Free · iPhone, iPad and Mac

A health journal for your horse.

You write down what you did and what you saw. HorseDex keeps it, and shows the record back to you over time, for one horse or for several.

Free, for iPhone, iPad and Mac. On Android? Sign up to test it.

No accounts No server Nothing collected Free

The five pages

One page for each thing you do.

The Log page: a day's entry for Bramble with appetite, droppings and a 45-minute hack recorded

Log

Writing the day down

Exercise, feed, water, droppings, how they were in themselves, weights, and who came out. Tap a choice, or write it in your own words.

  • Every field is optional, and a new journal asks about very little until you switch the rest on.
  • Medication as it is written on the label: dose, frequency, start and end, with a photograph of the label itself.
  • The same entry on iPhone, iPad or Mac, whichever is nearest.
The Report page: a month of Bramble's entries collected onto one printable page for the vet

Report

The record, read back

What you wrote, over whatever range you choose: oldest to newest, with the weights drawn out and the care visits in their place.

  • A vet report built from your own entries, as a PDF you can email before the visit.
  • What you wrote in March is still there in September, on the day you wrote it.
  • Nothing is summarised into a score. The page shows; you read.
The Track page: Bramble's weight plotted over several months as a plain line chart

Track

Weights and measurements, drawn out

The readings you entered, plotted against the dates you entered them. The line is your numbers and nothing else.

  • Weight, body condition and anything else you measure, each on its own line.
  • A body condition score keeps the scale you gave it (1 to 5 or 1 to 9), and the two are never drawn as one.
  • A target weight you set for each horse, shown beside the readings.
The Care page: a farrier visit for Bramble logged with the date done and the next one due

Care

The care register

Farrier, dentist, physio, vaccinations, worming: when each was last done, and when the next falls due on the interval you chose for that horse.

  • A reminder about a month ahead and a chaser a fortnight before, so it is in the diary before they are full.
  • An illness or injury kept as one thread: when it started, updates as it goes on, and an end when there is one.
  • Tick a visit on the day's entry and the register counts from it.
The Plan page: Bramble's week laid out around the farrier and physio visits already booked

Plan

The week, laid out

Answer a few questions once: how often your horse works, how many days in a row, when you ride, and HorseDex builds the week around whatever you have already booked.

  • Sessions are spread out rather than stacked, and a booked appointment stays where it is.
  • Tap any slot to change it or swap it. It is a plan, not a rule.
  • Box rest keeps the week clear for as long as the episode says.

And that is all

Five things HorseDex does not do

It never tells you what is wrong

No score, no grade, no verdict. Your notes sit side by side and you are the one who reads them. Diagnosis is your vet's work, not an app's — the Veterinary Surgeons Act 1966 reserves it to them.

There is no laminitis score, no colic checker and no lameness grade, and there is not going to be one.

No account

No email address, no password, no sign-up, nothing to verify.

No server

Your records are written to your own device, and synced through your own iCloud, on by default — off in Settings if you'd rather. Never through a server of ours.

Nothing collected

No analytics, no tracking, no advertising and no third-party kits of any kind.

Free, no in-app purchases

Nothing held back behind a paywall, a subscription or a one-time unlock.

iPhone, iPad and Mac

The same journal on every screen you own.

Synced through your own iCloud, never through a server of ours.

HorseDex on a Mac: the Report page open on a full month of Bramble's entries, ready to export
HorseDex on an iPad: Bramble's weight tracked over time as a line chart

Android is in closed testing on Google Play. Sign up to try it.

From the people testing it

What testers have said so far

I LOVE how intuitive and flexible HorseDex is. I can choose to track exactly what matters to my mare without cluttering the app with the things I don't need. It lets me set reminders for appointments and share whole entry logs with vets or physio if needed. Seriously, it makes keeping an accurate history so easy!

Kathrin · @justgloryandme

I've had the privilege to be testing the HorseDex app and I am so impressed! As someone who is extremely forgetful and has two horses, I was constantly forgetting what happened each day with which horse- I now have an app whereby it's easy to track absolutely everything. It's completely solved a real life problem for me. I'm so impressed that I can even use the app on my iPad which syncs with my phone. Highly recommend for any horse owner.

Frankie · @diaryoftoto

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