Comparison

Chicken & Egg Tracker vs Egg Calendar

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

Head to head
About

Chicken & Egg Tracker

This app helps backyard chicken keepers manage their flock by logging egg collections, tracking individual bird production, and keeping health notes. It also assists with planning care tasks, monitoring supplies, and estimating incubation hatch dates.

Highlights
  • Daily egg logging
  • Flock profiles with photos
  • Per-bird egg production tracking
  • Health notes and follow-ups
  • Care task scheduling and reminders
  • Supplies and expense tracking
  • Incubation hatch date estimates
Features
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Your backyard flock's daily journal, painted in watercolor. Tap +1 as you collect and watch the week fill in. Know every hen by name, see who's laying, and keep each bird's eggs and health notes together, right where you need them at the coop. • Count eggs in a tap, then say who laid what if you know • A profile for every hen, rooster and chick: breed, coop, egg color, age and photo • Daily, weekly and monthly charts, with usable, held and damaged eggs • Egg holds after a treatment, with the day eggs are safe to eat again • Repeating care tasks with reminders: feed, water, cleaning, health checks • Incubator countdowns for chickens, ducks, geese, turkeys, guinea fowl and quail, with candling and lockdown days • Supplies and expenses, and what a dozen of your eggs really costs • Export everything to Excel or CSV for your vet, your records or your own charts • iCloud sync between your iPhone and iPad Made for backyard flocks and small homesteads, from three hens to a full coop.

About

Egg Calendar

Easily track your daily egg harvest, monitor flock performance with detailed analytics, and even use AI to count your eggs from a photo. The app also includes weather forecasts and a flock photo album.

Highlights
  • Daily egg logging with quick or bulk entry
  • Production analytics and performance charts
  • AI-powered egg counting from photos
  • Integrated weather forecast
  • Flock photo album with AI descriptions
  • Printable PDF reports
  • Flock event logging
Features
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Egg Calendar — Track Your Daily Egg Harvest Egg Calendar is the complete egg collection tracker for backyard chicken keepers. Whether you have 3 hens or 300, Egg Calendar makes it easy to log your daily harvest, understand your flock's performance, and share your results. DAILY EGG LOGGING Tap any day on the calendar to log your egg count. Use Quick Mode for fast single-tap entry, or switch to Bulk Entry for spreadsheet-style input across the whole month. Your data is saved instantly and synced to your account. PRODUCTION ANALYTICS See your flock's performance at a glance. Track monthly totals, daily averages, laying rate, best days, streaks, and estimated revenue. Interactive charts show daily collection trends and monthly comparisons across the full year. AI EGG COUNTER Take a photo of your egg basket and let the AI count them for you. Egg Calendar uses artificial intelligence to detect and count eggs in your photo, then automatically updates your daily total — no manual entry needed. WEATHER FORECAST Check today's weather and the 7-day forecast right inside the app. Cold snaps and heat waves affect laying rates — now you can track both in one place. FLOCK PHOTOS Build a photo album of your flock. Add captions, locations, and dates to each photo. The AI generates a description of every photo automatically, creating a living record of your flock's story. PRINT REPORTS Generate a professional PDF report for any date range — monthly, quarterly, or custom. Perfect for farm records, tax documentation, or sharing with your vet. FLOCK EVENTS Log important flock events like new chicks, molting, illness, or predator incidents alongside your egg data. See the full picture of your flock's history. Egg Calendar is designed for backyard farmers, homesteaders, and small-scale poultry keepers who want a simple, beautiful way to stay on top of their flock's production. Download Egg Calendar and start tracking today.

Screenshots

Chicken & Egg Tracker4 screens
Egg Calendar4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Chicken & Egg Tracker at Free against Egg Calendar's $1.99. Chicken & Egg Tracker also leads on ratings volume (24 vs 2). Egg Calendar's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and update cadence (every 8 days vs every 3 months). 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

Chicken & Egg Tracker is free to download; Egg Calendar costs $1.99 up front. Chicken & Egg Tracker sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Egg Calendar asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Egg Calendar holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Chicken & Egg Tracker has 24 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Chicken & Egg Tracker ships an update every 3 months, Egg Calendar every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Chicken & Egg Tracker versus Egg Calendar: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChicken & Egg TrackerEgg Calendar
PriceFree — better$1.99
Rating4.8 (24 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews75.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings24 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 8 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.016.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size20 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSergii NesterenkoNICHOLAS DANIEL BARELA

Customer experience

Chicken & Egg Tracker

All ratings20 ratings
Positive95.0%
Neutral5.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral25.0%
Negative0.0%

Egg Calendar

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Chicken & Egg Tracker

One-time1
  • Chicken Tracker Pro$12.99
None

Egg Calendar

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Chicken & Egg Tracker free?
Chicken & Egg Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Egg Calendar free?
Egg Calendar costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Chicken & Egg Tracker or Egg Calendar?
Egg Calendar is rated higher. Chicken & Egg Tracker averages 4.8 out of 5 from 24 ratings, while Egg Calendar averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Chicken & Egg Tracker or Egg Calendar have ads?
Neither Chicken & Egg Tracker nor Egg Calendar shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Chicken & Egg Tracker or Egg Calendar?
Chicken & Egg Tracker ships an update every 3 months, and Egg Calendar every 8 days. Most recently, Chicken & Egg Tracker was updated on November 3, 2026 and Egg Calendar on October 31, 2026.

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