Comparison

ShowSafe vs BarnDoor

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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/

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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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All your horse information in one convenient app. Managing shoeings, vaccinations, worming, and dental activities has never been easier. But that is just the beginning. Check out how BarnDoor can help you juggle everything that’s going on with your horses! Organize Your Horses Track everything going on in your barns and pastures. Access all horse-related data anywhere, anytime. Tasks & Activities Manage your Shoeing, Worming, Vaccination, and Dental activities. Easily access any historical records and stay on top of all upcoming tasks. Feeding Management Stay on top of your Feed Schedules and capture feeding instructions so your horses will not grow hungry. Easy Reporting Everything that’s going on at your farm. Channel your inner taskmaster and apply filters to your reports like a pro! Notes and Attachments Vet records, bills, contracts… if they can be digitized, they should live in BarnDoor so you never have to look for any paper trail again! Customize Your App Each barn runs differently. BarnDoor lets you create your own fields to track all the information you need! Customize the information you want to capture for each horse using the Web-App and see the changes on your Smartphone. At this point, the app is available for your smartphone but not yet on iPads. We are constantly improving the app, but if you want to take full advantage of all features, check out the web app on your Desktop or Laptop browser.

Screenshots

ShowSafe4 screens
BarnDoor4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: BarnDoor at none against ShowSafe's 10. 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. ShowSafe sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. BarnDoor asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ShowSafe ships an update every 5 weeks, BarnDoor every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on June 5, 2026 and July 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
ShowSafe versus BarnDoor: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterShowSafeBarnDoor
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (11 ratings)4.4 (7 ratings) — better
Positive reviews88.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings11 — better7
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeks — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS14.713.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size9 MB46 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperSHOWSAFE LLCSporthorse Online LLC

Customer experience

ShowSafe

All ratings11 ratings
Positive81.8%
Neutral0.0%
Negative18.2%
Written reviews9 reviews
Positive88.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative11.1%

BarnDoor

All ratings7 ratings
Positive85.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative14.3%

In-app purchases

10 purchases

ShowSafe

Subscriptions10
  • Monthly Subscription - 1 Horse$6.991 Month
  • Monthly Subscription - 5 Horse$14.991 Month
  • Monthly Subscription 30 Horses$14.991 Month
Show 7 more
  • 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
None

BarnDoor

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ShowSafe free?
ShowSafe is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is BarnDoor free?
BarnDoor is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, ShowSafe or BarnDoor?
BarnDoor is rated higher. ShowSafe averages 4.4 out of 5 from 11 ratings, while BarnDoor averages 4.4 from 7 ratings.
Do ShowSafe or BarnDoor have ads?
Neither ShowSafe nor BarnDoor shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ShowSafe or BarnDoor?
ShowSafe ships an update every 5 weeks, and BarnDoor every 2 months. Most recently, ShowSafe was updated on June 5, 2026 and BarnDoor on July 22, 2026.

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