Comparison

Polework Patterns vs HorseDex

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

Head to head
About

Polework Patterns

Discover new ways to engage your horse with a variety of polework exercises. This app offers 40 unique layouts, searchable by pole count and developmental focus, with suggested exercises and difficulty ratings. Save your favorites for quick access.

Highlights
  • 40 unique polework layouts
  • Searchable by pole count
  • Filter by horse development focus
  • Suggested exercises with difficulty ratings
  • Color-coded pace indicators
  • Favorites folder
Features
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Do you love polework but have run out of ideas how to use your poles? Are you looking to engage your horse’s brain as well as their body in a fun and beneficial way? Do you get bored in the arena and need to help finding new ways to keep both you and your horse entertained? If the answer is yes to any of the above then you need the Polework Patterns App by Fancy Footwork Equestrian in your life! This app includes 40 different layouts (20 main and 20 random) which are designed to be multi directional and use between one and twenty poles. There are several unique features including: - the option to search for layouts based on the amount of poles you want to use: • 1–5 poles • 6–10 poles • 11–15 poles • 16–20 poles - the option to search for exercises based on what area of a horse’s development you want to focus on – here you will find 15 categories including • Balance • Core • Engagement • Response to rider • ... and more! - a random button which can be used if you can’t decide which layout to go for, or if you like to live a little dangerously! Either way press that random button, watch the poles spin, the confetti fall and then marvel as your layout is revealed! - all of the layouts have different suggested exercises to use (four options for the main layouts and two options for the random layouts), each of which are colour-coded to show which pace to use, and a proposed difficulty rating attached to help you decide if that exercise is suitable to your horse’s stage of training. - 120 potential exercises with four suggestions given per exercise as to what areas it could help your horse improve on. (Flexibility, straightness etc) - a “Favourites” folder where you can add any of the 80 exercises used in the main layouts for quick and easy access. - all for a one off price! No monthly subscription. No annual membership. Buy it once and that's it; its yours to keep! Polework patterns was developed by the creator of Fancy Footwork Equestrian, Nina Gill. Nina is a qualified coach who runs Polework clinics full-time and is passionate about her work and the many benefits of polework. This passion has led to Fancy Footwork Equestrian collaborating with some of the U.K.’s biggest equestrian YouTubers and influencers, as well as having Polework training articles printed in three of the biggest equine magazines to date. With this app you will never run out of Polework ideas, even the biggest layouts have been designed to be broken down into smaller sections so that those sections can be used as a standalone layout if you don’t have enough poles to build the whole thing.

About

HorseDex

Features
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A health journal for your horse. You write down what you did and what you saw. HorseDex keeps it, and shows the record back to you over time, for one horse or for several. Write down what you did and what you saw. Exercise, feed, how they were in themselves, weights and body condition, who came out and what the vet prescribed. Nothing is compulsory. A new journal asks about very little until you switch the rest on. Log opens on today and the last seven days. Read any day back in the Diary, or search for what you wrote. Trends puts your notes, measurements, exercise totals and competition results side by side over time, with cards you can arrange or switch off. The care register knows when the farrier is due and can remind you to book before they are full. Plan a week around your bookings, or look further ahead in the month view. Lessons can repeat weekly or fortnightly, and a single date can be moved or skipped when plans change. A holiday cover sheet gathers what someone needs while they look after your horse. If you manage land, keep yard jobs and paddocks on the Land page. Spending shows what it all costs, month by month. Keep an episode when something is going on. A start, updates with photographs, and an end. Opening one switches on the questions that go with it, and closing it offers to put them away again. Take a report to your vet. A PDF of everything recorded across a range of dates, day by day, with anything that began beforehand shown at the top. You can email it straight from the app, with the record written out in the message and the PDF attached, so your vet can read it without opening anything. It never tells you what is wrong. No score, no grade, no verdict. Your notes sit side by side and you are the one who reads them. Diagnosis is your vet's work, not an app's. No accounts and no server. Everything stays on your device, with an optional backup to your own iCloud that only you can read. Nothing is collected and nothing is sent to us. Free, with nothing to buy inside it.

Screenshots

Polework Patterns4 screens
HorseDex4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: HorseDex at Free against Polework Patterns's $3.99. HorseDex also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and update cadence (every 3 days vs every 6 months). Polework Patterns's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

HorseDex is free to download; Polework Patterns costs $3.99 up front. Polework Patterns sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. HorseDex asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Polework Patterns ships an update every 6 months, HorseDex every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Polework Patterns versus HorseDex: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPolework PatternsHorseDex
Price$3.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews93.1% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 monthsEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS15.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size47 MB24 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNina GillToby Kalkman

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Polework Patterns

One-time1
  • Patterns Add-On #1$2.99
None

HorseDex

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Polework Patterns free?
Polework Patterns costs $3.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is HorseDex free?
HorseDex is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Polework Patterns or HorseDex have ads?
Neither Polework Patterns nor HorseDex shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Polework Patterns or HorseDex?
Polework Patterns ships an update every 6 months, and HorseDex every 3 days. Most recently, Polework Patterns was updated on November 3, 2026 and HorseDex on October 31, 2026.

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