HorseGrid Designer vs EquiCenter
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
HorseGrid Designer
Design professional equestrian courses on your iPhone or iPad quickly and easily. This app replaces traditional pen-and-paper methods with an intuitive grid canvas for creating show jumping courses, gymnastic exercises, and dressage patterns. It offers advanced editing features and saves custom arenas across devices.
- Intuitive grid canvas for course design
- Design show jumping, gymnastic, and dressage courses
- Edit fence shapes, colors, and sizes
- Duplicate text labels
- Moveable dressage letters
- Save and sync custom arenas
- Offline functionality
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Now free to play. Build pro-level equestrian courses on your iPhone or iPad in minutes, not hours. The course design app that replaces pen and paper. HorseGrid Designer is the patent pending course design tool built for trainers, eventing coaches, hunter/jumper professionals, dressage instructors, and serious riders. Whether you are setting up a show jumping course, planning gymnastic exercises, or designing dressage patterns, the intuitive grid canvas gives you everything you need to bring your vision to life. No internet connection required. WHAT'S NEW IN 1.2.1 - Text duplication: long-press any text label to duplicate it across your course - Moveable dressage letters - Fence-line editing: long-press to unlock, then edit shape, color, or size - Library button for faster access to your saved courses - Refined stride math accuracy - Custom arenas now save with the course and sync across iPhone and iPad PRICING Free to download. Premium unlocks at $7.99 per month or $5.83 per month billed annually. http://www.apple.com/legal/itunes/appstore/dev/stdeula
EquiCenter
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EquiCenter is built for riders and horse owners — a training journal, GPS route tracking and full stable management in one elegant place. TRAINING & GPS • Live ride tracking: route on the map, distance, speed, elevation • Automatic gait detection (walk, trot, canter) and calorie estimate • Pick a training type: trail, dressage, flatwork, jumping, cross-country, poles, lunging • Training photos, rating and notes • Ride history and saved routes to reuse • Rides saved to Apple Health as equestrian workouts (can be turned off in settings) MY HORSE • Horse passport, data, documents and photos • Health: vaccinations, farrier, deworming — with reminders • Feeding plan and upkeep costs COSTS • One-off and recurring expenses, monthly summary COMMUNITY • Training forum — share ideas and exercises • Exercise library by training type • Groups with chat, friends, 1:1 chat, horse data sharing • Organize trips: trail rides, competition trips, clinics — with a participant list STABLE • Shared stable panel: tasks for staff, arena and indoor bookings, stable chat and roles REMINDERS • Horse care plus rider medical checks and licence YOUR DATA • Cloud backup — reinstall or switch phones and your data comes back with one tap PREMIUM • Multiple horses and profiles, unlimited documents and friends • Advanced statistics, offline route map preview, saved routes • No ads (a separate "Remove ads" option is also available) Full Polish and English language support. Premium subscriptions (monthly and yearly) renew automatically. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase and at each renewal unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage subscriptions in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://montyfixx.github.io/equicenter-privacy/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: HorseGrid Designer at none against EquiCenter's shown. EquiCenter's advantage is update cadence (daily vs every 5 days). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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. HorseGrid Designer sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month and EquiCenter sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
HorseGrid Designer ships an update every 5 days, EquiCenter daily. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | HorseGrid Designer | EquiCenter |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (6 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days | Daily — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 36 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Phyxius LLC | Michael Wyrwas |
In-app purchases
HorseGrid Designer
- 1 Month Subscription$7.991 Month
- Annual Subscription$69.991 Year
EquiCenter
- EquiCenter Premium$2.991 Month
- EquiCenter Premium — year$24.991 Year
- Remove ads$1.99
Questions
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