Comparison

BarnManager vs BarnDoor

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

BarnDoor

Manage all aspects of horse and barn care, from health records and appointments to feeding schedules and custom data fields. This app centralizes horse information, making it easy to track activities and access historical data.

Highlights
  • Horse and barn organization
  • Health activity tracking (shoeing, worming, vaccination, dental)
  • Feeding schedule management
  • Customizable data fields
  • Notes and attachments storage
  • Reporting and filtering
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We're adding User Preferences to BarnDoor! You can now manage your settings right from your phone. Choose which emails you'd like to receive, including weekly summaries of upcoming and overdue tasks and activities, as well as fecal test reminders. You can also customize how your horses' heights are displayed, choosing between hands, centimeters, or inches to match your preferred unit of measurement.

Screenshots

BarnManager4 screens
BarnDoor4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: BarnDoor at 4.4 against BarnManager's 3.5. BarnDoor also leads on ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). BarnManager's advantage is ratings volume (25 vs 7) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price, update cadence, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

BarnDoor holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 3.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 25 and 7 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

BarnManager ships an update monthly, BarnDoor every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
BarnManager versus BarnDoor: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBarnManagerBarnDoor
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.5 (25 ratings)4.4 (7 ratings) — better
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings25 — better7
Update frequencyMonthly — betterEvery 2 months
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB47 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDigital Crumbs LLCSporthorse Online LLC

Customer experience

BarnManager

All ratings24 ratings
Positive62.5%
Neutral4.2%
Negative33.3%
Written reviews18 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral5.6%
Negative44.4%

BarnDoor

All ratings7 ratings
Positive85.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative14.3%

In-app purchases

None

BarnManager

No in-app purchases

None

BarnDoor

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is BarnManager free?
BarnManager is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is BarnDoor free?
BarnDoor is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, BarnManager or BarnDoor?
BarnDoor is rated higher. BarnManager averages 3.5 out of 5 from 25 ratings, while BarnDoor averages 4.4 from 7 ratings.
Do BarnManager or BarnDoor have ads?
BarnManager shows ads; BarnDoor does not.
Which is updated more often, BarnManager or BarnDoor?
BarnManager ships an update monthly, and BarnDoor every 2 months. Most recently, BarnManager was updated on October 24, 2026 and BarnDoor on October 25, 2026.

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