Your animal in, the neighbor’s cat out · review
An app-controlled pet door with per-pet schedules, remote locking and use notifications, supplied with a collar key.
What we take from it The most expensive door on this shelf at $269.99, and the only one controlled from a phone — schedules per pet, remote locking, use notifications. It ships with a collar key and can also pair a microchip, and its own listing mentions a firmware update that fixed "critical issues".
An app-controlled pet door, medium size, with per-pet schedules, remote locking, use notifications and dynamic weather sealing. Supplied with a Medium Pet Door Key, and able to pair a microchip. $269.99.
“Remotely lock and unlock your SmartDoor through the My PetSafe app”, with “notifications when your pets use the door, updates on your SmartDoor lock and battery status”.
That is a genuinely different proposition from the rest of this shelf. SureFlap’s curfew and Cat Mate’s timer both run on a schedule set at the door; this one changes from the office, and tells you when the cat came home.
The cost is a dependency: a door that needs an app, an account and a network to be at its best.
“New Firmware Update: Addressed critical issues with app functionality, connectivity, performance and security.”
A maker naming its own critical issues on the product page is unusual and worth reading twice. It tells you two things: that there were serious problems, and that they were fixed. A connected door that has never needed a firmware update is a door nobody has looked at.
The medium door “comes with a Medium Pet Door Key and can pair with your cat’s microchip”.
That makes it the only door in this group that works either way: the key for an animal with no chip or an unreadable one, the chip for everything else. PetSafe’s other door on this shelf, the Electronic Pet Door at $200.99, reads only the key.
“Dynamic weather sealing and multi-point locking.” Of the six doors here, this is the only one to claim a seal at all — and a flap is a hole in a wall, so a seal is the difference between a pet door and a draft.
No flap opening dimensions, no cut-out, no battery type or life, and no chip standards. For the most expensive door on the shelf, the measurement list is the shortest — “Medium” is the only size given, against a chart the listing refers to but does not reproduce.
Read on the day this page was built: $270 at the American Amazon shop.
Read from Keepa on the day this page was last revised; stock and price both move without notice.
Prices quoted in this text were read on 2026-10-06. The live price is at the top of the page.
| Control | My PetSafe app — schedules, remote lock, notifications |
|---|---|
| Reads | Collar key supplied; microchip pairing also supported |
| Chip standards | Not published |
| Direction | Selective entry and exit |
| Sealing | Dynamic weather sealing, multi-point locking |
| Size | Medium — dimensions not published |
| Power | Not published |
| Firmware | Update issued for critical app, connectivity and security issues |
| Amazon reference | B0BK9S5R7Y |
| EAN | 0729849172524 |
Both. It ships with a Medium Pet Door Key for the collar and "can pair with your cat’s microchip". That is unique in this group — PetSafe’s Electronic Pet Door at $200.99 reads only a key, and the SureFlap and Cat Mate doors read only chips or their own RFID tags. The listing does not say which chip standards it accepts, which is the one check the shelf asks you to make.
It is a maker writing down that there were "critical issues with app functionality, connectivity, performance and security", and that an update addressed them. Read it as both: a connected door is software as much as hardware, and software that has never been patched is software nobody has audited. What it does mean is that this door needs to stay updated, which a SureFlap curfew does not.
The listing does not say. It refers to a chart it does not reproduce, and publishes no flap opening, cut-out or animal limit. Every other door on this shelf gives at least an opening: SureFlap 6 11/16 × 7 inches, the DualScan 4¾ × 5⅝, Cat Mate a 178 × 204 mm (7.01 × 8.03 in) cut-out. On the most expensive door here, that omission is the hardest to explain.
Details checked on October 6, 2026.
A household that wants to see the cat come home from the office
Specifications: the manufacturer sheet for pet devices and the matching Amazon product page. Prices and availability: Keepa. Every figure on this page names its source.
Microchip · entry only · 4-way timer · cut-out 7 1/16 × 8 1/16 in
A microchip cat door with programmable timer locking, reading the cat’s existing chip and letting any cat out.
Best for: A single-cat or multi-cat house where the only problem is the neighbor’s cat
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A large electronic pet door that opens for a battery-powered collar key rather than a microchip, for dogs up to 100 pounds.
Best for: A large dog, where no microchip door on this shelf is big enough
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A microchip pet door in white, naming all three chip standards, with a programmable curfew and a three-year warranty.
Best for: A white door frame, if the fourteen dollars and the tag do not matter
