Best Farrier vs OpenStable
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Best Farrier
Manage client and horse data, track invoices, payments, and expenses. Organize your schedule with a weekly calendar and generate business reports. Send invoices and reminders via text or email.
- Client and horse data management
- Invoice and payment tracking
- Expense and mileage logging
- Weekly schedule calendar
- Horse history timeline with notes and pictures
- Automated invoice and reminder sending
- Business report generation
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Best Farrier is a scheduling and invoicing app for farriers, built for mobile devices, that helps you run your business efficiently on the go. All your business information is in one place, easily and conveniently accessible wherever you are. Features include: - Manage all your client and horse data. - Keep track of your invoices, payments, sales taxes/VAT, expenses and mileage. - Manage your schedule with a full weekly view calendar. - Keep a detailed horse history timeline, auto-generated from your invoices. You can also add your own notes and pictures to the horse history. - Text or e-mail invoices and appointment reminders to your clients. - Generate business reports such as account history, gross income report or sales tax/VAT summaries, and view, print or e-mail them right from your phone. - Built with mobile devices in mind, so it's easy to use, requires minimal typing. - Works anywhere without a phone connection or wifi. When you have connection, the app uses cloud backup to keep your data safe if you lose your device. Internationalization/language support: - Best Farrier is available in American English, Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese. - Provides PARTIAL support for German and Dutch (only invoices, e-mails and text messages to clients are translated), with more languages to be added soon. - Can use your local currency symbol and formatting (using your device's selected language) or you can select it from a comprehensive list of currencies. The Best Farrier app requires an account, which you can get registering for a free 30-day trial in the app. After the free trial you will be automatically billed the monthly subscription (plus tax if applicable), unless you cancel your subscription, which you can do at any time going to Settings > Apple ID > Subscriptions. If you cancel your subscription, the app will still work and your existing data will be fully accessible, although the app won't accept any new data.
OpenStable
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Find a yard for your horse. Or a farrier. Or a clinic next Sunday. OpenStable is the UK's marketplace for horse owners, livery yards, and equestrian service providers — built so you stop spending evenings on Facebook groups, screenshots of phone numbers, and "ask in the comments" threads. — FOR HORSE OWNERS — Browse yards by postcode. See exactly which livery types are available (DIY, Part, Full, Working, Retirement), what facilities are on-site, and how recently the yard was active on the platform. Save the ones that look right and message the yard owner from inside the app. We'll keep your enquiry safe and the conversation organised. Looking for a farrier in your area? A physiotherapist? An instructor running a 90cm jumping clinic next Saturday? Tap into the same search and switch the mode at the top — yards, activities, services. One postcode, three answers. — FOR YARD OWNERS — Stop fielding the same question fifty times. Publish your vacancies once: livery type, monthly price, availability date, facilities. Anyone enquiring sends you a structured message with the horse's basic details (breed, age, height, discipline) — so you can triage in 10 seconds instead of a back-and-forth. Manage enquiries in your dashboard. Mark which ones are New, Replied, Viewing-booked, or Secured. Respond to reviews on the Pro plan and let prospective clients see how engaged you are. — FOR SERVICE PROVIDERS — Get found by horse owners in your coverage area. Farriers, equine physios, instructors, dentists, body workers, behaviourists — anyone whose work is "go to the horse, not the other way around". Set your specialisms, your radius, your typical pricing. The horse owners who message you have already self-qualified — they know what you do, where you cover, and what you charge. On the Pro plan, send up to 30 nudges per month to owners in your area when you have last-minute availability. 90-day cooldowns per recipient, so it never feels like spam. — PRICING — Free for everyone who's just browsing or sending a few enquiries a month. Yard owners on Pro: more slots, review responses, priority placement. Service providers on Pro: nudges, profile badge, faster reply times surfaced. — PRIVACY — We collect what we need (email, optional phone, postcode) and nothing else. We never sell your data. We never share it with advertisers. We never track you across other apps. — SUPPORT — Questions? hello@openstable.co.uk Anything urgent? In-app messages reach our team directly. Made in the UK, by people who keep horses. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.openstable.co.uk/terms Privacy Policy: https://www.openstable.co.uk/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: OpenStable at every 2 weeks against Best Farrier's every 2 months. 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
Both are free to download. Best Farrier sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $30.99 per month and OpenStable sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Best Farrier ships an update every 2 months, OpenStable every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Best Farrier | OpenStable |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (10 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 10 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 39 MB | 102 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Best Mobile Professional, LLC | ALEXANDER L CROWLEY |
In-app purchases
Best Farrier
- Best Farrier subscription1 Month trial$30.991 Month
OpenStable
- Service Provider Pro$4.991 Month
- Yard Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
- Yard Pro Yearly$49.991 Year
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