Livestocked vs eShepherd
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Livestocked
This app helps farmers manage their livestock and crops efficiently. It offers intuitive interfaces for tracking herds, flocks, crops, and financials, allowing for management from anywhere. The system supports multiple animal species and breeds, simplifying farm operations.
- Livestock record keeping
- Crop record keeping
- Financial management
- Multi-species herd management
- Semen & embryo inventory
- Mobile farm management
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Manage your farm, drive profit with Livestocked Farm Manager! Livestocked is farm management done right...if it's a herd, flock, crop or litter, Livestocked can handle it from the office or out in the field. With a business first approach to crop record keeping, livestock record keeping, and farm management we understand you'd prefer be out in the pasture and not in front of the computer. Our intuitive mobile interfaces help you manage your crops, herd or flock, semen & embryo inventory, sales and financials from your desk or out in the pasture! Enjoy multi-species and multi-breed herd and flock management through our mixed enterprise solution. Manage your cattle, sheep, goats, pigs, alpacas, Llamas and horses through one easy to use app. Tags: Farm Management, Livestock Management, Herd Management, Flock Management, Livestock Manager, Herd Manager, Calf Book, Goat Book, Sheep Book, cattle record keeping, goat record keeping, sheep record keeping.
eShepherd
This app allows farmers to view their farm map, including animal locations, paddocks, and watering points. It enables scanning animals and neckbands to create associations and upload session data. Receive critical alerts like "Animal is still/down" or "Animal outside VP" via push notifications.
- Farm map with asset visualization
- Real-time animal location tracking
- Virtual and physical paddock management
- Animal scanning and association
- Session data upload
- Critical event push notifications
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View assets on your farm map: • Your current location • Animals shown with mob colour • Active and inactive virtual paddocks • Physical paddocks & watering points Perform key jobs out in the paddock: • Connect your scanning device and scan animals and neckbands to create associations within a session • Upload sessions to populate your account with tracked animals • Turn on/off virtual paddocks Receive Push Notifications so that you are informed of critical events, such as: • “Animal is still/down” - possibly a sick animal • “Animal outside VP” - escapees!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: eShepherd at 5.0 against Livestocked's 3.9. eShepherd also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 66%) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Livestocked's advantage is ratings volume (116 vs 7) and update cadence (every 4 days vs every 10 days). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
eShepherd holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Livestocked has 116 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 66% of Livestocked's written reviews are positive against 100% of eShepherd's.
Livestocked ships an update every 4 days, eShepherd every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Livestocked | eShepherd |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (116 ratings) | 5.0 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 116 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Every 10 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 27 MB | 124 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | SITEMESH LLC | Gallagher eShepherd Pty Ltd |
Customer experience
Livestocked
eShepherd
In-app purchases
Livestocked
No in-app purchases
eShepherd
No in-app purchases
Questions
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