Comparison

KeeperCore vs FauniDex

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

FauniDex

Manage your exotic pet collection with detailed profiles, virtual enclosure layouts, and automated care reminders. Track feedings, molts, and health observations for reptiles, amphibians, tarantulas, and invertebrates. Generate QR labels for quick access to animal information and care logs.

Highlights
  • Detailed animal profiles
  • Virtual enclosure layouts
  • Feeding and care tracking
  • Customizable reminders
  • QR enclosure label scanning
  • Multi-animal support
Features
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FauniDex is an animal care tracker built for reptile, amphibian, tarantula, spider, and invertebrate keepers. Organize your entire collection, build virtual enclosure layouts, record feedings and routine care, scan QR enclosure labels, and see exactly what needs attention each day. KEEP YOUR COLLECTION ORGANIZED Create a detailed profile for every animal in your collection. Store species information, photos, feeding history, care records, enclosure locations, and important notes in one searchable place. BUILD VIRTUAL ROOMS AND ENCLOSURE LAYOUTS Create a digital version of your physical collection using rooms, walls, racks, shelves, cabinets, and tables. Build uniform grids or create custom layouts with enclosures of different sizes. Move, resize, and arrange enclosure positions to match your actual setup, then assign each animal to its exact location. Virtual layouts make it easy to find animals and visually identify which enclosures need attention. TRACK FEEDINGS AND DAILY CARE Record feeding, watering, cleaning, molts, observations, and other routine husbandry tasks. Log multiple care actions at the same time, including feeding and watering, and review each animal’s complete care history whenever you need it. FLEXIBLE FEEDING ASSESSMENTS Animals do not always eat on a rigid schedule. FauniDex allows you to assess each animal and record whether food was offered, eaten, partially eaten, refused, or skipped. Track prey or food type, quantity, size, body condition, possible premolt, notes, and follow-up dates while keeping the final care decision in your hands. NEVER MISS IMPORTANT CARE Set feeding-assessment and care reminders for individual animals. Your dashboard clearly shows which animals are due, overdue, in premolt or recovery, paused, or already cared for. Open a highlighted virtual enclosure to see the animal, its exact location, and the care requiring attention. SCAN QR ENCLOSURE LABELS FauniDex can generate QR labels for your enclosures. Scan a label to instantly open that animal’s profile, review its care information, and log care in seconds. BUILT FOR ALL TYPES OF KEEPERS FauniDex works for reptiles, snakes, lizards, geckos, amphibians, tarantulas, spiders, invertebrates, and other animals requiring individually managed care. Whether you care for one exotic pet or manage an entire room of enclosures, FauniDex makes it easier to stay organized and maintain consistent care. Organize. Track. Care. Terms of Use (Apple Standard EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Terms of Use: https://faunidex.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://faunidex.com/privacy

Screenshots

KeeperCore4 screens
FauniDex4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: FauniDex at daily against KeeperCore's every 4 days. KeeperCore's advantage is ratings volume (3 vs 1). On price, rating, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. KeeperCore sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month and FauniDex sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 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 FauniDex. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

KeeperCore ships an update every 4 days, FauniDex daily. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
KeeperCore versus FauniDex: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterKeeperCoreFauniDex
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 4 daysDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size64 MB64 MB
Age rating17+9+
DeveloperJelly Labs Studio LLCCorey Beauregard

In-app purchases

2 purchases

KeeperCore

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

FauniDex

Subscriptions2
  • FauniDex$5.991 Month
  • FauniDex Yearly$59.991 Year

Questions

Is KeeperCore free?
KeeperCore is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is FauniDex free?
FauniDex is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, KeeperCore or FauniDex?
KeeperCore and FauniDex are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 3 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do KeeperCore or FauniDex have ads?
Neither KeeperCore nor FauniDex shows ads.
Which is updated more often, KeeperCore or FauniDex?
KeeperCore ships an update every 4 days, and FauniDex daily. Most recently, KeeperCore was updated on October 31, 2026 and FauniDex on October 31, 2026.

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