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Like in human medicine, mHealth applications for animal owners may be an approach to relieve veterinarians in their daily work, for example when supporting owners in determining the need of their animal(s) to be seen by a vet. Few research has been conducted that focuses on a technical support solution for symptom recognition and interpretation for animals, whose symptoms need to be recognized and interpreted by their owners as veterinary laypersons in the first place. Existing literature about such applications is scarce and difficult to find, as there are no journals or databases explicitly dedicated to these topics available. A narrative literature review was conducted as the first step in developing such an application. Results focus on the user interface design, e.g. securing a complete user input, providing adequately formulated information to the users and ensuring the understanding of the applications limitations.