HerdBoss vs ShowHub
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/
ShowHub
Manage your livestock show animals in one place, tracking their growth, health, and feed. Share progress with coaches and experts, and view weight projections for show day. Discover upcoming shows and their details.
- Track animal growth and historical profiles
- Store photos and videos of weigh-ins
- Record feed rations and health history
- View weight projections for show day
- Communicate with coaches and experts
- Discover livestock shows and entry details
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Innovate your stock show life with ShowHub, one easy to use the platform to track the progress of animals growth in a centralized location and get coaching help from expert breeders and/or Ag teachers and extension agents. ShowHub provides an intuitive application that allows users to manage their show animals and serve as a central location for each animal’s historical profile. The platform will store video and photos to accompany each animal’s weigh-in, current feed ration & health history, to be shared with coaches, breeders, and ag teachers/extension agents. The users can all see a snapshot of weight projections to have an idea of what the animal will weigh on show day. Coaches/Breeders will be able to more effectively communicate within the application with their customers/students/exhibitors through the coaching features and an improved chat feature. Available livestock shows and jackpots will be displayed in a section that includes entry guidelines, dates, locations, and weight breaks (as available).
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: HerdBoss at 89% against ShowHub's 29%. ShowHub's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 11) and rating (4.6 vs 4.2). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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. ShowHub asks for nothing beyond the download.
ShowHub holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 59 and 137 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 89% of HerdBoss's written reviews are positive against 29% of ShowHub's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
HerdBoss ships an update fortnightly, ShowHub every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | HerdBoss | ShowHub |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (59 ratings) | 4.6 (137 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 88.9% of reviews — better | 28.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 59 | 137 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 23 MB | 53 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Herd Boss LLC | ShowHub, Inc |
Customer experience
HerdBoss
ShowHub
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
ShowHub
No in-app purchases








