Horse Rider is for the person who does the yard as well as the riding.
THE FEET
A vaccination lapses once a year and the vet writes to you. The farrier is due every six weeks, nobody writes, and a fortnight over is a horse long in the toe with a shoe about to come off in the field. One card per horse: shod or barefoot, the cycle it is on, when it is next due, and the log behind that. The due date is arithmetic on the visits that actually reset the cycle, so a lost shoe tacked back on last Tuesday does not buy you another six weeks. Costs sit on the rows, and the card totals the last twelve months — the largest predictable cost of keeping a horse, and a number nobody can otherwise produce.
THE FEED CHART
A feed chart exists because somebody else reads it. Grouped into morning, midday, evening and late night, with the amount to the left of the feed name because that is the thing being measured out, and the note on the line it belongs to — "soak for fifteen minutes" is useless anywhere else. Amounts are words, not grams: one scoop, half a Stubbs, two slices. Copy a chart onto another horse and adjust the one thing that differs.
THE TACK ROOM
A saddle is fitted to a horse at one moment in that horse's life, and the horse then changes shape. A saddle that fitted in March is a pressure point in September, and the horse reports it by napping, which gets read as behaviour. So each piece carries a check interval where one makes sense — six months for a saddle, a year for a girth, none for a numnah — and one tap marks it checked today.
RIDING OUT
Track a ride and the route draws itself as you go, with distance, time and pace. It keeps measuring with the phone locked or in your pocket, and stops the moment you finish. Mark what happened along the way, typed or spoken aloud; if something goes wrong, the incident log keeps where, what and who was there. Plan a ride, and it shows on the dashboard and in the month view.
THE CALENDAR
Rides, birthdays, jabs, worming, the dentist and the farrier, each on the date it falls, with a filter for each.
THE RECORD
Passport number, microchip, height, colour and markings, jabs and worming with their due dates, the yard, the vet and the insurer. What has lapsed says so on the dashboard before you go looking.
FIRST AID
Colic, laminitis, choke, wounds — what to do right now, searchable, sorted, and clear that it is reference rather than a vet. The emergency number is at the top of the screen. First aid is free, always.
WHERE YOUR DATA LIVES
On the phone. The horses, the rides, the routes, the photographs and the notes are in the app's own storage and are never uploaded. There is no advertising, no analytics and no tracking. A few things go to our own server, and only when you use the feature that needs them: your email address if you claim access you have been given; a notification token, with the phone model and app version, if you switch notifications on; and a random install ID that lets an App Store purchase be matched to you. None of it is shared or sold.
A PIN lock if you want one, light and dark, miles or kilometres, hands or centimetres.
SUBSCRIPTION
Tracking a ride, your horses and first aid are free. A Horse Rider subscription unlocks everything else. Two lengths: Monthly (one month) and Quarterly (three months). New subscribers get the first month free; the trial becomes a paid subscription unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before it ends. The price is shown in the app before anything is bought, and varies by country. A subscription renews automatically at the end of each period unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before that period ends. Manage or cancel it from the Manage subscription button in the app, or in your App Store account settings; cancelling stops the next renewal and leaves the current period running.
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