MSUES Cattle Calculator vs CattleCon
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MSUES Cattle Calculator
This app assists beef cattle producers with essential daily calculations for reproductive management, animal performance, and operational decisions. It offers tools for breeding and calving dates, weight adjustments, medication dosages, and more.
- Reproductive management calculations
- Animal performance tracking
- Dewormer and medicine dosage calculations
- Frame score and trailer stocking density
- Breeding season planning
- Adjusted weight calculations
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The MSUES Cattle Calculator allows beef cattle producers to make quick everyday calculations important for their operations. Calculations related to reproductive management, animal performance, and management decisions are available. Reproductive calculations include: calving date based on a known breeding date, breeding date based on a known calving date, number of days pregnant based on today's date and a breeding date, and a breeding season calculator which provides calving and breeding dates based on a set breeding season. Animal performance calculations include: Adjusted birth weight, weaning weight, and yearling weight, average daily gain and required gain. Management calculation include: dosage calculations for dewormers and medicines given an animal weight and manufacturer's recommended dosage, frame score calculations, trailer stocking density, and yield grade.
CattleCon
This app provides conference attendees with access to schedules, presentations, and speaker information. Users can take notes, draw on slides, and communicate with other attendees directly within the application.
- View conference schedule
- Access presentations and speaker details
- Take notes on presentations
- Draw directly on slides
- In-app messaging with attendees
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**** FOR ATTENDEES ONLY **** This mobile application allows you to view the schedule, presentations, exhibitors, and speaker details from select conferences and/or meetings. Users can take notes on adjacent presentations when they are available for each presentation as well as draw directly onto the slides themselves, all from within the app. Additionally, users can share information with attendees and colleagues with the in-app messaging features.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: CattleCon at 71 against MSUES Cattle Calculator's 4. MSUES Cattle Calculator's advantage is update cadence (every 4 months vs every 12 months) and review sentiment (75% vs 67%). 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for MSUES Cattle Calculator against 4.7 for CattleCon. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: CattleCon has 71 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 75% of MSUES Cattle Calculator's written reviews are positive against 67% of CattleCon's.
MSUES Cattle Calculator ships an update every 4 months, CattleCon every 12 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MSUES Cattle Calculator | CattleCon |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (4 ratings) — better | 4.7 (71 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews — better | 66.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 71 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months — better | Every 12 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 96 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Mississippi State University Extension Service | National Cattlemen's Beef Association |
Customer experience
MSUES Cattle Calculator
CattleCon
In-app purchases
MSUES Cattle Calculator
No in-app purchases
CattleCon
No in-app purchases





