Comparison

KeeperCore vs HabitatOS

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

HabitatOS

This app helps reptile owners meticulously track and manage their pets' care, habitats, and health. It provides automated reminders for feeding, misting, and weighing, and integrates with environmental sensors for real-time climate monitoring. Users can log detailed care history, view growth trends, and access an offline species library.

Highlights
  • Automated care reminders
  • Live environmental monitoring
  • Detailed animal profiles
  • Offline species library
  • Breeding record tracking
  • Exportable vet sheets
Features
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Feeding night, misting, the weigh-in you meant to do last week. HabitatOS keeps every animal's care, climate and history in one place and shows you what is due today. Pair a supported sensor and see live temperature and humidity next to each animal, with a push alert when a reading drifts out of range or the sensor goes quiet. Made for one gecko on a shelf or a full room of racks, and for the frogs, tarantulas and scorpions beside them. KNOW WHAT'S DUE Your dashboard shows how many animals are On Track, Due Soon and Overdue. Set feeding, misting, weighing, cleaning and medication schedules for each animal, and get a reminder when each one comes due. A shed forecast shows when the next shed is likely. LOG CARE IN A FEW TAPS Record feedings with prey, size and response, plus weights, sheds, misting, cleaning, handling, medications and your own notes. On feeding night, work down a whole rack in one session. SEE EACH ANIMAL'S STORY Every animal gets a profile with species, morph, sex, hatch date, photos and notes, and a timeline of everything you have logged. The weight trend shows growth at a glance. WATCH THE ENCLOSURE, NOT JUST THE ANIMAL Connect supported sensors from Govee, SwitchBot, SensorPush, MOCREO and Shelly, or read a Herpstat SpyderWeb, and see live readings next to the animal they belong to. Starting limits come from the species library, and you can adjust the high and low limits for each animal. HabitatOS alerts you when a reading drifts out of range or a sensor stops reporting. Charts run from the last hour to the last 7 days. Some sensors need the maker's hub or gateway. HEALTH AND MEDICATIONS Log medications and doses, and make an emergency vet sheet PDF to bring to the clinic. ROOMS, RACKS AND ENCLOSURES Set up your collection the way your room is laid out. On Pro, print QR labels and scan an enclosure to jump straight to the animal inside. A PASSPORT THAT MOVES WITH THE ANIMAL Keep each animal's care history and transfer record together, export it as a PDF, and hand it to the next keeper when the animal moves on. A SPECIES LIBRARY BUILT IN Look up care ranges for over 1,000 species, from ball pythons and leopard geckos to frogs, tarantulas and scorpions, even offline. BREEDING RECORDS Track pairings, clutches and breeding logs across seasons. WORKS WHEN THE WI-FI DOESN'T Your animals and logs stay on your device, back up to the cloud and sync to your other devices when you are back online. Live readings and alerts need a connection. ON IPHONE AND IPAD, IN DARK OR LIGHT A layout made for the bigger screen, with your animals and their details side by side. Choose Dark, Light or match your device in Settings. PLANS Start free with up to 10 animals, 10 enclosures and 1 live sensor, with high and low alerts and cloud backup included. Plus adds the Passport, up to 50 animals and 5 sensors. Pro adds breeding records and QR labels, with up to 500 animals and 30 sensors. Operator covers up to 2,000 animals and 100 sensors. Every plan gets sensor alerts. Subscriptions are billed through your Apple ID and renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel them in your App Store account settings. HabitatOS keeps husbandry records and reminders. It is not veterinary care and does not give medical advice. For health concerns, see a qualified reptile veterinarian. Privacy Policy: https://habitatos.io/privacy Terms of Use: https://habitatos.io/terms Support: support@habitatos.io

Screenshots

KeeperCore4 screens
HabitatOS4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: KeeperCore at none against HabitatOS's shown. On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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 and HabitatOS sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for KeeperCore against 5.0 for HabitatOS. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 5 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

KeeperCore ships an update every 4 days, HabitatOS every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
KeeperCore versus HabitatOS: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterKeeperCoreHabitatOS
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings)5.0 (5 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings35 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterEvery 5 days
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size64 MB105 MB
Age rating17+12+
DeveloperJelly Labs Studio LLCPaladin Labs LLC

Customer experience

KeeperCore

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

HabitatOS

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

KeeperCore

Subscriptions2
  • KeeperCore Pro Monthly7 Days trial$6.991 Month
  • KeeperCore Pro Yearly7 Days trial$55.991 Year
6 purchases

HabitatOS

Subscriptions6
  • HabitatOS Plus: Monthly7 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • HabitatOS Pro: Monthly7 Days trial$19.991 Month
  • HabitatOS Operator: Monthly7 Days trial$49.991 Month
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  • HabitatOS Plus: Annual7 Days trial$89.001 Year
  • HabitatOS Pro: Annual7 Days trial$179.001 Year
  • HabitatOS Operator: Annual7 Days trial$449.001 Year

Questions

Is KeeperCore free?
KeeperCore is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is HabitatOS free?
HabitatOS is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, KeeperCore or HabitatOS?
KeeperCore and HabitatOS are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 3 and 5 ratings respectively.
Do KeeperCore or HabitatOS have ads?
HabitatOS shows ads; KeeperCore does not.
Which is updated more often, KeeperCore or HabitatOS?
KeeperCore ships an update every 4 days, and HabitatOS every 5 days. Most recently, KeeperCore was updated on October 31, 2026 and HabitatOS on November 10, 2026.

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