ShowSafe vs BarnDoor
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ShowSafe
This app provides tools for managing horses, including data analysis, record keeping, and contact management. It allows users to upload files, videos, and images to keep all horse-related information in one place.
- Horse data analysis
- Record keeping
- Barn management
- Contact management
- File, video, and image uploads
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The best tools to keep your horses "Showsafe". For riders, barn managers, owners, vets, farriers. Data analysis and record keeping to give you the advantage. Manage your barns, horses, contacts. Upload files, videos, images. Privacy Policy: https://showsafe.show/privacy Terms & Conditions: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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.
- 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.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: BarnDoor at none against ShowSafe's 10. BarnDoor also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, rating, 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. ShowSafe sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. BarnDoor asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.4 for ShowSafe against 4.4 for BarnDoor. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 11 and 7 respectively.
ShowSafe ships an update every 6 weeks, BarnDoor every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ShowSafe | BarnDoor |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (11 ratings) | 4.4 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 88.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 11 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 47 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | SHOWSAFE LLC | Sporthorse Online LLC |
Customer experience
ShowSafe
BarnDoor
In-app purchases
ShowSafe
- Monthly Subscription - 1 Horse$6.991 Month
- Monthly Subscription - 5 Horse$14.991 Month
- Monthly Subscription 30 Horses$14.991 Month
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- Monthly Subscription 15 Horses$39.991 Month
- Monthly Subscription Unlimited$39.991 Month
- Annual Subscription - 1 Horse$70.991 Year
- Annual Subscription 30 Horses$151.991 Year
- Annual Subscription 15 Horses$399.991 Year
- Annual Subscription - 5 Horses$404.991 Year
- Annual Subscription 50 Horses$709.991 Year
BarnDoor
No in-app purchases
