Comparison

HorseGrid Designer vs Cavaletti

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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

About

Cavaletti

Features
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Cavaletti is a course planner for show-jumping trainers and riders. Plan training courses with confidence. Fine-tune distances and turns, and get a feel for how the course will ride. Then share your courses with your riders so they arrive at the lesson fully prepared. FREE: • Open any course shared with you with one tap on the link • View the plan with distances and strides • Walk the course step by step, as you would in the arena • Test yourself: learn the order of the fences • Print the plan and the sheet, or share them on COURSE AUTHORING (one-time purchase) • Build as many courses as you like, with any number of fences • Shape the arena, set the rules and the speed, bend every line All courses & data stay on your device: No account, no server connection, no tracking, no subscription.

Screenshots

HorseGrid Designer4 screens
Cavaletti4 screens

Verdict

The call

HorseGrid Designer and Cavaletti are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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

Both are free to download. HorseGrid Designer sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month and Cavaletti sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

HorseGrid Designer ships an update every 5 days, Cavaletti every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
HorseGrid Designer versus Cavaletti: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHorseGrid DesignerCavaletti
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (6 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings6 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 daysEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.616.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPhyxius LLCChristian Knoflach

In-app purchases

2 purchases

HorseGrid Designer

Subscriptions2
  • 1 Month Subscription$7.991 Month
  • Annual Subscription$69.991 Year
1 purchases

Cavaletti

One-time1
  • Course authoring$44.99

Questions

Is HorseGrid Designer free?
HorseGrid Designer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Cavaletti free?
Cavaletti is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do HorseGrid Designer or Cavaletti have ads?
Neither HorseGrid Designer nor Cavaletti shows ads.
Which is updated more often, HorseGrid Designer or Cavaletti?
HorseGrid Designer ships an update every 5 days, and Cavaletti every 3 days. Most recently, HorseGrid Designer was updated on November 5, 2026 and Cavaletti on October 31, 2026.

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