Tack Store vs DerbyPartyPhone Light
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tack Store
Discover equestrian tack through a comprehensive classified listing. Browse detailed information, photos, and contact details for items. Save favorites and manage your listings efficiently.
- Classified listings for tack
- Detailed item information
- Contact and photo details
- Search and sort functionality
- Save favorite items
- Manage photos
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Find your next tack item from our huge classified listing. You'll find detailed information, contact information, and photos. Use the search and sort feature to quickly find exactly what you're looking for. Save favorite items and review them later. Manage your photos in the app.
DerbyPartyPhone Light
Manage hypothetical betting pools for horse racing events. Calculate payouts for various bet types and track house cuts for fundraisers. Supports importing race data and bettor information.
- Hypothetical betting pool management
- Payout calculation for multiple bet types
- Optional house cut for fundraisers
- Import race data and bettor information
- Mark horses as scratched
- Distribute payout summaries via email
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If you are throwing a Derby Party*, or any horse racing based fundraiser or event where you want to accept bets and calculate winners, this is the App to use. Note - this is the light version, allowing up to 3 bettors. If you are hosting a Derby Party, the full version of the app will not limit the number of bettors. Download common race data with horses and odds from the Internet, or enter your own race. Specify an optional house cut for a fundraiser or to cover your party. Add or modify horses and their odds, or mark a horse as scratched. Add or import bettors with an optional email address for distributing a payout summary. Bet types supported are: Win, Place, Show, Across the Board, Exacta, Trifecta, Exacta Boxed and Trifecta Boxed. Once the race has completed, enter the race results and calculate your payouts. The payout summary will specify all winning bettors with their payouts, as well as any fundraising house cut. Keep the calculations and data entry as simple as possible, and enjoy your Derby Party! Whether the horse race is in New York, California, Kentucky, England, France or Australia this App can help manage the data and calculations associated with the hypothetical betting pool so you can enjoy the party more. For a larger user interface, check out Derby Party for iPad. *NOTE - Derby Party is not an online gambling service. Derby Party performs the complex calculations for Win, Place, Show, Across the Board, Exacta and Trifecta style bets. Derby Party is owned and developed solely by Larson Development LLC, and not associated with any other organization. Larson Development affirms that Derby Party is solely a bet calculator designed for the calculation of hypothetical party pools, and is not associated with any horse race venue's app currently available for download or sale in the App Store.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: DerbyPartyPhone Light at 100% against Tack Store's 33%. DerbyPartyPhone Light also leads on rating (3.8 vs 2.4). Tack Store's advantage is update cadence (every 7 months vs every 110 months) and iOS requirement (8.1 vs 15.0). On price, ratings volume, 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.
DerbyPartyPhone Light holds the better App Store score, 3.8 against 2.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 4 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 33% of Tack Store's written reviews are positive against 100% of DerbyPartyPhone Light's.
Tack Store ships an update every 7 months, DerbyPartyPhone Light every 110 months. Both last shipped on October 23, 2026.
| Parameter | Tack Store | DerbyPartyPhone Light |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.4 (5 ratings) | 3.8 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months — better | Every 110 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.1 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 67 MB | 28 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | WebLevel Marketing, LLC | Larson Development, LLC |
Customer experience
Tack Store
DerbyPartyPhone Light
In-app purchases
Tack Store
No in-app purchases
DerbyPartyPhone Light
No in-app purchases
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