Comparison

BarnManager vs StudStat

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

Head to head
About

BarnManager

Manage all aspects of equestrian life, from horse health records and scheduling to barn operations and communication. Digitize your notes, track appointments, and create custom lists to streamline your workflow and spend more time with your horses.

Highlights
  • Horse profiles and health records
  • Digital calendar for scheduling
  • Customizable checklists and lists
  • Digital whiteboard feature
  • Permission-based access controls
  • Syncs with web app
Features
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Horses are more than a pet and more than a hobby. Horses are a lifestyle. BarnManager supports trainers, students, parents, barn owners, horse owners, riders, grooms, vets, farriers and more to manage all of the moving pieces and people that are a critical part of keeping your horses happy and healthy and running your business efficiently and professionally. BarnManager is a tool that supports traditional horsemanship and enables you to spend more time doing what you love, working with horses. Convert your binders quickly and easily. Use your mobile device to snap pictures of your handwritten or printed notes, whiteboards, etc. Then upload these images, attach Horses, People and Keywords and easily search for these records using site wide search. Horse profiles provide a place to store all of the important information, documents, health and farrier records, and communications about your horses. Our Calendar can be viewed daily, weekly, monthly, or annually to enable short term planning, such as lesson scheduling, and long term schedules such as competition planning. Create table lists and check lists for everything and anything. Make feed lists, packing lists, temperature charts and anything else that you can imagine. Permission levels allow you to limit access to specific horses for owner or employee users. Use the digital whiteboard to take the barn aisle with you. How often are you actually standing in the barn aisle to read the information on the white board? The White Board feature enables you to check the board from the ring, the road or wherever else you may be. The Barn Manager Mobile App syncs to our web app, so that you can work from your computer as well. You can cancel your account at any time in the Account Menu. There are no refunds or credits for partial months. For more information, please visit https://www.barnmanager.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/BarnManagerTermsofService.pdf Stay tuned for Invoicing and Accounting coming soon!

About

StudStat

Features
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Fertility analysis app for the thoroughbred breeding industry. In conjunction with web based software, analyses individual stallion data and produces fertility performance statistics and graphs through mare, cover and pregnancy data entry

Screenshots

BarnManager4 screens
StudStat4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: StudStat at none against BarnManager's shown. BarnManager's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 10 months). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

BarnManager ships an update monthly, StudStat every 10 months. The most recent releases landed on September 18, 2026 and September 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
BarnManager versus StudStat: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBarnManagerStudStat
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.6 (24 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings24 — better—
Update frequencyMonthly — betterEvery 10 months
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better13.4
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB18 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperDigital Crumbs LLCLAYOUTindex

In-app purchases

None

BarnManager

No in-app purchases

None

StudStat

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is BarnManager free?
BarnManager is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is StudStat free?
StudStat is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do BarnManager or StudStat have ads?
BarnManager shows ads; StudStat does not.
Which is updated more often, BarnManager or StudStat?
BarnManager ships an update monthly, and StudStat every 10 months. Most recently, BarnManager was updated on September 18, 2026 and StudStat on September 14, 2026.

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