Comparison

Chicken & Egg Tracker vs EggBasket

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

EggBasket

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EggBasket is the egg counter that never asks for a login. Tap tonight's eggs into the nest before you lock up the coop — ten seconds, done. And always know what your backyard eggs really cost. No account. No ads. No subscription. No company server that can lose your records: everything lives on your phone and syncs privately through your own iCloud. THE 10-SECOND EVENING HABIT • Tap eggs in with one big button — one card per flock, today's count front and center • A week strip under the counter shows the last 7 days at a glance • An optional evening nudge asks "How many eggs tonight?" — one quiet notification, nothing else KNOW YOUR COST PER EGG • Log feed, bedding and supplies in seconds • EggBasket divides what you've spent by every egg collected — your honest cost per egg • Watch it fall as the girls hit their stride SHARE THE HAUL • A beautiful share card with your flock's name, this week's eggs and your cost per egg — ready for your story, the family group chat, or the neighbors who keep asking YOUR FLOCK, YOUR DATA • Hen roster with names and breeds; per-hen weekly averages • Stats and charts: 14-day lay chart, streaks, weekly trends • CSV export is free, forever — your records are portable on day one • Backup to a file you keep; restore merges safely, never duplicates FREE VS LIFETIME Free: one flock of up to 6 hens with EVERY feature — logging, stats, share cards, reminder, iCloud sync, backup, CSV export. Lifetime ($9.99 once): unlimited flocks and hens, Insights (weekly trends, best laying days), and photo notes on every hen. That's the whole price list — no subscription, ever. Built by one person who was tired of apps that put a login between you and your own chickens. Support: shakti.thakran@outlook.com

Screenshots

Chicken & Egg Tracker4 screens
EggBasket4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: EggBasket at weekly against Chicken & Egg Tracker's every 3 months. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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

Both are free to download. Chicken & Egg Tracker sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and EggBasket sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Chicken & Egg Tracker ships an update every 3 months, EggBasket weekly. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Chicken & Egg Tracker versus EggBasket: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChicken & Egg TrackerEggBasket
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (23 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews75.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings23 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.018.0
Further details — not scored
Size20 MB35 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSergii NesterenkoShakti Thakran

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Chicken & Egg Tracker

One-time1
  • Chicken Tracker Pro$12.99
1 purchases

EggBasket

One-time1
  • EggBasket Lifetime$9.99

Questions

Is Chicken & Egg Tracker free?
Chicken & Egg Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is EggBasket free?
EggBasket is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Chicken & Egg Tracker or EggBasket have ads?
Neither Chicken & Egg Tracker nor EggBasket shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Chicken & Egg Tracker or EggBasket?
Chicken & Egg Tracker ships an update every 3 months, and EggBasket weekly. Most recently, Chicken & Egg Tracker was updated on October 24, 2026 and EggBasket on October 24, 2026.

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