Chookbook vs Chicken & Egg Tracker
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Chookbook
Manage your backyard chickens with this dedicated app. Track daily activities, health, and flock information. Designed by a chicken keeper for fellow enthusiasts.
- Daily management tracking
- Flock information logging
- Designed by a chicken keeper
- For backyard chicken enthusiasts
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This app was designed and developed by a real backyard chicken keeper to help the daily management and tacking all about your chooks and now available to other keepers out there.
Chicken & Egg Tracker
This app helps backyard chicken keepers manage their flock by logging egg collections, tracking individual bird production, and keeping health notes. It also assists with planning care tasks, monitoring supplies, and estimating incubation hatch dates.
- Daily egg logging
- Flock profiles with photos
- Per-bird egg production tracking
- Health notes and follow-ups
- Care task scheduling and reminders
- Supplies and expense tracking
- Incubation hatch date estimates
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Your backyard flock's daily journal, painted in watercolor. Tap +1 as you collect and watch the week fill in. Know every hen by name, see who's laying, and keep each bird's eggs and health notes together, right where you need them at the coop. • Count eggs in a tap, then say who laid what if you know • A profile for every hen, rooster and chick: breed, coop, egg color, age and photo • Daily, weekly and monthly charts, with usable, held and damaged eggs • Egg holds after a treatment, with the day eggs are safe to eat again • Repeating care tasks with reminders: feed, water, cleaning, health checks • Incubator countdowns for chickens, ducks, geese, turkeys, guinea fowl and quail, with candling and lockdown days • Supplies and expenses, and what a dozen of your eggs really costs • Export everything to Excel or CSV for your vet, your records or your own charts • iCloud sync between your iPhone and iPad Made for backyard flocks and small homesteads, from three hens to a full coop.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Chicken & Egg Tracker at 4.8 against Chookbook's 3.8. Chookbook's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 18.0). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and update cadence 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. Chicken & Egg Tracker sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Chookbook asks for nothing beyond the download.
Chicken & Egg Tracker holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 9 and 23 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 80% of Chookbook's written reviews are positive against 75% of Chicken & Egg Tracker's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Chookbook ships an update every 5 months, Chicken & Egg Tracker every 3 months. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Chookbook | Chicken & Egg Tracker |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (9 ratings) | 4.8 (23 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 80.0% of reviews — better | 75.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 9 | 23 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 48 MB | 20 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Gustavo Costa de Oliveira | Sergii Nesterenko |
Customer experience
Chookbook
Chicken & Egg Tracker
In-app purchases
Chookbook
No in-app purchases
Chicken & Egg Tracker
- Chicken Tracker Pro$12.99
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