Comparison

Star Stable vs Load Up

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Star Stable

Raise a foal from birth to a fully grown horse. Customize your stable with new decorations, grow treats, and dress up your horses. Experience adventures with your horse in a vast online world.

Highlights
  • Raise foals into adult horses
  • Customize stable and paddock
  • Grow treats for horses
  • Dress up horses
  • Care for up to 21 horses
  • Exclusive coat colors
  • Adventures in Star Stable Online
Features
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Welcome to the world of Star Stable Horses! Care for your very own adorable foal and watch as they grow into beautiful horses you can ride, train, and take on amazing adventures within the land of Jorvik! It's time to take your stable to the next level, with the Stable Styling Update! We've got brand-new decorations to customize your paddock and inside your barn. Make your stable truly YOU! • Complete fun daily tasks to keep your foal healthy and happy! • Watch your newborn foal grow up to become a beautiful horse! • Dress up horses with bows in the Beauty Salon! • Grow treats to feed your horses and foals in your own Garden! • Keep up to 21 horses in your very own horse stable! • Watch your horses play together in the paddock! • Choose your ideal horse breed & variation! • App Only Exclusive Coat Colors! • New horses and game content added frequently! But once your foal is all grown up the fun’s just getting started, as it can join you on amazing adventures in Star Stable Online, the worlds biggest online horse game and available on desktop and mobile!* For all the latest Star Stable news, visit us at: www.starstable.com/ssh Instagram.com/StarStableOnline Facebook.com/StarStable Twitter.com/StarStable *A Star Stable Online account and Star Coins are necessary for transferring.

About

Load Up

Experience a calming simulator focused on building trust with horses to load them onto trailers. Read their body language, master gentle pressure, and navigate transport and unloading challenges. Customize your own horses and compete on leaderboards.

Highlights
  • Read horse body language
  • Gentle pressure-and-release loading
  • Trailer backing and transport simulation
  • Horse customization and stable management
  • Multiple difficulty scenarios
  • Game Center leaderboards and achievements
Features
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The real challenge was never the driving — it's getting a nervous horse to choose to walk onto the trailer. Load Up is a cozy horse-loading simulator. No health bars here — just a horse that breathes, swishes its tail and pricks its ears, and the trust between you. Read its body language, find the gentle pressure-and-release rhythm, and load it, drive it, and unload it — calmly. — A full six-phase journey — Pick horse + scene → back the trailer in → load → transport → unload → results. Every leg is scored on staying gentle AND efficient. — Reading the horse is the soul of the game — Ears forward or pinned back? Head low or thrown up? Breathing fast? The CALM readout shows its state — but the real skill is reading the horse with your eyes. Press to build gentle pressure, release the instant the green window lights up, and it steps aboard. Force it and it rears or balks — so step back and give it room. — Three horses; personality is the difficulty — · Lao Li (retired): forgiving, wide window — great for beginners. · Xiao Yan (greenie): spooky and easily startled, narrow window. · Lei Ting (problem loader): rears and balks at the slightest force — a test of patience and restraint. — Four scenarios that stack difficulty — Ranch day · running late to a show · vet emergency (more anxious) · open field (no wall to back against). — More than just loading — · Backing: top-down view with three-color guide lines — and dodge the chicken, cone or kid that darts behind you, in time. · Transport: the horse shifts its weight on the road; counter-steer through hard stops, potholes and oncoming traffic — tap the bubble in time. · Unloading: the horse turns to face out, pokes its head from the box and walks down the ramp. — Make a horse just like yours — Coat and point colors, face markings, leg socks, patterns (pinto / appaloosa / roan / dapple), body size and build, mane & tail length, ears — all with a live preview. Name it, and keep a whole stable of your own horses. A Game Center leaderboard and 8 achievements track every gentle run; after each run, share a highlight "recording" of your best moment and challenge a friend. — Thoughtful details — · Switch freely between light and dark. · Real sound + haptics, mute anytime. · Full settings and privacy compliance, rated 4+, family-friendly. · Progress saved on-device — no sign-in, no connection required. Slow down. Be gentle. It'll load up. # Privacy We take your privacy very seriously and do not collect any personal data from you. # Support Contact us via support@loadupgame.com

Screenshots

Star Stable4 screens
Load Up4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Load Up at 5.0 against Star Stable's 4.2. Load Up also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). Star Stable's advantage is ratings volume (12K vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Star Stable sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Load Up sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Load Up holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Star Stable has 12K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Star Stable versus Load Up: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStar StableLoad Up
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (12K ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews63.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings12K — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size247 MB12 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperStar Stable Entertainment AB就洪 邓

Customer experience

Star Stable

All ratings11,958 ratings
Positive78.8%
Neutral8.1%
Negative13.1%
Written reviews1,250 reviews
Positive63.3%
Neutral13.8%
Negative22.9%

Load Up

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Star Stable

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Horses disappearing from stables
  • Incorrect horse breeds/colors being displayed
  • Quests and training not registering properly

Requested features

4 requests
  • More horse breeds and coat color options
  • Ability to ride and compete with horses in-app
  • Reduced cost or free transfers to SSO
  • Shorter rest times between training sessions

Load Up

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Star Stable

One-time10
  • Stable Stall 1$0.99
  • Stable Stall 3$0.99
  • Stable Interiors Package$2.99
Show 7 more
  • Star Coins S$2.99
  • Horse Stall Package$2.99
  • Star Coins M$5.99
  • The Big Package$5.99
  • Unlocks Stable Section 1$5.99
  • Star Coins L$16.99
  • Star Coins XL$29.99
1 purchases

Load Up

One-time1
  • Load Up PRO$9.99

Questions

Is Star Stable free?
Star Stable is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Load Up free?
Load Up is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Star Stable or Load Up?
Load Up is rated higher. Star Stable averages 4.2 out of 5 from 12K ratings, while Load Up averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Star Stable or Load Up have ads?
Neither Star Stable nor Load Up shows ads.

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