Comparison

KeeperCore vs Herpetoverse

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

Head to head
About

KeeperCore

Manage your exotic pets with this comprehensive care platform. Track feedings, molts, and health, access species guides, and connect with a community of keepers. Offers AI-powered advice and tools for hobbyists and breeders.

Highlights
  • Pet care logging
  • AI care messages
  • Species care guides
  • Community forums
  • Species identification
  • Breeding tools
Features
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Track your exotic pets with KeeperCore — care logs, a species reference library, and an AI assistant that reasons from your own pet's history. Deepest for tarantulas, scorpions, and jumping spiders, with solid coverage for turtles, tortoises, frogs, and mantids. Reptile coverage (snakes, geckos, lizards) is smaller and growing. FREE: • 5 active pets • 10 AI care messages per day • 8 photos per pet • 1 co-keeper to share a pet's care with • Join community rooms and follow the species you keep • 700+ species reference library • Care logging for feeding, molting, weight, health, and more • Import your collection from a CSV or Excel spreadsheet • Pet profiles with public sharing, and memorial pages • Learning courses and quizzes • A printable enclosure tag — scan it and land on that pet's page PRO (In-App Purchase): • Up to 300 active pets • 100 AI care messages per day • Up to 2,000 photos per pet • Up to 20 video uploads per day • Unlimited co-keepers, plus time-boxed sitter access • Create and own community rooms • AI-powered care insights on Trends • Export care reports to PDF Every pet's page is now built around what it actually is — a desert scene for a bearded dragon, a rainforest canopy for a crested gecko, open water for a turtle. Same care log underneath, easier to tell your animals apart at a glance. Ask Keeper (the built-in AI) about any of your animals — it answers from that animal's own logged history, not generic advice, and tells you when it isn't sure. Log a feeding, track a molt, or ask a care question in plain English. Add a co-keeper to any pet you own — a partner, a roommate, or whoever's covering feedings while you're away — and they can log care and photos for that pet from their own account. You stay the owner. Co-keepers have to already be friends with you on KeeperCore first; it's not open sharing by username. Keepers is where other keepers are: a Home feed built from the rooms you join and the species you follow, a Browse page for rooms, species, and keepers, and an Inbox for messages, activity, and requests. Every keeper has a Keeper Card — what they keep and what they've logged, if they choose to make it public. Rooms can set their own look — an accent color, a taxon mark, a backdrop — so a tarantula room doesn't look like a gecko room. Start a room of your own on Pro, with approval-only membership and a moderation log. Have an idea for KeeperCore? Post it from a chat with Keeper or from the Ideas board, and other keepers can vote it up. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Herpetoverse

Features
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Herpetoverse is a husbandry tracker for reptile and amphibian keepers. Keep an honest record of every animal in your collection — what they ate and when, what they weigh, when they last shed, and how they've changed over time. TRACK WHAT MATTERS - Feeding logs, with refusals recorded as clearly as meals - Weight history and growth trends - Shed records, including retained sheds - Photos, so you can see change you'd otherwise miss - Notes on anything that doesn't fit a field FEEDING DAY See every animal that's due in one list and log the whole session at once, instead of opening each animal in turn. Due dates account for species and life stage rather than a fixed interval. SPECIES CARE SHEETS Temperature, humidity, enclosure and diet guidance for commonly kept snakes, lizards, turtles, tortoises, frogs and salamanders. Where the husbandry literature disagrees or is thin, we say so rather than inventing a number. BREEDING PROJECTS Pairings, clutches, incubation and offspring, with a Punnett-square morph calculator for ball pythons and leopard geckos — including het and possible-het odds. FEEDER INVENTORY Track frozen stock and live colonies so you know what you have before you need it. YOUR DATA IS YOURS Export everything at any time. Delete your account and it's gone. FREE AND PREMIUM Herpetoverse is free, and every tracking feature stays free. The free plan covers up to 5 animals. Premium lifts the collection cap and adds feeder inventory and breeding tracking. One account also works on Tarantuverse, our app for invertebrate keepers. Privacy Policy URL: https://herpetoverse.com/privacy-policy Terms of Use: https://herpetoverse.com/terms

Screenshots

KeeperCore4 screens
Herpetoverse4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Herpetoverse at none against KeeperCore's 2. KeeperCore's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 5 weeks). On price, ads, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. KeeperCore sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. Herpetoverse asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

KeeperCore ships an update every 4 days, Herpetoverse every 5 weeks. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
KeeperCore versus Herpetoverse: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterKeeperCoreHerpetoverse
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterEvery 5 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS16.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size64 MB35 MB
Age rating17+12+
DeveloperJelly Labs Studio LLCCory Wilson

In-app purchases

2 purchases

KeeperCore

Subscriptions2
  • KeeperCore Pro Monthly7 Days trial$6.991 Month
  • KeeperCore Pro Yearly7 Days trial$55.991 Year
None

Herpetoverse

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is KeeperCore free?
KeeperCore is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Herpetoverse free?
Herpetoverse is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do KeeperCore or Herpetoverse have ads?
Neither KeeperCore nor Herpetoverse shows ads.
Which is updated more often, KeeperCore or Herpetoverse?
KeeperCore ships an update every 4 days, and Herpetoverse every 5 weeks. Most recently, KeeperCore was updated on October 31, 2026 and Herpetoverse on October 31, 2026.

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