Reptile Buddy vs Flockstar
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Reptile Buddy
This app helps reptile owners meticulously track their animals' progress. Monitor growth, feeding habits, and physical changes to support husbandry and breeding objectives. Enhance your reptile hobby with comprehensive animal management tools.
- Track reptile growth
- Monitor feeding habits
- Record appearance changes
- Husbandry goal support
- Breeding goal support
- Animal management tools
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Keep an eye on how your reptiles are doing: Track their growth, how they eat and how their appearance has changed. The full suite of additional tools help you achieve your husbandry and breeding goals. Reptile Buddy makes our reptile hobby even more fun!
Flockstar
Manage your poultry operations with a comprehensive system for breeding, flock management, and production analytics. Track eggs, bird lineage, expenses, and sales to optimize your business. Syncs across all devices for easy access.
- Track eggs and breeding pen performance
- Full lineage tracking for birds
- Bulk bird creation and updates
- Log daily egg production
- Expense and sales tracking
- Task manager with reminders
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The essential app for serious poultry people. Replace your spreadsheets, notebooks, and guesswork with one app built for breeders and keepers who need records they can trust. Flockstar requires an active subscription to use. Two plans are available: Keeper, with complete flock, egg, and record keeping, and Breeder, which adds everything in the hatching and breeding section below. Choose an annual plan for the best value, or monthly for flexibility. Change or cancel anytime. HATCHING & BREEDING (BREEDER PLAN ONLY) • Track eggs from all your breeding pens in a single hatch run • Per-source fertility and hatch rates so you know which pairings work • Create chicks from completed runs with lineage pre-filled • Save incubator presets and pen configurations • Full lineage tracking: dam, sire, and offspring views • Pedigree viewer spanning three generations, with shareable certificates FLOCK MANAGEMENT • Bulk create and update hundreds of birds at once • Track breeds, traits, colors, weights, and photos • Share bird profiles as branded cards via text, email, or social media • Filter by flock, sex, breed, or custom traits • Archive birds without losing historical data PRODUCTION & ANALYTICS • Daily egg logging by flock or individual layer • Week-over-week trends and historical charts • Identify your top producers instantly BUSINESS TOOLS • Expense and sales tracking with categories • See your actual profit and loss • Task manager with reminders and recurring schedules • Journal with photos and tags for health records, observations, and more WORKS EVERYWHERE • Data syncs automatically across all devices • Log eggs from your pocket, review analytics from your laptop Serious poultry software, actively developed and updated since 2022. Questions or feature requests? support@flockstar.com Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Reptile Buddy at none against Flockstar's 6. Reptile Buddy also leads on iOS requirement (11.0 vs 16.4). Flockstar's advantage is rating (4.4 vs 4.1) and review sentiment (81% vs 71%). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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. Flockstar sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Reptile Buddy asks for nothing beyond the download.
Flockstar holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 4.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 137 and 142 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 71% of Reptile Buddy's written reviews are positive against 81% of Flockstar's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | Reptile Buddy | Flockstar |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (137 ratings) | 4.4 (142 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 71.0% of reviews | 80.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 137 | 142 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 24 MB | 95 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Torfo | Flockstar Software LLC |
Customer experience
Reptile Buddy
Flockstar
User reviews
Reptile Buddy
From 137 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Easy to use and intuitive interface
- 📊 Comprehensive tracking for feeding, weight, shedding, and care logs
- 💰 Free version with generous features (up to 50 reptiles)
- 🎨 Customizable themes and clean UI design
- 📈 Visual graphs for weight and growth tracking
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent data loss after updates or forced logouts
- 🔐 Excessive security measures requiring account login
- 📵 No push notifications available on iOS
- 🔄 Persistent update notification loop that doesn't resolve
- 🚫 Animals disappearing from collection list without user action
Flockstar
From 142 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👏🏻 Excellent for neurodivergent users
- 📊 Comprehensive tracking features
- 🔍 Detailed data and analytics
- 💻 Seamless desktop and mobile experience
- 🤖 Helpful for managing larger flocks
Room to improve
- 🖼️ Limited photo upload options
- 🔢 Difficulty adding new chicks in bulk
- 🔍 Lacking individual tracking for breeding pens
- 🔄 Inability to edit or correct past entries
Bugs and requests
Reptile Buddy
Reported bugs
17 issues- Data loss after app updates
- Update button redirects to App Store instead of updating in-app
- Animals not saving when added (requires multiple attempts)
- Weight graph not generating for new animals
- Login errors with 'error occurred' message preventing access
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- Password reset emails not being sent
- Account suspension without explanation or contact method
- Animals randomly disappearing from collection despite not being deleted
- Feeding schedule not tracking correctly when fed earlier than scheduled
- Time stamps showing incorrect times (off by hours)
- Food inventory not decreasing correctly after feeding entries
- App constantly requesting update with no update available
- Date format inconsistency between web and mobile app
- Length graph not displaying properly on mobile
- App freezing and locking up during data entry
- QR codes not functioning
- Animals not visible in list despite being in collection (showing 3/5 but only displaying 3)
Requested features
15 requests- Push notifications for iOS devices
- Ability to share schedules with other users via QR code or link
- Temperature and humidity tracking
- Custom food type additions (especially for larger rat sizes and specialty feeders)
- Multiple schedules per animal (feeding, cleaning, bathing)
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- Web/browser version access
- Mass update and mass export features
- Bedding type tracking
- Additional reptile species options (Green/Yellow Anacondas, etc.)
- Ability to add custom profile pictures to themes
- Egg laying action in history tracking
- Multiple food selection per feeding entry
- Third-party QR code integration
- Better date picker using native iOS design
- In-app subscription management and pricing transparency
Flockstar
Reported bugs
2 issues- Data loss issues after app updates or device changes
- Occasional UI freezes or crashes
Requested features
8 requests- Ability to import existing records via CSV
- Option to leave 'laid by' and 'flock' fields blank in bulk entries
- Automatic addition of hatched chicks to designated 'Chick' flock
- Designated area for tracking deceased birds
- Push notifications for hatch reminders
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- Expanded species support beyond just chickens
- Customizable tags and filters
- Excel-style export options
In-app purchases
Reptile Buddy
No in-app purchases
Flockstar
- Keeper Plan - Monthly7 Days trial$5.991 Month
- Breeder Plan - Monthly7 Days trial$9.991 Month
- Unlimited Access - Monthly7 Days trial$9.991 Month
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- Keeper Plan - Annual7 Days trial$49.991 Year
- Breeder Plan - Annual7 Days trial$79.991 Year
- Unlimited Access - Annual7 Days trial$79.991 Year
