Agility Builder vs HorseGrid Designer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Agility Builder
Design, detail, and view agility and hoopers courses in 3D on your iPad. Share your creations with friends and access them on your iPhone. Offers flexible design tools and course management.
- Design agility and hoopers courses
- Drag, rotate, and scale obstacles
- Add course details (Judge, Venue, Date)
- View courses in 3D
- Share courses with friends
- Access courses on iPhone
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Build and share your Agility and Hoopers Courses on your iPad! On your iPad, full flexibility in designing and detailing all aspects of your courses. Enjoy the simplicity of dragging, rotating and scaling your obstacles with the touch of your fingers. On your iPhone view your Courses. On your iPhone you cannot design courses, but you can look at them. Add details about your courses - Judge, Venue, Date, your own personal notes, and much more. View your courses in 3D! Share your courses with your friends! SUBSCRIPTION TERMS Monthly: $0.99 Yearly: $9.99 Lifelong: $39.99 Agility Builder is available as a one-time purchase or on a subscription basis either monthly or yearly. Subscriptions will be charged to your credit card through your iTunes account. Your subscription will automatically renew unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You will not be able to cancel your subscription once activated and refunds will not be provided for any unused portion of the term. You can turn off auto-renew any time from your iTunes account settings. Prices are for US customers and are subject to change without notice. Pricing in other countries may vary and actual charges may be converted to your local currency depending on the country of residence. Get in touch: Shoot us an email: support@agilitybuilder.ch Visit our website: agilitybuilder.com Terms and Conditions: http://www.agilitybuilder.ch/legal/termsEN.html Privacy policy: http://www.agilitybuilder.ch/legal/privacyEN.html
HorseGrid Designer
Design professional equestrian courses on your iPhone or iPad quickly and easily. This app replaces traditional pen-and-paper methods with an intuitive grid canvas for creating show jumping courses, gymnastic exercises, and dressage patterns. It offers advanced editing features and saves custom arenas across devices.
- Intuitive grid canvas for course design
- Design show jumping, gymnastic, and dressage courses
- Edit fence shapes, colors, and sizes
- Duplicate text labels
- Moveable dressage letters
- Save and sync custom arenas
- Offline functionality
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Now free to play. Build pro-level equestrian courses on your iPhone or iPad in minutes, not hours. The course design app that replaces pen and paper. HorseGrid Designer is the patent pending course design tool built for trainers, eventing coaches, hunter/jumper professionals, dressage instructors, and serious riders. Whether you are setting up a show jumping course, planning gymnastic exercises, or designing dressage patterns, the intuitive grid canvas gives you everything you need to bring your vision to life. No internet connection required. WHAT'S NEW IN 1.2.1 - Text duplication: long-press any text label to duplicate it across your course - Moveable dressage letters - Fence-line editing: long-press to unlock, then edit shape, color, or size - Library button for faster access to your saved courses - Refined stride math accuracy - Custom arenas now save with the course and sync across iPhone and iPad PRICING Free to download. Premium unlocks at $7.99 per month or $5.83 per month billed annually. http://www.apple.com/legal/itunes/appstore/dev/stdeula
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: HorseGrid Designer at 5.0 against Agility Builder's 3.0. HorseGrid Designer also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs monthly) and ratings volume (6 vs 2). Agility Builder's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.6). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Both are free to download. Agility Builder sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and HorseGrid Designer sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
HorseGrid Designer holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 6 respectively.
Agility Builder ships an update monthly, HorseGrid Designer every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Agility Builder | HorseGrid Designer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 6 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Peter Grutter | Phyxius LLC |
Customer experience
Agility Builder
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In-app purchases
Agility Builder
- Monthly Subscription$0.991 Month
- Yearly Subscription$9.991 Year
- Unlock Forever!$59.99
HorseGrid Designer
- 1 Month Subscription$7.991 Month
- Annual Subscription$69.991 Year
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