Everything you need to know about Horsebook, organised by topic. Use the search below to jump straight to an answer.
The professional platform for the riding world. One ecosystem for stables, riders, professionals (vets, farriers, coaches, saddle fitters) and fans: horse management, trial bookings, team scheduling, the Arena social feed, and search. Built by a rider, for the way the sport actually works.
No. Every profile type has a free forever level, Stable, Rider, Professional and Fan, with no card and no clock. You only enter payment details if you upgrade to Pro or Elite. Compare plans.
Card payment in the app is not switched on yet, so nothing is charged. Paid plans open soon.
If you own or manage a yard, sign up as a Stable. If you ride, whether competitively, professionally, or just for the love of it, sign up as a Rider. Just here to follow the sport, or to work in it as a vet, farrier, coach or groom? Pick Fan & Professional, free forever, and switch the Professional layer on whenever you like. Those are all live today. Agent and Equine Brand Partner each have a card on the way, tap it to register interest and we’ll let you know when it opens. And if you also ride at someone else’s yard, get them to invite you onto their team and that yard shows up inside your rider account.
There’s no app-store install. Open horsebook.io on your phone, tap the install banner that pops up (Android Chrome), or use Share → Add to Home Screen on iPhone Safari. Once installed it behaves exactly like a native app. Full-screen, push notifications, offline-friendly.
Use Bulk Import Horses on any tier (the Our Horses tab). Drop a CSV or Excel file with names, FEI IDs, breeding, prices and disciplines and they import in one shot, up to your plan’s remaining horse slots. Photos are added per horse afterwards. There’s also a passport-photo mode that reads the details off the document for you.
StablesFree · €0 · 2 horses, 1 staff (lifts to 5/2 once verified)Pro · €109/mo · 18 horses, 10 staffElite · €209/mo · unlimited horses and staffRidersFree · €0 · 2 horsesPro · €39/mo · 7 horses, 2 staffElite · €79/mo · 12 horses, 4 staffProfessionalsFree · €0 · 1 of your own, 3 in your care, the full appointment enginePro · €29/mo · 3 of your own, 20 in care, 1 apprentice, branded invoicingPractice · €69/mo · 10 of your own, unlimited care, a team of 5FansFree · €0 · follow yards and riders, save horses, post to The Arena, request trialsPaid plans save ~17% billed annually (the free tiers stay free). Full breakdown on the pricing page.
Nearly everything is on every tier. Pro and Elite mostly buy you more room, plus the business tools: for yards the stud business, branded invoices and syndicates; for riders a team, job posts, the stud business, branded invoices and syndicates. Pro fits working yards and competing riders (18/10 for stables, 7/2 for riders). Elite removes the caps entirely on Stable, maxes them on Rider (12/4), and adds priority support.
Same idea as the yards: the core engine is on every professional tier, the paid tiers add a couple of business tools and more room. Free gives you a full public profile, the complete appointment engine (clients book you with or without a horse), your availability calendar, a private records desk, 1 of your own horse and 3 in your care. Pro · €29/mo adds branded invoicing, job posts, 3 of your own horses, 20 in care and 1 apprentice. Practice · €69/mo is built for a team or clinic: 10 of your own, unlimited horses in your care, and a team of 5 with roles, a shared rota and clock-in.
You can’t add new ones until you upgrade or remove some. If you DOWNGRADE and end up over your new horse limit, the horses over the cap stay safe in your account but are frozen, greyed and locked for you and hidden from visitors, until you upgrade back or trim down to the cap. Nothing is ever deleted.
There’s nothing to cancel yet, paid plans aren’t self-serve until card payment in the app switches on, so early Pro and Elite access is arranged by hand and nothing locks you in. Once it is on you’ll cancel in a tap from Settings → Subscription, effective at the end of your billing period. No retention pop-ups and nobody trying to talk you out of it.
Yes, and it is already in the price: the price you see is the price you pay. A business with a valid EU VAT number pays the same and gets a VAT invoice, or pays no VAT under EU reverse charge. Outside the EU no VAT is due, so it comes off at checkout.
Yes. Example: €109/mo × 12 = €1308 vs €1090 annual = €218 saved (≈17%). Same maths for the other tiers. Pay for 10 months, get 12.
Paying by card in the app switches on soon. Until then, early Pro and Elite access is set up by hand: sign up free and email me.
It’s the screen that works out your day before you open it. Tap Command centre on your profile. A ring breaks the day down by reason and names each part in plain words: health due, visits with nothing written in them, money that hasn’t come in, what’s left today. The fortnight ahead sits beside it, so you see Saturday’s pile-up on Tuesday. Every horse is a tile, ringed and numbered by how soon she needs you, and opening one unfolds her panel in place with Book a professional, Add a task and her health record on the row. It knows whose job a thing is: a visit your vet attended is waiting on their notes, not on your to-do list. Stables, riders and professionals get the board built from what they actually do, and if you keep horses it wakes your phone with a morning brief. Fans get their own version, built from the sport they follow.
It’s Horsebook’s social feed, think Instagram or LinkedIn, but built for the sport. Use the post box at the top of your profile or the Arena, choose a category (Competition, Home, Sale or Update), add your photos, tag the horses, team or people involved, and tap Post. Others can like, comment and reshare it, and anyone you tag gets a notification.
There’s no separate trial calendar to hunt for. Open the horse’s Calendar tab (on its profile) or your Master Calendar, add a Task / Event, and choose Trial, it’s the Available Slot type (shown as Trial Slot on a horse’s own calendar). Set the date and time, and that open slot is what buyers can request. A buyer can also propose a date you have not opened, and you approve or decline it in one tap. (Adding a competition? Tick Allow Trials at Show to open a slot around it.) To list the horse itself, open Edit Horse Profile and set it to For Sale, For Lease, or both. You never block dates by hand: days with a confirmed trial, a competition or a vet visit are hidden, and you can open one anyway if you want to. Outsiders only ever see “Not available, choose another date”. Trials are free for every rider and stable.
They get an in-app alert and a push notification the second you approve, that part is automatic. An automatic WhatsApp is on the roadmap. For now, each task in Manage Your Day has a WhatsApp button so you can fire off a personal note in a tap.
Open the Finance Desk tab on your profile. Log money in and money out against each horse, it’s free, and the totals add up per horse and per currency with a VAT toggle. On a paid plan you can also raise a branded invoice, send it by email, WhatsApp or a link, and see at a glance who has paid and who still owes. Horsebook never handles the money itself, it just gives you the paperwork and the running totals.
Open the horse and go to the Owners panel. Add each co-owner and their share, a bar shows the split adding up to 100%. From then on every cost and every bit of prize money splits automatically by share, and each owner gets their own private statement. Open the full statement and the Settle up summary shows exactly who owes who. Running a syndicate is part of the paid plans; co-owners join and see their own share for free.
Open the horse and tap Sell / Move. You get three options: sell to an outside buyer (the horse is marked sold and can drop out of search), transfer to another Horsebook member (they accept, both sides confirm the payment, then the horse changes hands), or send it out for care, training or lease. The horse’s passport and the papers you choose travel with it (your private health log stays with you, not the buyer); your yard’s day-to-day tasks stay where they are. A lease also builds a signable lease agreement you and the lessee both e-sign (see below).
Yes. From your terms, lease type, duration, fee, and who covers vet, farrier, dentist or insurance, Horsebook generates a branded lease agreement. You sign it, the lessee reviews and e-signs (type their name, pick a signature style), and the horse moves into their care the moment they sign. You each keep the signed copy to view, download or share anytime. It’s a simple electronic signature, valid between you and the lessee, Horsebook records it but isn’t a party to the agreement and gives no legal or tax advice, so for a high-value or cross-border lease take independent legal advice.
It’s a private document store on every horse, only you can see it. Open the horse → Vault tab, pick a category (Health Records, X-Rays, Passports & Documents, Contracts, and so on) and tap Upload File to add vet records, passports, contracts, x-rays or photos. To share a single file with a buyer, tap it → Share → Copy Secure Link for a private link, without exposing the rest.
It’s your horses’ full health history, live now. To add one, open a horse → Health tab → Add record, pick the type (vaccination, deworming, dental, hoof care / farrier, treatment, medication, blood test and more), enter the date, cost and who did it, and attach the document, and it files into the Vault for you. Set the next-due date and Horsebook reminds you the week before and on the day, so nothing lapses. The yard-wide Health Hub shows what’s overdue and due soon across every horse, plus a contacts directory; each horse also has named feeding plans for morning, midday, evening, night and turnout.
Yes, that’s Smart Scan. Take a photo of any vet document, or upload a PDF, in any language, and Horsebook reads it and fills the health record for you: type, date, cost and provider. The original file goes straight into the horse’s Vault. Glance over the details, save, done.
Yes. Even when a horse is hidden from public search, open its Share menu and create a private link. The buyer opens that link and sees the full profile, no one else does. You can switch the link off anytime from that same Share dialog.
Yes, and it is the private side of selling. On your Saved tab, put horses into a folder and share it as a private link with one client. It can hold any of your own horses, listed for sale or not, so you can offer a horse to the right buyer without ever putting it on a marketplace. Give the link an end date and a limit on views and devices, and a forwarded link simply stops working; you see how much of each limit has been used. Your client needs no account, and can ask to try a horse straight from the link.
FEI-imported results already show on a horse’s profile today. A fuller Performance & Training Log, covering your own results, training sessions and progress charts, is in the next sprint.
Stable profile → Our Team tab → Add Staff. Search for an existing Horsebook user, or add a manual staffer who isn’t on the platform yet. A Horsebook user gets an in-app invite to accept; once they do, they’re attached to your yard and you can assign tasks, time-off and contracts. Staff can be on more than one yard at once, they pick their schedule for each.
Verified stables have a real, geocoded address. When you sign up your stable, the address goes through Google’s address check, and if Google can match your yard to a real location, you’re verified automatically. No paperwork, no waiting on an admin queue. The badge appears next to your stable name across the platform. It’s the trust layer that keeps fake stables and scammers off Horsebook so buyers can DM you without second-guessing.
Stable profile → Our Horses → Bulk Import Horses on any tier. Drop a CSV or Excel file with names, FEI IDs, breeding, prices and disciplines and they import up to your plan’s remaining slots (2/5 on Free, 18 on Pro, unlimited on Elite). Photos are added per horse afterwards, and a passport-photo mode can read the details off the document for you.
Yes, any stable on any tier. Profile → Our Jobs tab → Post a Job. Applications land in the Applications tab where you shortlist, message applicants and take them through to hire. Riders can post jobs too, on Rider Pro or Elite. Choose On Horsebook and by email under Where applications go, and people without an account can apply too. Their application is emailed to you and shows in the same list for 90 days, then it is deleted with its files. Share any job from its Share button.
Two different things here. Multiple yards on one account is not possible yet · one stable profile per account. If you run more than one yard, create separate accounts and link them through shared staff, who can work across yards. Multi-yard ownership in a single account is on the roadmap. More than one KIND of profile on one account already works: a professional keeps their fan face alongside their trade profile, and you can open either from your settings and choose which one visitors land on. You can also add a second profile to the same login from your avatar (Add a profile); it holds horses on its own paid plan.
Yes. The free Rider tier is open to anyone who rides, full stop. Public rider profile, 2 horse profiles, full Arena access, per-horse calendars, install on phone, push notifications, apply to jobs. Pro and Elite add more room and the business tools when you need them.
Admin-granted recognition for serious riders, international competitors and well-known names in the sport. It’s not for sale; we identify and award it. The badge appears next to your name on your rider profile, and in chat headers when someone messages you. A signal to the community that you’re the real deal.
Sign up as a Rider. Once a stable invites you onto their team, the yard appears in your My Yards tab. There you see your own tasks and schedule at that yard, your time-off and your assigned work. If the stable owner makes you an admin staff on their team, you can also manage the full stable profile directly (everyone’s tasks, the rota, the horses). Your own horses live separately on your rider profile.
Yes, every horse card has a share button. Shares preserve the chain: original poster, you as the sharer, anyone tagged in between. Credit stays clear.
Yes. Tap message on any stable profile or horse card. The stable gets a push notification + bell update instantly. Same experience on every tier, we don’t throttle messages.
Yes, free forever. A Fan account costs nothing, needs no card, and has no horses to manage, just a front-row seat on the sport. Follow the yards, riders and horses you care about, and everything below comes with it.
Plenty. Follow stables, riders and horses; post to your own wall and share Media in The Arena; save any horse or post into folders you name; and browse and search the whole marketplace and the jobs board across the sport. It is the same Arena everyone else uses, seen from the fan side.
Yes. Open a horse that has trial slots and request one, exactly the way a rider or stable does. The owner gets it in their inbox to approve, and you get an alert the moment they do. Booking a trial is free.
Every horse card and post has a save button. Drop them into folders you name on your Saved tab, so a shortlist of horses, or a set of posts, stays organised and easy to find later.
Yes. Turn on a Professional profile any time from your settings, with no new account and no lost followers. Your wall, your follows and your Arena history all carry across. See For Professionals below.
It is the service side of Horsebook, for the people who keep horses going. Turn it on from your settings and pick your profession: vet, farrier, physiotherapist, coach, groom, judge and more, or type your own under Other. You get a public profile with your rates and the area you cover, and clients book you straight from it. One login runs both your professional face and your fan side, so your wall, your followers and The Arena come with it.
Through the appointment engine. A client requests a time, it lands in your inbox, and you Accept, Decline, or Counter with a new time. When the visit is done you mark it complete. Every step notifies the client automatically, so nobody is left guessing.
Yes, and it stays separate from any horse you own. Free lets you hold 3 client horses in your care, Professional Pro raises that to 20, and the Practice tier is unlimited. That roster is yours as a carer, distinct from your own light horses.
The core is free forever: the full appointment engine, an availability calendar, a bookable public profile, and room for 3 client horses in your care, at no cost. Professional Pro (€29/mo) adds branded invoicing and a 20 horse care roster; the Practice tier (€69/mo) adds unlimited care and a team on one account. You pay only for more room or for branded invoices, a team and job posts, never for the basics.
Raise a branded invoice from your Finance Desk on the paid tiers, and it is delivered straight to the client’s own Finance Desk inside Horsebook as a bill to pay, with a copy they can open by link. You see who has paid and who still owes at a glance. Horsebook never touches the money itself, it just produces the paperwork and keeps the running totals.
Yes. A Professional profile can own a light horse or two, list them for sale or lease, and open trial slots on them, exactly like a rider. Your own horses stay separate from the client horses you hold in your care.
Yes, on the Practice tier. Bring vets, nurses and admin staff onto one organisation account, up to 5 people, so the whole practice shares the same appointment inbox and client roster. You can also work at someone else’s yard: when a stable adds you to their team, that yard shows up in your My Yards tab.
You don’t yet. Card payment in the app is not switched on, and paid plans open soon. The free core keeps working the whole time, nothing is held back.
You control it. A horse’s trial availability can be public, limited to your approved followers, or fully private. Either way, days with a confirmed trial, a competition or a vet visit are hidden, and you can open one anyway if you want to. Buyers see “Not available, choose another date”, never the reason.
Owner-controlled. When “Show price publicly?” is OFF, the actual number is hidden, buyers see a Budget Star rating (1–5 stars) that hints at price band without exposing the exact figure. The actual number is only shared with buyers you choose, in DMs or via a private share link.
Yes. Settings → Danger Zone → Delete Account. It schedules deletion in 30 days and covers your profile, horses, posts, messages and calendar. Sign back in within 30 days and you can cancel to restore everything; after that it’s permanent.
Yes. Only you and the other participant in a one-on-one DM can read it. Admins can’t read your messages. We don’t train any AI on message content.
No. Never. Horsebook is paid for by members who choose a paid plan and, as it grows, by equestrian brands that partner with us. No ad networks, and your data is never sold.
Postgres + storage on Supabase EU West (Dublin). Vercel deployment in eu-west (Dublin). The whole stack lives in the EU. GDPR-compliant by default.
Because Horsebook installs straight from your browser, same icon on your home screen, same full-screen experience, same push notifications. No App Store review, no 30% platform fee, no separate codebase to maintain. Updates reach you in seconds.
Open horsebook.io in Safari (not Chrome, Apple blocks third-party install on iOS). Tap the Share button at the bottom of the screen, scroll down to Add to Home Screen, tap Add. The icon lands on your home screen and opens full-screen.
Open horsebook.io in Chrome. An install banner pops up after a few seconds, tap Install. If it doesn’t appear, three-dot menu → Install app. The icon lives on your home screen like any other app.
Three checks: (1) iPhone is on iOS 16.4 or newer. Apple only added push to web apps in that version. (2) You installed Horsebook to your home screen, AND opened it from there at least once. (3) You tapped Allow when iOS asked for notification permission. On Android there’s no version requirement, push works as soon as you install and allow.
Last-viewed pages stay readable when you have no signal. Posting, messaging and live data need a connection. The cached app shell loads instantly on flaky service.
It’s coming. The Agent workspace will give you a private inventory of the horses you represent, your clients and deals in one place, a lead pipeline, and commission tracking. Agent pricing will be set when the Agent profile opens. Tap the Agent card on the signup screen to register your interest.
The Equine Brand Partner profile is coming. It brings an ad center to run campaigns, targeted placement in the Arena, a presence on the job board, and reach analytics, so brands can get in front of the right riders and stables. Not shipped yet; the card on the signup screen previews what’s coming.
You have a home, live today. Turn on a Professional profile from your settings, pick your trade, and publish your rates and service area. Clients book you through the appointment engine, and the core is free. See For Professionals above for the full picture.
Next up: a performance and training log, transport days on the calendar, Stories, a course and arena-exercise designer, deeper analytics and paying by card in the app. Already live: the Command Centre that opens with your day worked out, Fan & Professional profiles with the two-sided appointment engine for vets, farriers, physios and coaches, the Breeding Centre, the Stud Business, lease agreements and the Bill of Sale, the Finance Desk, Syndicates, Sell / Transfer / Lease, the Health Hub with feeding plans you can print, and after-trial vet checks with a record both sides keep.
Yes, the Breeding Centre is live today. Run every mare’s season on one board, from planned to in-foal to foaled, with her coverings, scans and foaling date all in one place, and the inbreeding check runs before you cover whatever plan you are on. The day a foal is born, its profile is created for you with its pedigree. Stand a stallion and you get the full Stud Business: a collection diary with the lab record, frozen-straw inventory, fertility analytics, a public Standing at Stud page and the Find Stallions marketplace. The mare side is free for every yard and rider, for every mare, on any plan; standing a stallion at stud is on the paid plans (Pro and Elite), for stables and riders alike.
It’s live today. The income and expense tracker is free on every plan; branded invoicing (send by email, WhatsApp or link, with paid-and-owed tracking) is part of the paid plans. See “How do I track my income and costs?” above for how it works. Peppol e-invoicing is not there yet. Belgium has required Peppol e-invoicing between VAT-registered businesses since January 2026. It is on the build list. If you invoice other businesses, not private owners, keep doing that part outside Horsebook until it ships.
Yes, and it is free on every plan. Smart Scan reads a vet’s card, invoice or lab result in any language and fills the health record, and the passport scanner fills a horse’s identity and its pedigree back to the grandparents from a photo of its FEI card or passport. Canter, a full assistant for horse care, training plans and finance questions grounded in your own stable data, is on the roadmap.
On the longer-term roadmap. Live bidding, lot scheduling and withdrawal rules are their own product, and we’re lining up an auction partnership before we build it. Not a near-term sprint, but coming.
Yes. Every user has a feedback button in settings, it reaches the Horsebook team (our support inbox and the in-app admin panel). High-signal requests get into the next sprint discussion.
Next.js 14 (App Router), Supabase Postgres + Auth + Storage, deployed on Vercel Pro. PWA with service worker + Web Push (VAPID). All running in EU West (Dublin).
When you add a horse, enter the FEI ID. The horse profile then surfaces official buttons that link straight to the FEI Results and FEI Detail pages for that horse. You either screenshot the FEI page (we can scan it to fill the import form for you) OR copy the nine fields (name, breed, DOB, sex, colour, sire, dam, dam-sire, chip ID / UELN) into the form by hand and click Apply. It’s a manual flow, there’s no deep auto-sync yet.
Multi-region Vercel deployment, daily Postgres backups via Supabase, automatic failover. We have had no unplanned downtime worth reporting. A public status page is coming.
Yes, and every one is published with the named person’s permission, which we store: the exact wording they agreed to, and when. Nothing is written by us, nobody is paid, and nothing appears until a person here has read it. If anyone wants theirs taken down, one message does it. See Testimonials.
Please do. Sign in, open your profile menu and hit Share your experience. It takes about two minutes, and we read every single one.
Two ways: members who choose a paid plan (Pro and Elite, for more room and the business tools) and, as it grows, equestrian brands that partner with us. No ad networks, no data brokering. The free tier stays free forever, paid for by the people who need more.
Sign in and use the feedback button in settings, and every message reaches the Horsebook team. Or sign up free and explore, and most things click into place once you’re inside.