HerdBoss vs Ranchr
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
HerdBoss
Manage livestock details, track breeding, health records, and sales with this comprehensive animal management app. It supports multiple species and offers customizable reports, EID/RFID scanning, and offline data entry for seamless herd management.
- Track multiple animal species
- EID/RFID tag scanning
- Detailed animal records
- Breeding and offspring tracking
- Health and medical records
- Customizable and built-in reports
- Offline data entry and syncing
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Now with Customizable Reports! EID/RFID! Direct support for Sheep, Goats, Cattle, and Dogs! If you are a Breeder, HerdBoss will revolutionize the way you do business! Keeping track of all the details about your animals can be a headache. That headache becomes a migraine when your operation grows and expands. HerdBoss solves this problem! A complete end-to-end solution, HerdBoss tracks everything about your animals in a simple and intuitive way that will help you and your entire team save time and money, and increase accuracy and completeness of your tracking. - Keeps track of all the details about each of your animals, including name, registration number, sex, DNA, and dozens of other pieces of information - Track multiple species in one account - Organize your animals into multiple groups - Scan EID/RFID tags to easily access your animal records - Tracks the breeders that you buy animals from - Tracks the buyers that you sell animals to - Keeps all of the weights of your animals over time - Lets you know which animals have had what shots, and when - Helps you track when your animals have mated, and with whom - Lets you know when you should expect new offspring to be born, and who the expectant dams are - Displays the full lineage for any animal in your herd, including Dams-and-Sires or just Sires based on your preference - Generates a simple one-page or two-page report that contains all of the information about any animal in your herd which makes it easy to tell buyers all about the animal - Create your own customized reports! - Produce more than 20 built-in reports about your herd, including the offspring that have been born, the production of your sires, the births which are expected soon, weight gain, medical treatments, and income produced by Sires and Dams! - Bulk Actions available that make large updates easy All of this information is tied to your HerdBoss account, and is kept in-sync across all of your iPhones and iPads. Now you can have workers in the field entering medicine shot information or tracking mating information while you enter notes about the same animals, and have all of the data saved and shared for your whole team to see. You can use HerdBoss without a 5G or WiFi connection! If you don't have signal out in the field, no problem! You can still enter in all of your information and when you get back into 5G or WiFi, HerdBoss will sync all of the new information with the cloud. Supports any EID/RFID Reader that uses Bluetooth LE (Low Energy) as well as these Made for iOS readers: Allflex LPR Series A4 Allflex LPR Series A6 Allflex RS420 Agrident AWR250 Agrident AWR300 Agrident APR650 Free account creation required. 30 Day Free Trial, no payment info required up front. Try it out now and don't worry about having to remember to cancel. Accounts with 25 or fewer animals are free and do not require a subscription. With a basic monthly or yearly subscription you can store unlimited animals. You can also upgrade from the basic subscription to add Photos & Docs storage space to your account which will let you add Photos & Docs to your account (photos of animals, medicines... PDFs of registration forms, medical reports...). Free and Subscribed accounts have all of the same features with those two exceptions: (1) Free accounts can only store up to 25 animals, and (2) uploading Photos & Docs requires a paid subscription that includes one of the storage space options. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Ranchr
Manage your cattle records digitally from your phone or tablet. Track essential livestock information, health updates, sales, and more. Access your data instantly on a cloud dashboard for efficient ranch management.
- Track livestock details (name, tag, DOB, breed, sex)
- Record health changes and treatments
- Log calf births and sales
- Add notes and dates to records
- Sync data to cloud dashboard
- Share records with hired help
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Simplify tracking and managing your cattle -- no more pen and paper, spreadsheets or outdated, expensive software. Ranchr gives you (and your hired help) a single app to manage all your cattle information from your phone or iPad. By using Ranchr's cattle management software you will save time, money and stress. It was built by cattle farmers to make the job much easier. The product includes a mobile app and a dashboard in the cloud, so that you can access and update cattle records in the field, at home or in the office With Ranchr, you can track basic info about your livestock such as name, ear tag, date of birth, breed, and sex. Ranchr also makes it easy to add additional details and keep track of changes (cattle health, calves, cattle sales, etc) over time. You can also report when you sell the cow, when the cow gets a treatment, when there is a health change such as a sickness to the cow, and when you record a weight of the cow, along with the option to add notes and the date you applied the record. Ranchr was been designed by farmers for farmers. Its mission is to eliminate the time it takes to record information of your livestock/cattle so you can keep better track of your cattle's information. Having complete and accurate livestock records will give you the tools to make your ranch very profitable and eliminate waste The cattle records you enter on your phone will instantly be available on the online dashboard and to other app users who belong to your ranch. Having this ease of access to your cattle records will make your day to day ranch management operations simple and easy. Ranchr is the easiest to use cattle management software on the market. It eliminates the need of carrying around a pen and paper by bringing the power to your fingertips with a mobile app along with an online dashboard for your computer. We appreciate your time and encourage you to give us feedback on how we can better improve your experience in recording your cattle records. Terms if Service: https://ranchr.ag/terms/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Ranchr at 4.7 against HerdBoss's 4.2. Ranchr also leads on ratings volume (718 vs 58). HerdBoss's advantage is review sentiment (89% vs 69%). On price, update cadence, 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. HerdBoss sells 11 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month and Ranchr sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $12.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Ranchr holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Ranchr has 718 ratings behind it against 58, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 89% of HerdBoss's written reviews are positive against 69% of Ranchr's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
HerdBoss ships an update every 2 weeks, Ranchr every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | HerdBoss | Ranchr |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (58 ratings) | 4.7 (718 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 88.9% of reviews — better | 69.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 58 | 718 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 23 MB | 42 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Herd Boss LLC | Ranchr Software LLC |
Customer experience
HerdBoss
Ranchr
Bugs and requests
HerdBoss
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Ranchr
Reported bugs
6 issues- Calf ID not automatically linking to cow
- Treatment history not sorting by date
- Unable to delete incorrect treatment history
- Cow ages displaying incorrectly
- Picture uploads not working consistently
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- Data sometimes gets deleted unexpectedly
Requested features
18 requests- Add more cattle breed options
- Allow selection of different color tags
- Ability to easily see cattle locations
- Support for multi-breed species and percentages
- Add simple dashboard overview
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- Improve calf/cow linking and history tracking
- Add herd vaccination option
- Allow custom sorting/filtering options
- Ability to print records
- Add support for embryo transfer
- Ability to choose heifer or steer
- Allow entering number sequences for initial input
- Add alarm/notification for vaccinations and breeding
- Implement graph/chart features
- Add summary page with herd numbers
- Ability to edit and update photos
- Allow splitting herds/pastures
- Provide option to change text size
In-app purchases
HerdBoss
- HerdBoss$5.991 Month
- HB + 1 GB Photos/Docs$6.991 Month
- HB + 2 GB Photos/Docs$7.991 Month
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- HB + 7 GB Photos/Docs$12.991 Month
- HB + 8 GB Photos/Docs$13.991 Month
- HB + 9 GB Photos/Docs$14.991 Month
- HerdBoss$59.991 Year
- HB + 1 GB Photos/Docs$71.991 Year
- HB + 2 GB Photos/Docs$83.991 Year
- HB + 3 GB Photos/Docs$95.991 Year
- HB + 5 GB Photos/Docs$119.991 Year
Ranchr
- Ranchr Pro Monthly$12.991 Month
- Ranchr Pro Yearly$129.991 Year








