"TailTag is now available for those at Texas Furry Siesta this weekend! 🤠 You can now download it straight from the app store too! All the links are at playtailtag.com"
by @FinnThePanther, 19 June 2026
That post went up as the doors opened at Texas Furry Siesta in Dallas. After months as a testers-only work in progress, TailTag is now something anyone can grab. It is a real-world fursuit-catching game, and as of this weekend it is live on both the App Store and Google Play.
The pitch from its creator, Seattle's Finn the Panther, is blunt and accurate: it is "a cross between Furries and Pokemon Go." You walk a convention, you spot a fursuiter, you snap a selfie, and you make a catch. The twist is what happens after the catch.
The loop is simple on purpose. You build a profile and register your own fursuit with a photo and some basic info. At a con, you find other suiters, use the in-app catch flow to snap a selfie with them, and record the catch.
What you get back is the interesting part. When you catch a suit, TailTag shows you a profile card for that character and its owner: species, fursuit colors, pronouns, a short list of likes and interests, and a single "ask me about" prompt written by the owner. Finn's own demo profile, for example, lists his likes as "Fish, yarn, knocking things off tables" and offers the conversation starter "Why I hate eggs." That is the whole point. The app is less a scoreboard and more an icebreaker with a scoreboard attached.
On top of that sits the game layer. According to the App Store listing, TailTag supports catch photos and convention-specific catch history, daily tasks, achievements like First Catch, and event leaderboards. You track your total catches and you can be "catcher #1" for a given suit. None of it works without the social half, which is the design choice that keeps TailTag from being a pure points grind.
If you have never done it, walking up to a stranger in a full fursuit is harder than it looks. The person inside often cannot hear well, may be in character and not speaking, and is usually surrounded by other people who also want a photo. Plenty of attendees, especially newcomers, simply freeze and walk past suiters they would have loved to meet.
TailTag aims straight at that hesitation. By turning the approach into a game with a built-in prompt, it gives shy attendees a script: catch the suit, read the card, ask the one question the owner picked out. If you are new to all this and still figuring out the basics, our guide to what counts as a furry is a friendly place to start, and our first-time fursuiting essentials cover the other side of the badge.
TailTag did not appear out of nowhere. As Finn explains in his demo video, the concept was invented at large European conventions. At events like Eurofurence and NordicFuzzCon, there is a long-running catch-em-all game where each fursuiter carries a code on their badge and attendees "catch" them by entering that code into the con's app or website.
One thing to be clear about: TailTag is not those conventions' game. It is a separate, independent app Finn built from scratch. He loved the European catch-em-all idea, made a video about it, and said on camera that he wanted to bring it to the US and build his own version. TailTag is the result, generalized so it is not tied to any single convention's badge system. Instead of a code printed on one con's badge, the catch is a selfie, and the same app travels with you from event to event.
The first public test was not at Texas Furry Siesta. In a demo video posted on May 5, 2026, Finn called TailTag "nearly done" and invited attendees of Furry Weekend Atlanta, one of the largest furry conventions in the world, to sign up as testers and break the app for him. That video has been seen more than 159,000 times.
The Texas Furry Siesta launch is the next step: not a closed test this time, but an open download tied to a live event. Texas Furry Siesta, the relaxed summer con in Dallas, ran its 2026 edition the same weekend, which made it a natural place to put the finished app in real hands at scale.
Finn the Panther is a furry content creator based in Seattle and a software developer by trade, which is how a one-person team shipped a polished social game to two app stores. He is best known in the fandom for furry edutainment: a YouTube channel and the companion podcast "Furry, Explained," where he breaks down the fandom for newcomers and the curious.
TailTag fits that mission neatly. It is, at heart, an onboarding tool dressed up as a game, aimed at the exact moment a lot of people find hardest: actually meeting the suiters they came to see.
For an app built around photographing strangers, TailTag's listing is notably careful about the obvious concerns. It is rated 4+ and intended for users 13 and up, and the App Store description spells out that adult, sexual, dating, matchmaking, and harassment content are not allowed. Players can report content, block other users, and delete their account from inside the app.
The location handling is the part worth flagging for the privacy-minded. TailTag uses foreground location only, and only when you choose to verify that you are actually at a convention. The listing is explicit that it does not continuously track your location in the background. For a game whose whole premise is "are you really at this con," that is about as light-touch as the design can be.
TailTag is a real-world fursuit-catching mobile game for furry conventions, made by the creator Finn the Panther. You find fursuiters at a con, snap a selfie to record a catch, and the app then shows you a profile card for that suit and its owner, including a conversation starter. It is designed to make meeting fursuiters easier and less awkward, with a layer of achievements and a per-convention leaderboard on top.
You create a profile and, if you suit, register your fursuit with a photo. At the con you look for other fursuiters, use the in-app catch flow to snap a selfie with them, and log the catch. Each catch unlocks the other suit's profile, including species, colors, pronouns, likes and interests, and the prompt the owner chose for people to ask about. You can track your catches, earn achievements, and climb the event leaderboard.
Yes, TailTag is a free download with no price tag on the listing. It released on the Apple App Store on June 15, 2026 and is also on Google Play, and every download link is collected on the official site at playtailtag.com. It went live to attendees at Texas Furry Siesta in Dallas the weekend of June 19, 2026.
TailTag is rated 4+ and intended for users 13 and up, and its App Store listing bans adult, dating, and harassment content, with in-app tools to report content, block users, and delete your account. On location, the app uses foreground location only, and only when you choose to verify that you are at a convention. The listing states it does not continuously track location in the background.
TailTag was built by Finn the Panther, a Seattle-based furry content creator and software developer. He is known in the fandom for furry edutainment, including a YouTube channel and the "Furry, Explained" podcast. He developed TailTag largely solo over several months. The app is his, not a product of the unrelated UK pet-safety service that shares the name.
Finn has said TailTag was inspired by the catch-em-all badge games run at large European conventions such as Eurofurence and NordicFuzzCon, where fursuiters carry a code on their badge that attendees enter to "catch" them. He wanted to bring that idea to US conventions and build a version that travels between events instead of being tied to one con's badge system, using a selfie as the catch.
Yes. TailTag was first tested in public at Furry Weekend Atlanta in May 2026, where Finn invited attendees to sign up as testers through the app's website. The demo video announcing that test has been viewed more than 159,000 times. The Texas Furry Siesta release in June 2026 is the first open, public launch on the app stores.
Photo credit and removal: The screenshots and footage stills in this post are from Finn the Panther's own TailTag demo video and the TailTag app icon, reproduced here editorially with credit to report on the app's launch. If Finn the Panther would like any image removed, contact us and we will take it down on request, no questions asked.
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