Comparison

Stable Hub vs HorseGrid Designer

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

Head to head
About

Stable Hub

Facilitates seamless communication between horse trainers and owners, enabling secure sharing of text, photos, video, and audio updates. Offers personalized branding, reminders for important dates, and daily activity tracking to enhance the ownership experience and save trainers time.

Highlights
  • Secure text, photo, video, audio updates
  • Personalized branding with logo/banner
  • Automated reminders for payments/appointments
  • Daily activity tracking with notes
  • Supports single or multiple owners per horse
  • Cross-device compatibility (smartphone/tablet)
Features
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Give your owners a first-class ownership experience with STABLE HUB! Trainer to owner communication at it's very best. Send all your owners secure and private text, photos, video and audio updates in seconds... Trainer, Pre Trainer, Breaker, Syndicator or Stud you can personalize your updates with your own logo or banner and send personalized and professional updates to owners effortlessly and directly. Whether one or hundreds of owners of the same horse, no more repetitive updating conversations. From either smartphone or tablet STABLE HUB will satisfy your owners needs and save trainers hard earned time.. STABLE HUB has a wealth of knowledge and experience to help keep your owners up to date with all the latest information on their horses. Don't miss your Entries/ Stake Payments/ Appointments with our Reminder feature, and also keep track of day to day activities in the Notes. Whats your spare time worth to you? Here is Terms and Condition and Privacy : 1. Terms and Condition - https://stablehub.ca/terms-conditions 2. Privacy - https://stablehub.ca/privacy-policy

About

HorseGrid Designer

Design professional equestrian courses on your iPhone or iPad quickly and easily. This app replaces traditional pen-and-paper methods with an intuitive grid canvas for creating show jumping courses, gymnastic exercises, and dressage patterns. It offers advanced editing features and saves custom arenas across devices.

Highlights
  • Intuitive grid canvas for course design
  • Design show jumping, gymnastic, and dressage courses
  • Edit fence shapes, colors, and sizes
  • Duplicate text labels
  • Moveable dressage letters
  • Save and sync custom arenas
  • Offline functionality
Features
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Now free to play. Build pro-level equestrian courses on your iPhone or iPad in minutes, not hours. The course design app that replaces pen and paper. HorseGrid Designer is the patent pending course design tool built for trainers, eventing coaches, hunter/jumper professionals, dressage instructors, and serious riders. Whether you are setting up a show jumping course, planning gymnastic exercises, or designing dressage patterns, the intuitive grid canvas gives you everything you need to bring your vision to life. No internet connection required. WHAT'S NEW IN 1.2.1 - Text duplication: long-press any text label to duplicate it across your course - Moveable dressage letters - Fence-line editing: long-press to unlock, then edit shape, color, or size - Library button for faster access to your saved courses - Refined stride math accuracy - Custom arenas now save with the course and sync across iPhone and iPad PRICING Free to download. Premium unlocks at $7.99 per month or $5.83 per month billed annually. http://www.apple.com/legal/itunes/appstore/dev/stdeula

Screenshots

Stable Hub4 screens
HorseGrid Designer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: HorseGrid Designer at every 5 days against Stable Hub's every 3 weeks. Stable Hub's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.6). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Stable Hub sells 14 in-app purchases, starting at $19.49 per month and HorseGrid Designer sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Stable Hub ships an update every 3 weeks, HorseGrid Designer every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Stable Hub versus HorseGrid Designer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStable HubHorseGrid Designer
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (6 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—6 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size51 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperStable Hub IncPhyxius LLC

In-app purchases

14 purchases

Stable Hub

Subscriptions14
  • Stable Hub Beginner Plan$19.491 Month
  • Stable Hub Beginner Plan$24.991 Month
  • Stable Hub Standard Plan$31.991 Month
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  • Stable Hub Standard Plan$39.991 Month
  • Stable Hub Bronze Plan$42.991 Month
  • Stable Hub Bronze Plan$49.991 Month
  • Stable Hub Silver Plan$58.991 Month
  • Stable Hub Silver Plan$69.991 Month
  • Stable Hub Gold Plan$78.991 Month
  • Stable Hub Platinum Plan$94.991 Month
  • Stable Hub Gold Plan$99.991 Month
  • Stable Hub Platinum Plan$99.991 Month
  • Stable Hub Unlimited Plan$109.991 Month
  • Stable Hub Unlimited Plan$129.991 Month
2 purchases

HorseGrid Designer

Subscriptions2
  • 1 Month Subscription$7.991 Month
  • Annual Subscription$69.991 Year

Questions

Is Stable Hub free?
Stable Hub is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is HorseGrid Designer free?
HorseGrid Designer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Stable Hub or HorseGrid Designer have ads?
Neither Stable Hub nor HorseGrid Designer shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Stable Hub or HorseGrid Designer?
Stable Hub ships an update every 3 weeks, and HorseGrid Designer every 5 days. Most recently, Stable Hub was updated on October 27, 2026 and HorseGrid Designer on October 24, 2026.

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