — that’s thanks to the calming piece of you that’s been left behind while you’re away.
Elio supports up to four dogs on any account, and composes tracks suited to all of them — shaped to whichever dog needs the most care. Take one dog out with you and the track still works beautifully for whoever stays home.
The best setup is an Alexa speaker: say “Alexa, play Elio,” once and walk out the door — nothing else to do. The command works on Echo speakers, on Sonos speakers with Alexa built in, and on Fire TV, so the room your dog rests in may already have an ideal way to listen.
Every day’s track can also arrive in a private podcast feed. Open it in Apple Podcasts on a MacBook and AirPlay to the wireless speakers you already love, or let any podcast app download it overnight on a device that stays home — an old phone or a tablet works great.
And the simplest option of all: any browser. Open your dog’s Lounge and just press play.
It’s used to create your dog’s audio and nothing else. Never shared, never sold, never used to train anything. Re-record whenever you like, or delete it from your account at any time with two clicks.
From your account page, in two clicks — no email to write, no one to convince.