KeeperCore vs XenoKeeper
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Pet care logging
- AI care messages
- Species care guides
- Community forums
- Species identification
- Breeding tools
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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/
XenoKeeper
Manage all your exotic pets in one comprehensive field journal. Track feedings, molts, growth, and habitat conditions for a wide variety of species. Works offline and offers optional cloud sync for your data.
- Multi-species pet tracking
- Phase-aware feeding logs
- 23 event types with start/end phases
- Growth and measurement tracking
- Habitat condition monitoring
- QR code generation for quick access
- Colony management
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One app for every animal you keep. If you keep more than one kind of exotic, you've been juggling apps that each cover half your collection. XenoKeeper is the one field journal for all of it — reptiles, tarantulas, fish, amphibians, scorpions, isopods, and everything in between. 2,536 species across 10 categories, in one place. Open it at the rack, log a feeding, close it. Open it over coffee, plan the week, close it. No account, no sign-up screen, no setup wizard — add your first animal and go. Works fully offline, wherever your animals are. — WHAT IT TRACKS — - Feeding, phase-aware. Multi-food entries with size segments and rejection tracking ("3 small dubias, 1 large cricket — she refused the hornworm"). The overdue clock understands biology: your tarantula hits pre-molt and feeding pauses; your corn snake finishes a shed and the schedule resumes from the right date. - 23 event types. Molts, sheds, brumation, gravidity, metamorphosis, glass-surfing, cohabitation, habitat shifts — each with start/end phases that feed straight back into your feeding logic. - Measurements & growth. Weight, length, temperature, humidity — metric or imperial with a tap. Growth curves draw themselves as you log, from an 8-gram hatchling to a full-grown adult. - Habitats. Set target temperature and humidity ranges per enclosure — terrestrial, arboreal, fossorial, semi-aquatic — and tie each animal to its home. - QR codes. Generate per-animal or per-habitat codes, batch-print a sheet, stick them on every tub, and scan to jump straight to that record. The fastest path from "spotted something" to "logged it" when you've got 40 enclosures. - Colonies. Dubia roaches, isopod cultures, ant farms — colony size tracked as a real measurement over time, not shoehorned into individual-animal fields. - Safety flags. Venom and urticating-hair warnings on the species record, visible at a glance. — BUILT FOR HOW YOU KEEP — Reptiles & amphibians: shed-aware feeding, brumation as a first-class state, life-stage transitions from hatchling to adult. Ball pythons, leopard geckos, bearded dragons, corn snakes, crested geckos, dart frogs, axolotls. Arachnids & inverts: molt phases that drive feeding logic, venom and urticating-hair flags, colony support. Tarantulas, true spiders, emperor scorpions, mantids, beetles. Aquatics & semi-aquatics: aquatic/terrestrial transitions as a built-in event; temperature, humidity, and lighting tracked together. — YOURS TO KEEP — - No account required to start. Want cloud sync and backup? Create a free account anytime — they're included, not a paid add-on. - Works offline — at the expo, the field shed, anywhere. - Open import and export. Bring your collection in, back it up to a .zip, take it with you. Your data is never held hostage. — ON THE WAY — A community hub to connect with other dedicated keepers, plus breeder tools — pairings, clutch management, and offspring lineage — are actively in development. XenoKeeper is free to start. Optional Pro and Pro+ subscriptions add higher animal limits, themes, and community features. Pro and Pro+ are auto-renewable subscriptions, offered monthly or annually. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. Your subscription renews automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel anytime in your Apple Account settings. Privacy Policy: https://xenokeeper.com/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://xenokeeper.com/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: KeeperCore at none against XenoKeeper's shown. KeeperCore also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 8 days). On price, rating, ratings volume and in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. KeeperCore sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month and XenoKeeper sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for KeeperCore against 5.0 for XenoKeeper. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 2 respectively.
KeeperCore ships an update every 4 days, XenoKeeper every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | KeeperCore | XenoKeeper |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Every 8 days |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 64 MB | 71 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jelly Labs Studio LLC | Polite Cactus, LLC |
Customer experience
KeeperCore
XenoKeeper
In-app purchases
KeeperCore
- KeeperCore Pro Monthly7 Days trial$6.991 Month
- KeeperCore Pro Yearly7 Days trial$55.991 Year
XenoKeeper
- XenoKeeper Pro (Founder)$3.991 Month
- XenoKeeper Pro+ (Founder)$5.991 Month
- XenoKeeper Pro Annual (Founder)$39.991 Year
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- XenoKeeper Pro+ Annual (Founder)$59.991 Year







