Comparison

mystride vs BarnDoor

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

Head to head
About

mystride

This app helps horse owners, barns, and equine professionals manage all aspects of horse care and business. It centralizes notes, activities, documents, messages, appointments, and services, simplifying coordination and communication. Owners can book services and pay bills, while professionals manage clients and schedules.

Highlights
  • Horse care coordination
  • Business management
  • Document storage
  • Messaging and communication
  • Appointment scheduling
  • Service booking and payments
Features
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Caring for horses or running a horse business takes a lot of coordination, documentation, and communication. The mystride app streamlines and simplifies all of it by helping horse owners, barns, and equine professionals work together around each horse. Notes, activities, documents, messages, appointments, and services stay connected. Owners can book services and pay bills, while barns and professionals can manage clients, requests, schedules, and payments.

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

mystride4 screens
BarnDoor4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: mystride at every 4 days against BarnDoor's every 2 months. mystride also leads on ratings volume (21 vs 7). BarnDoor's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 27.0). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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

mystride holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 21 and 7 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

mystride ships an update every 4 days, BarnDoor every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 13, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
mystride versus BarnDoor: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParametermystrideBarnDoor
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (21 ratings) — better4.4 (7 ratings)
Positive reviews72.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings21 — better7
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPod — better
Requires iOS27.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size519 MB47 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMystride, Inc.Sporthorse Online LLC

Customer experience

mystride

All ratings21 ratings
Positive85.7%
Neutral14.3%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews11 reviews
Positive72.7%
Neutral27.3%
Negative0.0%

BarnDoor

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

In-app purchases

None

mystride

No in-app purchases

None

BarnDoor

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is mystride free?
mystride 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, mystride or BarnDoor?
mystride is rated higher. mystride averages 4.6 out of 5 from 21 ratings, while BarnDoor averages 4.4 from 7 ratings.
Do mystride or BarnDoor have ads?
Neither mystride nor BarnDoor shows ads.
Which is updated more often, mystride or BarnDoor?
mystride ships an update every 4 days, and BarnDoor every 2 months. Most recently, mystride was updated on November 13, 2026 and BarnDoor on November 4, 2026.

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