Cattlytics Beef vs RanchOS
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Cattlytics Beef
This app streamlines ranch operations by digitizing cattle records. It unifies health, breeding, inventory, and financial data, offering AI-powered insights and automation for smarter, data-driven decisions. Manage your herd efficiently from birth to sale.
- Cow/Calf Management
- Cattle Health Monitoring
- Lineage and Breeding History
- Inventory Management
- Finance Management
- Pasture Management
- AI Powered Insights
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Cattlytics Beef is the modern cattle record keeping app for ranchers who want smarter, data driven operations. As a full beef cattle management app, it replaces notebooks and spreadsheets with digital workflows unifying health, breeding, inventory, pasture, and financial records. Whether managing cow/calf herds, grazing rotations, or breeding cycles, Cattlytics gives you clarity to make faster, more profitable decisions. Core Capabilities: Cow/Calf Management Track breeding and calving from start to finish. The smart dashboard with AI recommendations ensures you never miss a step. Log heat cycles, inseminations, pregnancies, due dates, and outcomes. Automatic alerts trigger post birth tasks like tagging, vaccinations, and weights. Cattle Health Monitoring Software Maintain treatment logs, vaccinations, and withdrawal periods. Monitor symptoms for early disease detection. The AI health feature lets you instantly review any animal’s disease history for faster action. Lineage and Breeding History Go beyond records with full pedigree tracking. Link calves to dams and sires for accurate family trees. Receive alerts for cycles, heat detection, soundness checks, and treatments. AI calving prediction helps you plan ahead like a virtual assistant. Cattle Inventory Management Track counts, weights, and movements. Manage feeding schedules and medicine inventories including vaccines. Expense tracking, invoice management, and reports ensure clear financial oversight. Finance Management Track daily expenses, payments, income, sales, and pasture rents. Connect to QuickBooks or integrate with ERP finance modules for full farm to finance control. Pasture Management and Mapping Visualize pastures, rotate grazing, and optimize land use with mapping tools. Monitor utilization and balance rotations for sustainability. Task and Activity Management Set reminders for weaning, castration, and vaccinations. Assign responsibilities and track worker activity logs for accountability. AI Powered Insights and Automation The built in AI Chat Assistant supports verbal and written communication, giving you a full profile history of any animal. Smart dashboards deliver notifications, recommendations, and alerts from health to calving. With traceability from birth to sale, every detail is documented. EID Reader Integration Scan RFID and EID tags directly into the system. This saves time, eliminates errors, and keeps records accurate. Data and Analytics Customize dashboards with widgets for counts, alerts, and tasks. Dynamic updates highlight priority animals. Bulk import Excel or breed association files for fast integration. Reports reveal herd productivity, health, and financial trends. Event Driven Dashboards View calving windows, overdue tasks, weight checks, and pending activities in real time. Offline First, Cross Platform Access Record data in remote areas without connectivity. Entries sync automatically when online. Multilingual Platform Compatibility Built for global teams. Use in Spanish, Portuguese, and French, and adjust currencies and measurement units to local standards. Adoption is smooth across diverse workforces. Why It Matters Cattlytics Beef is more than a cattle management app. It is a cattle inventory and finance system connecting ranch tasks with executive oversight. Ranchers improve breeding, reduce health risks, optimize pasture use, and manage costs confidently. Add unlimited users and workers, scale across sites, and maintain consistency at every level. With AI insights, predictive automation, EID integration, multilingual support, and finance tools, Cattlytics turns cattle management into lasting strategic impact. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
RanchOS
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RanchOS – Livestock & Ranch Management RanchOS is the operating system for modern ranching — an all-in-one ranch management platform designed to replace notebooks, sticky notes, and scattered spreadsheets with a single powerful mobile app. Built on a working ranch in Southern Colorado, RanchOS helps ranchers manage livestock, cattle operations, hay production, equipment, pastures, and daily ranch tasks from anywhere — even when you’re offline in the pasture. Whether you’re tracking calving, recording treatments at the chute, moving cattle between pastures, or managing livestock across your ranch, RanchOS keeps everything organized in one place so you can spend less time on paperwork and more time running your ranch. RanchOS is designed for real ranch work and supports cattle operations as well as mixed livestock ranches. Key Features Livestock & Herd Tracking Track cattle and other livestock including goats, sheep, pigs, horses, bison, deer, and elk. Maintain complete animal records including births, breeding history, treatments, weights, pregnancy checks, and full livestock history. Cattle Record Keeping Easily record calving events, treatments, vaccinations, pregnancy checks, and cattle movements so your herd records stay organized and accessible. Herd Management Manage your herd with detailed livestock records, pasture movements, breeding history, and treatment logs so you always know what’s happening across your ranch. Ranch Task Management Create and assign ranch tasks so everyone knows what work needs to be done and when — from feeding and fencing to health checks and pasture moves. Pasture & Land Tracking Record pasture movements and track where animals are located across your ranch. Keep a history of where livestock have been grazed. Hay & Equipment Tracking Track hay production, equipment usage, and operational records across your ranch. Voice Logging Record ranch events quickly using voice commands while working cattle, feeding livestock, or out in the pasture. Offline First RanchOS works even without cell service. Record livestock events and ranch activities in the field and automatically sync when you reconnect. Reports & Insights Generate reports and review herd data to better understand what’s happening across your ranch and make more informed decisions. Built for Real Ranch Work Designed and developed on a working ranch to handle real-world cattle and livestock operations. RanchOS works for cow-calf operations, mixed livestock ranches, hobby farms, and large commercial herds. Stop juggling notebooks and spreadsheets. Run your ranch with RanchOS. Learn more at ranch-os.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: RanchOS at none against Cattlytics Beef's 14. Cattlytics Beef's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.6). On price, update cadence, ads and device support 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. Cattlytics Beef sells 14 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. RanchOS asks for nothing beyond the download.
Cattlytics Beef ships an update every 9 days, RanchOS every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and September 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Cattlytics Beef | RanchOS |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (33 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 93.8% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 33 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 95 MB | 101 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Folio3 Software Inc. | RanchOS LLC |
In-app purchases
Cattlytics Beef
- 0-19 Active Animals$4.991 Month
- 0-99 Active Animals$7.991 Month
- 100-199 Active Animals$11.991 Month
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- 200-499 Active Animals$23.991 Month
- 500-999 Active Animals$43.991 Month
- 0-19 Active Animals$50.991 Year
- 0-99 Active Animals$81.991 Year
- 1000-2499 Active Animals$95.991 Month
- 100-199 Active Animals$121.991 Year
- 2500-5000 Active Animals$149.991 Month
- 5000+ Active Animals$239.991 Month
- 200-499 Active Animals$244.991 Year
- 500-999 Active Animals$449.991 Year
- 1000-2499 Active Animals$979.991 Year
RanchOS
No in-app purchases
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