CalfDex vs Cow Keeper
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CalfDex
This mobile application allows beef ranchers to easily collect and record individual animal data in the field. All collected information is uploaded to the web for producers to access in user-friendly formats.
- Individual animal data collection
- Field data recording
- Web data upload
- Producer-friendly data formats
- Cross-platform compatibility
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CalfDex is a free cross-platform mobile app designed for easy beef calf individual animal data collection and recording in the field. Data are uploaded to the web and made available is easy-to-use formats by the producer/rancher.
Cow Keeper
This app helps cattle farmers manage their herds by tracking individual cow details, health records, and lineage. It allows for organization by pasture, automatic status updates for calves, and detailed financial tracking of sales and profitability. Data syncs across devices without internet.
- Track cow details (tag, breed, DOB)
- Record health and treatment logs
- Organize cows into pastures
- Link calves to mothers
- Track sales and profitability
- Sync data across devices via WiFi/Bluetooth
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Cow Keeper is a livestock management app for cattle farmers. It lets you track every cow in your herd tag number, name, breed, type, weight, date of birth, and health status with a running treatment log for vaccinations, deworming, antibiotics, and checkups. Cattle can be organized into pastures, and calves are linked to their mothers, with automatic status updates when a calf is born or a mother passes Cow Keeper tracks the full lifecycle: active herd, sold animals, and deceased cattle each have their own tab. Purchase and sale prices are recorded per animal, and mama cow profitability is calculated automatically from her calves' sale revenue. For farms with multiple devices, Cow Keeper syncs your herd automatically over WiFi and Bluetooth no internet or server required! A Farm Code keeps your farm isolated from neighbors and a role system lets farmers manage who can see your farms data.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Cow Keeper at 5.0 against CalfDex's 4.0. CalfDex's advantage is ratings volume (6 vs 2) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.6). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Cow Keeper holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 2 respectively.
CalfDex ships an update every 5 months, Cow Keeper every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CalfDex | Cow Keeper |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (6 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 57 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | K-State Diagnostic and Analytical Services, Inc | Lambden Vinsant |
Customer experience
CalfDex
Cow Keeper
In-app purchases
CalfDex
No in-app purchases
Cow Keeper
No in-app purchases
Questions
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