Comparison

Count Your Eggs vs Flockstar

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

Head to head
About

Count Your Eggs

Easily track daily egg production for backyard chickens. Record counts, adjust past entries, and visualize trends with weekly averages and graphs. Make informed predictions about your flock's laying habits.

Highlights
  • Daily egg counting
  • Edit past entries
  • Weekly average calculation
  • Egg production graphing
  • Trend analysis
Features
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Count Your Eggs helps backyard chicken owners track their egg production. Simply enter your egg count each day when you gather eggs. The app graphs your production over time so you can spot changes in laying trends and make better predictions. Features • Count your eggs each day. • Forgot to count yesterday? No problem. You can add or change counts for past days. • See your weekly average egg production. • See egg production graphed over time.

About

Flockstar

Manage your poultry operations with a comprehensive system for breeding, flock management, and production analytics. Track eggs, bird lineage, expenses, and sales to optimize your business. Syncs across all devices for easy access.

Highlights
  • Track eggs and breeding pen performance
  • Full lineage tracking for birds
  • Bulk bird creation and updates
  • Log daily egg production
  • Expense and sales tracking
  • Task manager with reminders
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The essential app for serious poultry people. Replace your spreadsheets, notebooks, and guesswork with one app built for breeders and keepers who need records they can trust. Flockstar requires an active subscription to use. Two plans are available: Keeper, with complete flock, egg, and record keeping, and Breeder, which adds everything in the hatching and breeding section below. Choose an annual plan for the best value, or monthly for flexibility. Change or cancel anytime. HATCHING & BREEDING (BREEDER PLAN ONLY) • Track eggs from all your breeding pens in a single hatch run • Per-source fertility and hatch rates so you know which pairings work • Create chicks from completed runs with lineage pre-filled • Save incubator presets and pen configurations • Full lineage tracking: dam, sire, and offspring views • Pedigree viewer spanning three generations, with shareable certificates FLOCK MANAGEMENT • Bulk create and update hundreds of birds at once • Track breeds, traits, colors, weights, and photos • Share bird profiles as branded cards via text, email, or social media • Filter by flock, sex, breed, or custom traits • Archive birds without losing historical data PRODUCTION & ANALYTICS • Daily egg logging by flock or individual layer • Week-over-week trends and historical charts • Identify your top producers instantly BUSINESS TOOLS • Expense and sales tracking with categories • See your actual profit and loss • Task manager with reminders and recurring schedules • Journal with photos and tags for health records, observations, and more WORKS EVERYWHERE • Data syncs automatically across all devices • Log eggs from your pocket, review analytics from your laptop Serious poultry software, actively developed and updated since 2022. Questions or feature requests? support@flockstar.com Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Count Your Eggs4 screens
Flockstar4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Flockstar at 4.4 against Count Your Eggs's 3.9. Flockstar also leads on review sentiment (82% vs 47%) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 8 months). Count Your Eggs's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 6) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 16.4). On price, ads and device support 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. Flockstar sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Count Your Eggs asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Flockstar holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Flockstar has 140 ratings behind it against 16, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 47% of Count Your Eggs's written reviews are positive against 82% of Flockstar's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Count Your Eggs ships an update every 8 months, Flockstar every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Count Your Eggs versus Flockstar: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCount Your EggsFlockstar
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.9 (16 ratings)4.4 (140 ratings) — better
Positive reviews47.4% of reviews82.1% of reviews — better
Number of ratings16140 — better
Update frequencyEvery 8 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS8.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size28 MB95 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRoleModel Software, Inc.Flockstar Software LLC

Customer experience

Count Your Eggs

All ratings16 ratings
Positive62.5%
Neutral25.0%
Negative12.5%
Written reviews19 reviews
Positive47.4%
Neutral42.1%
Negative10.5%

Flockstar

All ratings140 ratings
Positive83.6%
Neutral7.1%
Negative9.3%
Written reviews112 reviews
Positive82.1%
Neutral7.1%
Negative10.7%

Bugs and requests

Count Your Eggs

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Flockstar

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Data loss issues after app updates or device changes
  • Occasional UI freezes or crashes

Requested features

8 requests
  • Ability to import existing records via CSV
  • Option to leave 'laid by' and 'flock' fields blank in bulk entries
  • Automatic addition of hatched chicks to designated 'Chick' flock
  • Designated area for tracking deceased birds
  • Push notifications for hatch reminders
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  • Expanded species support beyond just chickens
  • Customizable tags and filters
  • Excel-style export options

In-app purchases

None

Count Your Eggs

No in-app purchases

6 purchases

Flockstar

Subscriptions6
  • Keeper Plan - Monthly7 Days trial$5.991 Month
  • Breeder Plan - Monthly7 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • Unlimited Access - Monthly7 Days trial$9.991 Month
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  • Keeper Plan - Annual7 Days trial$49.991 Year
  • Breeder Plan - Annual7 Days trial$79.991 Year
  • Unlimited Access - Annual7 Days trial$79.991 Year

Questions

Is Count Your Eggs free?
Count Your Eggs is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Flockstar free?
Flockstar is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Count Your Eggs or Flockstar?
Flockstar is rated higher. Count Your Eggs averages 3.9 out of 5 from 16 ratings, while Flockstar averages 4.4 from 140 ratings.
Do Count Your Eggs or Flockstar have ads?
Neither Count Your Eggs nor Flockstar shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Count Your Eggs or Flockstar?
Count Your Eggs ships an update every 8 months, and Flockstar every 3 weeks. Most recently, Count Your Eggs was updated on October 3, 2026 and Flockstar on October 13, 2026.

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